Dance My Doll

by Jasmijn Kooijman

HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, Sweden

Synopsis

“Worried asylum seekers, angry activists, and obedient case workers in an equally wonderful as sharp stop-motion film about people who are all caught in the bureaucratic claws of the Swedish migration agency.” - Gothenburg Film Festival

Director's biography

Jasmijn Kooijman (1997) grew up in Amsterdam but moved to Sweden in 2015, where she started studying film. She is interested in the relation between film and politics. Many of her projects revolve around either forced migration or migration by choice. The formats she uses differ from documentary, fiction and artfilm to stop-motion in her latest short.

Credits

Director: Jasmijn Kooijman

Screenplay: Jasmijn Kooijman, Theodor Österberg

Music: Filip Bagewitz

Sound design: Therese Larsson

Specifications

Original title: Dansa Min Docka

Running time: 15'

Film type: Animation

Country: Sweden

Completion date: January 2022