Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival

Dragfox

  • Director: Lisa Ott
  • Country: Switzerland/UK
  • Duration: 8'10"
  • Genre: animation
  • Institute: National Film and Television School
  • Language: English

Synopsis: Eleven-year-old Sam is secretly starting to question his gender identity and is finding it difficult to express his own feelings. But one night, while ritualistically caressing his older sister's dress, a fearless urban fox jumps through the window and steals it. Desperately trying to retrieve it for fear of being discovered, Sam is led on a goose chase through the family home and into the dark attic. When he finally fumbles and finds the light switch, he realizes that the mysterious fox has much more than Sam could have imagined.

Profile: Lisa is a Swiss animation director who is based in London. She studied Model Making before joining the puppet team at Mackinnon & Saunders, helping to create puppets to bring other people’s stories to life. She has recently worked on projects such as Oscar and Bafta-winning Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and Netflix’s The House. She decided to take the leap into directing by enrolling in the Animation Directing course at the National Film and Television School. There, Lisa found like-minded creatives and directed her first stop-motion short film, Dragfox.