ANIMATION FESTIVAL
20.–23.5.2021 ONLINE

Experimental

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Marbles

Director: Natalia Spychala
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 2 min
Year: 2019
Country: Poland

The sea is too much to drink

Director: Charlotte Arene
Technique: Stop-motion, pixilation
Duration: 2 min
Year: 2019
Country: France

« La mer à boire » is a french idiom that translates as « drinking the sea ».
It means, a task too great to undertake, or asking too much of someone.

Average Happiness

Director: Maja Gehrig
Technique: 2D digital
Duration: 7 min
Year: 2019
Country: Switzerland

During a PowerPoint presentation, statistical diagrams are breaking free from the strait-jacket of their coordinates. A trip into the sensual world of statistics begins.

Fatum serie

Director: Jukka Hautamäki
Technique: Mixed media, artificial intelligence algorithm
Duration:  5 min
Year: 2020
Country: Finland

AI is predicting the continuation of the moving image.

Polar Stratospheric Clouds

Director: Jarkko Räsänen
Technique: Computer generated animation
Duration:  3 min
Year: 2020
Country: Finland

I collected open licence photographs of clouds from internet. I used my self-made software to scale the color values of the photos to create animations out of them.

Rutile cautery

Director: Rodrigo Faustini & jpedrinho9
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  2 min
Year: 2020
Country: Brazil

Photocatalytic individuation. Original gestural abrasive acts on a thermosensible surface are electronically and digitally processed, rendering psychophysical effects of convoluted vague imagery and fuzzy motions. Volcanic mitigations for the senses, red meat-ineffable noise.

4:3

Director: Ross Hogg
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  5 min
Year: 2019
Country: United Kingdom

Twelve animated projections combine to develop a rhythmic dialogue exploring the intrinsic relationship between sound and image using 16mm film, paint and a projector.

Lickalike

Director: Rebecca Blöcher
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  8 min
Year: 2019
Country: Germany

If man divides invisible, time-grown connections in nature, this has uncontrollable consequences. The collapse leads to a reorganization.

Enducated

Director: Hsin Yu Chen
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  6 min
Year: 2020
Country: Taiwan

Once upon a time, there was a crawling tortoise. The tortoise was told that as long as it keeps going, it will reach the goal. But, why reaching the goal? The story is a reflection of the education system in Asia.

To See A Fly Die

Director: Diego Felipe Cortés
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration:  7 min
Year: 2019
Country: Columbia

I see with distance the crowd that dances, I observe them with my body dancing, and the certainty that I will not see the body of who no longer dances. The dance of the living contains death itself.

Thing that suffers

Director: Pere Ginard
Technique: 2D
Duration:  4 min
Year: 2021
Country: Spain

Scientific imaginary and new bestiaries in times of pandemic. Study and classification.

Spawn (Vicious Cycles #2)

Director: Wobbe F. Koning
Technique: 3D print, Stop-motion
Duration:  2 min
Year: 2019
Country: United States

An irregular stalk stands alone on a plateau. It bulges, grows and spawns. While the dark clouds disperse, the bony stalks multiply and fill the space.

Awakening of the Goddess

Director: Debjani Mukherjee
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  3 min
Year: 2020
Country: India

A non-narrative animated documentary based on testimonials of survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) in India.

Desire of Rails – Freedom

Director: Ihsu Yoon
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  2 min
Year: 2019
Country: South Korea

A film to demonstrate a concept of the conceptual art idea and the look of the art pieces in real world. The handrails are awakened and have the desire to pass the limitation which is given to them to just existence for practical purpose

Events Meant to Be Forgotten

Director: Marko Tadic
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  4 min
Year: 2020
Country: Croatia

Filmed on 16mm film, this visual expression is rooted in archival materials, drawing its inspiration from a poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, which appears in the film. It speaks of forgotten people, their lives and their deeds.

Little Light

Director: Kate Sweeney
Technique: 2D
Duration:  2 min
Year: 2020
Country: United Kingdom

‘Little Light’ is an animated series of watercolour paintings that document the labored process of making a paintbrush from a clip of director’s new son’s hair, that is then used to create the painted images.

Any Instant Whatever

Director: Michelle Brand
Technique: 2D
Duration:  5 min
Year: 2019
Country: United Kingdom

A man in a room, in a film – it is the becoming of something and simultaneously becoming in itself. Nothing is as solid as we believe.

Learn A Little

Director: Michael Hughes
Technique: 2D digital
Duration:  4 min
Year: 2020
Country: United Kingdom

Visualised waveforms entangle and intertwine to create myriads of rhythmical patterns and shapes.

The Quest for Freedom and the Longing for Belonging

Director: Noam Paul
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  3 min
Year: 2020
Country: Israel

The name of the film is taken from the book “Liquid Love” by the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. The film deals with the tension between freedom and belonging in the contexts of love and relationships.

Urban Sphinx

Director: Maria Lorenzo
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  5 min
Year: 2020
Country: Spain

An animated short film that creatively documents the presence of street art at various neighbourhoods of Valencia, Spain, between 2018 y 2019.

Human Walkers in Motion

Director: Ethann Néon
Technique: Pixelation
Duration: 11 min
Year: 2020
Country: Belgium

The walk inhabits our being and governs our social space. Side by side or face to face, it implies an exchange. When combining everyone’s specific pace, a hidden harmony arises.

Wandering Mouse

Director: Nohara Tsukiji
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  6 min
Year: 2019
Country: Japan

Tsukiji Fish Market, a famous fish market in Japan, moved in 2018. This is the story of a rat that has lost paradise.

Boy Oh Boy

Director: Stephen Irwin
Technique: 2D
Duration:  1 min
Year: 2020
Country: United Kingdom

A boy conjures the stars out of yogurt.