A day at a nursing home for the disabled in Hammerdal, Jämtland, depicted in claymation and with authentic sound from the home depicted in the film. In different episodes, everyday events and relationships are shown between the elderly, who have lent their voices and characters to the movie characters. The film shows what an ordinary day looks like, with meals, mail deliveries, card games and visits from the Salvation Army. At the end, the real people compare and comment on their characters.
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Semesterhemmet
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Birgitta Jansson
About the artist
Despite her short life, Birgitta Jansson had an influence on animated films both in Sweden and around the world. Her international breakthrough came with the short film Semesterhemmet (‘The Vacation Home’), which scooped three awards at the Annecy International Animation Festival in 1981. This established her as a pioneer of a new way of making animated documentaries based around real-life soundtracks. In the film she used claymation techniques at around the same time as Peter Lord and David Sproxton started making similar films at the British company Aardman Animations.