Ticking Away by Michael Sewnarain

Ticking Away is a story about a watchmaker. The director, Michael Sewnarain, got the inspiration from observing his father at work. He was a watchmaker himself and the home he grew up in was always full of old clocks in various states of repair. Though it is by no means an autobiographical film, the memories did leave an impression.

Michael Sewnarain is a animation director/ animator / story-artist / illustrator living and working in the Netherlands with a field experience of over twenty years.
Throughout the years he has worked on many different type of productions; feature films,TV-specials independent short films and everything inbetween. His main love, though, and the bulk of his experience consists of working on hand drawn, classically animated projects. Apart from collaborating on commercial productions, he enjoys working on his own independent shorts, which he writes and directs.

Story and Direction Michael Sewnarain
Producers Willem Thijssen & Ignace Collin
Animation Michael Sewnarain
Paul Schwarz

Backgrounds Brun Croes
Michael Sewnarain

3D support Bunk Timmer
Music and Sound

Composed by Reinhard Vanbergen
Musicians: Mark Steylaerts (violin)
Véronique Gilis (violin)
Kathelyne Onsia (viola)
Karel Steylaerts (cello)
Geert Callaert (piano)
Gaétan de la Mêla (percussion)

Sound design & mix Bob Kommer Studio’s
Sound design/Foley artist Jeroen Nadorp
Foley Recording Robin van der Heiden
5.1 Cinema Mix Jeroen Nadorp

Compositing & coloring Fabrique Fantastique

Supervisor/coordinator Tom Van Gestel
Compositing Hanne Geeraert
Compositing/Coloring Michael Koning
Coloring Matthew Lu
Floriaan den Hoedt
Quinten Van Epperzeel
Seppe Dausi

Production
Project development Stichting il Luster Films
Associate producer Nynke Rusticus
Post production manager Willem Thijssen
Grading & DCP (CineMeta) Stephan Dancer