Experimental - Programme 1 (80')
Experimental
01. BANQUET OF LOVE / Renai no Daikyoen, 7’
Japan 2014
Directed by Haruka Mitani, Michael Lyons
Screenplay: Haruka Mitani, Michael Lyons
Technique: Scratching and painting directly on overexposed 8mm film
Music: Haruka Mitani, Michael Lyons
Dialogues: None
Haruka Mitani and Michael Lyons to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Norman McLaren’s birth created this work. Insects in their final moments chatter noisily, displaying extravagant colors and patterns. It is their great feast of love. And they speak even by means of light! What should they regret, when they could die the next day? That is why you must shine, O luxurious Life! Shine, O gold, emeralds, sapphires and rubies! There circulates the vital essence that gives colour and energy to the humble place of these humble creatures, flapping their wings in a last-ditch effort. This work was made by scratching and painting directly on overexposed 8mm film. Powder and transparent lacquer were also applied, then more layers of paint. This lends a quality of depth to the diverse colours.
The soundtrack was created optically using an original system, developed for this project, which we call 'The Octopus' (see: http://vimeo.com/79488015).
Light sensors on the projection screen respond to the changing patterns in the film to control an analogue synthesizer. The film itself acts as a visual score.
02. FLIPPING, 8’
USA 2014
Directed by Jin Kyu Ahn
Screenplay: Jin Kyu Ahn
Photography: Jin Kyu Ahn
Technique: Hand-drawn animation
Editing: Jin Kyu Ahn
Music: Sun Min Hwang, Jin Kyu Ahn
Dialogue: None
FLIPPING is an automatic animation (action animating) created by applying 'flipping', a traditional hand-drawn animation technique. The spectrum of a soundless collision between cuts created by a collision of two different physical properties again collide with the sound made by playing two improvised scores folded after burnt. This work has a structure with the complex relationship that two planes are oppositely located in the light and dark space, two materials exist between the two planes, and two sounds permeate between the two materials. And it stays between the life (time) and sensibility of the artist himself.
03. RUPESTRE, 6’45"
Spain 2015
Dircted by Enrique Diego
Screenplay: Enrique Diego
Director of Photography: Andoni Jaen
Technique: 2D
Music: Olga Garcia
Dialogue: (narration) Spanish
Subtitles: English
A wild horse meets a boy coming from the Paleolithic. A bond of curiosity will grow between them, but old fears, inherited for millennia, will awaken too.
04. SWALLOWED WHOLE, 4’ 06’’
USA / Norway 2014
Directed by Heidi Kumao
Screenplay: Heidi Kumao
Director of Photography:
Music:
Dialogues: None
Swallowed Whole is a somber, animated, experimental film about surviving extreme isolation and physical limitations as a result of traumatic injury.
After an acute sledding accident, a woman is forced to lie supine for an extended period of time during which she descends into a desolate, disorienting netherworld. Feeling stifled, she imagines she is trapped under a frozen lake; life continues on above her while she looks up from below.
05. AERIAL, 3’ 45’’
USA 2013
Directed by Peter Hriso
Screenplay: Peter Hriso
Animation: Peter Hriso
Technique: Computer Animation
Music: Keith Kenniff
Dialogues: None
Aerial is an experiment with sound and motion. There are no messages or hidden agendas, other than to reveal the discoveries made during my investigations. There is, of course, the seed of an idea or a bit of a plan when I begin, but I am quickly directed by the work, answering the needs, sorting the puzzles and discovering solutions through the aid of technology.
06. ANIMALS, 13’ 11’’
Germany 2014
Directed by Susann Arnold
Screenplay: Susann Arnold
Animation: Susann Arnold
Technique: 2D, Hand drawn animation
Music: Ulrich Schneider
Dialogues: None
The film follows animals who live in the city. They try to imitate human behavior, but in the end they remain animals. They also undergo changes on the inside. They dream, develop longings and learn to love romantically.
07. ARGENTINA, 1’ 15’’
USA 2014
Directed by Peter Hriso
Screenplay: Peter Hriso
Animation: Peter Hriso
Technique: Computer Animation
Music: Otavio Jr.
