Deception in Four Parts
In four episodes a little girl tries to cope with reality, i.e. society and the wondrous universe, manipulating it into something she's able to handle.
Netherlands Institute for Animation Film: 10 Years Ateliers
75 minutes
A program to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Netherlands Institute for Animation Film (NIAF), dedicated to its Ateliers, a post-academic workshop.
This program screened as part of HAFF 2004
Showing in this program
Gracias a la Vida
Gracias a la Vida is a poetically told story about a woman's course of live. By influences from inside and from outside, she is made till the person she is.
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Jazzimation
A jazzy film in which the spectator is forced to look with the ears and listen with the eyes.
Scratch
Drawn directly on film, both the animation and the soundtrack are abstract. Scratch is an intriguing conversation of sounds and images.
Sientje
Winner of the 1997 Golden Calf for Best Short Film, Christa Moesker's witty and rebellious debut features a little girl getting very upset after a quarrel with her mother. Raaaaaage!
Stiltwalkers
On a vast sea a 3D fisherman comes across a 2D world in which a tribe of people on stilts guards a mysterious island. The fisherman unintentionally causes the island to change, thus destroying the fragile world.
Tempera
Six brigthly coloured characters explore an old inventor's workshop. While discovering their surroundings they also discover each other. This leads to some chearful interactions as well as confrontations due to their in some way opposite characters.
The Pinboard
A man tells us how he met the love of his life and how this completely changed him. As he is telling this we're looking at his pinboard which illustrates the story.
This Side Up
A painter, eager to visalize a certain memory, is stuck. In the meantime he tries to live as comfortable as possible.
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Two of a Kind
Absurd dark story about a cat and two scarecrows. What happens when the scarecrows have a will of their own?
