Poetry in Motion

60 minutes
Poetry in Motion

Join us for a revamped version of Animation for Art Lovers.
Filmmaker Anna Eijsbouts curated this short compilation for the poetic
and abstract-loving minds with an appreciation for animation as an art
form that stretches the limits of the medium. Beautiful, at times
jarring and off-beat, this selection is one to ponder. Enter with an
open mind. 

This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2018

Showing in this program

A Love Letter to the One I Made Up

A Love Letter to the One I Made Up

  • Rachel Gutgarts
  • Israel, 2017
  • 6 min.

A lonely walk home is intertwined with an underwater fantasy world. The combination between reality and fantasy is portrayed in a love letter addressed to an imaginary "perfect" man. The film is made with a unique technique of screen-printed animation.

Brass

Brass

  • Matthew Armitage
  • United Kingdom, 2018
  • 3 min.

BRASS looks at the rich culture of brass banding and its response to social and natural disaster.
Taking place in New Orleans and Britain past and present, the narrative depicts the events of hurricane Katrina and the miners strike, both disasters that crippled a community.

Debris

Debris

  • Kaide Wang
  • United Kingdom, 2018
  • 3 min.

Debris tells a story based on personal experience of nostalgia and observations of urbanization.

Eager

Eager

  • Allison Shulnik
  • United States, 2014
  • 8 min.

In Eager, fairy-like clay beings perform a discomforting choreography. First in the dark, then in a field of flowers. There the violets and roses join in and they are creepier than you can imagine.

Emptying, to Make Room for Overflowing

Emptying, to Make Room for Overflowing

  • Hannah Raye White
  • United States, 2017
  • 5 min.

What if there are really gleaming cities hung upside-down over the desert sand? A girl contends with her fate by taking on a variety of forms. A cube becomes a vessel, a site of transformation, a container of the universe.

Forgetfulness

Forgetfulness

  • Julian Grey
  • Canada, 2007

The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of.

Futon

Futon

  • Yoriko Mizushiri
  • Japan, 2012
  • 6 min.

Wrapped in the futon... Memories are coming up to the mind, the future is imagined, senses are recaptured, physical feelings as a woman are deeply ingrained...Everything melts pleasantly all together. In the futon, the body wonders seeking for these sense...

Guest

Guest

  • Aleksander Józefczyk
  • Poland, 2017
  • 2 min.

An etude about a painter who gets an unexpected visit from one of the characters from his painting. The titular guest tresspasses the borders between the real and imaginary worlds and changes the perspective of our perception.

Happy Ending

Happy Ending

  • Ara Choi
  • United Kingdom, 2018
  • 4 min.

A film about a Korean prostitute. She illustrates her body and desire against her stigma. This film is a poetic animated documentary, combining personal life and cultural conditions/situations.

Magritte’s Train

Magritte’s Train

  • Yali Herbet
  • Israel, 2017

Tribute to Rene Magritte's surrealistic world.
a train exits the saxophone and passes through the frame, forming a comic strip that presents us a modern , alienated society

Railment

Railment

  • Shunsaku Hayashi
  • Japan, 2017
  • 9 min.

In a continuous scenery, his physical movement stays in the same position. The speed of the continuity and his movement have accelerated and gradually cause a distortion.

Transformations

Transformations

  • Keziah Philipps
  • United Kingdom, 2017
  • 2 min.

Experimental straight ahead animation made using a zinc intaglio etching. The tactility and physicality of printmaking and its process contrast the digital nature of animation.

You Could Sunbathe in this Storm

You Could Sunbathe in this Storm

  • Alice Dunseath
  • United Kingdom, 0
  • 6 min.

Space, forms, colours and sounds symbolise a recognisable world.
New beginnings put an end to familiar patterns.
Do we shape as much as we are shaped?