In The Sea

An animated shortfilm for the Marine Protection Organization DEEPWAVE e.V.

Ongoing project

Concept and story: Frederik Götz
Storyboard and Drawings: Anna Mandel

In the Sea is meant to visualize the feeling of unrestricted connectedness.

We see the sea. A person is swimming. Moving safely in the water. Vague shadows suggest other creatures. A hammerhead? A school of fish? Again and again animals appear and disappear in the body of the human. Fluent with the movements. A shark morphs into a leg. Fingers become fish. A shoulder a turtle.

The animals begin to move playfully with the human. It is not man and the animals. Just living beings interacting with each other. Connecting. And disconnect again. A cycle.

An image that remains.