Hans Hansen (b. 1985) grew up in Finnskogen and learned some principles in cut-out animation in Lofoten. This led to films such as The Breakfast Eater and later Washing, cooking, cutting, rocking, wall-to-wall carpet, vacuuming and pilfering, both distinctly everyday with a more and more diluted dramaturgy. Where the Breakfast Eater had a certain estimate, Washing, cooking, cutting, rocking, wall-to-wall carpeting, vacuuming and tinkering flattened into a repetitive cycle of routines and maintenance. This development could not be stopped, and in the even more recent Opptakt (which appears in Tegnerforbundet ) you are left with a single eternal scene. In a static but rhythmic tableau mix slowfox and ticks, dance floor and fillereye, lampshade and flea collar.
The films are made in a simple and primitive cut-out technique, on a self-carved animation table inside a tiny room with large, warm lamps, - where a sweaty animator kneeling takes a still picture with the self-timer, moves a moving part of the drawing a few millimeters before taking a new. The process often starts calmly and controlled before it spins out of control due to the small overheated room, the excruciatingly slow working method, the loss of overview and other unforeseen problems. This manifests itself in the film by uneven movements and occasional jerks, foreign elements that nail the picture frame and the feeling of a rising and falling stress level that hangs over the films like a whiff.
