08.10 | 16:00

In this lecture Éva Darabos will discuss why the block of flats areas are so important for her and will offer a glimpse into where her inspiration was coming from to create her award-winning short animation, Bye Little Block! which received the Best Design Award at The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), and won awards in Poznań and Barcelona. She will share her personal experiences about how the whole project started and how the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest and her crew helped her to develop the original idea into a graduation film. There are many aspects to discuss: technical steps, adapting to a new role, teamwork, communication. At the end she will share her feelings about film festivals, the afterlife of Bye Little Block! and her future plans and projects, including some pitching tips.

Éva Darabos is a Hungarian animation artist graduated from the animation department of MOME in 2019. She adores all motion picture techniques and she enjoys watching films of every genre. Her graduation film Bye Little Block! won several international and national awards, including Best Design at OIAF 2020, Best Short at KAFF and awarded also by Primanima, Cinemira, Cinefest (CineNewWave). Since 2019 she has been teaching at PreMOME’s Animation course. She attended Animation Sans Frontières programme in 2021. She won the Ciclic-prize at the CEE Animation Forum 2022 in Plzeň for the pitch of her future film Funfair. Besides developing her projects, she works as a freelance animation artist.