ACFNY RECOMMENDS | FILM SCREENING | SINISTER SISTERS SLAUGHTERHOUSE

Sinister Sisters Slaughterhouse (Austria, 2009)
Animation, 12 min, German with English subtitles
Directed by Michaela Mandel
With Lisa Mandel, Jamie Fischer, Jakob Harfmann

Austrian director Michaela Mandel’s new animated short film Sinister Sisters Slaughterhouse will be shown at this year’s Brooklyn Film Festival. The film, based on a story by the brothers Grimm, was awarded the 2010 CROSSING EUROPE Local Artist Award, and has been shown at Clermont-Ferrand, Diagonale-Filmfestival Graz, Tricky Women Festival Vienna, and at Crossing Europe Festival Linz. Director Michaela Mandel will be available for Q&A after the screening.

Synopsis
In a city named Franecker, there once was a father who slaughtered a pig, and his children watched. In the afternoon, when the children began playing, the sisters said to their brother: ‘you be the little pig, and we’ll be the butcher.’Then they took a shiny knife, as they had seen before, and a little bowl to catch the pig’s blood so they could make sausages…

About the director
Michaela Mandel was born in Salzburg, Austria. She studied fine arts and cultural studies at the Art University in Linz (Austria) and at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam (Netherlands). The Vienna-based Artist works international as a visual artist, as a filmmaker and also as a freelance designer and videomaker for theatre productions.

VENUE
Brooklyn Heights Cinema
70 Henry St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Tickets are $10. Please visit the Festival website to order.