Filled with Water. Elka Kerkhofs. 2006. Animation.

Format: Mixed Media (Finishing format: Digital Video) / Sound: Stereo / Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Producer: Donna Lyon (formerly Molan) Anoka feels deep emptiness in the world around her, until one day her heart starts glowing. She finds filling her heart can mean breaking it, when the one you love is possessed by something else. LGTBQI themed. ABOUT THE PRODUCTION ’Filled with Water’ was filmed and completed in Melbourne, Australia in 2006. The film was Kerkhof’s graduate short film, made whilst studying at VCA Film and Television, now part of The University of Melbourne Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. The short film is a wonderful mix of hybrid arts practices, combining traditional drawing techniques, dance, live performance and digital photography. The process involved taking digital photographs of performed action done by actors and then hand drawing over these images in the computer to achieve a look of puppetry pixilation. The result is very theatrical and performative,