Diamond and oval shapes in primary colors perform a sensual, upbeat ballet to the music of composer Ralph Rainger. The geometric dance is set against a background of expanding circles that suggest radio waves. Fischinger perfected film various tricks, including stop motion. The film still suprises us with its innovatory character.
Section: Toones and Tunes - animated music films
The subject of the film is the perception of a person with autism spectrum disorder. The film is an attempt to present a typical behaviour and reactions of a person suffering from autism.
Section: Contest films - 3rd block
This animation is based on Stephen Coates composition under the same title. This film is about The Great Revolution of the British Cuckoos, who bravely took over London, forcing all the people to move inside the cuckoo clocks.
Section: Toones and Tunes - animated music films
Two friends decide to break out from the isolated, crumbling and cursed place where they live, and head towards the unknown. Their friendship will be put to test right at the beginning…
Section: Contest films - 3rd block
A story of a naughty boy who is punished by a fairy and turned into a fly. When wandering around, he bumps into a spider, talks to him and realizes that every creature, even the smallest one has its duty to fulfill.
Section: Contest films - 3rd block
A story of wandering and wondering.
Section: Contest films - 2nd block
A mix of animation and an action fim. A boy draws on a pavement with a chalk, he falls asleep and his drawings come to life.
Section: Contest films - 2nd block
The EP cover and the childhood drawings of Chelou... come to life.
Section: Contest films - 2nd block
This colorful enchantment inspired by the director’s five year stay in China is an ode to its landscape and people. Manifold amorphous images fill blank, white space that harmonically fights with them for the screen. A meditative film flows carefully with the soundtrack full of Asian motives.
Section: Animator is a Puppet too part I
The Common Room Animation Project is a collaboration between 13 animators and a spoken-word artist Talia Randall. Inspired by the piece "Common Room", each of the animators took on a segment of the poem , and worked on it with complete creative freedom.
Section: Contest films - 1st block
The film is a manual for women presenting four golden rules of coquetry. As the inspiration for the film served advices and hints found on the Internet and unfortunately (or fortunately) the director's personal experiences.
Section: Contest films - 1st block
An office located in the Californian desert. The self-imposed objective is no less far out: narrative landscaping. Its abbreviation is “O.N. L.S.D”, which includes what is pretty obvious, being on LSD. But Eden´s Edge is a nine-part episodic film from the Office for Narrative Landscape Design initially marked by exceptional directorial sobriety. The visual settings for the life-stories it presents are based on a shared and stringently maintained master-plan.
Section: Animator is a Puppet
We see bird eye-views of minimalistic scenes, meticulously arranged in gray desert sands, usually furnished with but a few props. Within this context, seemingly lost and barely insect-size inhabitants move about, recluses, mavericks and freaks in the best sense of the word. They all have retreated to the desert, to reinvent their lives on the margins of an increasingly unbearable society: the schizo-schaman who has constructed a totem circle out of stones; a female artist who fled the city and created a repository for the traumas of combat veterans; the paranoid druggee who inscribes a giant spiral along classical lines of land art.
A day in life of a plain girl.
Section: Contest films - 2nd block
The story of a yelow man... a blue dog... and a red ball... who lose their perspective. A man plays fetch with his dog, only to have both him and his dog mired in a series of optical illusions
Section: Toones and Tunes - animated music films
A young man takes a bus and thus a Surreal journey begins... Cutting his way through the urban swirl to the Unknown, he uses different means of public transportation. During the voyage he is digging deeper and deeper into his suppressed, untold frustrations. The Bizarre, Monotonous, Repetetive activities of the people around, makes him even more frustrated. Gradually he gets out from the urban hive to an unknown land where he finally asks himself the slowly framing question...
Section: Contest films - 3rd block
Jerzy Kucia is back after thirteen years of silence with this meditative story in the form of a poetic film based on relationship between images and music. The film shows the process of evoking feelings and searching forthe specificity of landscape by recounting events which have taken place in the scenery.
Section: Animator is a Puppet too part I
Petty employs charcoal and pastels to create Cubist and Art Deco inspired designs evoking the curiosity, grace and beauty of two cats in constant motion. The film is set to Ned Rorem's "Trio for flute, cello, and piano".
Section: Toones and Tunes - animated music films
The film is about a crafty sparrow who meets a friend.
Section: Animator is a Puppet too part I
Home is a place. A family. A history. Relationships. Home is a memory that forms a person. Maybe a dream? This is a story about a girl coming back Home. This visit brings a storm of chaotic, difficult memories. She needs to deal with them to leave. What is her Home? Is it possible to change it?
Section: Animator is a Puppet too part I
A classic cartoon where a bunch of different animals get all nice and clean to perform the popular song "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles". You can see the text on the screen and the film invites you to sing along.
Section: Toones and Tunes - animated music films
This is a clip animation for a children song written by an Israeli author - Efrat Shoham. It describes the first experience of getting to know the elements in nature, places in Israel and all the little stuff in life.
Section: Contest films - 3rd block
The film chronicles the battle between Soho Eckstein (property developer extraordinaire) and Felix Teitlebaum (whose anxiety floods half the house) for the hearts and mines of Johannesburg. The characters and some of the interactions came directly from two dreams. What there is of narrative was evolved backwards and forwards from the first key images - the procession through the wasteland, the fish in the hand.
Section: The World of William Kentridge
In this animated short film, the high voltage lines are used as a musical stave, trapeze and trampoline. Two energetic young women walk together in time. Their stride relaxes into a pas de deux. The straps of their white dresses quiver, furtively showing a breast. All in arabesques, their dance-acrobatics fill the space. Suddenly a worker chases after them...
Section: Toones and Tunes - animated music films
This film is German director Andreas Hykade's tribute to the art of animation morphs. It twists historical images into a new style, taking us on a hypnotic joyride. Hykade's trademark style is based on very simple characters which move in smooth animation.
Section: Toones and Tunes - animated music films
The relationship between a young girl and her father is being reflected as they spend time together in a car, driving on an endless road.
Section: Contest films - 1st block
„The Night Ocean” is based on Robert Barlow and H.P. Lovecraft's story in the form of an artist's sketchbook, where he portrays his encounter with the impossible.
Section: Contest films - 1st block
A young woman who has just started her career notices the fact the her period is late. After the examination in hospital, she dreams about an astronaut and this illusion later appears in her real life.
Section: Contest films - 1st block
Back in Johannesburg, Soho Eckstein moves through collisions of circumstance and recollection. Familiar and recent features of the mutating city appear, suggesting connections to displaced emotions and displaced histories. There are references to the street-corner civil wars of daily life, to the xenophobic violence of recent years in Johannesburg.
Section: The World of William Kentridge
A bellhop in a hotel dreams of meeting Miss Glory, which turns out to be a nightmare. His manager awakes him because Miss Glory has arrived, but instead of seeing a lady like he dreamed, he sees a child star a la Shirley Temple.
Section: Toones and Tunes - animated music films
Having suffered the loss of their plane, three pilots inexplicably find themselves stranded in the middle of the desert. While following the perilous and unpredictable course that will ultimately lead them home, they fall prey to visions and must confront the siren call of their own strange fantasies.
Section: Animator is a Puppet too part I
„The Piston” portrays a man's work within an animated personification of the Solar System. The characters in the film are responsible for the rotation of some celestial body about its axis. The mechanism seems to be working well up to a certain moment...
Section: Contest films - 1st block
The film is a satire on commercialism. The director's purpose was to describe the way he sees commercials nowadays, where there is no relation between the visuals and the product.
Section: Contest films - 2nd block
"Rivers" is based on Czesław Miłosz's poem of the same title. It challenges the issues of passing time. The rivers are compared to the body of the main character. The director looks for the traces of rivers in his body - starting with the umbilical cord, going through fingerprints, and finishing with wrinkles on his face.
Section: Contest films - 1st block
A lyrical puppet animated film about a sea capitan and his last voyage. This is a film about old age that looks like youth and about death that doesn't end your voyage.
Section: Contest films - 2nd block
Nature, unity, versatility. A part of a whole. We are all that surrounds us / all that surrounds us is us.
Section: Contest films - 3rd block
A surrealist journey through colors and shapes inspired by the poem ” Romance Sonámbulo” by Federico García Lorca. Visual poetry in the rhythm of fantastic dreams and passionate nights.
Section: Animator is a Puppet too part I
Humorous sketch film about animals, who exist in their everyday lives in body only, whilst their minds are elsewhere.
Section: Contest films - 1st block
The stereoscope is a device used to make images appear three-dimensional by presenting each eye with a slightly different point of view of the same scene; in attempting to reconcile the difference, the eye is tricked into seeing volume.
Section: The World of William Kentridge
In Stereoscope the artist employs a reverse maneuver. A split screen dismembers three-dimensional reality into complementary but unsynchronized realities - a split suggestive of Soho's divided self. Scenes of civic chaos point to individual disquiet and internal conflict.
Animated short about Vanya, Lenochka, the king, the queen, the robber, the guards, the horse, the blacksmith, the fire chief and his wife based on a short story by Daniil Kharms.
Section: Contest films - 2nd block
This Migrant Business shows the systems that exists and enables to exploit African migrants seeking better Life in the Middle East and Europe. The system creates a cyclic force that ensures that the demand and supply will continue to feed into each other, indefinitely. This is a lucrative trade with vulnerable people as its currency.
Section: Contest films - 3rd block
An educational animated short film produced by Walt Disney is a stylized presentation of the evolution of the four orchestra sections over the ages, from prehistoric man to the modern symphony orchestra. These sections are represented by a horn (toot), flute (whistle), guitar (plunk) and drum (boom). The film won the 1954 Academy Award.
Section: Toones and Tunes - animated music films
Unfolding like a dream, “Totem” explores our evolving relationship to the animal world. Music and sound by Bruce Odland.
Section: Toones and Tunes - animated music films
A compilation of scenes presenting unacceptable behaviours.
Section: Contest films - 1st block
A fox hunter, a porcelain shopkeeper, brothers the scientists, a seal, a boy and a music box. Six characters in their rooms filled with traces of longing, separated by a vast and bleak landscape. Four stories about love, contemplation and (self)destruction.
Section: Contest films - 2nd block
A dark tale of love and dismemberment.
Section: Contest films - 3rd block
The documentary presents Kentridge's work, his way of working and his philosophy. He was interviewed by Christian Lund at the Deutsche Staatstheater (Hamburg, 2014) when the stage version of 'The Refusal of Time' was realised.
Section: The World of William Kentridge
The film features excerpts from 'The Journey to the Moon' (2003), 'The Refusal of Time' (2012) 'What Will Come (Has Already Come)' (2007).
© Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
A short animated film tells a (true) story of Wojtek, a bear who got adopted by Polish soldiers and became an official member of the Polish army during WWII.
Section: Contest films - 1st block
A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.
Section: Animator is a Puppet too part I
