ÁGUA MOLE
The last habitants of a village refuse to let themselves sink into oblivion.
In a world where the idea of progress appears to be above all, this home floats.
Short Docs 2
70 minutes
With
its rich metaphorical language, animation can visualize that which is
invisible to the human eye. When there’s no footage of an actual event
or only memories, turning to animation opens a door
for the expression of a story. The films in this program tell real life
stories, using materials with a direct relation to a historical reality,
like the audio recording of an interview.
This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2018
Showing in this program
Between Us Two
A gay son talks to his dead mother.
Carlotta’s Face
As a child, Carlotta didn’t expect the people around here to have faces. She even doesn’t recognize her own face. Years later, she learns about a rare, untreatable deficit of her brain. It was art, after all, that offered her a way to finally recognize herself.
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M.E.
M.E. is an animated documentary about an invisible illness also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. This is an experiment using different modes of representation: creating a simulation of photophobia by using bright contrast and flashing white frames.
Olly's room is a safe place which protects him from being overwhelmed outside but this isolates him from the world.
Musical Traumas
Musical Traumas came to fruition as the result of the director's obsession with music schools. It is a rhythmic compilation of traumatic, but amusing confessions of former students, as well as an attempt to visualise music with scrumptious, hand-drawn animation.
OBON
Akiko Takakura, one of the last remaining survivors of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, tells her life story in this remarkable animated film. She describes how, amidst the terror and nightmares, she found a moment of rare closeness with her father.
One after the other
Wandering around his house, Grant, a young american musician, looks for inspiration in his memories, foraging through old findings and things from the past, scattered here and there.
Phototaxis
Phototaxis draws parallels between Mothman, a prophetic and demonized creature in West Virginia lore, and Narcotics Anonymous, the primary treatment program in West Virginia’s addiction epidemic. Rooted in nonfiction, this film contemplates synchronicity; the role of belief systems in perception; the tendency to assign supernatural meaning to tragedy; and anonymous and apocryphal oral histories.
