Animal Kingdom: Chalk Stars
Love story in a lighthouse. A man and a woman are sitting at a table. On the wall behind them, a pattern is made with a thread.
Competition Commissioned Films 1
55 minutes
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The international competition for commissioned films includes not only the best of the best in traditional animation applications, but also in state of the art applications of moving graphics, VFX and SFX. As always, the festival selects films in the categories commercials, educational films, film and TV leaders and music videos, but only one Grand Prix is awarded to the best film in the entire competition. From 230 entries, 53 were selected.
This program screened as part of HAFF 2010
Showing in this program
Coke Zero: Happy Kingdom
A dull, dark kingdom transforms into a fun, crazy party where everyone is celebrating the crowning of a new king.
Compare the Market: The Battle of Fearlessness
Comparethemeerkat.com, comparethemarket.com. Great-grandfather used to be a captain in the Russian army.
Dutch Horticulture
A unique dynamic plant symbolises the expansion of the Nederlandse Tuinbouw across the world.
Ethav: Sleep
A black-and-white surrealist vision focuses on dreams and relationships.
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Fiat: Crash Test Panda
Dramatic car crash, set to Annie’s cheerful song It's the Hard Knock Life.
Futurecentre – Reset Your Mind
An informational film made to inspire employees of the Dutch Tax organization.
Going West
To promote reading an extract from Maurice Gee's novel, Going West has been animated to show the experience of being absorbed in a good book
Google Maps
From searching a location on the Internet, Smith & Foulkes take us on a digital journey that seamlessly transforms into a physical map print-out.
Green City Energy: How Your Money Works
How do you think your money works for you?
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Joshua Radin: I’d Rather Be with You
A love story within the pages of a well-travelled journal documents the loneliness of two characters in their separate lives and them meeting and falling in love.
Massive Attack: Splitting the Atom
The last of the last particles. Divisible, invisible.
MCL Restaurant & Bakery: Family
Groups of hungry people come together to feast on the family-style catering of MCL Restaurant & Bakery.
MCL Restaurant & Bakery: Noodle
A homemade noodle tells the story of a restaurant that has been making customers happy for 60 years!
Nature Girl: Lazy
A woman decides that her life can do without her for one day. Her bed transports her to a magical river.
Nobody Beats the Drum – Grindin’
Grindin' is a music video for Nobody Beats The Drum, A Dutch electro collective for whom visuals are as integral a part of the performance as the pounding beats they unleash. The stop-motion film is based around an intensely choreographed sequence of four thousand photographs and plays with the boundaries of sound, music and perspective.
Seymour Bits: Put It Back Down
Music video for electro funk with disco and hip-hop influences.
Subject: Flakboy
Commercial for the Flakboy iPhone Game.
Subraum Katzen: Too Long
A rhythmical parade of catwomen in black-and-white. One catwoman flees from a gigantic caterpillar.
Team William: You Look Familiar
Child runs away from home and his horrid family and enters a colourful cartoon world.
Tim Knol: When I Am King
Music video in stop motion reveals a fantasy world where a young man discovers a destroyed city.
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Tom Fun Orchestra: Bottom of the River
Singing rubbish bags lament their fate as dead cats drift by.
WWF: Year of the Gorilla
2009 was the Year of the Gorilla. In Africa, only 650-580 mountain gorillas (gorilla beringei beringei) and 250-300 Cross River gorillas (gorilla gorilla diehli) are left.
