Oscar 2011 - 33 Animated Shorts

Οι 33 αυτές ταινίες μικρού μήκους  είναι υποψήφιες για την υποψηφιότητα  για Όσκαρ Καλύτερης Ταινίας Μικρού Μήκους 2011.  Από αυτές θα επιλεγούν 10 ταινίες και στη συνέχεια  μόνο 5 που θα είναι οι υποψήφιες.  

A Family Portrait
Director: Joseph Pierce
Great Britain, 2010, 4 min
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Angry Man (Sinna Mann)
Director: Anita Killi
Norway, 2009, 20 min
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VIEW POST
Animated History of Poland
Director: Tomasz Bagiński
Poland, 2010, 8 min
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VIEW POST


Barking Island (Chienne D’Histoire)
Director: Serge Avédikian
France, 2010, 15 min
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Coyote Falls
Director: Matthew O’Callaghan
United States, 2010, 3 min
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Danny Boy
Director: Marek Skrobecki
Poland/Switzerland, 2010, 10 min
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Day & Night
Director: Teddy Newton
United States, 2010, 6 min
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Divers in the Rain
Director: Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn
Estonia, 2010, 23 min
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Dust Kid (Munjiai)
Director: Yumi Jung
South Korea, 2009, 10 min


Inherent Obligations (Kaasuündinud Kohustused)
Director: Rao Heidmets
Estonia, 2008, 10 min
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Let’s Pollute
Director: Geefwee Boedoe
United States, 2010, 7 min
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Lipsett Diaries
Director: Theodore Ushev
Canada, 2010, 14 min
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Loom
Directors: Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck and Csaba Letayat
Germany, 2010, 5 min
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Madagascar, A Journey Diary (Madagascar, carnet de voyage)
Director: Bastien Dubois
France, 2009, 11:30 min
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My Name is Maria
Director: Elio Quiroga Rodríguez
Spain, 2009, 4 min


The Origin of Creatures
Director: Floris Kaayk
The Netherlands, 2010, 12 min
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Sensology
Director: Michel Gagné
United States, 2010, 6 min
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Skylight
Director: David Baas
Canada, 2010, 5 min
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Stanley Pickle
Director: Victoria Mather
United Kingdom, 2010, 11 min
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The American Dream
Directors: Tad Lumpkin, Harold Uhl
United States, 2010, 30 min
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The Cow Who Wanted To Be A Hamburger
Director: Bill Plympton
United States, 2010, 6 min
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The Gruffalo
Directors: Jakob Schuh, Max Lang
Great Britain, 2010, 27 min
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The Incident At Tower 37
Director: Chris Perry
United States, 2010, 10 min
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The Krill Is Gone
Director: Jeffery Bost
United States, 2010, 4 min
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WINNER
The Lost Thing
Directors: Andrew Ruhemann, Shaun Tan
Australia, 2010, 15 min
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The Mouse That Soared
Director: Kyle T. Bell
United States, 2009, 5:45 min
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The Silence Beneath the Bark (Le Silence Sous L’ecorce)
Director: Joanna Lurie
France, 2009, 11 min
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Tick Tock Tale
Director: Dean Wellins
United States, 2010, 6 min
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To Swallow A Toad
Director: Jurgis Krasons
Latvia, 2010, 10 min
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Urs
Director: Moritz Mayerhofer
Germany, 2009 10 min
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Wisdom Teeth
Director: Don Hertzfeldt
United States, 2010, 5 min
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The Wonder Hospital
Director: Beomsik Shimbe Shim
South Korea, 2010, 12 min
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Zero
Director: Chris Kezelos
Australia, 2010, 13 min
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Rabbit - Run Wrake / 2005

An animated childrens book with a difference

A selection of 1950s educational stickers, discovered in a provincial junkshop twenty years ago, provide the ingredients for this adult fairytale.
When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, its magical abilities lead to riches, but for how long?

Rabbit a film by Run Wrake, UK
2005, 8 min 30 sec

Photograph of Jesus - Laurie Hill, 2008

Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. Real-life archives become the stage where fact and fiction collide, belief runs amok and unruly images have a life of their own.


Photograph of Jesus by Laurie Hill in association with the Getty Images Short & Sweet Film Challenge from Hulton Archive on Vimeo.

Short and Sweet has teamed up with Getty Images to launch a film challenge with a twist.
Getty Images approached producer Basil Stephens and Short and Sweet founder Julia Stephenson with the idea of setting up a film competition which would make use of images in Getty's Hulton Archive. Stephenson drew from her in-depth knowledge of the short film arena to suggest a selection of talented filmmakers.
After picking out ten up-and-coming directors, she gave them the opportunity to pitch. Four of the filmmakers made it on to the shortlist and got the chance to realise their ideas. They were given three months to create their films.
The challenges aim was to highlight the breadth and depth of content available at the Hulton Archive, which offers a unique resource to filmmakers and creatives alike. But rather than set a rigid brief, the challenge offered key words and phrases as prompters to guide the filmmakers creativity. Examples of these prompters included discover our past, images that shape our future, still & moving imagery, ordinary people, ordinary things and extraordinary people, extraordinary things.

