Zane Oborenko
Directing
Biography
Zane Oborenko is an animated film director and artist from Riga, Latvia, who explores the tensions between the desire for connection and the reality of feeling alone and lonely through her work. She completed her BA studies in Brera, Academy of Arts of Milan, Italy, and MA in animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Zane has developed unique author’s handwriting in sand animation. Her diploma film 'IMG_00:01. JPG' received the Best Student Film award at the Fredrikstad Animation Festival in 2014. Her work has been exhibited in various festivals and projects, including heavy metal opera “KURBADS. Son of the Mare” 2017 / 2019 and the historical exhibition “The KGB Building – “The ‘Corner House” Case Nr. 1914/2014. in Riga. Her sand animation short 'Kafka. In Love' received the FIPRESCI prize, as well as Best Animation Artist award at Latvian National Film Awards 'Lielais Kristaps', and it's been screened at several film festivals.
Known For
In 1920, Franz Kafka wrote 120 letters to writer and journalist Milena Jesenská. A love which filled Kafka’s life with light and hope and, at the same time, illuminates his fears and the darkness in him.
Kafka. In Love
A visual meditation on the essence of hope. Leaves carried by the wind fall down and rise up. Each one draws its own line as they become part of something bigger. Everything flows, everything changes. Animation artist Zane Oborenko conjures up an intuitively driven and guided phantasmagoric abstraction improvised by musical gestures.
Hope
A near-sighted girl is in a hurry. Her near-sightedness makes it difficult for her to function. From small bits and pieces of seemingly random spots of light and darkness silhouettes of bodies appear.