This programme offers a unique perspective on animation, as it explores innovative and experimental techniques that go beyond traditional storytelling methods. With a focus on creating a deeper and more sensory experience, the programme aligns with the principles of expanded cinema, which aim to expand the boundaries of cinema to incorporate other art forms. The works featured in the programme utilise new methodologies and practices, such as real-time engines, motion-capture, machine learning, algorithmic animation, glitch and hyperrealistic materials. It encourages audiences to experience the physical presence of animation, and to accept it as something that transcends reality.
(2020)
Curated by: Bartosh Polonski
1 min 35 s / 2020 / Lithuania
This film explores the interaction between the uniform particles and light
Written and directed and animated by KORB Music: Echolab
1 min 30 s / 2018 / Ireland
A brief look at the earth from above, based on the shapes we make, the game of life, our playing ground - Arena.
Created using Google Earth imagery.
Director: Páraic Mc Gloughlin Writer: Páraic Mc Gloughlin Producer: Páraic Mc Gloughlin
1 min 8 s / 2020 / Japan
Japanese Art studio Onesal has launched a self initiated series of four short films proposing a novel visual approach to explain it. Visual ASMR, or Visual Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. ASMR is the subjective experience of euphoria characterized by a combination of positive feelings and a distinct static-like tingling sensation on the skin.
Natural sculpture formations set in seemingly impossible earth-like landscapes covered by living elements of surreal colors, each film travel through each almost at a micro level, witnessing its evolution. All takes place in four other-worldly landscapes we set up to examine up close the interaction, movements and evolution of the elements with their surroundings.
Each of the shorts are inspired by elements in nature, architecture and timelapse photography. The body of work delves into textural, tactile elements morphing and interacting with each other in surreal environments. The work set off to blur the boundaries between nature and design, simplicity and complexity, in an abstract uncompromised way.
Production, Art direction, Design and Animation: Onesal Studio Sound Design: Echoic Audio
4 min 41 s / 2018 / France
In the beginning was the Stain. A paintbrush reveals a being of gouache, opens him, transforms him, twists him, completes him. From this accelerated evolution arises a conquering being…
Director: Donato Sansone Writer: Donato Sansone Company: Autour de Minuit
4 min 49 s / 2018 / Austria, USA
We created a series of videos dissecting the relationship between beauty & function, using ASMR, typography & 3D animation.
Director: Jessica Walsh & Stefan Sagmeister Writer: Stefan Sagmeister & Jessica Walsh Producer: Jessica Walsh 3D Animators: Andreas Wannerstedt, Alexa Sirbu, Ben Fearnley, Bureu Klaus Alman, f°am Studio, Lukas Vojir, Oh Jia Hao, Ando & Fizah, Martín Salfity Company: &Walsh
8 min / 2018 / UK
As a man anxiously awaits a meeting in the local pub, he is forced to explore his own difficult memories and relationships in an evening that will leave him changed forever.
Director: Sam Gainsborough Screenplay: Louisa Wood Producer: James Campbell-Smith
3 min 19 s / 2019 / France
This movie is part of Megalopolis series (MGLP#006).
Megalopolis is a project born from the fascination of megacities.
Through different durations and forms the MGLP episodes propose an in-depth exploration of the city of Megalopolis.
Written and directed and animated by Benjamin Bardou Music: Steve Roach & Jorge Reyes / Memories Unsuspended , Thomas Köner
7 min 43 s / 2019 /
In a future when humans and technology are intertwined, we have yet to discover the origins of our fairy tales.
Writer, Director: Veselin Efremov Producers: Silvia Rasheva, Aleksander Karshikoff
2 min 37 s / 2018 / Germany
‘Influencers’ is a film about drawing out the intrigue in the Everyday, and allowing it to humbly influence the world around us. For us it’s a celebration of the Creative Process and a meditation on working in 3D.
All conceptual, design and production work: f°am Studio for Maxon. Written by f°am Studio Sound Design and Composition by Antfood
foam.studio/maxon
9 min / 2019 / Switzerland
An animated short exploring group dynamics. How do we define ourselves when we are all equal? Who is steering the crowd? What if it is heading in the wrong direction? Where does the individual end and the group begin? What is done by choice, and what under duress?
Director: Michael Frei Writer: Michael Frei, Mario von Rickenbach Company: Playables
2 min 32 s / 2019 / USA
This music video was initially created on the computer using several pieces of 3D animation software. After the digital version was finalized, all 1,480 frames of the video were then individually printed using ink jet printers. Once an image was printed, it was then painted, drawn, and illustrated on top of using traditional animation techniques. Lastly, the newly illustrated frames were scanned back into the computer and sequenced into the final film.
Directed by Saad Moosajee and Art Camp
8 min / 2019 / France
This animation film is a panoramic vision of Pop Culture as a landscape, divided by a never-ending road where art, politics, sport, finance, generalized surveillance, and ubiquitous computing are all entangled.
Director: Ludovic Houplain Writers: Mirwais Ahmadzaï, Ludovic Houplain Company: H5
3 min 54 s / 2019 / UK
Promenade is a film that explores the logic and aesthetics of autonomous vehicles’ computer-vision systems. A drone flying through the secluded forests of Vallee de Joux (Switzerland) analyses the landscapes around it with meticulous precision. Different from the human experience, nature is observed and decoded with complete detachment. Contemplating natural environments through such technological apparatuses becomes an opportunity to devise new modes of visual synthesis and create new interpretations of the traditional “landscape”.
Commissioned by Audemars Piguet
Director: Quayola Rendering: Murat Pak Company: Quayola Studio
4 min 40 s / 2019 / Japan, Sweden
AUJIK's fascination with Shenzhen’s unique urban planning origates from its rapid growth and its architecturally-organized/structured superiority than most other cities in that scale. It has large lush green areas flanked by humongous steel and concrete complex covered in glass that reflects the greenery in to a gorgeous palate.
Artist express visually the city as a self-conscious computer landscape were each building symbolize a component that is attached and correlated to each other similar to how a computer is constructed. Each building having their particular attribute and capacity that creates a fabulous and comprehensive machinery when they are attached. This machinery could potentially re-generate and manufacture new components/buildings in an endless evolution.
Directed and written by AUJIK Music by Daisuke Tanabe
1 min 29 s / 2019 / UK, Denmark
Through hypnotically crafted anthesis, Tide is an ever-evolving composition that challenges us to visually retain the present moment, while simultaneously creating anticipation for the next.
Concept, Design & Direction: Panoply Audio: Human Robot Soul
1 min 51 s / 2018 / Argentina
What happens when a machine doesn't have a purpose? But hey, I can't stop watching.
Well, Isn't that its purpose?
Direction, Animation & Sound Design by molistudio