With its rich metaphorical language, animation can visualize that which is invisible to the human eye. When there’s no film footage of an actual event or in the case of internal truths like memories, turning to animation opens an alternative door to representing reality. The films in this program tell real life stories, using materials that have a direct relation to a certain historical reality, like the audio recording of an interview — traces of that very reality beyond what you see on screen. Choosing animation as a vessel for those stories, these filmmakers bring out a reality that otherwise might have remained unseen.

This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2016

Showing in this program

How Long, Not Long

• Michelle Kranot / Uri Kranot
• Denmark, 2016
• 5 min.

Journey Birds

• Daphna Awadish Golan
• Israel, 2015
• 9 min.

Life Inside Islamic State

• Scott Coello
• United Kingdom, 2016
• 16 min.

LOST

• Hannah McNally
• United Kingdom, 2016

Mr Sand

• Soetkin Verstegen
• Denmark / Belgium, 2016
• 8 min.

Party Legends: Fred Armisen in The Blue Man Group

• Lance Bangs / Simon Wilches Castro
• United States, 2015
• 5 min.

Random Walks

• Borbála Tompa
• Hungary, 2016
• 6 min.

Teenage Diary: Willem Bosch

• Samantha Williams
• The Netherlands, 2016
• 4 min.

The Gentle Giant

• Marcin Podolec
• Poland, 2016
• 10 min.

Tough

• Jennifer Zheng
• United Kingdom, 2016
• 4 min.