A lonely cir­cus per­former ambles the woods rem­i­nisc­ing of his long lost friend. This som­bre and charis­matic project is the cre­ation of Michael Amstad, Philipp Half­mann, Volker Lang­holz, Ben­jamin Lüt­zow and Dominik Mader who are known as Hylas Films, an ani­ma­tion col­lec­tive based in Berlin.

Cir­cus is the first of a sus­pense stop-motion series, a con­cept pretty novel in itself and inter­est­ingly, the cam­era angles seem quite chal­leng­ing for this kind of ani­ma­tion but sup­port­ive of the genre the authors are after. There’s an intrigu­ing con­trast between the grotesque look of the main char­ac­ter and his soft slow actions, kind of like a friendly mon­ster. It will def­i­nitely be inter­est­ing to see how this project develops.