Experimental - Programme 3 (74')
Experimental
01. PLANET SIGMA, 12’
France 2014
Directed by Momoko Seto
Screenplay: Momoko Sete
Director of Photography: Momoko Sete, Julien Duillery
Sound Design: Yann Leguary
Music: Yann Leguay
Dialogue: None
The universe in all its infinitude. On planet Sigma, enormous creatures are trapped inside the ice. And then, all of a sudden explosions erupt from subterranean volcanoes. The ice begins to melt; a global warming concludes the giants’ deep slumber and new life begins. The creatures crawl forth, out of the ice. With the aid of slow motion, Seto fictionalises the unfolding of events. Liberated from time and space, she draws ever closer to the proceedings, in extreme close-ups. PLANET ∑ is the third part of her planet series.
02. POWERPLANT, 2’ 28’’
Hungary 2015
Directed by George Ligeti
Screenplay: George Ligeti
Animation: George Ligeti
Technique: Black-and-white ink, 2D, 3D computer animation
Music: Littner
What is the connection among a nuclear powerplant and a black glove? This animation gives a special philosohphical answer to this question.
03. SELF, 4’ 18’’
China 2014
Direction by Xu Yujie
Animation: Xu Yujie,Chen Hongyi,Yu Siqi
Technique: Hand drawn, 2D, 3D Computer animation, Live action
Music: Xu Yujie
Affiliation: Xu Yujie
Subtitles: English
To do this experimental short film is to reflect a fact that more and more lost themselves,but them always think they are finding the truth.Finally we will figure out that everything will come back to nothing.
04. SEXPOL, 11’ 30’’
Germany 2014
Directed by Jörg Weidner
Screenplay: Jörg Weidner
Animation: Jörg Weidner
Technique: puppet stopmotion
Music: Jörg Weidner
Affiliation: sublunare welt
Dialogues: None
SexPol was an anti authoritarian movement for the liberation from repressive sexual morals lead by the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich who published the „Magazine for Political Psychology and Sexual Economy“. This is the account of his enlightenment.
05. SHHH…, 2’ 20’’
UK 2014
Directed by Alice Bouttell
Screenplay: Helen Jaeger
Animation: Alice Bouttell
Technique: Stop-motion, salt on a multiplane
Affiliation: Alice Bouttell
Dialogues: French
Subtitles: English
Shhh... was a project, focusing on coastal erosion and the destructive/healing nature of the sea. It is based on collaboration between sisters Alice Bouttell and Helen Jaeger, who wrote a poem from the viewpoint of the sea as a charming and sometimes aggressive lover to the land. It considers the irrepressible characteristics of the sea and relates them in the context of seduction. The poem was translated into French and read by actor Chris Rose. The translation reflects the tone of the original text and contributes a seductive sonic element.
06. STRAZZED, 2’ 18’’
The Netherlands 2014
Direction by Jeroen ter Welle
Screenplay: J. ter Welle
Animation: J .ter Welle.
Technique: 2D Computer animtation
Music: Gepel
Affiliation: Jeroen ter Welle
Dialogues: NONE
An (abstract) improvisation of stripes and lines on improvised music.
07. THE AFTERLIFE - 25 SHORTS, 4’
Sweden 2015
Directed by Thomas Rogerstam
Screenplay: Thomas Rogerstam
Animation: Thomas Rogerstam
Technique: Stop-motion
Music:
Dialogues:
The death is not the end, it’s the Afterlife. We get to meet some skeletons in the life thereafter. More funny than scary. Originally made for publishing on Instagram.
08. THE TIME TUNNEL, 5’ 25’’
Switzerland 2014
Directed by Dirk Koy
Animation: Dirk Koy
Music: Boris Blank (Yello)
Dialogues:
A crazy road-movie that seems to melt down into an abstract painting. In the first part Dirk Koy straps a camera onto a carwheel and rides off – from 0 to 140 km/h, to the driving sounds of Boris Blank (Yello). A perfect symbiosis of shot images and their abstraction. In the second part Koy mashed up images of over 250 car wheels into a single, whirling, kaleidescopic animation.
