Jamille van Wijngaarden's Animated Short 'Catastrophe' Premieres at TIFF

Dutch filmmaker Jamille van Wijngaarden (born 1989) premiered her animated short 'Catastrophe' at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film humorously reimagines the classic conflict between a domestic cat and a caged bird. When the bird appears to die naturally, the cat's attempts to revive it trigger an unstoppable, hilarious chain of disasters. Van Wijngaarden cited her own cat's clumsy, well-intentioned behavior as inspiration for the tragicomic protagonist. The short was featured on Artribune, an Italian contemporary art and culture platform founded in 2011.