NAKED LOVE - "Ea's Garden" (2012)


A handdrawn erotic animated artfilm, a sensuel trip through Ea's sexuality in a surrealistic abstract poetic atmosphere.

Length: 6:26 min
Director, animator & coloror: Sara Koppel
Composer & Sound: Sune "Køter" Kølster

NAKED LOVE was originally meant to be a 25 minutes long erotic animated short, where we would meet 7 different people ander their sexualities, a tribute to our individual sexualities and to sex full of joy, beauty and fun.

As they could not get funding to the film, Sara decited to cut up the film in 7 chapters, and made the first 4300 drawings into the first chapter about Ea's sexuality.

As the work was going on, small clips from the film was uploaded to the internet, and when the film was done, there have allready been more than a million loads on vimeo.

Just after its release, NAKED LOVE - Ea's Garden was nominated for the Feminist Porn Award in Toronto, and 1 year later it have received 9 awards, have been screening on more than 70 festivals around the world.

The soundtrack to NAKED LOVE - Ea's Garden, is like a duet between the male and the female voice, and got a nomination to the PEER RABEN AWARD of Soundtrack Cologne for best music in a shortfilm.

Additional Credits:

Female Vocal by Molly Koppel
Violin by Samuel Lundström

Coloring assistants:
Christine Hvidt, Lina Ohlsson, Ronja Hage Tange, Sofie Emilie Kaas-Larsen

Thank You to the donators:
Lotte Ankerstjerne (DK), Natalia Dalsgaard (DK), Miklas Njor (S), Bryan Harrison (USA),
Gabriel Thordahl-Jensen (DK), Tine Jørgensen (DK), Bent Jakobsen (DK), Gallerie Eros (DK), Jan Petersen (DK), Søren Fleng (DK)

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"OFFICIAL JURY BEST ANIMATION 2013"
DIVERSIDADE EM ANIMAÇÃO, Rio De Janeiro - Brasil
 
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"Honorable Mention",
Love Unlimited Film Festival & Art Exhibition, Los Angeles, USA
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PETRA JOY AWARD, Brighton, UK
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Nevada Film Festival, Las Vegas, USA
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Received "SPECIAL MENTION of the ANIMATION JURY",
Odense International Film Festival
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Los Angeles Art-house Film Festival
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14th Annual Artfest Film Festival, Harrisburg, USA
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Los Angeles New Wave International Film Festival
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FESTIVAL"NAKED LOVE - Ea's Garden" is going to be screened at the CINEKINK TOUR AUSTRALIA 2013, Melbourne - October 14th Lismore - October 28th
 
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FESTIVAL"NAKED LOVE - Ea's Garden" is going to be screened at CINEKINK at PORN FILM FESTIVAL BERLIN, October 27th, Berlin, Germany
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11th-15th of September 2013, Varna, Bulgaria
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July 26th to September 8th, Moscow, Russia
 
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FESTIVAL"NAKED LOVE - Ea's Garden" by Sara Koppel is officially selected for 11th Annual Female Eye FilmFestival,
19th - 23rd of June 2013, Toronto, Canada
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31th of May - 9th of June 2013, Detmold - Germany
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FESTIVAL"NAKED LOVE - Ea's Garden" is Invited for "Best of Scandinavia Short Film" in Wiz-Art EARTH SHAKING FILM ONLY, 25th April 2013, Lviv Art Palace - UKRAINE
 
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FESTIVAL"NAKED LOVE - Ea's Garden" by Sara Koppel is officially selected for The Melbourne International Animation Festival, Officiel selected in competition for Late night Program, 20th to 30th June 2013, Melbourne, Australia
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is officially selected for Love Unlimited Film Festival & Art Exhibition,
the Fifth Annual International Event,
13th - 14th of April, Los Angeles, USA
 
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is officially selected for The Citrus Cel Animation Film Festival, April 4th - 6th 2013, The Florida Theater, Jacksonville, Florida USA
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is officially selected for The 2013 Portland Oregon Women's Film Festival (POWFest), March 7 – 10th, 2013, Portland, Oregon, USA
 
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is officially selected for
The 8th Annual Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, March 7 – 10th, 2013, Vancouver, Canada
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is officially selected for Animac Lleida, Mostra Internacional de Cinema d'Animació de Catalunya, February 28th - March 3rd, 2013, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
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is officially selected for Cinekink, The Kinky Film Festival, February 26-March 3, 2013, NEW YORK CITY, USA
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is officially selected for Copenhagen Short Film Festival, February 21st - 24th, 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark

 
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Friday 1st of February 2013
Århus, Denmark
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is officially selected for LIGHT ASSEMBLY MIAMI,
6th - 9th of DECEMBER 2012, Miami, USA
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is officially selected for NEVADA FILM FESTIVAL
30th November - 1st December, Las Vegas, USA
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is officially selected for
SOUNDTRACK COLOGNE 9.0,
15th - 18th of November 2012, Cologne, Germany
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Brooklyn, New York, USA
 
