Jury Program: Debuts of Masters 1

80 minutes
Jury Program: Debuts of Masters 1

One of two programs dedicated to early films by animation masters. Curated by Dick Arnall and Annick Teninge. 

This program screened as part of HAFF 2004

Showing in this program

Aquatic

Aquatic

  • Koji Yamamura
  • Japan, 1987
  • 5 min.

Japanese multi-talented filmmaker and illustrator Koji Yamamura's latest short Dozens of Norths won the Contrechamp Award at last year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival. More than thirty years ago, he put out his first professional short film, Aquatic, depicting the transformations of a man into an army of slightly predatory-looking fish.

Bird in the Window

Bird in the Window

  • Igor Kovalyov
  • United States, 1996
  • 10 min.

A man visits a woman in a country house.

Fête Galante / Vetkoek

Fête Galante / Vetkoek

  • William Kentridge
  • South Africa, 1985
  • 2 min.

Made for an exhibition in Johannesburg, shortly after the martial law declaration.

Le Vol d’Icare

Le Vol d’Icare

  • Georges Schwizgebel
  • Switzerland, 1974
  • 3 min.

Swiss animation film director Georges Schwizgebel has built an impressive career. It all started with the 1974 short Le vol d'Icare, a pointillist animation telling the myth of the flight of Icarus.

Mt. Head

Mt. Head

  • Koji Yamamura
  • Japan, 2002
  • 10 min.

A cherry tree grows on the head of a man.

Oh Sure

Oh Sure

  • Richard Condie
  • Canada, 1977
  • 2 min.

A man reads a paper on a park bench. Another man approaches him.

The Big Snit

The Big Snit

  • Richard Condie
  • Canada, 1985
  • 9 min.

A look at two simultaneous conflicts, the macrocosm of global nuclear war and the microcosm of a domestic quarrel.

The Investigation is Carried out by Koloboks

The Investigation is Carried out by Koloboks

  • Igor Kovalyov
  • Russia, 1986
  • 21 min.

A parody on a classical Soviet detective story in which everything turns out to be crazy.

The Young Girl and the Clouds

The Young Girl and the Clouds

  • Georges Schwizgebel
  • Switzerland, 2000
  • 4 min.

The adventures of Cinderella told in several scenes and cloud's images.

Tide Table

Tide Table

  • William Kentridge
  • South Africa, 2003
  • 8 min.

In ‘Tide table’, Soho Eckstein contemplates for the first time the devastating impact of HIV and AIDS on South Africa.