Dialogues: None
Argentina is an experiment with sound and motion. There are no messages or hidden agendas, other than to reveal the discoveries made during my investigations. There is, of course, the seed of an idea or a bit of a plan when I begin, but I am quickly directed by the work, answering the needs, sorting the puzzles and discovering solutions through the aid of technology.
08. ARGO, 4’
The Netherlands 2014
Directed by Theodora Kotsi-Felici
Screenplay: Theodora Kotsi-Felici
Animation: Theodora Kotsi-Felici
Technique: Lightwave, After effects, Super 8
Music: -
Dialogues: None
Argo is a part of an installation called POLITEIA MMXIV that referring to Plato's 3rd book 'The decline of the Republic'. This film is a collage between a animation and a super 8 movie. The movie takes its name from the Greek mythology Jason and the Argonauts and was the ship on which Jason had sailed to retrieve the Golden Fleece. In the movie a new version of the myth is presented questioning what is fictive and what is real.
09. BIRDS DREAM, 10’ 15’’
China 2014
Directed by Mi Chai
Screenplay: Mi Chai
Animation: Mi Chai
Technique: Stop-motion, Hand drawn, Objects
Music: Thruout in and A
Dialogues: None
Subtitles: English
A newborn sparrow entered a world full of colourful objects and strange birds. When curiously idling in this world, the sparrow found a young raven with which it began to explore the place together. They encountered all sorts of strange birds and mysterious geometric shapes of different colours. Their encounters have made them bewilder and fantasize, soon their body start to change as well…
10. CAICO, 2’ 30’’
USA 2014
Direction: Peter Hriso
Animation: Peter Hriso
Music: Otavio Jr
Caico is an experiment with sound and motion. There are no messages or hidden agendas, other than to reveal the discoveries made during my investigations. There is, of course, the seed of an idea or a bit of a plan when I begin, but I am quickly directed by the work, answering the needs, sorting the puzzles and discovering solutions through the aid of technology.
11. CINEMA DEHORS, 2’ 40’’
Russia / Australia 2014
Directed by Tatiana Poliektova, Filippo Rivetti
Screenplay: Tatiana Poliektova
Animation: Tatiana Poliektova
Technique: timelapse, animation
Music: RIMSKY
Dialogues: None
Living in the modern world we are too busy with our daily routines and addicted to technologies that sometimes we forget that the real beauty of this world is right in front of our eyes.
12. CARSON CITY AT NIGHT, 1’
Austria / Germany 2015
Directed by Oleksandra Stehlik
Animation: Oleksandra Stehlik
Technique: Mixed Technique
Music: Norman Ritter
Dialogues: None
Audiovisual Performance of Carson City at Night, expressed through dancing Lights.
13. COLOUR MELODY, 2’ 25’’
UK 2014
Directed by Tom Chimiak
Music: Jacob Alder
Dialogues: None
Colour Melody is a conceptual look at a song's structure being represented by ink.
Inspired by the technique of splash photography the aim of the project was to creatively break a song down via a multitude of ink colours. Every instrument has its' own colour.
14. DAIMON, 4’ 11’’
USA 2014
Directed by Kelsey Velez
Screenplay: Kelsey Velez
Technique: Appropriated footage
Music:
Dialogues: None
Daimon exploits the errors produced in attempting to appropriate Rihanna's performance on Saturday Night Live. In doing so, the video produces new rhythms, bringing a new perspective to a project engaged exclusively with the chroma key element of her performance.
15. METUBE: AUGUST SINGS CARMEN HABANERA, 4’
Austria 2013
Directed by Daniel Moshel
Screenplay Daniel Moshel
Director of Photography: Martin Bauer
Editor: Christin Veith
Music: August Schram, Georges Bizet (Original), Philip Preuss (Remix)
Cast: August Schram, Elfie Wunsch, Albert Mair
MeTube, a homage to thousands of ambitious YouTube users and video bloggers, gifted and less gifted self-promoters on the Internet, has attracted international attention. No less than George Bizet’s Habanera from “Carmen” has been reinterpreted for MeTube and enhanced with electronic sounds.
Behind the cross-over of musical styles are director Daniel Moshel as well as opera and oratorio tenor August Schram.
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