ATHENS ANIMFEST
Competition
| Student | Greek |
Short 2 - 110’ 92’’
Short Competition01. CANTARELLA, 8’ 20’’
Italy 2012
Direction: Diego Dada
Screenplay: Diego Dada, Fabio Scarselli, Gabriele Diana
Animation: Diego Dada
Technique: Digital animation
Music: Gabriele Bochicchio
Dialogues: Italian
Subtitles: English
Art is dead. The'Muse' is dead and artists of all time to pay tribute attending Her funeral, but someone did not attend...
02. THE CATFISH AND THE MOON / Som i Luna, 6’ 18’’
Russia 2013
Direction: Natalia Ryss
Screenplay: Natalia Ryss
Animation: Natalia Ryss
Technique: Cut-out animation
Music: Dmitriy Milovanov
Dialogues: None
Subtitles: English
The love story on the background of changing seasons.
03. IMPOSTOR / Imposteur, 6’ 33’’
Switzerland/France 2013
Direction, Graphic design: Elie Chapuis
Screenplay: Elie Chapuis, Veronica Da Costa
Animation: Kim Keukeleire, Violaine Picaut
Technique: Puppet animation
Sound, Music: Yan Volsy
Language: None
In a city at night, a human-shaped deer tries to steal a man's identity by taking his head off.
04. MORPHETTE, 3’ 36’’
Australia 2013
Direction: Magda Matwiejew
Screenplay: Magda Matwiejew
Animation:
Technique: 2D, 3D computer animation, CGI
Music: Paul Fletcher
Dialogues: None
Morphette is a short animated film about the iconic images that represented femininity from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s. Morphette is structured by using of a series of rich and visually dense scenes. Creating moving “paintings”.
05. SHAVE IT, 4’
Argentina 2013
Direction: Fernando Maldonado, Jorge Tereso
Screenplay: Fernando Maldonado, Jorge Tereso
Animation: Fernando Maldonado
Technique: 3D computera animation
Music: Cyrille Marchesseau
Dialogues:
In a jungle where giant bulldozers shave the vegetation, a monkey finds a razor and decides to use it. With a human appearance, he moves to the city and sets out to climb society's ladder.
06. SONATA, 11’’
France 2013
Direction: Nadia Micault
Screenplay: Nadia Micault
Animation: Nadia Micault, Ben Fligans, Julien Bonnafous, Damien Climent
Technique: Rotoscopy
Music: György Sándor Ligeti
Dialogues: None
In an imaginary musical world, a young woman seeks escape, loses herself and tests her own limits. Gradually she must open up in order to reinvent herself.
07. SPIDER AND FLIES / Pająk i Muchy, 3’ 30’’
Poland 2013
Direction: Tessa Moult-Milewska
Screenplay: Tessa Moult-Milewska
Animation: Tessa Moult-Milewska
Technique: Cut-out animation
Music: Krzysztof A. Janczak
Dialogues: None
“Spider and Flies” is an animated variation about a poem for children written by the polish author Jan Brzechwa. It tells the story of an old but cunning spider, eager for a meal. The story can also be read as a metaphor of a consumptive nature of developing towns.
08. THE BOOK OF THE DEAD / Le Livre des Morts, 30’
France 2012
Direction: Alain Escalle
Screenplay: Alain Escalle
Animation: Studio AE
Technique: Live, 3D computer animation
Music: Flemming Nordkrog
Dialogues: Russian
Subtitles: English
In the rubble of a run-down city, somewhere in Eastern Europe, Mikhail is grappling with his own personal demons, in the course of an ultimate journey among the ghosts trapped in the pages of a book. Faded images from the past and painful memories gradually come to life.
09. TOTO, 12’
Poland 2013
Direction: Zbigniew Czapla
Screenplay: Zbigniew Czapla
Animation: Zbigniew Czapla
Technique: Painting on paper
Music: Goska Isphording
Dialogues: Polish
Subtitles: English
"Toto", a kaleidoscope of events filled to the brim with suspense and awe, is an universal story of naivete and irreversibly lost infant dreams.
10. WE EITHER MEET IN THIS WORLD... / Sehen wir uns nicht in dieser Welt..., 14’
Germany 2013
Direction: Daniel Höpfner
Screenplay: Daniel Höpfner
Animation: Daniel Höpfner
Technique:
Music: Daniel Höpfner
Dialogues: German
Subtitles: English, French, Espagnol
Forced to leave his old home in Wolkenberg (Kl__nik) because of resettlement, Mr L. finds himself in a small room packed with his belongings. The room is in a building in the middle of a vast industrial zone. Great plumes of smoke obscure the sky. Instead of checking that all of his possessions are there, Mr L. starts to explore his new accommodation and the immediate neighbourhood, step by step. His exploratory walk becomes a pilgrimage through a dying, failing world.
11. PIPKIN. 5’ 27’’
UK 2013
Direction: Pamela Wyn Shannon
Screenplay: Pamela Wyn Shannon
Animation: Linda McCarthy
Technique: Puppet animation
Music: Pamela Wyn Shannon
Dialogues: English and Welsh
Subtitles: English
Pipkin is a sycamore seed blown by the wind, who journeys to find a place of belonging within the cycles of life.
12. RESISTANT SOUL / Animo Resistente, 4’ 30’’
Italy 2013
Direction: Simone Massi
Screenplay: Simone Massi
Animation: Simone Massi
Technique: Drawing on paper
Music: Stefano Sasso
Dialogues: Italian
Subtitles: English
Around May '44 on Mount Sant' Angelo there is a house that falls asleep and begins to dream.
13. AUTUMN LEAVES / Premier Automne, 10’ 30’’
France 2013
Direction: Carlos De Carvalho, Aude Danset
Screenplay: Carlos De Carvalho,Aude Danset
Animation: Studio InEfecto
Technique: 2D, 3D computer animation
Music: Frédéric Boulard
Dialogues: None
Abel lives in the winter and Apolline lives in the summer. Both of them will have to learn compromise to protect the other...
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