Director: Laurie HILL
7 min. 2008
Animation: Laurie Hill
Music: Toolshed Music
Editor: Laurie Hill
Narrated by: Matthew Butson

Oktapodi - 2007

Και ένα παλιό αλλά πολύ καλό βιντεάκι για να αποχαιρετίσουμε το καλοκαίρι.

Oktapodi is a 2007 French computer-animated short film that originated as a Graduate Student Project from Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image. The short is about a pair of love struck octopuses who through a series of comical events are separated and find each other. Oktapodi was directed by Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, and Emud Mokhberi. Music was composed by Kenny Wood.

Oktapodi was well received, winning a number of awards, as well as an Oscar nomination for Best Short Film (Animated) for the 81st Academy Awards. It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows.

Directed by     Julien Bocabeille

                       François-Xavier Chanioux
                       Olivier Delabarre
                       Thierry Marchand
                       Quentin Marmier
                       Emud Mokhberi
Music by         Kenny Wood
Running time    2 min 27 sec
Country           France
Language         French

I Met the Walrus-2008

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrators James Braithwaite and Alex Kurina have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short and won the 2009 Emmy for 'New Approaches' (making it the first film to win an Emmy on behalf of the internet).




Directed by Josh Raskin
Produced by Jerry Levitan
Starring John Lennon
Jerry Levitan
Running time 5 minutes
Country Canada
Language English

More information Official site

Electropolis by Kevin McCullough

The product of roughly 7 months of work from 13 students in the 3rd year of the BAA Animation program at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.


Electropolis from Kevin McCullough on Vimeo.

Art's Desire (2007)- Sarah Wickliffe

Art's Desire from Sarah Wickliffe on Vimeo.

A character from a cubist painting escapes her war-torn surroundings and explores the museum for a better place to live. Winner of the Gold Student Academy Award for 2007 in Animation, written, directed, and animated by Sarah Wickliffe.

Other Awards and Screenings:

•Winner of Gold Medal for Student Academy Awards, 2007 (screening at AMPAS Theater)

•Winner of Viewer’s Choice Award in Nicktoons Network Animation Festival, August 2007

•Finalist in The Angelus Awards Student Film festival, Los Angeles, California, October 2007

•NYU First Run Film festival- Semi-finalist for Wasserman Award

•ASIFA East Animation Festival- Honorable Mention, Student Films

•Screened at Lincoln Center with live orchestral accompaniment as part of "Toons, Tunes, and Trikfilms" Showcase

•NYU Haig Manoogian Screening at Directors Guild of America

Ark-(2007)-Grzegorz Jonkajtys

The Ark Film. Short animated film by Polish animator Grzegorz Jonkajtys and Marcin Kobylecki.

"An unknow virus has destroyed almost the entire human population.
Oblivious yo the true nature of the dicease, the only remaining survivors escape to the sea. In great ships, they set of in search of uninhabited land. So begin the exodus, let by one man..."

Delivery -Till Nowak. (2005)

Delivery is an animated shortfilm written and produced by Till Nowak. The fantastic story about
an old man and the mysterious box has been screened at more than 150 filmfestivals worldwide
and won more than 30 international awards. "Delivery" is now also available on DVD.  

In a grey, industrial and uninhabited future, an old man lovingly waters a flower, perhaps the last flower to exist. In his home, across from a factory spewing gas, noise and bad vibrations, the vision of which constantly reminds him that the world isn‘t what it was, the man caringly tends the flower because he knows it‘s his last hope. Unexpectedly, he receives a surprising package that could change the world, at least his world, and perhaps a little more. A surrealistic fable on the world to come, the portrayal of a corrupt society infested by machines, that has forgotten the human being, a future in which there is still place for hope: flowers can grow again.

Director: Till Nowak
Running time:9 min
website: www.delivery.framebox.de

"Fisheye" (Riblje oko 1980)

Schwarzfahrer (1994)

