Exitus
In Exitus 2 filmmakers Bob and Jeroen travel around the world, looking for fascinating abandoned buildings. This is what urban explorers do according to the definition: often illegally visiting, photographing and documenting abandoned buildings or not publicly accessible locations. But because of their passion for animation film, Bob and Jeroen go further than the average urban explorer. With stopmotion-animation they bring the peculiar places back to life after years of neglect. Bob and Jeroen show us a mysterious world we otherwise would have never known. Abandoned castles, warships, theatres, factories, prisons, monasteries and even complete abandoned villages in Abkhazia get a new life in this 8-part series.
Bob Thissen
Bob Thissen is next to stopmotion-filmmaker, a passionate urban explorer. Every free moment he hits the road to discover abandoned places all over the world. Bob is hyper-excited, busy, never tired, and would do anything to reach his goal. He is a real discoverer, always looking for new places to explore. Bob doesn’t shun any risks and has an enormous urbex network throughout Europe and the rest of the world.
Jeroen Swyngedouw
Jeroen Swyngedouw is a friend of Bob’s and his inseparable companion during their adventures. He is also a stopmotion-filmmaker. Jeroen is passionate by architecture and history and tries to see the beauty in everything. He has an interesting passion for urban exploring. Jeroen is a bit more laid back than Bob. Which is why he mostly leaves the initiative to Bob and he can easily adapt to the circumstances. He has an eye for detail, however.
directed & filmed by
Maximiliaan Dierickx
edited by
Bram Rabaey
Maarten Van Vooren
animations
Bob Thissen
Jeroen Swyngedouw
concept
Toon Loenders
line producer
Samuel Bruyneel
co-producers
Bruno Felix
producers
Frederik Nicolai
Eric Goossens
Official selection Anima Festival Brussels, 2017
an Off World production
in co-production with
Submarine
Slammer!
Mollywood
in co-production with
VRT-Canvas
NTR
with the support from
Flanders Audiovisual Fund
CobO-fund
The Belgian Federal Government Tax Shelter