Hisko Hulsing

Besides painting, writing, directing, and animating, Hisko composes the orchestral soundtracks for his own films. All his films and series feature a distinctive style that is based on thousands of oilpaintings on canvas.His films Seventeen and Junkyard won many awards, including the Grand Prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. Hisko Hulsing made the animated sequences for Cobain: Montage of Heck, the acclaimed documentary about Kurt Cobain, that was theatrically released worldwide by Universal Pictures and got nominated for 8 Emmy Awards. Hisko Hulsing directed both seasons of Undone, the first animated series for adults for Amazon Prime. Undone was the best reviewed animated series of 2019 and appeared in Top Ten lists of The New York Times, Vanity Fair and Time Magazine. It won the jury award in Annecy in 2020. Hulsing directed the bonus episode of The Sandman for DC Comics, Warner Bros and Netflix called “A Dream of a Thousand Cats”. Both Undone and A Dream of a Thousand Cats were nominated for an Annie Award, the most prestigious animation award of the United States. He is currently working on an oilpainted film, based on Shostakovich’ 10th Symphony.

Resurrection is an apocalyptic nightmare about war, animated on the short and violent Allegro from the 10th Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich. It’s a true multimedia project that consists of a short animated film, 50 oilpaintings on canvas and live performances with classical orchestras. The film is a “Danse Macabre” about the morbid resurrection of old ideologies, religions, and myths that emerge as demons from the past and that are revived in ever-changing forms when the spirits are being prepared for new wars and when old hatred that seemed long buried is being revived. A dreamlike experience in the tradition of artists like Francisco Goya, Pieter Breughel, and George Grosz who all depicted the horrors of war. A warning about the resurrection of fascism.