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.
(2021)
Curated by: Bartosh Polonski
1 min / 2020 / Germany, Spain
This surreal and dreamlike time that is being lived has given way to a new order; it proposes new symbolic and futuristic solutions mixed with more conventional ones derived from protective overalls and sanitary clothing, according to the imperative need for self-protection of the humans to face the invisible enemy, COVID-19. The virus, the great unknown, manifests itself as a surprising and unknown imaginary entity, is reflected in garments generated with the Accidental Cutting experimental pattern cutting method.
Directed, written and produced by Eva Iszoro and Helmut Breineder Fashion brand: Accidental Cutting
7 min / 2019 / Switzerland
During a PowerPoint presentation, statistical diagrams are breaking free from the strait-jacket of their coordinates. A trip into the sensual world of statistics begins. Pie charts are melting, arrow diagrams twisting, scatter plots, bar graphs and stock market curves join in a collective climax.
Directed and written by Maja Gehrig Producer: Olivier Zobrist Company: LANGFILM
1 min 30 s / 2021 / France
The concept for this film was inspired by the recent feeling of seclusion caused by the covid pandemic.
The plot takes place inside a home, a living space meant to be safe and cozy. Instead, during the long lockdowns, we were constrained to, it became more and more oppressive while the mask became the symbol of these uncertain expectations that millions of people were experiencing.
Director: Keyvan Nourian Producer: Ada Korvafaj Company: Studio River
8 min 30 s / 2020 / France
Completed before the global lockdown, Empty Places is an ode to the melancholy of machines.
Director and writer: Geoffroy de Crécy Producer: Nicolas Schmerkin Company: Autour de Minuit
5 min / 2020 / Sweden
This is a surreal journey through a series of dreamlike environments, where large-scale art installations are stretching the boundaries of physical laws. The perpetual motion is the essence of these meditative installations, which together with the surrounding nature and the majestic environments creates a beautiful and serene atmosphere.
Directed, written and produced by Andreas Wannerstedt
7 min / 2021 / Japan
Study & Stop motion by Tomohiro Okazaki
Directed, written, produced: Tomohiro Okazaki Company: Swimming
9 min / 2019 / Denmark
On Ambition, Courtship and Procreation is a film about the cyclic nature of life, love, the universe, and everything. Simple colorful shapes in different constellations perform small tasks in long never-ending loops. Their repetitive and random choreographies express both humor and poetry. It is an abstract representation of the state of being that all living things either endure or enjoy.
Directed and Written by Pernille M.A. Kjær Producer: Lana Tankosa Nikolic Company: Late Love Production
3 min / 2019 / UK
Water then food. Agriculture then industry. Old then new. Critical then extra. Simple to complex. Concrete to abstract. Dirt to clouds. Real to unreal.
Director and writer: Toby Auberg Producer: Suzanne Buchan Company: Royal College of Art
2 min 30 s / 2019 / USA
We all know artificial intelligence is the future, but what happens when you give it a smartphone and unlimited free WiFi?
Directed and written by John Robson
2 min / 2020 / Germany
While being in lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic we spent quite a lot of time discussing face masks and various protective apparel options, which eventually ended in designing our own protective gear and experimenting with it.
Directed, written and produced by Misha Shyukin and Hannes Hummel Company: Shy Studio
7 min / 2021 / UK
“The Awesome Machinery Of Nature: We are all connected” is an abstract film, an experimental simulation and computational composition that celebrates the interconnectedness of all living and non-living things across many scales of time and space – from the interactions of sub-atomic particles and oscillations in the quantum fields that permeate space-time; to the formation of matter and stars; to the emergence and evolution of life from inanimate matter, and the cosmic webs that connect us all.
Directed, written and produced by Memo Akten Company: MSA Visuals Ltd.
4 min / 2019 / Germany
What if plastic could be integrated into sea life? The Beauty is a poetic journey through the oceans, which are simultaneously stunning and filthy. Discover a world where concerns and fears dissolve into the mysterious depth of the polluted blue sea.
Director: Pascal Schelbli Producer: Tina Vest, Aleksandra Todorovic Company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH