1981-2001 ver.150215
Video works based on the commemorative photo artist himself was photographed between 1981 and 2001.
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My DCP is 30fps.
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Competition Shorts 6
75 minutes
For the international competition shorts 53 films have been selected, with no less than 25 non-narrative productions.
This program screened as part of Haff 2016
Showing in this program
Begone Dull Care 2015
A re-imagining of 1949's 'Begone Dull Care', this animated chiptune pixel-art short animated 2d film endeavours to maintain the abstract spontaneity of the original 1949 NFB short, while updating the music and visuals to fit today's digital age. Created by 20-year animation industry veteran Paul Johnson between May and October 2015, while on contract in Montreal.
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Thanks for considering 'Begone Dull Care 2015' for your festival programming. My goal with remaking the 1949 animated short film 'Begone Dull Care' is to engage and entertain audiences through a combination of pixel art, abstract acrylics, and chiptune music in a filmic style. Hopefully also to stimulate attentiveness, which I view as the most important goal of art.
Continued success with your festival this and every year!
Warm regards,
Paul Johnson
www.imdb.com/name/nm0425965
www.imdb.com/title/tt5095822
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Endgame
After a tough week at the office, Richard and George like to play war games over the weekend to relax. The dispassionate atmosphere and minimalist style with which the growing brutality is handled slowly wipes the smile from your face, before making sure that it doesn’t return.
Erlking
A father rides with his son through the forest. The sick child thinks he sees the Erlking, who both charms and frightens him. Based on Goethe’s poem Erlkönig and the music of Schubert/Liszt.
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Last Door South
"The World is made of floors, connected by stairs, and made of rooms". Such is the vision of a child and his siamese head, bricked up by their mother in the family manor since they were born… until one day, when, after seeing a strange light, they swear to find… the end of the World.
Monkey
One of the three monkeys died.
My Home
Hugo’s mother is back home.
The day after, when Hugo wakes up, he finds black feathers all over his house.
Six Portraits of Clara Schumann
Six Portraits of Clara Schumann resolves into perhaps the oldest multiple we know.
Sparrow Duet
Animated abstract shapes and gestures dance together in patterns, suggesting hopping and flying action of birds.
Squame
Squame explores the body’s sensitive envelope, the skin. The ephemeral animated desquamations, created with the help of sugar casts, evoke fragile landscapes in a world at the edge of abstraction. Somewhere between archeological artifacts and macroscopic observations, the friable frontiers of these human bodies elude our gaze.
The Five Minute Museum
This is a romp through the museums of England and Switzerland in which the objects on display come to life and reveal the stories of their creation. It is a celebration of the chaotic diversity conjured by the human hand and mind, and the eccentricity of museum collections. It’s the history of man-made objects from prehistory to the present day.
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The birth of the universe, and the origin of all creation -
Humans invented tools, discovered fire and painted murals in dark caves.
Murals were created on a mission to pass down stories and history to posterity.
From murals, we could tell that the discovery of fire was a highly important turning point for ancient humans.
Now it's time for us,humans,to reconsider energy.
When I have a look back in history and imagine the life style of ancient humans, I always feel grateful for what we have now in our modern civilization.
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