Heartstrings: Shu Cao & Chris Mouw
75 minutes
What’s the thing with animation? In the talk show Heartstrings, animation filmmakers and art connoisseurs present their favourite films. Perhaps, the productions inspired them to make their own films or they can relate to their aspirations.
This program screened as part of Haff 2015
Showing in this program
Recycled
The following images were sourced over the years from a recycling zone in the outskirts of Beijing. We scanned more than half a million 35mm color film negatives. Those negatives build up a portrait of the capital city and the life of her inhabitants over the last thirty years. Here, we selected 3000 photos to create the animation you are about to see.
Tango
People enter the small room in turn. Firstly, one by one, then the sequences of rhythmical moves start looping and overlapping, but characters do not interfere with each other. It is accurate time compression within a limited space. Tango won the very first Oscar in the history of Polish cinema.
Zbigniew Rybczyński, born in 1949 – graduated from the film school in Łódź. He is a cinemato-grapher, scriptwriter, and director of animated and experimental films. He left Poland after re-ceiving Oscar for Tango. He went to the U.S. where he was acclaimed as the „pope of the video art”.
