New developments and fresh ideas often spring from the minds of students, which makes this competition an adventurous programme section. The European student film competition prided itself in no fewer than 366 entries, 53 of which were selected.
This title shows a history of the title sequence in a nutshell. The sequence includes all the names of title designers who had a revolutionary impact on the history and evolution of the title sequence. The names of the title designers all refer to specific characteristics of the revolutionary titles that they designed.
Hi, I just tried to make a funny movie... But don't you be afraid, there is a deep and complex meta-message too.
Qiao-Yu, a volunteer worker, keeps watch over a bridge on the Yangtze river in China, a notorious suicide spot…
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Things seem to get a lot worse for a little girl, desperate in need of help, with the arrival of a monster. ((Productiondate of the movie is in 2009. Date of finishing + release of the movie (sound + endcredits) is in april 2011.))
On top of a hill a lonely sculptor creates a huge zoetrope out out of stone statues. He creates an animation by running along the circle of statues. He gets so excited that he hallucinates statues cheering to him as he races past them and of to the skies.
He wakes up from the dream realizing that he has knocked down the statues and is left with nothing but rubble.
Luckily one statue has survived so he gets his companion after all.
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A lonely sculptor tries to animate statues to keep him company.
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A prisoner receives the message that his old father needs help with tilling the field. In his desperate situation the prisoner suddenly has the idea to use the guards to till his dad's land.A paper crafted animation short about family and the conflicts of physical separation and their communication.
A stone creature tries to disengage himself from a gap. But the only way is by falling painfully into the depth. How long is it able to continue his way without proving a failure?
Doors that open and close. Tables that stack and interlock. All this and more expresses moments of purely immediate existentials state.
About the confrontation between a man and his memories.
The tale of Derek, an office worker, as he struggles with the true speed of the planet Earth.
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A child discovers life inside a dead bird and starts to play with it.
Classic cartoon shows what you can do with long arms. Cleaning the windows on the first floor, for instance. Most people would know what to do with this gift, but the boy does not.
This is the ultimate guide for those who want to be an artist. It can't be that hard, can it?!
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A fifty-year-old man flees to his parental home. There he tries to find again the inner calm/peace of his youth.
According to one of the established techniques employed for avant-garde film, analogue stock, rather than simply being exposed in a camera, is worked on directly, touched and attacked. In tricolor the film strip is worked over in this fashion: first, tinted frame by frame with a special paint for use on glass, and second, the material is scratched, carved and artistically slit. Spots flit past and spread throughout the image like mold on a wall. Minimal impurities and signs of wear and tear appear huge when projected, and green and yellow streaks of color flash by at the breathless pace peculiar to cinema (this is however always concealed in commercial film). A white arrow, scratched into monochrome yellow like the works of Len Lye or Norman McLaren, points off screen, and white lines dance on a black background. The manipulated sound of a film projector is combined with “uncanny” noises from the worlds of nature and technology. Sound is dominant in this work: There is roaring, knocking, clattering and hissing, and even the whistling of the wind could have come from a horror movie’s soundtrack. And though black, yellow and green occupy the foreground at first, tricolor contains more colors than just these three. As the film becomes darker, shades of red, then purple and blue enter the picture. The bubbles and streaks resemble details in images seen through a microscope. The film transforms ceaselessly and many mutations of the material appear, then it takes on an almost psychedelic quality. Near the end the picture starts flickering, and finer structures are added. Finally, an abstract white rain bombards the black frames — quickly producing tears in the image that resemble bullet holes.
(Stefan Grissemann)
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