The 67 films in the competition for European student films show craftsmanship and fireworks in a whole range of techniques and daring stories.
A man enters an empty cinema screening flower images. He finds a top hat, puts it on and starts having a fantasy in front of the projection. His fantasy is an animated music video telling the story of Giles and Beatrix, a couple with an interesting relationship. This ends up as a woman's dream.
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Music video for Danish band Interfoam. Creatures with thin and disabled bodies form visual instruments. They create visual music with their different rhythms, separate and together, in various combinations.
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Hello!
My name i Louise Johannesen, Im an exchange student at Willem De Kooning Academy, originally I study at Designskolen Kolding in Denmark. For my bachelor project I animated a musicvideo for a danish band called Interfoam. I developed a series of 'physically disabled creatures', as I call them, which by their very different body structures creates different rythms when they move. It is very much the movements of these creatures which is the main focus of the video. The keyword for my video is: visual music. The creatures work as visual instruments, which enhances the music. Their 'dissabled bodies' give them different rythms which relates to the instruments in the track. They create visual music, seperately and together in different combinations. I want the music to be the story, which is why I didn't choose to make a seperate and concrete story in the video, so it's very much a story about the mood of the music and the music itself, it's still very open to interpretation, which the track itself also is because it has no lyrics. It was my second time animating, but it is definitely not my last.
Hope you enjoy it.
A desert dog and bird fight for the tastiest treat in the barren prairie. A young girl escapes the pressures of modern life by dreaming of a fantastical world filled with magic and mythical creatures.
When Eugen frightens accidentally a little bird, he gets very sad about himself. He decides to change the situation and himself to get a new point of view.
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A man and a dog, a connection referring to infancy intended to break and fly away on the thin line of memories. What, once passes, doesn't happen again, becoming a whole of scattered frame in the mind, continously shape-‐changing.
Life Dominated By Techonology.
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Hi, this is my sols film in my second year BA(Animation). I am very happy to submit this film.
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There is an ordinary building in a quite normal environment. Everybody who lives there does, what he or she does in their all day life.
What if you're too proud and vulnerable to truly expose yourself to another being? It's a living thing, it's a terrible thing to lose.
Take a metaphorical peek inside the black hole of insecurity.
Yvan, an astronaut on a solo drilling expedition, lands his spaceship on a new, seemingly uninhabited planet.
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The River is a silent movie animation mildly based on the myth of the Ancient Greek river Styx. This river formed a boundary between the world of the Living and the Dead. A ferryman would await the deceased and transport them for money to the other side. The concept of the Styx itself is traditionally crazy as it is an attempt to comprehend naked life and death by overlaying it with a concept based on known conventions of money transfer made up by the living fools.
In the actual movie one more of these living fools finishes his book and heads out to the exploitation.
On his way he passes a giant queue of people which seems to extend itself all over the city. At first he attempts to avoid this queue but as he reaches his destination he finally just becomes part of it and the movie's focus shifts towards where this queue actually leads to.
There is no sound and smell accompanying this movie besides the sound and smell of your own and your environment.
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In a city it can feel like nothing fits or works as it should and life can be a struggle to find your place. This short animated film follows several people whose daily routines are disrupted by unexpected events causing the world around them to unravel.
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This Place Was A Shelter is a music video created for ambient electronic artist Olafur Arnalds. The video expands on the title of the track while also drawing upon personal interests in structure and liminal space, and acts as an ode to a vanished home.
As the music, and a rainstorm, progresses, different elements of a building appear. This leads to the development of various incidental structures that eventually come together to form a home.
One key aim with the video was sychronicity of sound and visuals. Responding carefully to the track, various audio elements could be drawn out from the music and recontextualised: different levels of an electronic beat are therefore transformed into the sounds of emerging walls, shifting concrete, and flickering paintwork.
The atmosphere of the video is aesthetically inspired by, and includes, textures and areas photographed in urban outskirts. The awkward spaces that are found on the edges of a city, often transitional or neglected, possess a strange ghostly quality that informs the
ethereal structure featured in the film.
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A man enters a bathroom and finds a lot of pairs from his own body. This discovery makes him thinking he is a sum of two. The thought leads him becoming two. ‘Wow, look at this’ He says to his double.
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