09. VIRTUOSO VIRTUAL / Virtuos Virtuell, 7’ 22’’
Germany 2013
Directed by Thomas Stellmach, Maja Oschmann
Screenplay: -
Animation: Maja Oschmann, Thomas Stellmach
Technique: 2D Computer, ink on paper, on glass, in water
Music: Louis Spohr (1784 - 1859)
Dialogues: None
Synchronizing to the music, abstract ink drawings ‘grow’ in an interplay of curiosity, encounters, pursuits and confrontation. They stimulate many emotions, which carry us off on a poetical journey to a musical world of pictures.
10. VARIATIONS / Wariacje, 3’ 20’’
Poland 2014
Direction by Piotr Żołądź
Screenplay: Piotr Żołądź
Technique:
Music:
Dialogues:
A synthesis of abstraction bodies.
11. TRANSITION, 1’ 36’’
Spain 2014
Direction by Marcos Andavert
Screenplay: Marcos Andavert
Animation: Marcos Andavert
Technique:
Music: Marcos Andavert
Dialogues: None
Emotional transition seen from within oneself
12. FRIDAY NIGHT, 1’
USA 2014
Directed by Peter Hriso
Animation: Peter Hriso
Technique: Computer Animation
Music: Otavio Jr.
Friday Night 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.
13. DVA – NO SURVI, 2’ 48’’
Slovakia 2014
Directed by Andrej Kolencik, Peter Skala
Screenplay: Andrej Kolencik
Animation: Andrej Kolencik, Peter Skala
Technique: 2D, 3D Computer animation
Music: DVA
Dialogues: None
When souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness, noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto this earth’s a hurled dream
14. EN HENG, 1’ 25’’
China 2014
Directed by Wang Yu-Zi
Screenplay: Wang Yu-Zi, Mao Ze-yang
Animation: Zhang Hong-song, Li Bin-Jie, Wang Yu-Zi
Technique: Stop-motion, Pixilation
Music: Wang Yu-Zi
Dialogues: None
A no singer starred, no lyric songs, no instruments available experimental music MV.
15. EVOLUTION, 2’
Spain / Canada 2014
Directed by Antonio Busto, Blanca Font
Screenplay: Rabano Studio
Animation: Rabano studio
Technique: Animation, Live action, Hybrid, Experimental
Music: Danny Majer and Se
Bad girls, a magical girl in a sink, scary teddy bears and a lot of the slime. This music video is an extension of the project: www.playeeeyow.com
16. FURIA FORESTIA, 3’
France 2014
Direction by Bhopal
Screenplay: Bhopal
Animation: Bhopal
Technique: painting
Music: Sejalyé
Dialogues: None
The green continent is badly injured by Man. It endures iron and fire. The wound heals, but the infection is already here.
17. GEOMETRY STUDY / Etiuda Geometryczna, 3’ 06’’
Poland 2013
Direction by Piotr Żoładź
Screenplay: Piotr Żoładź
Animation: Piotr Żoładź
Technique: 2D Computer animation
Music: Piotr Żoładź
Affiliation: Piotr Żoładź
Dialogues: None
A synthesis of abstract bodies.
18. HALS / Ἅλς, 9’ 24’’
Italy 2014
Directed by Alessando Ingaria
co-Director: Simona Chiapparo
Screenplay: Alessandro Ingaria, Simona Chiapparo, Nicola Duberti
Director of Photography: Alessandro Ingaria
Editing: Marco Lo Baido
Sound Design: Marco Lo Baido
Music: Marco Lo Baido
Dialogues: (narration) Jean de Dieu
“Ἅλϛ” (“hals”) aims to tell the extreme suffering of immigrants died in the Mediterranean sea. The hypertonic drowning syndrome causes a very violent death through osmotic mechanisms, like those destroy the small organisms in the video. A metaphoric representation of biochemical and physiological events of drowning, conceived as an artistic ode to contemporary human drama. The ancient greek word ἅλϛ (“hals”) means salt, which contains sodium, one of the principal elements for the life. But sea salt produces brutal death of million migrant people in Mediterranean. Indeed, the word ἅλϛ is etimologically linked to “hospitality” and also to “salary” that is a factor of ancient economy, as well as the death boundaries for the economy in western societies.
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