For the 25th anniversary of the festival, a programme featuring prize winners and highlights from the rich festival history is obviously unavoidable. In the build-up to the festival, visitors of the website could nominate films from the past 25 years for the Shareware programme. Not necessarily films that were once screened at the festival. Trend-setting examples of animation in the rapidly changing media landscape are screened in the Re-Imagining Animation section.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2010

Showing in this program

1895

• Priit Pärn / Janno Poldma
• Estonia, 1995
• 29 min.

The Lumière brothers’ 19th century life scrutinised. What inspired them to invent cinema? Worms?

Chainsaw

• Dennis Tupicoff
• Australia, 2007
• 25 min.

Romance is like a chainsaw: a very dangerous beast indeed.

Fishing the Moon from the Pool

• Zhou Ke-qin
• China, 1981
• 11 min.

The story of the elusive moon in cut-outs. Little monkeys try to reach the moon by climbing on top of one another.

SUB!

• Jesse Schmal
• United States, 2000
• 8 min.

Sex, religion, soccer, naval warfare!

The Man With the Beautiful Eyes

• Jonathan Hodgson
• United Kingdom, 2000
• 5 min.

A gang of kids find a strange house with an overgrown garden where they play. Only once do they meet the man who lives there, a dead-beat alcoholic with a free and easy spirit who welcomes them. The children see him as a romantic character in stark contrast to their neurotically house proud parents.

Touring Holland by Bicycle

• Jerry Musser / Paul de Nooijer
• The Netherlands, 1981
• 2 min.

A group runs round the table faster and faster in a small room.