Young Horus lives in a mythical Scandinavia of the Iron Age. Recovering the stolen Sword of the Sun from a rock giant, he learns he must travel to the lands of his ancestors, encountering the beautiful but enigmatic Hilda as his journey leads to a series of adventures.

This film is screening in the current Adelaide Cinémathèque program and guest curated by Idris Kellerman.

Animation Transformed – Guest Programmed by Idris Kellerman from moviejuice

Where last year’s Animation in Transformation programme explored visual metamorphosis, this programme showcases how filmmakers have negotiated flatness in animation aesthetics as cinema is transformed by technological change, and how animation aesthetics have been transferred into live-action cinema. The four films in this programme all use flattened images and compositing to create fantastical worlds which foreground their artifice in different ways, with surprising aesthetic connections emerging across them.