Winner’s Choice: Mathieu Labaye
75 minutes
The Grand Prix winners of the 2014 shorts competition were given carte blanche as curators for HAFF. Yumi Joung (South Korea) won the Grand Prix for narrative films with her Love Games. Mathieu Labaye (Belgium) won the Grand Prix for non-narrative films with Le Labyrinthe.
This program screened as part of Haff 2015
Showing in this program
Feeling My Way
Flux
A whimsical animated piece about life, entropy and the inexorable march of time that plays with the mundane interactions and significant events of two generations of a family and the natural order. A film without words.
Forming Game
Free Radicals
In a Pig’s Eye
Quite an ordinary family lives in quite an ordinary house. The only thing is, there is an enormous pig lying in front of it.
Light Forms
An experiment in combining sound and image.
Lines Horizontal
One Second per Day
One second of film, meaning 25 drawings per day during one year, that's the goal.
Poor God
When God is depressed, a priest turns to Him for a chat. He seems to loath our human thirst of killing each other. A simple one-cut line-drawn animation about existential despair.
Somewhere
Somewhere, our limbs lost in the distance.
The Flying Man
The Man With the Beautiful Eyes
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.
Waves of Grain
To create this strata-cut animation, a block of wood was planed down one layer at a time and photographed at each pass. The painstaking process revealed a mesmerizing hidden life and motion in the seemingly static grain of the wood, even as the wood itself was reduced to a mound of sawdust
