How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbour and filmmaker Douwe. Through playful reconstructions in a special effects studio, they embark on a candid and investigative journey through a painful history, focusing on the creative process throughout.
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Love, Dad
She finds letters full of love her dad wrote her 15 years ago…
A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent.
The author rediscovers letters her dad used to write her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again. She puts in writing what could not be said: blaming him for family´s break-up but also trying to understand .
Corridor – Jump Cut
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Direction, Design, Compositing – Winston Hacking @winstonhacking
Lead Stop Motion Animator – Philippe Tardif @phillipetardif
Stop Motion Assistant – Julie Villemaire
Special Thanks – Greg Burne, Ouss Laghzaoui, Prelinger Archives, David-Israel Falardeau
Production Company – Rubber Cement Films
Oimo (trailer)
« Tabaimo is a contemporary artist who makes installations using computer-generated animation. Her animated works are derived from her drawings. Since her 1999 graduation piece, Japanese Kitchen, caught the attention of the art world, she has become an internationally well-known artist and has continued creating installations. At the age of 26 she assumed the post as professor at University of Art and Design, Kyoto and she took part in the Sao Paulo Biennale and the Yokohama Triennale. Such achievements at a young age have resulted in turning her into a legend.
Oimo provides a profile of Tabaimo. Previous works, recent activities and interviews with her as well as discussions of her installations. »
The Man with the Beautiful Eyes
A Charles Bukowski poem is put to animation. Four kids who are friends are drawn to a strange house that their parents tell them to avoid. One day they see a man of about 30 step outside, cigar and whiskey bottle in hand. He becomes a symbol for them of all that is strong, natural, and beautiful. What happens later to this man with the beautiful eyes introduces the boys to the gray and uptight world of adulthood that awaits them.
Camouflage
« Most people’s mums are mad. Mine’s got schizophrenia »
Dans un subtil mélange de séquences filmées et animées, Jonathan Hodgson illustre le témoignage singulier d’enfants élevés par un parent schizophrène.
Wild Life
Un jeune homme pimpant décide de quitter l’Angleterre en 1909 afin d’élever du bétail en Alberta. Son penchant pour les loisirs l’empêche de s’occuper correctement des troupeaux. Son éducation ne l’a pas préparé aux conditions du nouveau monde.
Eskmo’s We Got More
Sortie en 2010, le clip We Got More d’Eskmo, réalisé par Cyriak Harris, œuvre emblématique de l’animation surréaliste numérique, met en scène une série de transformations grotesques et hypnotiques, où des corps humains se métamorphosent en créatures absurdes et mutantes.
Muybridge’s Strings
« Can time be made to stand still? Can it be reversed? Koji Yamamura’s Muybridge’s
Strings is a meditation on this theme, contrasting the worlds of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge—who in 1878 successfully photographed consecutive phases in the movement of a galloping horse—and a mother who, watching her daughter grow up, realizes she is slipping away from her. Moving between California and Tokyo, between the nineteenth century and the twenty-first, the film focuses on some of the highpoints in Muybridge’s troubled life and intercuts them with the mother’s surrealistic daydreams—a poetic clash that explores the irrepressible human desire to seize life’s fleeting moments, to freeze the instants of happiness. Enriched by Koji Yamamura’s refined artistry and Normand Roger’s soundtrack, Muybridge’s
Strings observes the ties that cease to bind, fixes its gaze on the course of life, and presents a moment in time suspended on the crystalline notes of a canon by J.S. Bach. »
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy ? An animated conversation with Noam Chomsky
Conversations avec le linguiste et philosophe américain Noam Chomsky, sur sa vision du monde et de l’homme dans une série d’interviews avec Michel Gondry.