Student - Programme 7 (113')
Student Competition
Monday, 30 March 2015, Alkyonis New Star Art Cinema, Hours: 21:00-23:00
01. Pidge, 4’ 34’’
USA 2014
Directed by Renee Zhan
Screenplay: Renee Zhan
Animation: Renee Zhan
Technique: 2D computer
Music:
Dialogues: English
Subtitles: None
A suicidal pigeon contemplates his existence.
02. An adventurous afternoon, 6’
Germany 2013
Directed by Ines Christine Geisser, Kirsten Carina Geisser (Agent: Markus Kaatsch, aug&ohr medien)
Screenplay: Ines Christine Geisser, Kirsten Carina Geisser
Animation: Ines Christine Geisser, Kirsten Carina Geisser
Technique: Drawn animation, Scratched Crayon, 2D Computer
Music: The Giant Fox & Willam Honda Group, Jan Kristian Fuchs, Karl Ingo Willam
Dialogues: None
Subtitles: English
Actually Giant Fox & William Honda just want to enjoy a coffee together, but the afternoon is getting more adventurous than they thought.
03. Wind, 3’ 49’’
Germany 2013
Directed by Robert Löbel (Agent: Markus Kaatsch, aug&ohr medien)
Screenplay: Robert Löbel
Animation: Robert Löbel
Technique: QuickTime HD
Music:
Dialogues: None
Wind is an animated short about the daily life of people living in a windy area who seem helplessly exposed to the weather. However, the inhabitants have learned to deal with their difficult living conditions.
04. 20Tweleve, 3’ 34’’
Germany 2012
Directed by Christian Stahl (Agent: Markus Kaatsch, aug&ohr medien)
Screenplay: Madleen Kamrath, Julien Wilkens, Jens-Henrik Kuiper
Animation: Christian Stahl
Technique: HD (RedOne)
Music: Tom VonderSonne
Dialogues: German
Subtitles: English
Freedom of the press is one of our greatest assets. We just need to make journalists aware of abuses and defend this fundamental right. But we must also focus on self-critical on the way we work. Freedom of the press is regularly put to the test. The short film "20zwoelf" - the video essay www.20zwoelf.de - is pushing this issue to the extreme: a Germany without a free press – unthinkable?
05. Bear, 8’ 14’’
Germany 2014
Directed by Pascal Flörks (Agent: Markus Kaatsch, aug&ohr medien)
Screenplay: Pascal Flörks
Animation: Pascal Flörks
Technique: Mixed Media (Autodesk Maya, Nuke, Adobe Photoshop, Solidangle Arnold, Adobe Premiere)
Music: Christian Heck
Dialogues: German
Subtitles: English
My grandpa's past was always very present. It would break through in something he'd say or do, but he'd never talk about it. Only now, by revisiting his life and personality as I knew him, do I feel the weight of his inheritance.
06. Eat, 6’ 30’’
Germany 2012
Directed by Moritz Krämer (Agent: Markus Kaatsch, aug&ohr medien)
Screenplay: Ines Berwing
Animation: Moritz Krämer
Technique: HD (RedCam)
Music: Conrad Oleak, Moritz Krämer, Patrick Reising, Francesco Wilking
Dialogues: German
Subtitles: English
A photoshoot. The model Helen is unnerved. Back in the changing room she makes a surprising discovery. Everything around her is edible - the chair, the TV, the walls…
07. Cathcer, 5’
Germany 2014
Directed by Fabian Koppenhöfer (Agent: Markus Kaatsch, aug&ohr medien)
Screenplay: Fabian Koppenhöfer
Animation: Fabian Koppenhöfer, Markus Färber, Frederico Klotz
Technique: 3D Animation: Cinema 4D, After Effects
Music: Fabian Koppenhöfer
Dialogues: None
The catcher desperately tries on the edge of a steep cliff to preserve the playing children from falling into the abyss. At the end he has no other option to go his own way.
08. Fortune Faded, 3’ 11’’
Germany 2012
Directed by Alexander Heringer (Agent: Markus Kaatsch, aug&ohr medien)
Screenplay: Team Fortune Faded
Animation: 2D: Achim Lenz, Daniel Galiard, Rainer Bez, 3D: Felix Schwarz, Bianca Jürgens, Benjamin Dongus, Andreas Krausser
Technique: ARRI D21 (1920x1080HD)
Music: David Lackovic
Dialogues: None
Every Moment leads to another one. Thus, to understand one Moment one has to know about his background, because everything has a cause and everything has an effect. Fortune Faded describes this principle with a journey through these moments and tells a story of a fateful concatenation, that finally ends up in fire and ashes.
09. Plug & play, 6’
Switzerland 2013
Directed by Michael Frei (Agent: Markus Kaatsch, aug&ohr medien)
Screenplay: Michael Frei
Animation: Michael Frei
Technique: Digital HD 1080p25
Dialogues: English
Subtitles: English
Anthropoid creatures with plugs in place of heads are up to mischief. Instead of abandoning oneself to the dictates of the raised finger, they soon submit to themselves. But the fingers also finger around. Is it love? Plug & play is entirely finger-drawn using an integrated touchpad of a laptop.
10. Water, 9’ 56’’
Germany / UK 2014
Direction: Leonardo Re (Agent: Markus Kaatsch, aug&ohr medien)
Screenplay: Tim R. Gloystein
Animation: Leonardo Re
Technique: HD
Music: Carlos Badosa
Dialogues: English
Subtitles: English
Wasser explores various stages of a man's apathy. Unable to see or perceive his wife, he associates her missing with water. To remind himself of her and in an attempt to avoid his more and more self-centric behaviour, he exhibits water-filled jars throughout the apartment. Based on a true story.
