ANIMATION FESTIVAL/ 15.-18.10.2020/ HELSINKI

Experimental

Thursday 15.10. 9pm., Cinema Orion
Running time 87 min

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What time is?

Director: Niina Suominen
Technique: Experimental
Duration:  7 min 15 sek
Year: 2019

The essence of our time under the magnifying glass. The starting point was to create a visually interesting and intense, kaleidoscopically abundant work that could be set together with the pioneering electric composition of Jukka Ruohomäki (b.1947). The sound material was created in 1970 with the DIMI-synthesizer designed [more…]

Windshriek

Director: Frederic Doazan
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  6 min 25 sec
Year: 2019
Country: France

The wind blows into a forgotten book.

Ride

Director: Paul Bush
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  5 min 42 sec
Year: 2019
Country: Portugal, UK

Hundreds of motorbikes are animated frame by frame in this homage to the iconic motorcycle design and culture of the 1950s and 60s. A rider prepares his bike and departs on an idealised journey into the countryside and into the future.

Leaking life

Director: Shunsaku Hayashi
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  14 min 32 sec
Year: 2019
Country: Japan

Thousands of them are packed in a bag.
The hand dragging the bag has never been seen from their angle.
The track on sand is easily erased by waves.
Touching the surface of the sea, they grow a new skin.

Läpiveto

Director: Lauri Pulkkinen
Technique: Experimental
Duration:  3 min 57 sec
Year: 2019

This experimental video addresses functions of pores, material streams and human subject. Do we have any control over matter of our bodies? In everyday life we make plenty of choices about what we do/don’t insert in us. In a larger scale, matter flows without control and makes objects [more…]

Orbit

Director: Tess Martin
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  6 min 49 sec
Year: 2019
Country: Nederland

The Sun’s energy circulates through the Earth, feeding the cycle of life. Everything is connected in a natural loop, which repeats, like the circular discs of magical optical toys. This perfectly balanced rhythm is disrupted by human excess, throwing the cycle out of orbit and temporarily [more…]

Flow

Director: Adriaan Lokman
Technique: 3D, experimental
Duration  13 min 43 sec
Year: 2019
Country: Nederland, France

A turbulent day, painted by air.

Pattern Cognition

Director: Thorsten Fleisch
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  7 min 20 sec
Year: 2019
Country: Germany

“When you stare at a screen for long, the screen stares back at you.”
It’s late. You’ve been working on those numbers the whole day. The screen in front of you seems to be vibrating. You close your eyes. The after-image on your retina keeps pulsating in [more…]

Rhizoma

Director: Santiago Pérez Rodríguez
Technique: 2D drawn animation, experimental
Duration:  3 min
Year: 2018
Country: France

Hounds and transmission towers. Frequencies of flesh and electric howls. A disturbing atmosphere where the animal, the organic and the industrial blend.

Xylem

Director: Michael Hughes
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  5 min 26 sec
Year: 2019
Country: UK

An experimental animation using only microscopic images of xylem, one of the two types of transport tissue in vascular plants.

Matter and Motion

Director: Max Hattler
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  2 min 15 sec
Year: 2018
Country: Hongkong, Saksa

Motion creation, energy transmission, matter and motion. Audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima, director Max Hattler, and a group of animators from the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong.

Don’t know what

Director: Thomas Renoldner
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration:  8 min 7 sec
Year: 2019
Country: Switzerland

The basic idea of DONT KNOW WHAT is to combine entertainment cinema and avant-garde film / video art. With the method of single frame editing, which in the first step focused on the sound, the hyperrealistic film transforms into fantastic, surreal, structural and even abstract film. It is [more…]