ATHENS ANIMFEST
Competition
| Student | Greek |
STUDENT 1 – 90’ 50’’
Student Competition01. ODIO, 1’ 26’
UK 2012
Direction: Adriano Vessichelli
Screenplay: Adriano Vessichelli
Animation: Adriano Vessichelli
Technique:
Music: Pierre O'reilly
Dialogues: None
This is the story of a spirit who has experienced a life of social exclusion.In the first shot we see the character staring at nothing, lost in its memories. With a close up on its eyes we enter into past memories within the blink of an eye. We discover it has been betrayed in a threatening manner. Escaping from this world, the spirit is scared, afraid and sorrowful. However, the reaction is of anger. Expressing these feelings with an explosion of rage leads to solitude and loneliness.
02. CAMERA OBSCURE, 4’ 42’’
UK 2013
Direction: Dimitris Simou
Screenplay: Dimitris Simou
Animation: Dimitris Simou
Technique: 3D computer animation
Dialogues: None
Inside an image-producing machine, a man falls in love with the perfect image. But feelings are not permitted inside this machine, at least not in this side...
03. CATRINA, 2’ 54’’
Canada 2013
Direction: Luisa Elías
Screenplay: Vancouver Film School
Animation: Luisa Elías
Technique: Classical animation (using paper)
Music: Matthew Thomas
In the middle of the night a hungry little girl meets death in the form of an elegant woman who plays with her and invites her to celebrate the Day of the Dead with breads and sweets.
04. COGAS, 9’ 43’’ Cogas
UK 2013
Direction: Michela Anedda
Screenplay: Michela Anedda, Stefano Nurra, Alex Kay
Animation: Michela Anedda
Technique: Stop-motion animation
Music: Terry Peng
Dialogues: English
Subtitles: English
Cogas is a short stop motion animation, a dark tale of old vampire witches and newborn babies' blood
05. EPHEMERAL AMBIENCES, 7’ 38’’
Serbia 2013
Direction: Bojana Rajevic
Screenplay: Bojana Rajevic
Animation: Bojana Rajevic
Technique: Moving composite image
Music: Wooden Ambulance
Dialogues: None
Art project Ephemeral Ambiences explores the possibilities of merging hand drawings and software camera movement. The goal of this experiment is to create new ways of perceiving drawings and to experiment with composite moving image. The scenes are taken from some old family photographs, and later on manipulated in order to create new, dreamlike, imaginary visions.
06. EUGEN, 2’ 07’’
Germany 2013
Direction: Alma Weber
Screenplay: Alma Weber
Animation: Alma Weber
Technique:
Music: Richard Siedhoff
Dialogues: None
Subtitles: English
When Eugen frightens accidentally a little bird, he gets very sad about himself. He decides to change the situation and himself to get a new point of view.
Hidden Track
07. HIDDEN TRACK, 6’ 36’’
Germany 2013
Direction: Elisabeth Zwimpfer
Screenplay: Elisabeth Zwimpfer
Animation: Theresa Grysczok, Daniel Maass, Elisabeth Zwimpfer
Technique: Cut-out, 2D computer, Mixed Media
Music: Thos Henley (KF Records), Leonard Bahro
Dialogues: German
Subtitles: English
A lonely woman is looking for jobs. Her neighbor hears her singing at the heating.
When she´s on her way to the letterbox, her neighbor appears singing her song. She follows him in a discotheque. After a unhappy dance they start a revolt. Getting into trouble is their chance to escape.
08. FAT AND SKINNY / Gruby i chudy, 8’ 41’’
Poland 2014
Direction: Aleksandra Brozyna
Screenplay: Aleksandra Brozyna
Animation: Aleksandra Brozyna
Technique: Drawn animation, 2D animation
Music: George Antoniv
Dialogues: None
The title characters are boys who live their lives in the rhythm of their strange habits. They think that existence wihout these daily rituals would be impossible. Many surprises await you in their world. We are taking part in the search for ways to satisfy some inner hunger the boys are coping with. In order to discover the darks secrets that they are hiding, one must look back.
