Competition

Experimental 1

Digits of Pi 03:14
United States of America 2019
Directed by: Tom Bessoir
Technique: CGI
Dialogue language: English

A transcendental film inspired by Duchamp's “Anemic Cinema”! I set out to create a film composed within a circular frame. This circular composition led directly to using the number pi for the underlying structure. Having the digits of pi sung on the soundtrack is an homage to “Einstein on the Beach” by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson.
No body 04:33

United Kingdom 2019
Directed by: Haemin Ko
Technique: charcoal hand drawn on paper
Music: Vincent Ott
Production/School: Central Saint Martins
Dialogue language: English



A traditional charcoal animation with an autobiographical experimental animated poem. Based on directors journals which is about her immigration experience in London, Nobody explores relationship between city and me especially disconnection and loneliness through three emotional chapter. Excitement, frustration and hope.

WIND 01:53

United States 2019
Directed by: Dana Sink



WIND-- An exploration of movement and meaning.

On Color / Renk Üzerine 02:38

Turkey 2019
Directed by: Hüseyin Mert Erverdi
Production/School: Hüseyin Mert Erverdi



Rumi who was a 13th-century poet, scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic, in his famous Masnavi (Book I) asked a profound question: “Since all the colors emerged from the void of colorlessness, how could color fight with colorlessness?” This question is in essence states the same problems of entropy, the 2nd law of thermodynamics. The Second Law defines the ultimate purpose of human striving; to deploy energy and information to fight back the tides of ever increasing entropy. In one sense, entropy is an expression of the disorder and randomness tendency of the universe. “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light, and God saw the light, and it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.” is a well-known verse from the opening of the Book of Genesis. In modern terms, light is electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. As Einstein showed us, light and matter are just aspects of the same thing. Matter is frozen light and light is matter on the move. The usage of word ‘light’ itself usually refers to the narrow visible spectrum that is visible to the human eye and is responsible for the sense of sight having wavelengths in the range of 400–700 nanometers. The human vision has 3 types of cones that, roughly speaking, are excited by red, green, and blue. RGB color model is an additive model. When 100% of each color is mixed together, it creates white light. When 0% of each color is combined, no light is generated, creating black. On Color (2019) is the story of light, after being birthed by the pitch black void preceding the universe, it disperses into red, green and blue and then from there to all the various colors of visible spectrum emerges and flows into each other, creating all the possible forms of hues. After the life of light spent it flows back into the primordial state of pitch black void of ‘Khaos’.

Disintegrants 05:38

United States of America 2018
Directed by: John Harlan Norris, Britt King
Screenplay: John Harlan Norris
Animation: Motion Graphics
Production/School: John Harlan Norris



"Disintegrants" imagines a form of portraiture in which the body is absent.

Floating World – Life 1.0 03:48

Hungary 2019
Directed by: Dénes Ruzsa, Fruzsina Spitzer
Animation: Fruzsina Spitzer
Production/School: Dénes Ruzsa



Earth is a small floating world. Isolated in the infinity of the cosmos. The only place we know for life. The short animation titled Floating World - Life 1.0 is the first part of a video trilogy. The animation presents the first stage in the development and evolution of life, this is what Max Tegmark calls Life 1.0.

A Ghost Eats Mud on the Mountain 26:29

United Kingdom 2018
Directed by: Richard Forbes-Hamilton
Production/School: Richard Forbes-Hamilton



A Ghost Eats Mud on the Mountain is an abstract journey set against a backdrop of spaces in Hong Kong. The spaces navigated through the film seem to sit outside of time and place; somewhere in between past and future, nature and urban space, myth and document. The only apparent inhabitants of this world are an indistinguishable figure and a buffalo. If the film suggests a transitional realm or liminal space, then the youth and the buffalo are of this same realm. The artist’s navigation of these scenes could be considered equivalent to the suggested experience of the protagonists. The film is solely produced and scored by artist Richard Forbes-Hamilton created utilising a combination of photography and digital animation techniques.

An Etude 02:49

Australia 2019
Directed by: Sal Cooper
Production/School: Sal Cooper and Kate Neal



Etude is a hand drawn animation that illustrates the emotional condition that precedes a dissociative crisis.



Back and Forth 04:26

Belgium 2018
Directed by: Lisa Foster
Animation: Lisa Foster
Technique: Painted
Music: Jürgen De Blonde
Production/School: KASK



We all have a different rhythm. BACK AND FORTH is a dance about individual rhythms that go together, seem to clash or just stay separate.

Xylem 05:26

United Kingdom 2019
Directed by: Michael Hughes
Screenplay: Michael Hughes
Production/School: Michael Hughes



An experimental animation using only microscopic images of xylem, one of the two types of transport tissue in vascular plants.

Inked Folds 02:04
Korea 2019
Directed by: Eunmi Kang
Production/School: Eunmi Kang
Dialogue language: English

Abstract patterns incidentally found from stamping folded paper towels dipped in black ink are digitally manipulated and animated frame by frame to create visual rhythm.
Juana Molina - Paraguaya Punk 02:16

Argentina 2019
Directed by: Dante Zaballa
Screenplay: Dante Zaballa
Production/School: Dante Zaballa
Dialogue language: Spanish



Music video for my biggest idol Juana Molina. Made with acrylics, pastels and pencils on paper.

Clap-Stamp-Clap 02:22
Korea 2019
Directed by: Eunmi Kang
Production/School: Eunmi Kang

Series of patterns derived from hand prints and foot prints of the little one come together to visually compose a motion study of the subconsciousness.
PRELUDE 01:00
Italy 2019
Directed by: Rick Niebe

Tortured found footage for a short piano piece of Galina Ustvolskaya


Falafel Cart 14:03

Kuwait 2019
Directed by: Abdullah Al-Wazzan
Animation: Abdullah Al-Wazzan
Technique: 2D/ Stop Motion/ 3D
Music: Dan Phillipson
Production/School: RoyalTales



During a stormy night and in the middle of nowhere, a lonely immigrant falafel vendor stumbles upon a mysterious flower that whirls him into the memories of his past.

Confessions of a Whittler 04:22

United States 2019
Directed by: Sarvshrest Singh
Screenplay: Sarvshrest Singh
Dialogue language: English



A sculptor attempts to perfect her craft. "But what when, I lose my shine? Will I lose my mind? And in that plight, Who will do by me, What I think by mine?"



Playing Planet 14:50

China 2019
Directed by: JIAYI WANG
Screenplay: JIAYI WANG
Dialogue language: Chinese



If AI has emotional intelligence, it will be a disaster for humans. Due to the issuance of Decree No. 2900-1, humans have to terminate all projects related to AI emotional learning. Therefore, GAEA outside the atmosphere established twenty scenes as a secret training base. Then the game company also acquired several scenes. As a game player, Jurij searched the abandoned body of Siena, trying to use her cross-border memory, through the scene, to find helium gas to achieve a short plan. On the way, he was in crisis due to Siena's ambiguous identity ...

Soft Life 03:20

Hong Kong 2019
Directed by: Jack Sachs
Screenplay: Alice stewart
Production/School: Sarah Hegyesy
Dialogue language: English



A dream sequence in Hong Kong, A poem dreamed by computers