Award-winning Shorts

60 minutes
Award-winning Shorts

The award-winning short films of Holland Animation Film Festival 2015.

This program screened as part of Haff 2015

Showing in this program

A Single Life

A Single Life

  • Job / Joris & Marieke
  • The Netherlands, 2014
  • 2 min.

When Pia puts on a mysterious vinyl single, she's suddenly able to travel through her own life.

Bear Story

Bear Story

  • Gabriel Osorio
  • Chile, 2014
  • 10 min.

An old bear goes out every day to a busy street corner. Through a tin marionette theater of his own making, the bear will tell us his life story.

Dark Mixer

Dark Mixer

  • Hirotoshi Iwasaki
  • Japan, 2014
  • 4 min.

The motif in this animation is Transmigration. Alchemy tells us that any material must first be reduced to its pre-differentiation condition for itself to change. If transmigration is defined as a change to a new birth after death, this process resembles that of mixing various materials in an unknown (dark) mixer. Dissolve and then coagulate! Short lived light will make its tracks.

House of Unconsiousness

House of Unconsiousness

  • Priit Tender
  • Estonia, 2015
  • 10 min.

A psychedelic drama about a chimney sweeper and a burning woman.

Nobody Beats the Drum – Let It Go

Nobody Beats the Drum – Let It Go

  • Max Italiaander / Levi Jacobs
  • The Netherlands, 2014
  • 3 min.

A man leaves his stressful work life to go on an adventure through Planet Tropicana. Official music video for Nobody Beats The Drum

Shaking Godspeed –  She’s Young

Shaking Godspeed – She’s Young

  • Alice Saey
  • France / The Netherlands, 2015
  • 3 min.

"She's Young" works as a ever-morphing tapestry; despite the multiplication of the feminines apparitions, from the teasing seductivelong-haired figure to the heroïc amazones fighting against the forces of nature, the lyrics to "She's Young" tell about one and only women, the muse of the guitariste/vocalist Wout Kemkens.

Small People with Hats

Small People with Hats

  • Sarina Nihei
  • United Kingdom, 2014
  • 6 min.

There are small people wearing hats in the society.

Splintertime

Splintertime

  • Rosto
  • The Netherlands / France / Belgium, 2014
  • 11 min.

“Zip up! And let’s dance to the sound of breaking glass.” A band of sleepy spirits in an ambulance runs out of road. The third in a series of musical films featuring Thee Wreckers.

The Black Room

The Black Room

  • Robbie Cornelissen / Kees Went
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 8 min.

Robbie Cornelissen (1954) is known for his large format drawings in which he allows the viewer to wander through complex architectural spaces. He also explores the boundaries of the medium of drawing. The past year he worked with Kees Went on a new animated film: The Black Room. The work consists of sixty animations based on charcoal drawings on paper, in which the themes of perspective and space, abstraction and figuration and the transition from two- to examine three-dimensional are being examined.