# animate! › Films › Purple Grey by Sebastian Buerkner

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/purplegrey/

Discovery terms: 2000s animation, flash animation, digital drawing, digital compositing, imagination, escapism, memory, experimental short film, filmmaker, animation artist

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**Purple Grey** a film by Sebastian Buerkner

[Sebastian Buerkner](http://sebastianbuerkner.com/)

2006, 7 min 50 sec

[watch this film ›](https://animateprojectsarchive.org/films/by_date/2005_06/purple_grey)

![Purple Grey, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/purplegrey01.jpg)

pre-production concept still

### a film by Sebastian Buerkner

### animate! synopsis

A vivid imagination can be a seductive but debilitating distraction from life. Twisted fantasies, associations and flashbacks offer an enticing escape, and even a mundane room may be made more bearable by mentally morphing space and time. But the real world continues, demanding, undermining, overwhelming…

Elaborate Flash drawn animation subtly enhanced in compositing programs.

### key credits

**director**
Sebastian Buerkner

**Purple Grey** film, stills and other materials © Sebastian Buerkner 2006