Highlighting
young animated talents from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the NEW
TALENTS project showcases the best films by students and deputing
artists in a given year. Initiated by the Visegrad Animation Forum, the
project aims to promote the works of young CEE artists both nationally
and internationally.
The film is a kind of reconstruction of the book The Stranger written by Albert Camus. I've read that book 12 years ago. I remember mostly the influence the book left on me and the atmosphere it created, but when it comes to characters and action in the book there are left only fragments. So I tried to put those fragments into some context in this short animation.
A woman lives in complete solitude trying it hard to find love. She meets a shadow creature that looks like a cat… New bonds evolve as she gives birth to three kittens, but the creature disappears and she is left with the happiness of motherhood and the loss of her lover.
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A surreal depiction of a toxic relationship, when one only takes but never
gives.
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Once upon a time the terrible unknown came around the corner.
Mukumů is an animated film that illustrates the peculiar Scandinavian
nature and people who live there and fight with both the nature and their own
existence. The film shows everyday life and the unpredictable situations made by
nature. The word "mukumů" is used for calling cows to come from the fields. It
represents casual activities which give life sense. Humans, animals and nature are
all together trying to survive.
The reality presented in the film "Oh God" might be described using such terms as inertia or chaos. The characters feature lack of willingness to take any action,they are passive and indifferent, unable to create their own reality. The author presents a world that loses its original shapes, loses its identity. Groaning “oh God” as a main theme combines it all: grimace, sigh and a quiet whisper of
Mother and son are changing places and roles constantly: once, the mother is an adult, sometimes son matures and takes care of suddenly childish mother. The arrangement works fine, until the boy decides to escape from under the skirt of the overprotective mother and start an independent life.
The Process is an animated short about the process of animation as it's taught in universities and art schools. It follows the path from the idea, or the concept that we are working on, through layout, storyboard, and scenario up to the final product – the film. The Process is divided into three parts that differ visually and in sound and music.
Furry and his friends live in burrows on a glade surrounded by dark woods. They feed themselves with seeds that turn into glowing fruit after touching the ground. However, these are quite rare. The animals’ fear from the wood does not allow them to leave the glade and look for the food somewhere else. Instead, they resignedly wait until it falls from the sky. But Furry does not want to wait anymore. The wood awakens curiosity in him. He wants to know what is hiding in there…
An animated exercise on the topic of hands. It focuses on the strong connection between animation and music. Rhythm, movement and sound create an inseparable audiovisual non-narrative experience.
The world's only infinity steel wire generated. Because each and every one born from the same fibers, the common wire physically connects them. The story begins in the middle of events cut away to show the main character, who has given all his strength to try to pull the wire in front of him. When all of them manage to pull behind him, already loaded in the body to become even stronger structure.
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