Claudia Munksgaard-Palmqvist
Directing
Biography
Claudia Munksgaard-Palmqvist, is a danish stop motion animator with a bachelor degree in animation from Volda University College in Norway. She has a background as a film projectionist, freelance writer for We Animate Magazine and works as a Film Programmer for Void International Animation Film Festival in Copenhagen. She has worked as a prop maker, set builder and animator on different projects in Norway and France, including the award winning short film Pearl Diver (2020) by norwegian director Margrethe Danielsen.
Known For
This is a film about three couples that are drifting apart. A hedgehog falls in love with a balloon, but struggles to keep up his grooming routine. There is a coldness between an arctic/antarctic couple, and two naive oysters are longing to meet.
Pearl Diver
An experimental animated documentary in three chapters that explores the connection between the cinematic cut and human relations extracted from home movies. Three chapters exploring the connection between cinematic cutting and human relationships extracted from home movies. A meditation on life, love and loss explored through a montage of home movies of six Scandinavian families, the materiality of paper and the thread that connects them.
A Visualization of A Cut
A family father for unexplained reasons started acting like a dog, and we experience the growing family problems that follow that change through the eyes of the daughter. The story takes place in a 1960's collage style world
My Dad is a dog
Look at a mistake that is not human. Be present in the uncontrollable intervention of the material. Between control and chance, surface and void, a film will (perhaps) be found.