1000 Plateaus
A musical celebration of travel, jazz and road maps, this abstract film was created entirely in the front seat of a car with ink, paint and other simple tools.
Competition Shorts 3
80 minutes
For the international competition shorts 54 films have been selected, of which 23 non-narrative.
This program screened as part of Haff 2015
Showing in this program
An Uncountable Noun
Chinese modern social life has rapid changes .However, there are a lot of details of daily life consumed and be quickly
forgotten because of the rapid development times, the origin of the work is from the some details in the daily life space and
experience. In some specific time, common everyday will appear very surreal, plain life objects will magically change into the
elements in the theatre, the surreal life is hidden behind the reality of objective truth.
Space is the basic vocabulary and means of this animation installation ,and the plot of the works is more similar to the
happening of the theater event. Objects and characters as the existence of the props has its own way to present connotation.
Just as noun, their existence itself does not depend on the specific actions or plot.
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Birds Dream
This film is about birds and dreams. Birds dream is shot using stop-motion technique, and its ‘actors’ are bird models handcrafted by the artist. Its concept derives from the artist’s own live performance the Sparrow and the Raven (2012), which had been performed both nationally and internationally.
Story:
A new-born sparrow entered a world full of colourful objects and strange birds. When curiously idling in this world, the sparrow found a young raven with which it began to explore the place together. They encountered all sorts of strange birds and mysterious geometric shapes of different colours. Their encounters have made them bewilder and fantasise, soon their body start to change as well…
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Eager
In Eager, fairy-like clay beings perform a discomforting choreography. First in the dark, then in a field of flowers. There the violets and roses join in and they are creepier than you can imagine.
Goodbye Utopia
In memory of ancient humans, God issued commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai and said, 'can not kill.' However Nietzsche tells us that God has been dead already.
Human beings created God, but also exterminated God. We childbirth themselves, but also slay ourselves.
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PLANET ∑
In PLANET ∑, giant creatures are trapped inside the ice. Submarine explosions provoke a global warming, and a new life begins for animals.
Third piece from the PLANET series, after PLANET A (Locarno 2008) and PLANET Z (Berlinale 2011).
Playground
Stop-motion film Playground shows a battle between nature and culture, between organic rye grass and artificial turf. American Football is played on rectangular fields, measuring 120 yards (110 meters) long and 160 feet (49 m) wide. These dimensions defined the framework for this film.
De Ruijter collected images of American Football fields from Google Earth, and placed them in sequence. The result is fascinating: various representations suddenly loom up from an abstract series of pictures of field lines with identical measurements. They are symbols of diverse sports clubs that are unmistakably American.
Film: Gerco de Ruijter
Music: Michel Banabila
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Splintertime
“Zip up! And let’s dance to the sound of breaking glass.” A band of sleepy spirits in an ambulance runs out of road. The third in a series of musical films featuring Thee Wreckers.
The Black Room
Robbie Cornelissen (1954) is known for his large format drawings in which he allows the viewer to wander through complex architectural spaces. He also explores the boundaries of the medium of drawing. The past year he worked with Kees Went on a new animated film: The Black Room. The work consists of sixty animations based on charcoal drawings on paper, in which the themes of perspective and space, abstraction and figuration and the transition from two- to examine three-dimensional are being examined.
Under_Construction
A narrated animation in the form of a journal produced as a combination of drawings and graphics. An attempt to find visual equivalents for decomposition and mental deconstruction of personality/person as well as to show desperate efforts aiming at its reconstructing, merging. It’s a peculiar game of graphic representations of mental states which accompany daily struggle with reality, including questions such as: 'who am I?, 'what do I consist of?'.
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