Competition: Animation - I

Pattern Recognition

Director: Dirk de Bruyn
Australia, 2019, 4’51’’, HDD, Renkli / Color
No Dialog 

Flipping through a series of record covers at breakneck speed forces the eye to sample the images it receives. Today in public space mobile technologies have moved from the transistor radio to the mobile phone. Here images no longer behave according to the laws of perspective. This is what Marshall McLuhan refers to as an Acoustic Space where images with speed perform according to the laws of pattern recognition. This film recycles sound from an 1960s Melbourne Radio Show: Newsbeat which chronicled car accidents to access the kind of immersion and immediacy now delivered by the mobile phone.

SCUM MUTATION

Director: Ov
France, 2020, 10’, HDD, Color
No Dialog

Here you are SCUM, creature in cage. Inside the rage of our time, your individual and societal wound questions our visceral link to violence. SCUM, in your silicon hands young germs are growing and mutating.

The Wind

Director: Miranda Javid
USA, 2020, 4’, HDD, Siyah-Beyaz / Black&White
No Dialog

The rigidity of a historical fact rolls by like clouds, or maybe like cloud computing. Digital landscapes like desktops, trash cans, and cursors flatten the sensation of what tangibly remains: the invisible pleasure of wind on skin.

STAMINA

Director: Nadin Heinke
Germany, 2020, 3’ 51’’, HDD, Color
No Dialog 

STAMINA is an experimental, animated short film inspired by ecocritical theory and environmental aesthetics. The uncanny is questioning concepts of Heimat, naturalness and a nature that exists separated from human animals. As Timothy Morton put it: "dark ecology dances with subject-object duality".

Insomnia 

Director: Emilia Izquierdo
UK, 2021, 4’15’’, HDD, Color
No Dialog 

Insomnia: Violent nights (2021): explores violent waking life events as experienced in the dream insomniac state through dance and bodily movement. Using hand drawn animation and archival footage it takes us into the labyrinth of ancient forces battling oppression through dance and cosmic encounters.

Eyes at the Specter Glass

Director: Matthew Wade
USA, 2018, 11’ 30’’, HDD, Color
No Dialog

An otherworldly vision of the power of light and the weight of planets.

Earthfall 

Director: Simone Hooymans
Norway, 2020, 6’ 36’’, HDD, Color
No Dialog

In this experimental animation made of hand-made ink drawings, artist Simone Hooymans explores the transforming powers of crisis. Landscapes, cityscapes and abstract shapes are moving slowly, while growing into an avalanche threatening to destroy everything in its way. Then the destruction is a fact, but from the rubble and chaos emerges a glimpse of a new beginning: Unknown and undefined, but maybe hopeful? The film is a symbolic exploration of current global challenges, yet also an inner journey exploring how a crisis can transform you.

Battle

Director: Hüseyin Mert Erverdi
Turkey, 2020, 3’ 06’’, HDD, Color
No Dialog

In ‘Battle’ (2020), Shodo-Budo and abstract expressionism; eastern and western sensibilities of calligraphy and painting, put to a Zen like dynamic visual dialogue to evoke a feeling of an inner battle. ‘Battle’ also in a sense a salute to Stan Brakhage’s final film (Chinese Series), made during his own battle with cancer, by wetting a filmstrip with saliva and using his fingernail to scratch marks into the emulsion. ‘Battle’ is about the daily struggle of being in the world. It is dedicated to all the silent and not so silent battles we fought.