Animation for Art Lovers

75 minutes
Animation for Art Lovers

We’ve rounded up a selection of remarkable films with an experimental flavor. Not to be missed by art lovers, these films tell exceptional stories exceptionally, stretching the boundaries of reality, hypnotizing you with pixelated shapes, and giving life to man-made objects from prehistory to the present day to life. These mesmerizing art films capture both history and fantasy in playful ways.

This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2016

Showing in this program

Datum Point

Datum Point

  • Ryo Orikasa
  • Japan, 2015
  • 6 min.

Yoshiro Ishihara (1915–1977), who burst upon the scene of Japanese modern poetry in the mid-1950s, is now remembered as a “poet of silence.”
He said “A poem is an impulse to resist writing.”
This film is an attempt to seek out the landscape from his poem.

ego

ego

  • PeiHsin Cho
  • Taiwan, 2016
  • 4 min.

People would recall what they've experienced in some ways.
They find out their changes like losing a little hair when brushing hair, which is no more natural.
They wouldn't feel the pain, but they know that part of themselves leave away.

How Long, Not Long

How Long, Not Long

  • Michelle Kranot / Uri Kranot
  • Denmark, 2016
  • 5 min.
Only Lovers Leave to Die

Only Lovers Leave to Die

  • Vladimir Kanic
  • Canada, 2015
  • 6 min.

mily begins perceiving the world as it was made from painted film stock shortly after being injured in an accident. On her way to a hospital, a story of love, death, passion and loss unravels through dialogues of characters surrounding her, each represented with a different pattern of film stock.
The film was conceived on principles of random generative filmmaking and made by observing and measur

Patterns

Patterns

  • Shahar Davis
  • Israel, 2015
  • 14 min.

Meaningful shapes are sculpted under the laws of digital nature, exploring and cultivating the alien world of digital mediums.

Satie’s “Parade”

Satie’s “Parade”

  • Koji Yamamura
  • Japan, 2016
  • 14 min.

A Parade for 3 managers & 4 performers. Mixing quotes from French composer Erik Satie’s essays with the music Parade, this is an animated re-creation of realist ballet images going beyond reality.

Superbia

Superbia

  • Luca Tóth
  • Hungary / Czech Republic / Slovakia, 2016
  • 15 min.

The native people of the surrealistic land of Superbia, where men and women form separate societies, face the changes sparked by the first equal couple in their history.

The Five Minute Museum

The Five Minute Museum

  • Paul Bush
  • United Kingdom, 2015
  • 6 min.

This is a romp through the museums of England and Switzerland in which the objects on display come to life and reveal the stories of their creation. It is a celebration of the chaotic diversity conjured by the human hand and mind, and the eccentricity of museum collections. It’s the history of man-made objects from prehistory to the present day.