On Hold
Delia Hess
Switzerland | 2023 | 7’13 v.o.s.i.
A young woman is stuck in the hold queue of a telephone hotline, and little things start to bring her to alienation. A surreal episodic short film about the absurdities of urban life and the frustration of paralysing standstill, as if in cities we lived only waiting but we do not really know what for.
Direction: Delia Hess
Animation: Delia Hess, Aira Joana, Igor Kuzmic
Screenplay: Delia Hess
Editing: Thaïs Odermatt
Compositing: Stefan Holaus
Sound Design: Aline Schoch, Thomas Gassmann
Sound Mixing: Aline Schoch, Thomas Gassmann
Music: Luc Gut
Voice: Elke Schützhold, Lena von Döhren
Producer: Delia Hess, Anja Sidler
Co-producer: Gabriela Bloch-Steinmann
Production: Papierboot, SRT Schweizer Fernsehen
Delia Hess
Delia Hess studied animation at the Lucerne School of Art and Design in Switzerland. Since her graduation in 2012 she has been working independently on her own short film projects as well as on commissioned films and illustrations. Among her works: the student films In the City (2011), Partition (2011) and Morning Train (2012), and the professional works Around the Stairway (2018), Circuit (2018) and Emmen by the Lake (2021). She lives and works in Lucerne.
