Guide children into the world of cinema and spark a love for film thanks to Cinemini, an initiative that lets the littlest ones discover the richness of film.
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Guide children into the world of cinema and spark a love for film thanks to Cinemini, a European initiative that lets the littlest ones (from ages three) playfully discover the cultural richness of film. And boy oh boy, the history of cinema is a city of gold!
In Twist & Turn! everything is moving. Nothing stands still. Marbles rock and roll in all directions, ink and lines dance in synchrony with the music and a dog moves on with his best friend … his own tail. Together we watch, listen, move and dance to five unique and funny films, carefully chosen from the Cinemini Europe film collection. You’ll be treated to the art of moving with contemporary and old films, one even older than a 100 years. One thing is guaranteed, this program will not leave you sitting motionless in your seat! How long can you resist the boogie?
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What if a dog's tail was more than just a part of his body that it can wag? What if its tail became his best friend, someone it could share the bone it chews with, someone to play table tennis, someone to spend the whole day and whole night with? That could really, finally be a happy end and animation makes it possible. But every happy end has its dark spots and if your tail becomes a self-reliant character there is a chance that he also wants his own cat to chase!
One big and about three dozen small marbles in a white, brightly lit room with a tile structure. They move from left to right, from front to back and suddenly begin to jump, to the wall on the right, to the ceiling and back down again. Are these marbles really just objects or eyes that can move beyond the rules of gravity? Are we looking up, or down, is this really a room at all and if so, where is it? (The film was part of the Grote Kunst voor Kleine Mensen project)
What would big band jazz music look like? How would what we hear - the swing, the rhythm, the ups and downs - be translated into images? Albert Pierru's film achieves this without every using a camera. Instead he painted and scratched directly onto the film-strip and creates a form of visual music moving between abstract shapes and forms and figurative images, such as a stickman playing piano, the string bass, or the trumpet.
A woman enters the stage and starts to dance and move around. In the process she smoothly shifts between different shapes which she forms by holding the edges of her dress in a number of positions. Simultaneously the colours of her dress alternate. The film depicts Loïe Fuller, the woman who invented the dance for the stage, where the colours of her dress changed because of the different angles in which the light hits the fabric of her dress. To reproduce this effect the Lumière brothers shot the dance in black and white and later had the film hand coloured frame by frame.
An experimental animation film that does not tell a story in a classical sense but rather creates a movement of wet ink on a white background that seems to take up the dramatic arch of the overture we are hearing on the soundtrack. Their interplay stimulates us to see things, events, maybe even drama in what is basically just black shapes on a white surface. The film happens on the screen before us and is simultaneously created in our head.
Kaboom Animation Festival is the one-stop-shop for the latest and greatest in all things animated. Ranging from cutting-edge experimental arthouse to colorful stories for families and kids, Kaboom will cater to the animation needs of all. Yes, even yours, my amazing weirdo friend!
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