Bits
Bits is a short experimental animation exploring the surreal beauty of nature. The visuals explore the similarities in patterns and formations that occur in biology.
Poetry in Motion
85 minutes
These shorts go way off the beaten track. They bring you something you never knew you wanted. Poetry is everywhere, you just have to look.
These shorts go way off the beaten track. Eccentric, boundary-crossing, peculiar, bizarre, unorthodox, weird, wholly unique, idiosyncratic ... Call it what you want, but these animated shorts definitely bring something to the table you never knew you wanted.
This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2024
Showing in this program
East Kite Club
In a small Dominican neighborhood, little kids play around, mixingcuriousity with imagination. An experimental puzzle of children's memories, shapes, colours, mixed together with a melodic music and poetic rhythm.
Miserable Miracle
The animated short Miserable Miracle was inspired by Henri Michaux’s book of poetry and drawings of the same name. The film explores the limits of language and perception, creating connections between sound, meaning, shapes and movement.
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O/S
Taking inspiration from 20th-century avant-garde experiments in graphical sound generation, the entire image in O/S functions as an optical soundtrack. Abstract motion becomes sound. What you hear is what you see. A tribute to the past and the contemporary digital art history.
Our Pain
Our common pain is what connects us. The ambiguity and variety of our existence allows us to imagine an infinity of variables, some of these alternatives may be malignant, and some benign.
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Pigeon Holding
Highlighting the community of pigeon keepers in Glasgow, Pigeon Holding explores the relationship between people and birds through a combination of hand drawn animation and photographic collage.
Preoperational Model
In Preoperational Model, anthropomorphic princess Sophie and her maid prepare for a new day. Sophie's struggle to play her role propels the two protagonists forward and backward in time, through worlds and identities to find a way to coexist.
Quanstro
An experimental animation where the viewer sees the image through slits and has to wait for the full picture to show itself, set to an eerie soundtrack.
The Hour Coat
The Hour Coat takes place between the last knowable time and unknowable time. The film is made from approximately 18,000 graphite drawings on tracing paper, made by hand.
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The Posthuman Hospital
The Posthuman Hospital is an experimental animation inspired by Donna Haraway's 'Cyborg Manifesto.' It explores the uncertain boundaries between human and non-human in the context of technological advancement. It does so by showcasing medical records of several posthuman patients in an imaginary hospital, offering insights into the interactions between humans and technological entities.
The Rubbings of Trajectories
The Rubbings of Trajectories is an intimate story about space and memory. Drawing inspiration from travelling, the film invites the viewers to slip into a person’s consciousness and experience the relationship between one’s inner and outer worlds.
