Synopsis

TECHNO is a dynamic story about alienation. From the beginning the movie descents us into the world of underground life until we enter a space with no clear boundaries full of colourful characters and indecent behaviour. But among all these eccentric characters our look always catches an old man playing his accordion against the loud electronic music. Cigarette smoke, naked bodies and pouring alcohol all merge together in a wild orgy until the party is suddenly interrupted by a bright fluorescent light and the sound of a dead phone battery. A mobile phone goes into the frame and we see the stressed-out look of its owner – a teenager inside a subway wagon whose fantasy we’ve been witnessing all along.

Atanas Filipov

Since 2011 Atanas Filipov studied animation at NATFA ‘Krastio Sarafov’ and RITS Film School in Brussels. In 2015 he took part in VGIK International Summer School in Moscow where he produced short animation The Legend of Dymkovo Toys (co-director Maxim Kulikov). In 2015 he did the animation for Postindustrial with director Boris Pramatarov (Official Selection Annecy). In 2016 he took a six month internship in Walking The Dog Studio working on the short From The Snow Covered Hill. After that he has worked on numerous commercial, artistic and educational animation projects in different capacities together with Compote Collective, PHAZZA Animation Studio, Studio Nulla, TED-ed.