Presenting ‘Waiting for Harold’, directed by Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein, who celebrate their 60th birthday on March 20, 2022.
https://happybirthday.goethe-on-demand.de/movies/waiting-for-harold
Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein, who won an Oscar for Balance (Best Animated Short), are two of the most successful stop-motion animators in
Germany. By combining classic puppet animation, claymation and computer animation, they have created their own distinctive visual style.
Is life simply a series of coincidences, or does it follow a fated plan? Waiting for Harold deals playfully with this philosophical question. Marie waits in vain for her blind date, Harold, whose bus will be delayed. In a time loop with minimal variations from repetition to repetition, the filmmakers work through the famous idea that the beating of a butterfly’s wings can cause a chain reaction which in turn changes the big picture.
The film is available for free on Goethe-on-Demand till the end of March 2022.
