It’s a dramatic story of folded paper animals, put in danger and forced to flee – thus metaphorically representing the problems of our real world: air-pollution, deforestation, overfishing, climate-change, and making these abstract, complex environmental issues more tangible for everyone.

The origami animals of this unique world of paper – set in an office desk, amongst various office equipments – experience the same dangers that real-life animals experience: they have to run for their lives. With the helps of series of metaphors and visual associations the film gradually transport the viewer into a macro world of reality, where nature is struggling to survive.

Since this “action-animation” uses plenty of straightforward and direct scenes, it also has a strong lyrical overtone and clearly communicates our message: “We are all connected”.

The paper symbolism is key to the whole movie. But working with origami you have to think in a very structured manner; it wasn’t easy to find the balance between its simplified, static shapes and the organic shapes and dynamic moves of real animals.

The office desk and equipments serve as a backdrop to the dramatic story, and we had to construct the build-ups and sequence of the scenes carefully, reflecting the threats and dangers of environment in a credible and visually stunning way.

Creating a seamless integration of the micro-world of origami into the dangers of our the macro-world also caused a great challenge; however we managed to create a coherent visual dimension that aptly conveys our central message: „We are all connected”.