For the international competition shorts 54 films have been selected, of which 23 non-narrative.
Filmmaker Theodore Ushev used his own blood to create the animation in this violent, poetic film about ideals that may or may not be worth spilling one’s blood for.
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In this stop motion animated film 'Day of the Dutch' we follow a day in the life of a ‘living skeleton’ family in a Dutch home environment. The film shows events from the daily life of a modern (deceased) family. Like the Dutch genre paintings from the Golden Age, the film depicts the traditional values of family and standards...until an event changes a young girls life.
A few naked women and children are bathing in a river. They are being secretly observed by a group of men, who, at one point decide to approach them, in a violent manner, as if inspired by the behaviour of hippopotamuses.
Sunday morning on the long curve of Campese, Isola del Giglio. Impressions of the Italian island in the form of a sketchbook.
Dahee Jeong got a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication at Hongik University in Seoul. She went to Paris in 2008 and got a Master’s degree in Animation at Ecole nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. She directed several short animation films for her school works and also directed “Le temps de l’arbre” for her graduate work in 2012.
the pig is everything
'portrait' is a slow and surreal video slide show of nightmarish, grotesque and apparently static characters.
It's like soot that rests on the walls of our head. We can’t see it. It belongs there already. After all the time that was left behind one question remained:
"Why didn’t the trains stop there?"
I’m scared, I don’t dare look ahead. This isn’t a time to lie.
This short film originates from one of Magritte’s painting named The Spontaneous Generation. It was inspired by Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, which composed the Dystopia Trilogy along with Nineteen Eighty-Four and ??, exploring the different development progresses of human society. However, when it comes to China, things corresponded with such situation during the 30 or 40 years since I born.
At the beginning of Dragon Year 2 years ago, I was invited by an economic magazine CHINA Economic REVIEW to design the cover for January issue, requiring making prediction of this new year in China from the view of an artist. Thus, there came the images of 2 dragons in this film. But it is till this year has the film been completed so that it started from forecast, and was a review of the past time as well. It is related with my future life and also connects with the past in which a moment turned to be eternal and this is the times of our lives, the past thoughts and experiences are waiting to be history, but I’m the person who goes through these things initiatively!
Magritte’s work is named The Spontaneous Generation, which means all the creatures develop from nonliving objects… The body carries the soul. But in the rapid changing world today, where do our consciousness, experiences, and even souls come from?
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I passed you by, I only passed you by, on the street, in the subway,
or rather I saw you, I only saw you, on television, in the newspapers,
I read the story of your life, I saw photos of you,
I saw you passing by, only passing by,
but I could’nt forget your eyes, they said to me :
“Little brother, little sister, you look like me.”
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