ATHENS ANIMFEST
Competition
| Student | Greek |
STUDENT 6 – 69’ 17’’
Student Competition01. AND LODZ SAYS, 6’ 59’’
Poland 2013
Direction: Marcin Podolca
Screenplay: Marcin Podolca
Animation: Marcin Podolca
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Aneta Kaczmarek
Dialogues: None
Two men spend a day through the streets of Lodz.
02. INVIGLIO, 3’ 20’’
Poland 2013
Direction: Artur Hanaj
Screenplay: Artur Hanaj
Animation: Artur Hanaj
Technique: 2D animation, drawing on paper
Music: Dariusz Hanaj, Dorota Turkiewicz
Dialogues: None
"INVIGILO" is short story about humanoid and his dog. They live in small town, where citizens’ houses are connected and create large web of information. Routine of quiet life is interrupted by apparence of new tv.
03. KERN / CORE, 9’ 45’’
Germany 2013
Direction: Yi Chen Huang, Szu Ni Wen
Screenplay: Yi Chen Huang
Animation: Szu Ni Wen
Technique: Mixed
Music: "Enola Gay" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Dialogues: Naration in English
Subtitles: English
"Kern" in German means core and nucleus, (Hé) in Chinese has the same ambiguous meaning. Atomic energy is the most beautiful myth of the 20th century. Three fairy tales about the normalization, oppression and the conflicts of atomic energy. What lies beneath the rational appearance of modernity?
04. LOVE STORY, 2’ 58’’
UK 2013
Direction: James Lee
Screenplay: James Lee
Animation: James Lee
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Igor Babaev (Christian Andersson, Justin Crosby, Ariel Polenta, Albert Marlowe)
Dialogues: None
While driving to meet his girlfriend, Lucy, Bill’s car ran out of fuel. He carries on his rough journey on bicycle then roller-skates, encounters numerous near miss accidents.
05. MANHOOD, 3’ 25’’
UK 2013
Direction: John Goodhead
Screenplay: John Goodhead
Animation: John Goodhead
Technique: 3D computer animation
Music:
Dialogues: Narration
A stone age tale of a young son’s attempt to attain manhood.
06. MIRACLES & INSIRATIONS, 2’ 32’’
UK 2013
Direction: Monika Dzikowicz
Screenplay: Monika Dzikowicz
Animation: Monika Dzikowicz
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Boris Nonte
Dialogues: None
A short animation about how imagination and creativity makes life enjoyable and fun; and how inspiration lies all around you. An eight year old girl spends summer vacation in Rome. She discovers the city through her imagination and help of an ancient statue. Years later, as a grown up artist, girl struggles to work on a painting. Childhood memories help her gain an inspiration to push forward and work hard.
07. MUTUAL TUNNELS, 5’
China 2013
Direction: Jun Cen
Screenplay: Jun Cen
Animation: Jun Cen
Technique: Hand-drawn on paper
Music: Jason Charney
Dialogues: None
Mutual Tunnels is a hand-drawn animated short film, which depicts a mysterious journey of a couple in a bizarre imaginary world that is inundated by plant growth.
08. OMELETTE / Munakas, 2’ 37’’
Finland 2013
Direction: Heta Jäälinoja
Screenplay: Heta Jäälinoja
Animation: Heta Jäälinoja
Technique: Drawing on paper
Music: Jukka Herva
Dialogues: None
What if you're too proud and vulnerable to truly expose yourself to another being? It's a living thing, it's a terrible thing to loose.
09. ORPHEUS THE PENGUIN, 2’ 59’’
UK 2013
Direction: Jennifer Anne Haugan
Screenplay: Jennifer Anne Haugan
Animation: Jennifer Anne Haugan
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Willibald Gluck
Dialogues: None
Orpheus the penguin goes on a search for his lost mate.
10. OHOHAHAH, 1’ 15’’
UK 2014
Direction: Kyriaki Kyriakou
Screenplay: Kyriaki Kyriakou
Animation: Kyriaki Kyriakou
Technique: 2D animation
Music:
Dialogues: None
A simian traffic encounter ends unexpectedly slimy!
11. REFUSAL, 5’ 13’’
Czech Republic 2013
Direction: Dominik Urban
Screenplay: Dominik Urban
Animation: Dominik Urban
Technique: Stop-motion puppets, 3D, CGI backgrounds
Music: Dominik Urban
Dialogues: None
Stray canine creature gets caught in a dog pound. Desperate to escape the imprisonment, it evaluates the cost of his freedom.
12. SHAKER, 1’ 23’’
UK 2013
Direction: Billy Lubach
Screenplay: Billy Lubach
Animation: Billy Lubach
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Billy Lubach
Dialogues: None
My film is a visual recreation of a jam in my house's kitchen and communal space I composed the soundtrack using sounds from the kitchen and mandolin.
13. SPD AND ME
UK 2013
Direction: Matthew Brookes
Screenplay: Matthew Brookes
Animation: Matthew Brookes
Technique: Mixed Media
Music:
Dialogues: Narration oin English
A film that explores the symptoms and effects of Semantic Pragmatic Disorder and how I’ve learnt to live with it.
14. THE SEAGULL / Racek, 5’ 24’’
Czech Republic 2013
Direction: Noemi Valentíny
Screenplay: Noemi Valentíny
Animation: Noemi Valentíny
Technique: Drawn computer animation
Music: Barbora Kadlíčková, Noemi Valentíny
Story about man, who takes care of a lighthouse for all his life, story about seagulls, loneliness and deliverance.
15. WOMBATES, 3’ 02’’
UK 2013
Direction: JD Dean
Screenplay: JD Dean
Animation: JD Dean
Technique: Mixed Media
Music:
Dialogues: Narration in English
Twin brothers reflect on their relationship and the resentment that comes with sharing a life together. They recall memories, discuss others expectations and how seemingly polarised twins can actually be.
16. THE BOXCART. 3’ 50’’
UK 2013
Direction: Liam Harris
Screenplay: Liam Harris
Animation: Liam Harris
Technique:
Music:
Dialogues
The story about a young boy who builds a flying boxcart to help him find his lost mother.
17. WHY NOT KILL A FLY!, 5’
Iran 2013
Direction: Farhad Alizadeh
Screenplay: Farhad Alizadeh
Animation: Farhad Alizadeh
Technique: 2D digital animation
Music:
Dialogues: None
A fly in a metro station cause two men fight together
18. THE POSTMAN, 1’ 30’’
UK/Colombia
Direction: Irene Lema
Screenplay: Irene Lema
Animation: Irene Lema
Technique: 3D
Music: Sylvia Lim
Dialogues: English
Riding his bike, a rural postman from the 19th century delivers the most curious letters from every corner of the world. Being a postman is a lonely and exhausting job, however, he doesn’t know there is a surprise waiting for him by the end of his working day.
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