Retention Department of Permanent Exhaustion
Retention Department of Permanent Exhaustion
Commissioned by Joan Gratz | Directed by Martin Cooper | Animated by Parham Ghalamdar | Edited by Adrian Storey a.k.a. Uchujin
Parham Ghalamdar was commissioned to animate for the short film Retention Department of Permanent Exhaustion, directed by film maker Martin Cooper and commissioned/funded by the oscar-winning animator Joan Gratz in 2022.
The film is screened at World Festival of Animated Film (AKA Animafest) Zagreb, We Like'Em Short animation and comedy festival in Baker City (Oregon), and International Social Change Festival (AKA ChangeFest) in Atlanta.
Joan Gratz
Joan Gratz is an Academy Award winning director of animated short films and commercials. Her films range in content through painterly expressions of poetry, improvised abstraction, and animated social documentary. The technique she pioneered is “claypainting.”
Synopsis
"Six directors independently imagine the Department of Perpetual Exhaustion. The participating directors are Chris Hinton, Jim Blashfield, Marv Newland, Martin Cooper, Chel White, and myself as producer/director. The film was inspired by my internet service provider who has such a department. It is a place of last resort when there is no hope and never a solution."
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