00:08
This piece takes 8 seconds, and creates intervals between the frames, and then makes them bigger. It's about expansion and enlargement, not the passage of time. 8 seconds becomes that much more luxuriant.
Competition Student Films 4
70 minutes
The international competition for short student films is open for student films all over the world with a maximum length of 60 minutes. Graduation films as well as films from other years’ courses can be submitted. A Grand Prize will be appointed to the best student film. For this first international edition of the competition for student films, 65 films have been selected.
This program screened as part of Haff 2015
Showing in this program
Barometz
Based on the legendary zoophyte, Barometz follows the story of a sheep born from a plant. Tired of the limitations the plant life has to offer, a young gourd decides to do what no other of her kind has done before.
Bears on the Road
Bears on the Road is a short animated film about Theo, who enjoys nothing more than driving around in his little yellow car. After a car crash, caused by a bear, he wants to get back to his old life, but his growing fear for the outside world stands in his way.
Bodily Dysfunctions
A collection of sketches about people in awkward, painful or just plain absurd physical situations.
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Digital Native
The film humorously portrays a horrifying vision. A woman creates a baby online and gets pregnant. As it turns out, it is not so easy to download a digital foetus. The films makes a statement about the over-technicized world where internet and technologies start to substitute basic life needs.
Lesley the Pony Has an A+ Day!
Lesley the Pony goes on a fun-filled adventure through the town of Merryville while making lasting memories with his friend, The Duke.
Lost Cubert
Cubert’s life is determined by work. Endless repetitions of the same tasks, dull routines, a perfect construction of monotony. Suddenly he is wrenched out of his daily grind and is confronted with a seemingly inescapable system. His quest for an exit leads him deep into a labyrinth of monotony – and to the bounds of his sanity.
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Pineapple Calamari
Pineapple Calamari dreams of being a horse-racing champion and he is taken care of by two inseparable women who share a very special connection, but when tragedy befalls this happy family their social dynamic will take a drastic turn to the unexpected. A bizarre drama combining horseback riding, cooked frogs and women always on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Pissed Off
A dog is trying to get its owner’s attention because it needs to go to the toilet and has to be taken out for a walk. Despite all efforts that the dog makes the human just doesn’t notice it. As a result the dog pisses itself and everything around it including the human. The human is furious and tries to hit the dog. The dog gets away and somehow manages to reach the phone and call the police for help. The police respond immediately and break into the apartment. However, contrary to the dog’s expectations the police “help” the human by tranquilising the dog and putting it in a cage.
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The Great Harlot and the Beast
How will the naive innocent mind of a freshly carved prince puppet and his co-actors withstand their audience's insatiable appetite for entertainment?
The Lost Mariner
The Lost Mariner is an animated interpretation of Dr. Oliver Sacks’ case study found in his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. It uses photographs to visualize the rare memory condition of patient Jimmie G.
To Build a Fire
A man, in search of happiness and wealth, finds himself confronted with his own mortality and his inability to force nature's hand, for which he has to pay a great price.
Villains
Infamy. Notoriety. Legacy. Three words accurately describing what egotistical Kevin and his collective of misfits hope to achieve with their anarchistic plan to assault the local town’s fountain.
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