Winners Choice: Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels

65 minutes
Winners Choice: Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels

The Grand Prix winners of the 2012 shorts competition were given carte blanche as curators for a programme with their own favourites.
Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels won the 2012  Grand Prix HAFF for narrative shorts, Steven Subotnick won the 2012 Grand Prix for non-narrative shorts.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2013

Showing in this program

A Town Called Panic – The Big Sleep

A Town Called Panic – The Big Sleep

  • Stéphane Aubier / Vincent Patar
  • Belgium, 2003
  • 5 min.

No Synopsis

Atman

Atman

  • Toshio Matsumoto
  • Japan, 1975
  • 12 min.
Breakfast on the Grass

Breakfast on the Grass

  • Erik Alunurm / Mihkel Reha / Mariliis Rebane / Mari Pakkas
  • Estonia, 2011
  • 4 min.

It takses 99 % of work and 1 % talent, to create a masterpiece.

Futon

Futon

  • Yoriko Mizushiri
  • Japan, 2012
  • 6 min.

Wrapped up in the futon... Memories come to mind, the future is imagined, senses are recaptured, physical feelings as a woman are deeply ingrained... Everything melts pleasantly together. 

Holiday

Holiday

  • Ryo Hirano
  • Japan, 2011
  • 6 min.
Mound

Mound

  • Allison Schulnik
  • United States, 2011
  • 4 min.

Every bit as weirdly moving as it is unsettling, Mound is a celebration of the moving painting. Dozens of lumpy, ghoulish figures — crudely made mostly of clay, fabric, feathers and other materials — dance, gesture and undergo all sorts of changes to the heart-tugging sound of “It’s Raining Today,” a 1969 recording by Scott Walker. A nightmare with grace, yep, it exists.

Rivers Return

Rivers Return

  • Joe Vanhoutteghem
  • Belgium, 2011
  • 11 min.
Spacy

Spacy

  • Takashi Ito
  • Japan, 1981
  • 9 min.
The Mechanism of Spring

The Mechanism of Spring

  • Atsushi Wada
  • Japan, 2010
  • 4 min.

Bird in the Peninsula director Atsushi Wada is one of Japan's most unique figures in contemporary animation. His work is comparable to bizarre doodles infused with fascinating sounds and a minimalist narrative. In The Mechanism of Spring he captures the delight of young children and animals that comes with the arrival of Spring.

The Undertaker and the Dog

The Undertaker and the Dog

  • Shin Hashimoto
  • Japan, 2010
  • 3 min.

Once upon a time,The undertaker met poor dogs.He handed his bone that he had created.