Experimental - Programme 2 (80')
Experimental
01. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, 6’ 18’’
South Korea 2014
Directed by Bumphy Lee, Eunwoo Park
Screenplay: Bumphy Lee
Animation: Bumphy Lee, Eunwoo Park
Technique: Puppet, 2D Animation
Music: NU_KIDZ, ROOTS
Affiliation: Hongik University
A demented comes to a tired guy’s house and tries to steal his spirit, but the demented is too stupid to succeed.
02. HAUNTED TRANSIT / Haunted Transit, 8’
Germany 2015
Directed by Jörn Staeger
Screenplay: Jörn Staeger
Animation: Ulf and Jörn Staeger
Technique: Stop-motion
Music: Jörn Staeger
Dialogues: None
Aboard an old sailing ship the viewer experiences a stormy change from illusion, nightmare and nonsense. While the steering wheel of mind hand turns, the 5-headed ship team in puzzling way operates. Bit by bit, nevertheless, the ship boy comes out as the magician of the whole.
03. I AS THE OTHER / Je est un autre, 14’ 31’’
Taiwan 2013
Directed by Chang Po Yang
Screenplay: Chang Po Yang
Technique: Wang Hsi An
Music: Wu Shiou Ming
Affiliation: Chang Po Yang
Dialogues: Chinese
Subtitles: English
Waking up is a jump, a skydive from the dream.
04. I LAUGH BECAUSE YOU BRING YOUR ASS TO THE PARTY, 2’ 53’’
Portugal 2014
Directed by Sandra Araújo
Screenplay: Sandra Araújo
Technique: 2D, Gif files, Video game sprites
Music: Stealing Orchestra, Rafael Dionísio
Dialogues:
Music video…
05. I PLAY YOU PLAY WE PLAY, 3’ 10’’
China 2014
Direction by Mi Chai
Screenplay: Mi Chai
Animation: Mi Chai
Technique: Stop-motion
Music: Zhang Xuan
Affiliation: Mi Chai
Dialogues: None
As a stop-motion animation, the film records the process of creation, which is played like a game. The wood blocks of basic geometric shapes such as circles, triangles and squares transform and combine with each other to form images, living creatures, man-made objects, landscapes and events. The director was inspired by the game process of toy blocks and jigsaw, which later triggered the start of this project.
06. INTO GREAT CIRCLES, 4’ 50’’
USA 2015
Direction by Joon Sung
Animation: Joon Sung
Technique: Computer
Music: Dylan Tinlun Chan
Dialogues: None
This piece was derived from the idea of extending the painting, used exclusively basic visual elements such as circles, to explore how those forms in motion can evoke certain emotional reactions that non-durative still images may not capture. The circular forms that I used here are the result of the distinct leaning toward the nature of purified art.
07. IT NEEDS TO EAT, 2’ 08’’
USA 2014
Directed by Lauren Flinner
Screenplay: Lauren Flinner
Animation: Lauren Flinner
Technique: 2D, Puppet Stop-motion
Music:
Dialogues:
It Needs To Eat is a visual poem, a surreal confession where one woman justifies her use of destruction to create something beautiful.
08. JOB INTERVIEW, 3’ 35’’
Hungary 2014
Directed by Dénes Ruzsa, Fruzsina Spitzer
Screenplay: Dénes Ruzsa
Animation: Fruzsina Spitzer
Dialogues: English
In this rushing world personality disappeared. In the near future robots will ask the 50 common job interview questions. How do the robots detect humans applying for the job advertisement?
09. LIGHT MOTIF, 4' 15''
France / UK 2014
Directed by Frédéric Bonpapa
Animation: Olivier Barré, Barthélémy Boirot, Frédéric Bonpapa, Mathilde Fabry, Romain Pamart, Eric Prebende, Jon Uriarte
Technique: 3D Computer graphics
Music: Steve Reich (used by permission of Boosey & Hawkes UK Ltd.)
Affiliation: Frédéric Bonpapa
Dialogues: None
An exploration on the possibilities of synergy, between image and music in the cinematic tradition of Oskar fishfinger and visual music animation.
10. LIODOSTRI, 4’ 03’’
Austria 2014
Directed by Florentin Scheicher, Dominik Leski
Technique: Oil Animation
Music: Long Arm
Dialogues: None
The animation combines real oil paintings with music and a three-dimensional animations technique. We worked together with the Russian artist “Long Arm” who offered us his brilliant music for this animation.
11. LITTLE BLACK DRESS, 2’ 30’’
USA 2014
Direction by Isabel Layton
Animation: Isabel Layton
Technique: Paint on Glass
Affiliation: Isabel Layton
Dialogues: (Narration) Ryan Kent
An abstract animation choreographed to the poetry and voice of Ryan Kent. The work pulls the viewer into a darkness centered on the death of L'Wren Scott.
12. MIGRATION, 6’ 11’’
Canada 2014
Direction by Fluorescent Hill
Screenplay: Fluorescent Hill
Animation: Fluorescent Hill
Technique: CG animation Super 8mm
Music: McKenzie Stubbert
Dialogues: None
A vintage nature film explores the migratory pattern of a herd of wild creatures.
13. MTL RUSH, 2’ 26’’
Canada 2014
Direction by Mathieu Guimond
Animation: Mathieu Guimond
Technique: Sratch and paint on 35mm
Music: The Seatbelts
Dialogues: None
An experimental essay on colors and movement, scratched and painted on 35mm during the winter of 2014
14. ODE TO LINES, 7’ 50’’
USA 2015
Direction by Joon Sung
Animation: Joon Sung
Technique: Computer
Music: Monti Medley
Dialogues: None
This piece was derived from the idea of extending the minimalist painting, to explore how those forms in motion can evoke certain emotional reactions differently from non-durative still images. The linear forms used here are the result of a distinct leaning toward the nature of purified art in which essential aesthetic value is the foremost concern.
15. Intrusion, 10’
Germany 2012
Direction: Natalie Plaskura
Screenplay: Natalie Plaskura
Director of Photography: Natalie Plaskura
Editing: Natalie Plaskura
Music: Daniel Schlichter
Cast: Blake Lumen, Sonja Zech, Anja Hartmann, Katarina Stricevic, Inga Geiser, Leon Kudjerski, Natalie Kreuter, André Ebert, Katja „Wurst“ Pohl, Anna Funke, Nadja Usova, Frederike Wetzels, Re Werner, Noddy Werner, Lina Finke.
The short film INTRUSION does not tell a classical story. The main focus lies on the visual design, which has the intention to convey a mood. The motives and the associative dramatic composition are reminding of dream sequences, nightmares or hallucinations in which the uncanny and the curious are staged; Unrealistic, seemingly disparate, yet interrelated scenes that poke, like an intrusive recurring traumatic experience, into the mind of the powerless spectator.
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