09. GAME OVER, 3’ 45’’
Iran 2013
Direction: Seyed Monsen Pourmonseni Shakid
Screenplay: Seyed Monsen Pourmonseni Shakid
Animation: Seyed Monsen Pourmonseni Shakid
Technique: Classical
Music:
Dialogues: None
A social short movie.
10. METANOIA, 3’ 55’’
Colombia 2013
Direction: Tomas Silva
Screenplay: Tomas Silva
Animation: Tomas Silva
Technique: Classical
Music:
Dialogues:
A lonely boy is beaten by a mysterious masked man, they both hide a dark past.
11. MILK TEATH / Dents de lait, 4’ 05’’
Canada 2013
Direction: Julie Charette
Screenplay: Julie Charette
Animation: Julie Charette
Technique: drawing on paper, cut-out, sand animation
Music: Julia Mermelstein
Dialogues: French
Subtitles: English
The loss of a tooth shakes a young boy's world upside, making him grow up faster than he wishes.
12. MRS SWING GOES TI THE SCHEISSEDISKO / Frau Schwein geht in die Scheissedisko, 7’ 58’’
Germany 2012
Direction: Mathias Barth, Christian Hippchen
Screenplay: Mathias Barth, Christian Hippchen
Animation: Mathias Barth, Christian Hippchen
Technique: Cut-out animation
Music: Philipp Kessling
Dialogues: None
Saturday night, 8 o‘clock. Register‘s clear. Knocking off. Now heading home. Hotting up and drinking wine. Noise, stench and lots of dirt. We‘re almost done. And then it‘s time. Mrs Swine goes to the Scheissedisko.
13. DOTYK, 5’ 25’’
UK 2013
Direction: Rebecca Barbuscia, Nikki Vakid, Kamil Kopys, Subaru Yamazaki
Screenplay: Rebecca Barbuscia, Nikki Vakid, Kamil Kopys, Subaru Yamazaki
Animation: Rebecca Barbuscia, Nikki Vakid, Kamil Kopys, Subaru Yamazaki
Technique:
Music:
Dialogues:
The tale of four bulb-like characters living in a world between reality and surrealism.
14. THE PASSING, 5’ 09’’
Canada 2012
Direction: Hamish Lambert
Screenplay: Hamish Lambert
Animation: Hamish Lambert
Technique:
Music: Ian Baird
Dialogues: Hamish Lambert
Language of dialogues: None
A child takes the life of a loved one for granted
15. THE SEA, 5’
Poland 2013
Direction: Zofia Dabrowska
Screenplay: Zofia Dabrowska
Animation: Zofia Dabrowska
Technique: Cut-out animation
Music: Paris Music
Dialogues: None
Language of dialogues: -
Subtitles: English
The story about the Sea, made a cut-out technique.
16. OUT FROM THE DEEP / Iz dubine, 6’ 50’’
Croatia 2013
Direction: Katrin Novakovic
Screenplay: Katrin Novakovic
Animation: Katrin Novakovic
Technique: Stop-motion, puppets
Music: Ante Bozic Kudric
Dialogues: None
No peeking, please! Modern life has isolated us and made us somewhat detached. The Good Old Swing Octopus comes to the rescue! Emerging from the depths of the sea, it brings life to our jaded city souls.
17. REFLECTIONS, 5’ 19’’
Israel 2013
Direction: Bosmat Agayoff, Alon Ziv
Screenplay: Bosmat Agayoff, Alon Ziv
Animation: Bosmat Agayoff, Alon Ziv
Technique:
Music: Ady Cohen
Dialogues: None
Barnie, a grown man, Play around with his childish reflection in an urban landscape.
But the fun comes to an end when other adults around him change him and turn him into one of them.
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