
Coca-Cola: Happiness is Movement
A time-travelling trip back through one happy man's life

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.

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

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.

What is the biggest thing in the World?

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.
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Commercial for Cadburry Fingers
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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?

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

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...
