Many years Urs looked after his aging mother. But now he sets out for a dangerous journey: He carries her up a mountain to find a better place for both of them. But his mother doesn’t want to leave her home...
“Urs” is the graduationfilm of Moritz Mayerhofer at the Institute of Animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. For almost three years he drew thousands of mountains, characters and villages. He began the preproduction during an exchange program at le Gobelins, Paris. When he came back to the Filmakademie he joined the class of acclaimed Animation Director Andreas Hykade (The Runt, Ring of Fire) to produce his film. He worked day and night to create a deep atmospheric film where he would find the fragile relationship of a man to his mother in the middle of a giantic set of mountains. As a passionate lover of cinema, “Urs” is Moritz Mayerhofer's attempt to create a cinematic short Film for the big screen.
His goal was to combine the beauty of 2d Mattepaintings with 3d Character-Animation and 2d classical Effects-Animation into a painterly Unity.
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