This Is Not Real
A young boy's chimerical journey from a small town to the Himalayas with an all-defining conclusion.
Gergely Wootsch
Gergely Wootsch
Casts & Crew
Tonatiuh Pina McEwan
Also Directed by Gergely Wootsch
“A Song for Europa’ is one of the key tracks from Jóhann Jóhannsson’s release ‘Orphée’ on Deutsche Grammophon. Typically for Johann, the work is a beautifully atmospheric composition, one that immerses the listener into the strange recordings of the ‘Numbers Stations’: a category of shortwave radio station broadcasts characterized by readings of number lists, letters and coded messages from a forgotten era. It is to these lost, lonely voices that Johan has turned, capturing the enigmatic transmission of encoded information to persons elsewhere, and reflecting them back within a new context. In response, Studio AKA director Gergely Wootsch has created a considered and thoughtful animated film, which crosses literal boundaries and thresholds as it drifts along a desolate cold war landscape, following the haunting voice as it searches for a listener.
In London's bustling, yet desolate Trafalgar Square, an ancient corpse meets a pigeon with a broken wing.