Rune Callewaert
Animation MA
Royal College of Art
Graduates: 2026
Specialisms: Film & Animation / Art Direction / Illustration
My location: London, United Kingdom
Rune Callewaert
First Name: Rune
Last Name: Callewaert
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program: Animation MA
Graduates: 2026
Specialisms: Film & Animation / Art Direction / Illustration
My Location: London, United Kingdom
Website: Click To See Website
About
Rune Callewaert is a stop motion animator and director, with experience in graphic design and art direction. He focuses on narrative cinema, exploring relational tensions between characters in externalized and evocative worlds. On a technical level, he designs and builds his own sets and puppets, often trying to achieve a baroque and macabre, but also slightly humorous atmosphere within his films. He experiments with different techniques to add emotionality to these worlds. Themes surrounding art history, decadence and classical music feature frequently in his work.
The Masque of the Red Death
When the eccentric owner of a bustling nightclub keeps an eye on his business, his gaze falls on a mysterious lady dressed in red whom he wants to make his own at all costs. While the other guests at the club lose themselves in decadence, the owner remains spellbound by the lady and his inner demons. Will he risk to lose it all? The Masque of the Red Death is a stop-motion allegory about lust, decadence and decay. Based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) in which a bloody pestilence manages to invade a masked ball in a locked castle.
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