Trailer

The 2020 festival dates of this, the eleventh edition of SLASH motivated the young creative duo of Elias Fleischer and Franz Mühringer to engage in a game of twin symbolism—full of double entendre and ambiguity. For their official festival trailer, The Cuckoo’s Child, they devoted themselves to this fetish topos of Fantastic Cinema. We travel from an abandoned amusement park, through its hall of mirrors, toward SLASH’s DNA. All this in exhilarating animation and with a synthwave soundtrack by Oliver Forstner, while inspirations ranging from Salvador Dalí and psychoanalysis to cuckoo myths rattle in the background.