Committed Films

75 minutes
Committed Films

Present-day fine art sees a revival of social commitment. The HAFF wants to initiate a discussion on this subject with a theme programme of committed animation films on various subjects via different media. The programme was set up with Gerrit van Dijk, who stood at the cradle of the HAFF and passed away in December 2012.  
Committed films are of all time and display a broad thematic palette, but also pre-eminently demonstrate the spirit of the times. For example, animation film traditionally has strong ties with politics. Animation was frequently deployed to engage in politics, as a means of propaganda and also to express criticism. Animation provides an effective packaging. It can be concealing not to pose an immediate threat and entertaining to convey messages more easily. But also distinctly radical. In animation, filmmakers have everything in their own hands and with the Internet they have a hungry and potentially gigantic public within reach.
On Sunday morning in Daily Master at 11:00 filmmaker Wendy Morris will talk about committed films.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2014

Showing in this program

Alzheimer

Alzheimer

  • Alireza Hashempour
  • Iran, 2012
  • 8 min.

The story of this film is about an old man, who have Alzheimer disease and lives with his dog.This film shows a day of the living in a satirical way and reasons of first happen appear in end ofthe film.

Camouflage

Camouflage

  • Jonathan Hodgson
  • United Kingdom, 2001
  • 7 min.
Dehors Novembre

Dehors Novembre

  • Patrick Bouchard
  • Canada, 2005
  • 6 min.

This animated short evokes the tragic death of Dédé Fortin, frontman, and vocalist of the Québécois band Les Colocs. To the soundtrack of “Dehors novembre,” one of the band’s songs, animator Patrick Bouchard weaves of dark tale of death and ruin, as they unfold in the dark of night, in November, the Month of the Dead. Not for children.

Drawn People

Drawn People

  • Harrie Geelen
  • The Netherlands, 1984
  • 21 min.

Animatiefilm over problematiek van heroïnegebruikers. Uit interviews met dealers, hoertjes, ongelukkige ouders en buitenstaanders, monteerde Geelen een hoorspel van twintig minuten.

End the Death Penalty

End the Death Penalty

  • Jonathan Hodgson
  • United Kingdom, 2012
  • 5 min.
Freedom for Jafar Panahi: Cage

Freedom for Jafar Panahi: Cage

  • Pierre Hébert
  • Canada, 2012

When a filmmaker is imprisoned, how many others find themselves behind bars?

Freedom for Jafar Panahi, and all imprisoned Iranian filmmakers.

Freedom for Jafar Panahi: Free Speech

Freedom for Jafar Panahi: Free Speech

  • Steven Woloshen
  • Canada, 2012

When all the voices have been silenced, only one will remain. And when this last voice is no longer heard...

Freedom for Jafar Panahi, and all imprisoned Iranian filmmakers.

Freedom for Jafar Panahi: Free Women

Freedom for Jafar Panahi: Free Women

  • Francis Desharnais
  • Canada, 2012

A look at depictions of women in Jafar Panahi’s films.

Freedom for Jafar Panahi, and all imprisoned Iranian filmmakers.

Freedom for Jafar Panahi: Joda

Freedom for Jafar Panahi: Joda

  • Théodore Ushev
  • Canada, 2012
  • 3 min.

A woman writes a letter that will be read by a man in prison. A letter full of love, worry, compassion, suffering and hope.

Freedom for Jafar Panahi, and all imprisoned Iranian filmmakers.

Freedom for Jafar Panahi: The Filmmaker

Freedom for Jafar Panahi: The Filmmaker

  • Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre
  • Canada, 2014
Guantanamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes

Guantanamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes

  • Jonathan Hodgson
  • United Kingdom, 2013
  • 6 min.
Heir to the Evangelical Revival

Heir to the Evangelical Revival

  • Wendy Morris
  • Belgium, 2013
  • 6 min.

The film is about religious-historical baggage. The director, a descendant of French Huguenots and English Protestant missionaries who emigrated to South Africa, is atheist-apostate-agnostic. In the film she confronts her contradictory reactions to this inherited evangelical background.
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Tunnel

Tunnel

  • Maryam Kashkoolinia
  • Iran, 2012
  • 7 min.

A man travels the strange way to bring a sheep…