Watch: Entrancing Short ‘Sit Down, Don’t Touch Anything’ on Creativity
by Alex Billington
April 30, 2024
Source: YouTube
Do you sometimes struggle with creativity? How do you motivate and inspire yourself (again) when you’re out of energy to create? The latest short film creation from Swiss animation filmmaker Frederic Siegel is this 5-minute film titled Sit Down, Don’t Touch Anything. It’s an entrancing, hypnotic short about the creative process inspired, of course, by Frederic’s own challenges with creativity. “I worked on [this film for] the last two years more or less in complete secrecy during the pandemic. I started with experimenting on new, weird styles and ended up with a weird 5-minute, experimental short.” No other intro is needed, just click play on the video, turn up the volume, enter full screen – and enjoy. Frederic also works with a Swiss animation design studio called Team Tumult and they’ve made some awesome shorts in the past (highly recommend The Lonely Orbit). This new one is a solo short but still as mesmerizing as ever. Dive in below.
Thanks to Short of the Week for the tip on this debuting online. Here’s the very brief intro from YouTube: “A face is born out of chaos. It struggles to exist. It struggles to find its purpose. It struggles to sit on a chair. In fact, it struggles with a lot of things. But thank god, it’s trying. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯” Sit Down, Don’t Touch Anything is a short film written and directed and animated by animation filmmaker Frederic Siegel based in Zurich / Bern – you can view more of his creations on his Vimeo page or visit his official website or follow him on IG @frederic_siegel or follow him on YouTube @fredericsiegel. Produced by Frederic Siegel and his Swiss animation studio Team Tumult (they also made the award-winning The Lonely Orbit short a few years ago). This new short is inspired by the filmmaker’s own “struggles with creativity”. For more info, visit SOTW or stop by Frederic’s site. To watch more shorts, click here. What do you think? How is your creativity going?
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