Hans Hansen (born 1985) grew up in Finnskogen and learned some principles of cut-out animation in Lofoten. Lofoten, Norway. This led to films such as Frokostspiseren and later Washing, cooking, cutting, rocking, wall-to-wall carpeting, vacuuming and pilking, both distinctly everyday with an increasingly diluted dramaturgy. Where The Breakfast Eater had a certain impact, Washing, boiling, mowing, rocking, wall-to-wall carpeting, vacuuming and piling flattened out into a repetitive cycle of routines and maintenance. This development could not be stopped, and in the even more recent Opptakt (shown in Tegnerforbundet) you are left with a single perpetual scene. In a In a static but rhythmic tableau, slow fox and ticks, dance floor and fillerye are mixed, 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.
