Competition

Short 6

Live and die together / 同生共灭 06:30

China 2017
Directed by: Bao Jian
Screenplay: Bao Jian
Animation: Bao Jian
Technique: Navy Chen
Music: Sihan Yuan
Production/School: zaza art & design studio
Dialogue language: NO
Subtitles language: Chinese and English



The director invited more than 1,000 people (more than 900 children) to participate in painting a variety of animal graffiti, and eventually made the animation. In the process of participation, let the children know that humans and creatures are creatures living on the earth. "All things form a living, and beings benefit each other." When species are extinct, humans will also flee. Mankind can conquer the Earth and conquer space, but it should be boring if only human beings survived.



Framed 07:00

Italy 2017
Directed by: Marco Jemolo
Screenplay: Marco Jemolo, Paola Savinelli
Animation: Linda Kelvnik
Technique: Animation
Music: Alessandro Marrosu
Dialogue language: Italian
Subtitles language: English



Framed is a noir animated short-film, which investigates the role of the individual in society. In an anonymous police station, F.K. asks the Law for help in the attempt to report the abuses he has been through: his birth, his formation, his forced work. He will end up stuck in an endless nightmare.



Sand 04:48

Netherlands 2017
Directed by: Arjan Brentjes
Screenplay: Arjan Brentjes
Animation: Arjan Brentjes
Technique: 2D and 3D animation
Music: Arjan Brentjes
Dialogue language: English



You get up at five, eat your vitamins, take some water with your coffee, work for a few hours, eat your omegas and flavonoids, work a little more, get some exercise and then take a shower. But don’t bother trying to wash the sand out of your hair.

Phototaxis 06:45

USA 2017
Directed by: Melissa Ferrari
Animation: Melissa Ferrari
Technique: natural materials and pastel-on-paper palimpsest animation woven together with a multiplane and analog overhead projection.
Production/School: School: California Institute of the Arts (Experimental Animation M.F.A.)
Dialogue language: English



Phototaxis draws parallels between Mothman, a prophetic and demonized creature in West Virginia lore, and Narcotics Anonymous, the primary treatment program in West Virginia’s addiction epidemic. Rooted in nonfiction through a curation of archival text, this film contemplates synchronicity and the role of belief systems in perception; the tendency to assign supernatural meaning to tragedy and the unknowable; anonymous and apocryphal oral histories; and the moth to the flame. To visualize these narratives, natural materials and pastel-on-paper palimpsest animation are woven together using a multiplane and analog overhead projection.


Amoricania 05:16
USA 2017
Directed by: Faiyaz Jafri
Screenplay: Faiyaz Jafri
Animation: Faiyaz Jafri
Technique: Faiyaz Jafri
Music: Faiyaz Jafri
Production/School: Faiyaz Jafri

A postmodern animated depiction of Americana, creating a narrative through a system of neo-archetypes that work together; hyperreality rendered in hyper-unrealism.


Yank Tug Yank 03:09

USA 2017
Directed by: Maureen Zent
Animation: Maureen Zent
Technique: Stop motion puppet animation
Music: Dan Carey Bailey and David Baerwalde
Dialogue language: no dialogue



In this allegory about tribalism, two combatants lock into a tug-of-war. One draws and the other heaves. Each pull is met with an equal jerk. Then one finds the other’s weakness. Stop motion animation.

Cloacinae 25:30

Netherlands 2017
Directed by: Serge Onnen & Sverre Fredriksen
Technique: Shadow puppets & Ice
Music: Li Daiguo
Production/School: SeriousFilms
Dialogue language: N/A
Subtitles language: N/A



Cloacinae is the name of the roman goddess of the first sewer of modern civilization, the cloaca maxima, in Rome. It is also an animation about finance and hygiene, where we follow the journey of a cent - who lands in the sewer to face new values.

Stanzas 06:16
USA 2017
Directed by: Alicja Jasina
Animation: Alicja Jasina
Music: Leo Caruso
Production/School: Monticello Park Productions
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English

Form merges with content as the path of a rigidly thinking man is tracked abstractly. At first, the words and structures of the material world constrict him, placing his thoughts and actions within boxes of his own creation. Slowly but surely, he begins to orchestrate an escape, allowing more diversity into his life. He eventually breaks completely free, allowing his experiences to bend and fold into one another, informing his interpretation of the world around him, and thus examining his experiences in a more fluid, connective manner. Based on a poem by Aldous Huxley

Blue Cherry 05:00
Canada 2017
Directed by: Nathan Jurevicius
Screenplay: Nathan Jurevicius
Animation: Fluorescent Hill
Technique: 3D
Music: Steve Alexander
Production/School: Vishus Productions
Dialogue language: No Dialogue

Two skaters looking for their next big adventure help an old person with their groceries.
Compartments 15:00

2017
Directed by: Daniella Koffler , Uli Seis
Screenplay: Daniella Koffler
Production/School: Eitan Shefer
Dialogue language: English



Netta, a young Israeli woman wishes to immigrate to Berlin. Her father, the son of Holocaust survivors, is horrified by her decision to live in the land that killed her ancestors. He refuses to speak to her again if she leaves. Based on Daniella Koffler’s personal story, "Compartments" is the first German-Israeli animation co-production that wishes to explore collective memories of the Holocaust in the third generation, and how they shape both sides in ways we cannot predict.

Edge of Alchemy 17:15

USA 2017
Directed by: Stacey Steers
Screenplay: Stacey Steers
Production/School: Stacey Steers



In Edge of Alchemy the silent-era actors Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor are seamlessly appropriated from their early films of the 1920's and cast into a surreal epic with an upending of the Frankenstein story and an undercurrent of hive collapse. Comprised of over 6000 handmade collages, Edge of Alchemy is the third in a trilogy looking at the psychological terrain of women’s inner worlds. Music and sound design by Lech Jankowski (Brothers Quay).

Pure White 03:00

Germany 2018
Directed by: Sven Windszus
Screenplay: Sven Windszus
Production/School: Sven Windszus
Dialogue language: English



The protagonist is an anatomy model. She awakes in a seemingly perfect world. The fact that she must live as a “damaged" being in such an ideal environment amplifies her pain. She converses with her creator in an attempt to find answers.

Trumpet Man 13:50

Hong Kong 2016
Directed by: Emily Wong
Screenplay: Emily Wong
Production/School: Dodo Animation



A turntable springs out a woman named Avocado, out of Avocado's instinct creates a man called Soul. A sudden passion joins and swings them in a trumpet mood. An uncertainty madness strikes Soul heavily. Seed of passion continue to breed conflict amongst five men without control, which eventually leads Soul to the fact of life.