11. In full flower, 3’ 45’’
Poland 2015
Directed by Aleksandra Kucwaj
Screenplay: Aleksandra Kucwaj
Animation: Aleksandra Kucwaj
Technique: Computer
Music: Paris Music
Dialogues: Aleksandra Kucwaj
Language of dialogues: Polish
Subtitles: Aleksandra Kucwaj
Language of Subtitles: English
A simple chat between two neighbours unveils mysterious actions.
12. Image, 3’ 39’’
Iran 2014
Directed by Yousef Jafary
Screenplay: Yousef Jafary
Animation: Mona Shokri, Reza Dehghan, Mehdi Bahrami
Technique: 2D- 3D
Music: Ali Naghi Vaziri
Dialogues: Persian
Subtitles: English
Image is a short animated documentary about the imagination of a child from one of the Iranian stamp collections.
13. The Life-Givers, 6’ 38’’
USA 2014
Directed by Angela De Vito
Screenplay: Angela De Vito
Animation: Angela De Vito
Technique: 2D Digital
Music: Jerome Leroy
Dialogues: English
Subtitles: None
In the caves below the earth are housed thousands of candles, each representing a human life. Life-Givers light the candles, signifying the birth of a child, while Death snuffs out the flame when the person’s time on earth has ended. "The Life-Givers” follows the story of a young apprentice “life-giver” who struggles with the idea that life must one day come to an end, however she learns that Death is not as final as it appears to be…
14. Cursed, 4’ 15’’
The Netherlands 2014
Directed by Merel van den Broek, Nicole Derksen
Screenplay: Merel van den Broek, Nicole Derksen
Animation: Merel van den Broek, Nicole Derksen
Technique: 2D Computer Animation
Music: Bruce Lim, Sophie (Yu) Song
Dialogues: N/A
Subtitles: N/A
Cursed is about a villainess who enjoys bringing chaos and disaster. But when something crosses her way of evil-doing, things turn out for the unexpected.
15. The Sheep Shop, 3’ 17’’
The Netherlands 2014
Directed by Jorn Leeuwerink
Screenplay: Jorn Leeuwerink
Animation: Jorn Leeuwerink
Technique: 2D Computer Animation
Music: Jorn Leeuwerink, Myra Emmen Riedel
Dialogues: None
Grandmother Sheep sells woollen sweaters at her shop. But where does the wool come from?
16. With joy and merriness, 5’ 52’’
Belgium 2014
Directed by Jeanne Boukraa
Animation: Jeanne Boukraa
Technique: 2D On Computer
Music: Benoit Charron, Jeremy Bocquet
Dialogues: French
Subtitles: English
"With joy and merriness" is a experimental documentary where we observe, through every day scenes, the degeneration of a society where the rise of technology leeds the population to the biggest dream of all men: immortality.
17. Don't Feed The Penguin, 6’ 38’’
France 2014
Directed by Alenka Krizenecky
Screenplay: Alenka Krizenecky
Animation: Alenka Krizenecky
Technique: Alenka Krizenecky
Music: Stéphane Erhardt
Dialogues: None
Subtitles: English
Jo is an employee at a 24/7 Asian food court. On this particular night, while business is slow, he kills time by eating. When a maki he is about to eat warns him about a penguin, he turns slightly paranoid.
18. Simorgh, 4’ 30’’
USA 2014
Directed by Meghdad Asadi Lari
Screenplay: Meghdad Asadi Lari
Animation: Meghdad Asadi Lari
Technique: 3D , 2D
Music: Saba Alizadeh
Dialogues: None
Simorgh is a personal interpretation of The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar. A choreographic piece that incorporates Persian music, calligraphic art and ornament designs to tell the traditional Persian story of life that deals with the fragility of self worth.
19. Over My Dead Body, 3’ 38’’
Poland 2015
Directed by Agata Mianowska
Screenplay: Agata Mianowska
Animation: Agata Mianowska
Technique:
Music:
Dialogues: Polish
Subtitles: English
Mr and Mrs cat are having a family dinner. Their daughter is coming with Albert, her new boyfriend. Unfortunately he is a rabbit… and a contemporary artist.
20. Dreams, 0’ 38’’
Australia 2015
Directed by Helsa Tanaya
Screenplay: Helsa Tanaya
Animation: Helsa Tanaya
Technique: 2D Computer animation
Music: Claude Debussy
Dialogues: n/a
A surreal story about a girl’s dream as she imagines herself exploring a fantastic world and free from her illness.
21. Speak Up, 0’ 51’’
Australia 2014
Directed by Helsa Tanaya
Screenplay: Helsa Tanaya
Animation: Helsa Tanaya
Technique: 2D Computer animation
Music: Franz Liszt (Public Domain Mark 1.0)
Dialogues: None
A short story about a guy who must overcome his shyness and break off his own shell to connect with others.
22. Rosso Papavero, 5’ 15’’
Slovakia 2014
Directed by Martin Smatana
Screenplay: Ivana Sujova
Animation: Martin Smatana
Technique: Stop-motion Animation, Puppets
Music: Studio Fontana
Dialogues: None
Once upon a starry night, a small boy with the head full of fantasies witnesses dreamlike circus performances. Dazed by endless chain of glittering attractions he realizes that the price for a ticket to the fantastic circus tent is too high and gate between reality and dream is closing.
23. Dreams, 0’ 38’’
USA 2015
Directed by Emily Wilsnon
Screenplay: Emily Wilsnon
Animation: Emily Wilsnon
Technique: 2D Computer animation
Music: Incompetech.com
Dialogues: None
A ballerina dances in a white room and once she is finished she wakes up in her bed without legs and we see that she was in a war that took her legs.
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