ATHENS ANIMFEST
Competition
| Student | Panorama of Short Animated MoviesExperimental - Programme 5 (42" 46")ExperimentalRomantso (Anaxagora 3-5, Omonoia) Wednesday 13th April, 2016, 20:15-21:00
01. AS CHINGY, 2’ 29” USA 2016 Directed by Sam Rolfes Animation: Sam Rolfes Technique: Live recording in-engine Music: Amnesia Scanner Production: Young Turks Dialogues: None
This is a live recording of an Amnesia Scanner performance done in early 2016, capturing the slow and violent progression of a colossal music festival stage taking on the role of the performer.
02. UNWEARABLE FUNCTIONAL: AKINETIC MUTISM, 5’ USA 2015 Directed by Heejoo Gwen Kim Screenplay: Heejoo Gwen Kim Animation: Heejoo Gwen Kim Technique: 3D Animation, 16mm film Music: Simon Hutchinson Production: Heejoo Gwen Kim Dialogues: None
“Unwearable Functional: Akinetic Mutism” is an experimental animated film depicted a woman in society through virtual transformed garment and states of Akinetic Mutism. The surrounding, body gestures, and symptom of akinetic mutism delivered a specific emotional undergo and struggles.
03. DARKLETO (ANTIMEDIA DIPTYCH – CHAPTER #2, 6’ 48” Italy 2015 Directed by Gaetano Accettulli Screenplay: Gaetano Accettulli Animation: E.G.O. Technique: Paint on paper Music: Francesco Lettera Production: E.G.O. Dialogues: Italian Subtitles: English
An old and tired Hamlet repeats his soliloquy over and over. Behind the closed curtain, he is anguished by his eternal dilemma: to preserve the purity of his own identity or to conceal it behind the deceitfulness of an obscure social media facade.
04. FRUIT, 6’ 55” Germany 2016 Directed by: Gerhard Funk Screenplay: Gerhard Funk Animation: Gerhard Funk Technique: digital drawings & 3D computer animation Music: Tobias Schneider Production: Gerhard Funk Dialogues: None
Rise into being, mature, perish – "Fruit" tells a creation story. As the animated short film unfolds, it brings forth a play of shapes illustrating the dialog between two mythological forces – the West and the East. In it the vibrating entities of black and white are constantly being split apart and reconciled by red, in a playful and dramatic choreography of forms and figures.
05. THE BETRAYAL, 5’ 40” UK 2015 Directed by Susan Young Screenplay: Susan Young Animation: Susan Young Technique: Photography, Dragonframe Music: - Production: Susan Young Dialogues: English Subtitles: none
A woman trusts her psychiatrist, but becomes enmeshed in his prescriptive web. At its dark heart, The Betrayal is a twisted, deadly love affair
06. 4MIN15 IN THE DEVELOPER (4MIN15 AU RÉVÉLATEUR), 4’ 44” Canada 2015 Directed by Moïa Jobin-Paré Screenplay: Moïa Jobin-Paré Animation: Moïa Jobin-Paré Music: Simon Elmaleh Technique: Stop-Motion Animation: scratching silver processed photographs Production: Moïa Jobin-Paré Dialogue: None
A young woman and an urban landscape interact with each other. Developing images and intricacies by scratching and sewing them on again. Mixed techniques.
07. "SCRATCH TORNADO" (MICRO-CAMERALESS ANIMATION), 1’25” USA, 2015 Directed by Robert Lyons Screenplay: NA Animation/Technique: Hand painted cinema/scratch film/cameraless animation on 35mm film photographed through a digital microscope Music: "B3" by the Adrian Belew Power Trio Production: Animation photographed through a Celestron digital microscope Dialogues/Subtitles: NA
A swirling adventure in micro cinematic animation that takes place within only four frames of hand painted 35mm film.
08. THE XXX-GARDEN, 11’ 19” Germany 2016 Directed by Pachet Fulmen Animation: Pachet Fulmen Technique: Drawn, Painted 2-D Animation, Drawn on Paper, Cells, Carton/ Realscenes, Collage, Photocopies, 3D Puppet Music: Pachet Fulmen, Eleven Pond (Geff Galea) Production: Pachet Fulmen, HFBK Hamburg Dialogues: English, German Subtitles: None Layers of control... the female - male view! Dominate! Wishes and dreams in-between realities, lovely visions and disasters. xx-mixed up desires between the prince and the princess, in the xxx-garden of abstinence, an illusion! An xy-abuse! Never ending loneliness! Medusadistic hierarchy! The woman’s saddest journey to nowhere. She-devil! Back |
