Ceci n’est Pas une Animation

75 minutes
Ceci n’est Pas une Animation

You might think you know what animation looks like, or what it doesn’t, but these intriguing films seem to escape such categorization. The term 'animation' is often used to only describe a technique, a way to handle a series of still images, but where does that leave Johan Rijpma's time lapse films?

Through films and Q&As we'll look at visual languages that may technically be live action, but belong to the visual world of animation.

With a film from the EYE archives.

This program screened as part of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2015

Showing in this program

Coca-Cola: Happiness is Movement

Coca-Cola: Happiness is Movement

  • Johnny Kelly
  • United Kingdom, 2014

A time-travelling trip back through one happy man's life

Démontable

Démontable

  • Douwe Dijkstra
  • The Netherlands, 2014
  • 12 min.

War is waged on the kitchen table while a man drinks coffee. The world's
on fire. Helicopters shred his newspaper, a drone fires at a plate of
broccoli. A playful film on the absurd relationship between daily life and
global news.

Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared 4

Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared 4

  • Becky Sloan / Joseph Pelling
  • United Kingdom, 2015
  • 5 min.

What is the biggest thing in the World?

Furniture Poetry

Furniture Poetry

  • Paul Bush
  • United Kingdom, 2000
  • 5 min.

Furniture Poetry (2000) is a playful philosophical piece inspired by a Ludwig Wittgenstein quote. Bush manipulates tables, chairs, and various domestic objects into a frenzied and comical dance.

Good Times

Good Times

  • Simon Willows
  • United Kingdom, 2010

Commercial for Cadburry Fingers

Little Dragon – Twice

Little Dragon – Twice

  • Johannes Nyholm
  • Sweden, 2007
  • 3 min.

What do you expect to find at the end of your journey? What if you’re going to see your dreams realized? What if this scares you to death? What does this has to do with this clip?

Lonely Bones

Lonely Bones

  • Rosto
  • France / The Netherlands, 2013
  • 10 min.

A short hallucinative film about making dreams and making sacrifice. "Hail! To all the souls-OHiding on rotting floors. Little did they know that they would make today."

Metro

Metro

  • Eric Steegstra
  • The Netherlands, 1998
  • 14 min.

In a big and dark city a game of football is played. After the match the hooligans start to riot and vandalize the city.

Recycling

Recycling

  • Grant Orchard
  • United States, 2008

An imaginative film that uses a charming Q&A with hand built paper Mache puppets, who come to life amidst the distinctly lo-fi cardboard props & silver foil stars...

Tape Generations

Tape Generations

  • Johan Rijpma
  • The Netherlands, 2011
  • 2 min.