Out of This World

When you've got a fresh piece of paper — or a blank computer screen — why visualize a world we already know? Animation enables us to create whole new worlds from scratch, and it can take us as far as our imagination will allow. It can invent strange creatures and give rise to even stranger landscapes, places where our boring old physics no longer apply.

These shorts bend (or even break) the rules of the world as we know it. Come along on this peculiar expedition!

This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2016

Showing in this program

Bottom Feeders

Matt Reynolds
United States, 2015
2 min.

Two fictional species try to make it through the day in this bleak parody of the natural world.

Love

Réka Bucsi
Hungary / France, 2016
14 min.

LOVE is a short film describing affection in 3 different chapters, through an impact on a distant solar system. Abstract haiku-like situations reveal the change in atmosphere on one planet, caused by the change of gravity and light. This pulsing planet makes the inhabitants become one with each other in various ways.

Mound

Allison Schulnik
United States, 2011
4 min.

Dozens of lumpy, ghoulish figures — crudely made mostly of clay, fabric, feathers and other materials — dance, gesture and undergo all sorts of changes to the heart-tugging sound of “It’s Raining Today,” a 1969 recording by Scott Walker. The clay, which is mainly white but with color marbled into it, is in constant motion, as if imbued with a manic agency of its own, apart from the figures and objects it represents.

Putsch

Julie Artigny / Claire Courrier / Florent Bossoutro / Camille Savary / Lisa Bouet
France, 2015
6 min.

A community of hybrids beings - half-man, half-animal - is shaken by the arrival of a new protagonist.

Sebastian

Vlad Marsavin
United States, 2014
18 min.

Sebastian is an 8-year old boy who lives with his grandmother in an ordinary house in an
ordinary, monochrome world. But when Sebastian gets on the bike to go for a ride, the adventure into his imagination begins. Mesmerized by the transformation of the colorless city Sebastian crosses the street without paying attention. A car hits him, but only his bike is damaged. After the accident, Sebastian has vivid dreams re-experiencing his birth and entering a fairytale world. When the girl and her mother return the fixed bike, the girl gives Sebastian her magnifying glass. Through this glass everything appears in color, except the newspaper. The kids set the newspaper on fire and run away from the inescapable realities of the adult existence.

This is Not a Time to Lie

Lei Lei
China, 2014
3 min.

I’m scared, I don’t dare look ahead. This isn’t a time to lie.

Whole

William Reynish
Denmark, 2014
12 min.

MIRA has a heartache and feels empty inside. Her friend attempts to fill out Mira’s emptiness with vodka and parties, but as Mira meets the 500 year old shaman ULRIK, a more holistic solution arises: Mira must find her power animal to regain her inner strength. But after being put into a drum induced trance, Mira meets something entirely unexpected.