Cityscapes

75 minutes
Cityscapes

For most of us, cities define a big part of the landscapes in our lives. But how often do we really see this everyday habitat designed by our fellow humans? This compilation of shorts showcases the city in both its liveliness and its desolation, spotlighting the kinds of details we might overlook in our busy daily lives. So pull out your magnifying glasses for this trek through the concrete jungle!

This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2016

Showing in this program

City

City

  • Ye-young Kim / Young-geun Kim
  • South Korea, 2010
  • 6 min.

People get together to constitute a city. Seoul is a city full of people. Let's imagine the city free from walls and frames between people. and relieved of its shell.

Dizzcock – Outta Hood

Dizzcock – Outta Hood

  • Jan Sramek
  • Czech Republic, 2016
  • 3 min.

Music video for track "Outta Hood" taken from Dizzcock's album "Elegy of Unsung Heroes". His album won Vinyla award for the best Czech album of the year 2015. Music video refers to the content of the album, which affects various social and political problems. In this video it is shown through the perspective of socio-economical collapse that affected US city Detroit.

Ghost Cell

Ghost Cell

  • Vincent Patar
  • France, 2015
  • 6 min.

Scientific and dreamlike documentary at once, Ghost Cell is a stereoscopic plunge into the guts of an organic Paris seen as a cell through a virtual microscope.

Habitat

Habitat

  • Ina Georgieva
  • Bulgaria, 2013
  • 4 min.

A new man is born in the habitat. Kicked out by the others he follows a new direction. How far will he go?

Logorama

Logorama

  • François Alaux / Hervé de Crécy / Ludovic Houplain
  • France, 2009
  • 16 min.

Spectacular car chases, an intense hostage crisis, wild animals rampaging through the city, and even more in Logorama!

Mind The Gap

Mind The Gap

  • Katy Wang
  • United Kingdom, 2015

An animation portraying the sights, sounds, and movement of the London Underground, inspired by its iconic seat patterns.

Peripheria

Peripheria

  • David Coquard-Dassault
  • France, 2015
  • 12 min.

A journey into the heart of a large and abandoned council estate. Peripheria portrays an urban environment becoming wild: a modern Pompeii where the wind blows and dogs roam, tailing the remains of human life.

Super Magic Hats – Transpose

Super Magic Hats – Transpose

  • Tessa Chong
  • Australia, 2016
  • 3 min.

Cities are special ecosystems. Each one has its own unique rhythm and pace. People exist together and separately at the same time. Buildings have their own stories. Our lives can be measured in train journeys and bowls of ramen. Night time falls, but we keep moving. Enjoy.

Tiny Worlds

Tiny Worlds

  • Rushes Animation Team
  • United Kingdom, 2014

The "Tiny Worlds" trilogy of short films shows a humorous take on what might happen to the litter and rubbish on London's streets when we're not looking.

Uri Nakayama – Spring Time Old Man

Uri Nakayama – Spring Time Old Man

  • Hoji Tsuchiya
  • Japan, 2016
  • 2 min.

One fine day of spring, old man told goodbye to this world. Music video for Uri Nakayama.

Wax Tailor ft. Aloe Blacc – Time To Go

Wax Tailor ft. Aloe Blacc – Time To Go

  • Oh Yeah Wow / Darcy Prendergast / Seamus Spilsbury
  • Australia, 2012
  • 3 min.

The tale of a crotchet quadropus, who journeys throughout the land turning things blue.

Wrapped

Wrapped

  • Florian Wittmann / Falko Paeper
  • Germany, 2014
  • 4 min.

The deterioration of one is the foundation of another one's life. The world with it’s never-ending interplay of eating and being eaten, takes on new dimensions when the unexpected forces of nature clash with the existing structures of our society. What was believed to be forever, melts away in the course of time. The only constant is change.

Yonalure: Moment to Moment

Yonalure: Moment to Moment

  • Ayaka Nakata / Yuki Sakitani
  • Japan, 2011
  • 7 min.

This is a poem of night. A clock goes tick-tock. There isn’t the moon tonight. Then a big white globe appears in a town. It has round eyes and a pointed nose. And houses begin to move all at once. Because the moon is situated away from here, we can not pass it and leave it, either. But if the moon is following us? This is the short and long story borne by such fancy.