Another collection of the very best in contemporary animated film from around the globe, selected especially for all y’all! This includes clerical naughtiness in Sadvj: His Confession, a spectacle witnessed from the office cubicles in Good Vibrations and a soft drink with tremendous powers in Virgile.

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

Showing in this program

Good Vibrations

• Jérémy Clapin
• United States, 2009
• 4 min.

A construction worker with a jackhammer cause mid-afternoon “chaos”: on a busy city street.

Greed

• Helen Ilus
• Germany / The Netherlands, 2008
• 5 min.

What happens when one takes a bite too big to chew?

How I can

• Gniewko Falana
• Poland, 2009
• 2 min.

Possibly a self-portrait

Light Forms

• Malcolm Sutherland
• Canada, 2010
• 4 min.

An experiment in combining sound and image.

Love & Theft

• Andreas Hykade
• Germany, 2010
• 7 min.

A continuous loop of animation set to music in which familiar and unfamiliar characters morph into one another.

Lucky

• Darcy Prendergast
• Australia, 2009
• 3 min.

Only elements remain, whist the neglected regain control

Perfect

• Mauricio Bartok Ruiz
• Brazil / Mexico, 2009
• 3 min.

Does perfection exist?

Piggy Stupid, the series

• Michiel Hoving
• The Netherlands, 2009
• 20 min.

I made this series for Klokhuis, there's 39 episodes til now. I'll select the 10 most stupid ones.

Sadvj: His Confession

• Juan José Surace
• Spain, 2009
• 7 min.

Is a brief satirical tale which aims to examine the legacy that our ecclesiastical institutions have left us to cope with as individuals - namely, a sense of guilt, our need to feel forgiven for our sins, the fear of God or of damnation.

Stelt reïncarnatie gerust?

• Arno de Grijs
• The Netherlands, 2009

A short film made for the Wisebits initiative for the RVU.

The Man Who Slept

• Inès Sedan
• France / Canada, 2009
• 12 min.

Sofia lives with her husband and really loves him.But he sleeps all the time: and Sofia has to admit that he will maybe never wake up...

The Perfect Planet

• Astutillo Smeriglia
• Italy, 2010
• 8 min.

A planet where the weather is always fine, money grows on trees and the traffic lights are always green.

Things You’d Better Not Mix Up

• Joost Lieuwma
• The Netherlands, 2010
• 2 min.

A series of things you'd better not mix up

Virgile

• FlyingV
• France, 2009
• 2 min.

Virgile is a story about a young man who relies on a metamorphosing drink to fulfil his desires

Wolle – The Scare of the Forrest

• Wolfgang Hückel
• Germany, 2008
• 2 min.

Wolle is not at all like a wolf is supposed to be - he is a modest, polite and friendly guy, who won’t do harm to anyone. One would think everybody would be fine with that. Instead, Wolle is mocked and taunted by the other creatures of the woods. One day, finally, he goes off to reach their expectations...