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 their gender identity and is finding it difficult to express how they feel. But one night, while ritualistically caressing their older sister's dress, a fearless urban fox jumps through the window and steals it. Trying desperately to retrieve it out of fear of being caught, Sam is led on a wild goose chase through the family home and into the dark attic. When they eventually fumble around and find the light switch, they realise that there is much more to this mysterious fox than Sam could’ve ever dreamed of.

Profile: Lisa is a Swiss animation director 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. Most recently, she worked on projects such as Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar and Bafta-winning Pinocchio and Netflix’s The House. She decided to take the leap into directing by attending the Directing Animation course at the National Film and Television School, where she found like-minded creatives and directed her debut stop-motion short, Dragfox.