Danse Macabre (2026)

Danse Macabre is a five-minute animated nightmare about war and destruction. Inspired by the second movement of Dmitri Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, the film transforms the music into a dark procession of apocalyptic imagery.

Hisko Hulsing creates the short as a fusion of hand-drawn and computer animation, using movement, rhythm and visual symbolism instead of conventional dialogue. The result is an abstract anti-war work that compresses an enormous subject into a very brief running time.

• Written, directed and edited by Hisko Hulsing.
• Produced by Autour de Minuit, Valk Productions, Cinemon Entertainment and Vivi Film.
• Director of photography for the live-action reference shoot was Freek Zonderland.
• The film originated as a Netherlands-France co-production.
• It premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2026.