International Short Animation Competition 1

70 minutes
International Short Animation Competition 1

The best animated films from around the globe, to entertain and inform. This includes surreal familial feuding in A Family Portrait, the beautiful travelogue Madagascar, A Journey Diary and the award winning CGI chase film Pivot.

This program screened as part of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2010

Showing in this program

A Family Portrait

A Family Portrait

  • Joseph Pierce
  • United Kingdom, 2009
  • 4 min.

A family portrait goes horribly wrong as jealousy and suspicion bubble to the surface under the photographer's relentless gaze. As the session reaches a disturbing conclusion, it's clear that this truly will be a day to remember.

Dust Kid

Dust Kid

  • Yumi Joung
  • South Korea, 2009
  • 10 min.

Eujin found a small dust kid on her bed and decided to cleaning her room for a long time.Cleaning every corner of her room, she keep finding other dust kids here and there and start putting each dust kid away.

How to Lose Weight in 60 Seconds

How to Lose Weight in 60 Seconds

  • Dave Carter
  • Australia, 2010

From fad diets to extreme measures, it's a whirlwind minute roadtesting 12 approaches to weight loss.

Madagascar, A Journey Diary

Madagascar, A Journey Diary

  • Bastien Dubois
  • France, 2009
  • 11 min.

A journey diary that redraws the trip of a European traveler confronted with Famadihana customs. 

Nobody Beats the Drum – Grindin’

Nobody Beats the Drum – Grindin’

  • Rogier van der Zwaag
  • The Netherlands, 2010
  • 2 min.

Grindin' is a music video for Nobody Beats The Drum, A Dutch electro collective for whom visuals are as integral a part of the performance as the pounding beats they unleash. The stop-motion film is based around an intensely choreographed sequence of four thousand photographs and plays with the boundaries of sound, music and perspective.

Photograph of Jesus

Photograph of Jesus

  • Laurie Hill
  • United Kingdom, 2008
  • 6 min.

Looking for photographs of Jesus, Yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images.

Pivot

Pivot

  • André Bergs
  • The Netherlands, 2009
  • 5 min.

When a man is witness to a murder and takes pictures of the killer, he has to run for his life.

The Lady and the Reaper

The Lady and the Reaper

  • Javier Recio Gracia
  • Spain, 2009
  • 8 min.

A sweet old lady lives alone in her farm, waiting for the arrival of death to meet his beloved husband again. One night, while sleeping, her life fades out and she is invited to cross death's door. But when she is about to do so, the old lady wakes up inside a hospital's ward: an arrogant doctor has taken her back to life and he will fight hard against death to recover the old lady's life at any costs.

The Man in the Blue Gordini

The Man in the Blue Gordini

  • Jean-Christophe Lie
  • France, 2009
  • 10 min.
Yellow Cake

Yellow Cake

  • Nick Cross
  • Canada, 2009
  • 8 min.

Yellow Cake tells the tale of a small town of happy bakers driven to violence by the greed of their leader and cake-hungry fat cats.