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is officially selected for TAKE TWO FILM FESTIVAL, November 2nd - 4th 2012, New York City, USA
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is officially selected for FLIP ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2012, 1st - 3rd NOVEMBER 2012, Wolverhampton, UK
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is officially selected for CUTOUT FEST FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE ANIMACION, 1st - 3rd of November 2012, Querétaro, Mexico
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is officially selected for VIBORG ANIMATIONS FESTIVAL,
30th of OCTOBER - 4th of NOVEMBER 2012, Viborg, Denmark
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is officially selected for XV International Short Film Festival La Boca Del Lobo, 17th - 27th of NOVEMBER 2012, Madrid, Spain
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is officially selected for ANIMEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL, 5th - 15th of October 2012, Bucharest, Romania
 
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is officially selected for 10th INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED FILM FESTIVAL TINDIRINDIS 2012, 22nd - 28th of October 2012, Vilnius, Lithuania
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is shown at the SHNIT INTERNATIONAL SHORTFILM FESTIVAL, 3rd - 7th of OCTOBER 2012, Bern, Switzerland
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BEST OF Seattle Erotic Art Festival, THE PICKFORD FILM CENTER,
4th - 6th of October 2012, Bellingham, Washington, USA
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is officially selected for
BALKANIMA 9. EVROPSKO FESTIVAL ANIMARANOG FILMA 2nd - 6th of October 2012, Beograd, Serbia
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is officially selected for EROTIKOS FILM FESTIVAL, 15th - 22nd of SEPTEMBER 2012, Negril, Jamaica
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is officially selected for ANIMAZSPOT 2012 FESTIVAL, 10th - 16th of SEPTEMBER 2012, Burbank, California, USA
  d FESTIVAL"NAKED LOVE - Ea's Garden",by Sara Koppel
is officially selected for BORNSHORTS FILM FESTIVAL, 13th - 15th of SEPTEMBER 2012, Gudhjem, Bornholm, Denmark
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is officially selected for ATLANTA UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
13th - 16th of SEPTEMBER 2012, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  d FESTIVAL"NAKED LOVE - Ea's Garden", by Sara Koppel, LA MIRADA TABÚ, Festival DeZine Sala López 2012, 6th - 16th SEPTEMBER 2012, Zaragoza, Spain
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is officially selected for SIDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL #6 6th - 9th of SEPTEMBER 2012 in Sydney, Australia
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is officially selected for ODENSE INTERNATIONAL FILMFESTIVAL 20 - 25th of AUGUST 2012 in Odense, Denmark
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FESTIVAL"NAKED LOVE - Ea's Garden"by Sara Koppel
is officially selected for Minneapolis Underground Film Festival, August 17th - 19th, 2012, Minneapolis, USA
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is officially selected for "COLUMBIA GORGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL" 15 - 19th of August in VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, USA
 
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FESTIVAL"NAKED LOVE - Ea's Garden"by Sara Koppel
is officially selected for FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL CINEMATOGRÁFICO DE TOLUCA, August 3rd-10th 2012, Toluca, Mexico
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FESTIVAL"NAKED LOVE - Ea's Garden"by Sara Koppel
is officially selected for
GUANAJUATO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, July 20th - 25th, 2012, Guanajuato Capital, Mexico
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is officially selected for The 6th International Film Festival Kratkofil, July 18-22th 2012, Banjaluka, Bosnia & Herzegovina
 
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FESTIVAL"NAKED LOVE - Ea's Garden"by Sara Koppel
is officially selected for "ANIMA MUNDI" in Rio De Janeiro July 13th-22th & Sao Paolo July 25th-29th, Brazil
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is officially selected for
Film Leben Festival 2012, July 5th - 8th 2012, Ilmenau, Germany
 
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FESTIVAL"NAKED LOVE - Ea's Garden"by Sara Koppel
is officially selected for
FESTIVAL ART DECO DE CINEMA, July 2nd - 21st, 2012, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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FESTIVAL"NAKED LOVE - Ea's Garden", by Sara Koppel is officially selected for "Festival of the Erotic Arts" 22nd - 24th June 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland
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is officially selected for OPORTO 7 INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, June 13th-17th, 2012, Porto, Portugal
 

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FESTIVAL"NAKED LOVE - Ea's Garden" by Sara Koppel
is officially selected for "14th Annual ARTSFEST FILM FESTIVAL" 25 - 28 MAJ 2012 in Harrisburg, Pensylvainia, USA
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The "Work-In-Progress" Episodes from 2011:

Episode VIII - The Erotic Manifesto

 

With this poetic erotic manifesto, we take a break with the documentation to concentrate fully on the animation and development, but You can follow the progress on nakedlovefilm.com.

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EPISODE VI - Tell Me Tender

 

Following the creation of a new scene, Sara is telling in a breathtaking tempo about the complex and slow work of handdrawn animation.

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EPISODE V - A New Opening

 

We invite you into a new opening in our erotic animation.

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EPISODE IV - The Score

 

We visit composer Sune Køter's studio, where he currently works with the soundtrack to "Naked Love". He talks about the fun but hard challenge to make music for this kind of film.

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EPISODE III - Draw Me a Kiss

 

A brief visual summary about the long process behind the creation of an animation scene.

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EPISODE II - First Glimpses

 

We introduce you to Naked Love's producer Søren Fleng, who visits the studio to finally see the first glimpses of the film.

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EPISODE I - Introduction

Director and animator Sara Koppel, and composer Sune Køter give you an introduction to the film, their visions and challenges.