Jukebox
An up-tempo party piece with Xerox, paint and found-sound montage. Jukebox is an ecstatic stream-of-consciousness wonder through a world of paranoia, fear and joy by the late Run Wrake.
Winner’s Choice: Tochka’s Choice
70 minutes
The Grand Prix winners of the 2016 shorts competition were given carte blanche as curators for HAFF. Igor Kovalyov (RU) won the Grand Prix for narrative films with Before Love . Tochka (Takeshi Nagata, Japan) won the Grand Prix for non-narrative films with Track.
This program screened as part of HAFF 2017
Showing in this program
Monochrome Head
The image of a girl wildly waving a baseball bat leaps to my mind.
Night of the Naporitan
The tragic story of Spaghetti who never learned to love others.
PLANET ∑
On a frozen planet, gigantic creatures are trapped inside the ice. When the planet explodes, the ice mass dramatically breaks into pieces. The ice melts and the icebound creatures come to life again. Insects swarm out, fluffy plants start growing. A strange world with seemingly familiar elements. The landscape comes apart at the seams.
Push Comes to Shove
Textbook example of Bill Plympton’s grotesque and physical humor and total escalation of violence.
Reasons to Be Glad
Avant-garde experiment with music by Xavier Cugat, vocals Dinah Shore.
Ryan
An ode as well as a warning. A biography as well as a creative art piece. Chris Landreth's Oscar-winning animated short centers around the life of Ryan Larkin, one of the most influential Canadian animators of his time. Before his death in 2007, he lived every artist's worst nightmare - succumbing to a drug and alcohol addiction. Through CG characters, Landreth interviews Larkin to shed light on his downward spiral.
Stone
Combination of landscapes and drawings in stop motion.
Tyger
Inspired by William Blake's poem with the same name. A giant tyger mysteriously appears in a big city, revealing the hidden reality in an otherwise ordinary night.
