Type: VAF Artist

This year from week 39 up to and including 42, Viborg Animation Festival holds a Treasure Hunt for the entire family. Around Viborg’s center you can find pictures of animal-human like creatures who are visiting from their stop-motion universe made by this year’s VAF Artist: Niki Lindroth von Bahr.
Come along on a breezy walk and try to find the different animals around on the streets and the shops.

Keep a cool mind and have a sharp eye for the details because it is exactly the details you should be looking for to answer the questions for each picture. When you have answered all the questions a VAF prize awaits!

Do you want to create animation yourselves? Visit VAF in week 39 and go for the ANIMNOK childrens creative workshop in Student House or dive down in to marvelous Animanimals-univers in the Tinghallen foyer.

Where do I get the Scavenger map?

Get a physical copy of the Scavenger map at Tinghallen during the festival OR save the online version above.

Discover the miniature sets and characters made by internationally recognized stop – motion filmmaker and artist Niki Lindroth Von Bahr in VAF Artist exhibition taking place at Tinghallen foyer during the entire festival duration.

In the last ten years, Niki has made four films, Tord and Tord, Bath House, The Burden and Something to Remember. Her latest project was a part of the animated anthology The House for Netflix, which was released in 2022.

Niki’s films have been shown and awarded at festivals worldwide, such as Cannes, Berlinale, Toronto and Sundance. Since its premiere in 2017, The Burden has received 85 awards, including Le Cristal for Best Short Film in Annecy, Best International Short Film in Toronto and Guldbaggen for Best Short Film 2018. In 2019, she was named in Variety magazine as one of “10 Animators to Watch for” and nominated for Swedens biggest newspaper Dagens Nyheter’s Culture Award. Niki is a member of The Oscar Academy and part of the short film jury for Guldbaggegalan.

Parallel to Niki’s film productions, she makes sculpture and costume design and has worked with artists such as Fever Ray and David Bowie. She has taught animation and modeling at schools such as CalArts in Los Angeles and Tokyo University of Art, Film and New Media.

In recent years, Niki has had several solo exhibitions. Her exhibition “Something to remember” at Färgfabriken in Stockholm 2019 became the art gallery’s most visited ever.

Film program

• Something To Remember

A lullaby before the great disaster. Two pigeons visit a zoo without animals, a snail measures his blood pressure at the doctor, in the CERN laboratory something has gone terribly wrong. Six moments from our age, like memories of the world we leave behind.

• The Burden

A dark musical enacted in a modern market place, situated next to a large freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.

• Bath House

Six characters meet in a bath house. The pedant bath house manager, a couple with a strange way of communicating and a gang with shady intentions. Something goes wrong.

• Tord and Tord

One day, Tord accidentally walks in to the apartment next to his own. Another person named Tord lives there, he has just moved in.

Country: International
Duration: 48 min.
Lanuage: Swedish
Subtitles: English
Age limit: 15+

Meet VAF Artist, internationally recognized Swedish filmmaker and artist Niki Lindroth von Bahr in a conversation with filmmaker Philip Piaget. Right after the screening of Niki’s short film program in Fotorama, the audience have a chance to meet the filmmaker and hear about her career in stop-motion animation. The talk is set in a cozy atmosphere of a local brewery and pub “Ølluminati”, where VAF will launch a selection of VAF beers inspired by dark, existential, yet humorous universe of Niki’s films created in collaboration with “Ølluminati’s” brewmaster Theis.

This year from week 39 up to and including 42, Viborg Animation Festival holds a Treasure Hunt for the entire family. Around Viborg’s center you can find pictures of animal-human like creatures who are visiting from their stop-motion universe made by this year’s VAF Artist: Niki Lindroth von Bahr.
Come along on a breezy walk and try to find the different animals around on the streets and the shops.

Keep a cool mind and have a sharp eye for the details because it is exactly the details you should be looking for to answer the questions for each picture. When you have answered all the questions a VAF prize awaits!

Do you want to create animation yourselves? Visit VAF in week 39 and go for the ANIMNOK childrens creative workshop in Student House or dive down in to marvelous Animanimals-univers in the Tinghallen foyer.

Where do I get the Scavenger map?

Get a physical copy of the Scavenger map at Tinghallen during the festival OR save the online version above.

Discover the miniature sets and characters made by internationally recognized stop – motion filmmaker and artist Niki Lindroth Von Bahr in VAF Artist exhibition taking place at Tinghallen foyer during the entire festival duration.

VAF Artist of 2023, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, have choosen her favourite animated feature to present at VAF!

Michael Stone, husband, father and respected author of ‘How May I Help You Help Them?’ is a man crippled by the mundanity of his life.  

On a business trip to Cincinnati, where he’s scheduled to speak at a convention of customer service professionals, Michael checks into the Fregoli Hotel and meets Lisa Hesselman, a socially awkward sales rep from Akron who may or may not be the love of his life. 

The screening is in English with no subtitles

Suitable from age 15+