ATHENS ANIMFEST
Competition
| Student | Panorama of Short Animated MoviesExperimental - Programme 4 (46')ExperimentalRomantso (Anaxagora 3-5, Omonoia) Tuesday 12th April, 2016, 21:15-22:00 / Wednesday 13th April, 2016, 21:15-22:00
01. DIED 100 TIMES, 12’ 52” USA / Lithuania 2015 Directed by Ruah Edelstein Screenplay: Ruah Edelstein Animation: Ruah Edelstein Technique: Painted, Drawn, 1920s Photography Music: Laurent Ziliani Dialogues: None
An intuitive contemplation on how we die many times during our life and through that become more alive.
02. INTO THE OVOID: AN OVELLA, 18’ 09” USA 2016 Directed by Tina Brand Screenplay: Tina Brand Animation: Tina Brand Music: Christa Rakich (keyboards), Aristides Rivas (cello) Technique: Stop-Motion Animation, Time-Lapse Video, Additional still, Video image captures to create objects in computer 3D animation. Production: Tina Brand Dialogues: None
A plain white egg encounters numerous beautiful and fragile, decorated eggs. The decorated eggs are Pysanky. They can dance and tumble in space, while the plain egg can only dream of such feats. After sliding and rolling through this fantastical world of dancing Pysanky, the plain egg risks becoming a decorated egg, too, and can finally lift off into the ovoid.
03. SPARROW DUET, 3’ 54’’ USA 2015 Directed by Steve Socki Screenplay: Animation: Steve Socki Technique: 2D Computer (Flash) Music: Gary Chang Production: Steve Socki Dialogues: None
A series of animated abstract shapes and textures dance together in patterns, suggesting hopping and flying action of birds.
04. CELL’S AMUSEMENT PARK, 4’ 18’’ China 2016 Directed by Li Ang (Li On in the film) & Cai Caibei Screenplay: Cai Caibei & Li On Animation: Cai Caibei & Li On Technique: Computer Animation, PS, AE, EDIUS Music: Luo Ke Ju Production:Cai Caibei & Li On Dialogues: None A football match pulled out of being the air.
05. IMAGINING TIME, 1' 56" Australia 2015 Directed by Jelena Sinik Screenplay: Jelena Sinik Animation: Jelena Sinik Technique: 2D Frame by Frame, Computer Animation Music: Jelena Sinik Production: Jelena Sinik Dialogues: Alex Rabey
Adapted from the poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T. S. Eliot, Imagining Time is designed in a split-screen format. The animation combines notions of the disruption of the everyday; magical realism and surrealism with the themes of isolation, introversion and passivity from the poem.
06. AN ECSTACTIC EXPERIENCE, 6’ 11’’ USA 2015 Directed by Ja’Tovia Gary Screenplay: Animation: Ja’Tovia Gary Technique: Hand drawn animation/ Direct Animation Production: Dialogues: English Subtitles: None
An invocation and a meditation on transcendence as a means of restoration and resistance. Back |
