Competition: Animation - II

Advertisements for myself 

Director: Paul Tarragó
UK, 2021, 8’11’’, HDD
English with Turkish Subtitles

A promotional vehicle with lane-changing tendencies, but both hands kept on the wheel at all times.

First video in ‘The Variations’ cycle, a suite of 4 standalone films, reconfiguring home life as a combination newsletter, ad campaign, personal cinema, and experimental workbook. 

Freeze frame 

Director: Soetkin Verstegen
Belgium, 2020, 5’, HDD  
No Dialogue

Freeze frame: the most absurd technique since the invention of the moving image.Through an elaborate process of duplicating the same image over and over again, it creates the illusion of stillness.Identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice. The repetitive movements reanimate the animals captured inside 

Home Closed

Director:  Wobbe F. Koning
USA, 2020, 3’ 43’’, HDD
No Dialogue  

Stop Motion in times of Covid, created with junk in a basement.

Insane Brothers 

Director: Borja Santomé Rodríguez
Spain, 2020, 6’15’’, HDD
No Dialogue

Experimental animation piece in which surrealism and psychedelia come together to immerse the viewer in a dreamlike journey, where the magical and supernatural transcends the ordinary of everyday life. The creation of life, spirituality, and the transformation of the world appear as essential issues in this short film, which is told without following a linear narrative structure.

Lah gah

Director: Cécile Brun
Switzerland, 2019, 6’33’’, HDD, Color
No Dialogue 

A dive into sunny childhood memories and emotional depths of loss and disappearance, trying to grasp what is not tangible.

Microscripts

Director: Pelin Kırca
Turkey, 2020, 10’31’’, HDD, color
German; Turkish and English Subtitles 

Microscripts is an animated short film in homage to the Swiss writer Robert Walser.

The Ephemeral Orphanage

Director: Lisa Barcy
USA, 2020, 15’, HDD, Color
No Dialogue

A group of tattered paper dolls daydream alternate realities and surreptitiously explore the hidden lives of their strict and secretive caregivers. Mischief ensues and discoveries are made as the characters live out their childhood fantasies. Created with found paper dolls cut from a 1920’s newspaper and found in an attic, the film explores the adults attempt to dictate what girls learn, and the children’s talent for discovering forbidden knowledge. 

The long wail of a passing train slips into the heart of the ghosts and everything explodes into silence

Director: Anne-Marie Bouchard
Canada, 2020, 7’46’’, HDD, Color
No Dialogue 

An experimental animated film built around a single sound recording that evokes travel, the need to communicate, solitude, fragility, the desire for freedom, the arrival of fall, and our ephemeral existence.

Troubled Water

Director: Elena Wiener
Germany, 2020 10’, HDD, Color
No Dialogue 

What to do when your body eats you up? When the fight against yourself overshadows your daily routines, your relationships, and your freedom? It‘s about fighting autoimmune diseases and inner demons.