
All work
fiction,short, stopmotion / 2021
A Bloody Graveyard Story
Stop-motion after dark
On a creepy night, three teenagers, Tom, Leila, and Petey, venture into an abandoned cemetery. Tom takes great delight in scaring his friends. He even brought an old leather-bound book and tells Leila and Petey that he’s going to summon the “Spirit of Painful Bloodshed.” In front of an ancient grave, Tom begins the ritual, but something goes wrong. Did he just summon a real ghost?
Selected credits
- Direction
- Vanessa Stachel
- Cinematography
- Konrad Losch
More cast & crew
- Production
- Luca Merkle
- Production company
- Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
- Original music
- Kilian Oser
- Sound design
- Philipp Hahn
- Writing
- Luca Merkle
- Concept/Design
- Sascha May
- Animation
- Vanessa Stachel
- Visual Effects
- Tobias Eckerlin, Lilli-Luisa Heckmann
- Concept
- Konrad Losch, Luca Merkle, Vanessa Stachel
- Compositing
- Johann-Baptiste Schilling
- Voices
- Kayla Jackson, Justin William Schaffner, Clay Reynolds, Natalie Rose Hoover
- Lighting
- Konrad Losch
Awards & festival selections.
Film & craft
Recognition of the film and its creative team.
Rüsselsheimer Filmtage
Award-winning film · 2024 laureates programme
Festival selections
- MOTELX Lisbon 2023 · Méliès d’argent short film competition
- Lusca Fantastic Film Festival 2023 · Animated Short Film Selection
- Terror in the Bay 2023 · Official Selection
- Norwegian Short Film Festival 2023
- Brussels Short Film Festival 2024 · Night of the Short
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