A Little Pond by the Great Wall
A small pond lies at the foot of a great wall. The great wall is situated in the middle of mountains. The mountains are only a small detail of the landscape.
Competition Shorts 6
75 minutes
A royal collection of 51 films from all parts of the world and a great range of narrative and as much as 16 non-narrative films.
This program screened as part of HAFF 2014
Showing in this program
Absent Minded
A child’s daydream during a school lesson is abruptly interrupted by the teacher. The "instructor” threatens to cut off an ear to his young student to "stimulate" the concentration and prevent further escapes into the realm of imagination.
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Anal Juke ~Anal Juice~
After breaking up with my ex-boyfriend, I was heartbroken but I had to
think about the theme for my next animation film. Just then I had a
dream of this ex-boyfriend. This animation film is based on that
dream.
Hollow Land
In this evocative film about the eternal human search for home, Berta and Solomon arrive in a land that promises respite from their many journeys. But have they found utopia... or just another stop on their long journey?
Metamorfoza
Metamorfoza is close to Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony theme. After the 1917 revolution Shostakovich remained in the Soviet Union, where he got the brunt under the Stalin regime. His Seventh Symphony, written in 1941 during the siege of Leningrad, was dedicated to "our upcoming victory over the enemy." Officially he meant the Nazis, but between the lines it was an indictment of Stalin.
Mia
7 year old Mia tries to liberate her overworked mother from the grasp of an overpopulated metropolis. In her quest, she unlocks the hidden secrets that make the world turn.
Mute
In a world populated by people without a mouth, a gory accident leads to the discovery a mouth can be created by cutting yourself. This unleashes an enthusiastic chain reaction among the population!
Stick Out
Sometimes life is not about the destination. It is about the journey.
Strange Wonderful
Little monster goes to school that day. She thinks, "They probably call me snail face when I'm not around." Sometimes she gets lonely but she can be happy too.
The River’s Lazy Flow
With his family at the cottage, an old man withdraws for a moment at the edge of the river for a cigarette. Old memories come back to him, he came here with a girl when he was 13 years old. He wanted to become a man, she only wanted to share a difficult secret. Nobody gets what he wants.
Trampoline
The screen is a trampoline on which people and animals frolic. From under the trampoline pad we watch, amused, until things take an unexpected turn…
Virtuoso Virtual
An experimental animation film that does not tell a story in a classical sense but rather creates a movement of wet ink on a white background that seems to take up the dramatic arch of the overture we are hearing on the soundtrack. Their interplay stimulates us to see things, events, maybe even drama in what is basically just black shapes on a white surface. The film happens on the screen before us and is simultaneously created in our head.
