Anti-chaos
DVD met japanse studentenfilms door johan meegebracht
Political Animation Competition
75 minutes
A program filled with films that express a controversial point of view, have a certain ideological slant or otherwise carry a political message or content. The most thought-provoking film, chosen by our estimable jury will receive an award.
This program screened as part of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2010
Showing in this program
Bad News – A Media Fiction
Is it possible that just by recieving an information about the end of the world can lead to the end of the world?...
Breakfast
When a child's room is left empty an ordinary tape player and a well used puzzle come to life and start to tell the truth behind the pretty pictures used to lull us into believing where animals spend their lives today.
Change
In the history of mankind often big changes were required, planned and announced. Especially politicians always promised improvement due to a change. The movie "Change" risks a satirical view into an average living-room to see, what traces a proclaimed change can leave there.
Cleanternet
Cleanternet is a campaign to support European Commissioner Cecilia Malmströmin her plans to introduce a website blocking system in Europe.All European countries must be forced to fight for a cleaner and safer Internet.
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Masks
A weary citizen carries on his mundane life in a city of rules where workers are forced to wear painted smiles. A little girl sells flowers on the side of the road and one day the citizen finds out what happens when he actually stops to smell the roses.
My name is Maria
Maria is 6 years old and she is working on her first school composition...
On My Doorstep
Winter 2009: three Torinese live in difficult circumstances. This animated documentary looks at the different hidden lives, on our doorsteps, and is based on 3 interviews of 3 people with their dreams, ambitions, beliefs and frustrations.
Oranus
.Grab at the remote control and start press a channel button. Quickly.... and senselessly....quickly... and.... senselessly. Asocially and insulting a human dignity as...
Prayers for Peace
Prayers for Peace is a narrative stop - motion animation confronting the memory of the artist's young brother killed in the current conflict in Iraq.
Rudijev Lexikon – Dictatorship
Rudi's lexicon will deal with 365 terms in 365 one and a half minute films through the artictic vision of a caricaturist, director and animator who was nominated for an oscar in 1973. Every term will be dealt with in afunny and suprising mode. Rudi is a typical 'small man', unmarried, lives in the city, enslaved by four walls, 'normal' society frustrates him...Rudi watches TV constantly and in the same time doing chores around the house...
Skylight
"Skylight" is a mock animated documentary about the ecological plight of penguinsin the Antarctic, possibly foretelling cataclysmic results for the rest of the world.
Spin
Toy soldiers marching and moving in harmony, spinning and rotating, erupting and exploding. When conflict becomes a spectacle, the lines between destruction and entertainment get blurred.
The Caring Bears
Vive La Crise!
Deforestation, property development, pollution, money, and a lot of food - all this is going to change...The economic crisis is coming!
Voor Wie is het Erg dat de Panda Uitsterft?
White tape
‘White Tape’ explores the theme of boundaries: the frame, the space between brushstrokes and the implications of occupation.
