SPACE PIGS

Space Pigs

Finlandia. 2000. Color. 26 min. Animación. 35mm.
  • Film Director: Christian Lindblad.
  • Producer: Claes Olsson.
1969. Apollo 11 is about to land on the moon. Stanley Doughnut, a New York Post journalist, gets a hot tip that leads him to an out-of-the-way mental asylum where he is supposed to meet the mysterious Mr Pig. Slowly, the writer discovers that there’s more to the story than meets the eye.

Christian Lindblad
Christian was born in 1963 and graduated in 1985 from the Theatre Academy, Finland, and started working as stage actor. Soon his interests turned towards directing screenplays, and only a couple of years later, towards film-making. The next step was to invest in an Arriflex SR 16mm camera and starting to shoot. He also took part in many Finnish films as camera assistant and lighting assistant. In 1989 he completed his first film "Love Tank" ("Kärleken bandvagn"), and in 1993 he made his first feature film "Ripa Hits the Skids" ("Ripa ruostuu"). Immediately he started planning his first animation film "Space-Pigs", which was completed in 2000. Since then he has concentrated exclusively on animation, except some sidesteps in the opera...