Open Competition 3

70 minutes
Open Competition 3

The best animated short films from around the world, hand-picked by KLIK!

This program screened as part of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2008

Showing in this program

Bloom

Bloom

  • Srinivas Bhakta
  • Singapore, 2007
  • 5 min.

Inspired by an indian folktale this animated short narrates and explores a dreamlike relationship between a tree and a lady.

Corte Electrico

Corte Electrico

  • Maria Arteaga
  • Colombia, 2008
  • 9 min.

Rene is a windowcleaner, he's going to clean Olimpo's building. His presence interrupts the privay of the residents, all have their own story, all have something.

Devoiko

Devoiko

  • Renaud Perrin
  • France, 2008
  • 5 min.

A man leaves on a journey, a woman remains alone. The memory of the other is blurring little by little.

Hot Dog

Hot Dog

  • Bill Plympton
  • United States, 2008
  • 5 min.

This is the third in the DOG series. In this episode our plucky hero joins the fire company to save the world from house fires and gain the affection he so richly deserves. Typically, the results never turn out the way he planned.

Love Triangle

Love Triangle

  • Yasmeen Ismail
  • United Kingdom, 2007
  • 3 min.

A young man struggles with the fact that his girlfriend, upon returning from a trip to see her estranged Indian family, has unexpectedly turned in to a samosa.

Muto

Muto

  • BLU
  • Italy, 2008
  • 7 min.

An ambiguous and surrealistic animation painted on public walls, indoor in Baden, outdoor in Buenos Aires.

Out of Sight

Out of Sight

  • Anton Setola
  • The Netherlands, 2005

Inspired by David Hockney´s work, this film explores collage in movement. An immaterial character moves through his/her awareness of (remembered) space.

Postman Returns

Postman Returns

  • Mischa Rozema
  • The Netherlands, 2008
  • 2 min.

The sequel to our first "Postman" film (2006), "Postman Returns" is bigger and better. The premise is the same however, that each film should start with "the chair"(our company logo) inviting you to sit down. When the postman (our company mascot) Actually

Snegur

Snegur

  • Anastasiya Sokolova
  • Russia, 2008
  • 5 min.

This film is the beautiful lovestory, based on the original story of G.H. Andersen.

The 3D Machine

The 3D Machine

  • Erik Verkerk / Joost van den Bosch
  • The Netherlands, 2008
  • 7 min.
The 7 Brothers

The 7 Brothers

  • Kaj Driessen / Paul Driessen
  • The Netherlands, 2008
  • 12 min.

The seven Grimm brothers (mistakenly we always assumed there were only two) are looking for inspiration for their fairy-tales. But the new stories they are writing (in live action) end (in animation) differently from the tales we know.

The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl

The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl

  • Mike Roush
  • United States, 2008
  • 5 min.
Yellow Bird

Yellow Bird

  • Hendrik Rost / Tim Doebler
  • Germany, 2008

The little bird sings his song.