Παρακολουθήστε αυτή την ταινία μικρού μήκους (12′) που γυρίστηκε το 1994 από τον Γερμανό σκηνοθέτη Pepe Danquart, με τον τίτλο «Schwarzfahrer» (Ο μαύρος επιβάτης).
Η ιστορία της ταινίας με λίγα λόγια είναι η εξής: Ένας μαύρος ανεβαίνει στο λεωφορείο και κάθεται δίπλα σε μια ηλικιωμένη κυρία. Καθ’ όλη την διάρκεια της διαδρομής, η ηλικιωμένη που δυσανασχετεί, μουρμουρίζει για να την ακούει ο μαύρος συνεπιβάτης της (χωρίς καν να τον κοιτάζει) εκφράζοντας τον ρατσισμό που έχει μέσα της. Ο μαύρος δείχνει να αδιαφορεί για τα όσα ακούει, ενώ οι άλλοι συνεπιβάτες δείχνουν να αδιαφορούν, ή να δυσανασχετούν με τον ρατσιστικό μονόλογο της ηλικιωμένης κυρίας.
Σε κάποια από τις επόμενες στάσεις μπαίνει στο λεωφορείο ένας ελεγκτής και ζητά τα εισιτήρια των επιβατών. Ο μαύρος επιβάτης βγάζει το εισιτήριό του και το κρατά στα χέρια του. Το ίδιο και η ηλικιωμένη κυρία.
Δεν θα σας πω τι συμβαίνει στη συνέχεια αλλά είναι φοβερή η αντίδραση του μαύρου...

Διαβάστε περισσότερα: http://www.pare-dose.net/?p=146#ixzz0nKQjuuy4

Closed Zona

Ένα απλό, εύστοχο, μικρής διάρκειας φιλμ που καυτηριάζει την κατάσταση που επικρατεί στη Λωρίδα της Γάζας ήταν ικανό για να προκαλέσει αντιδράσεις στο Ισραήλ. Αναφερόμαστε στην "Κλειστή Ζώνη" ένα φιλμ κινουμένων σχεδίων, που δημοσιεύτηκε μέσω internet από τον Εβραίο σκηνοθέτη-animator Yoni Godman ("Βαλς με τον Μπασίρ") για τους σκοπούς της ισραηλινής μη κερδοσκοποικής οργάνωσης Gisha (Πρόσβαση).

Μέσα στα 90 δευτερόλεπτα της διάρκειάς του, βλέπουμε τη μάταιη προσπάθεια ενός παιδιού να ακολουθήσει ένα πουλί έξω από τα στενά όρια της Γάζας, καθώς ένα χέρι με ηγετικό τρόπο υψώνεται κάθε φορά μπροστά του και του κλείνει το δρόμο.

Ο Godman ξεκίνησε τη δημιουργία του φιλμ πριν την τελευταία ισραηλινή επέμβαση στη Λωρίδα της Γάζας που άφησε πίσω της χιλιάδες νεκρούς Παλαιστίνιους. Τα θλιβερά γεγονότα όμως, επιτάχυναν τις διαδικασίες και η ανάγκη ολοκλήρωσής του, κατέστη επιτακτική.

Η παραβίαση του δικαιώματος της ελεύθερης μετακίνησης και κατ'επέκταση η στέρηση μιας σειράς βασικών δικαιωμάτων (παιδεία, τροφή, ιατρική περίθαλψη, ελευθερία της έκφρασης κ.α.) αποτελεί για τους Ισραηλινούς τη ιδανική μορφή μεταχείρισης αυτών των ανθρώπων, που θεωρούνται στο σύνολό τους μέλη της Χαμάς.

"Οι άνθρωποι δεν θέλουν να ακούν ότι οι Παλαιστίνιοι είναι πραγματικοί άνθρωποι. Προτιμούν να τους θεωρούν κάτι κακό. Ότι όλοι είναι όπως τα μέλη της Χαμάς. Είναι εύκολο να λες "ας τους τιμωρήσουμε, ας τους σκοτώσουμε όλους" και πιο δύσκολο να τους αντιμετωπίσεις σαν καθημερινούς ανθρώπους που θέλουν να ζήσουν ειρηνικά", δηλώνει χαρακτηριστικά ο Godman στην Jerusalem Post, θέτοντας το ζήτημα στη σωστή του διάσταση.

From Darkness (2002)

From Darkness, a short based on the Inuit tale of The Skeleton Woman, completed 2002 in the Cartoon Saloon.

As well as screening at many international film festivals, From Darkness has been awarded:

Best New Irish Short Animation – Galway Film Fleadh, 2002

Best Short – Boston Irish Film Festival, USA 2003

Best Animation – Kerry film festival, Ireland 2003

Silver Award -KAFI Animation festival, USA 2003

Get Out (2009)

 

Réalisé par : Charlotte BOISSON, Julien FOURVEL, Pascal HAN-KWAN, Tristan REINARZ, Fanny ROCHE
Site Officiel : http://www.getout-lefilm.com/

Women in Art

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art

by Philip Scott Johnson
Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007
performed by Yo-Yo Ma


Nominated as Most Creative Video

2nd Annual YouTube Awards

Charlie Thistle - 2008

Charlie Thistle dreams of a better world. He dreams of a world in color, where trees grow indoors, and animals can talk... Alas, Charlie works at the Department of Normality, where change isn't tolerated. But there comes a time in everyone's life when they have to take a stand. And that day is coming for Charlie Thistle!

Awards:

• BEST SHORT - 2009 Sedona International Film Festival
• 3RD Place - Doorpost Film Project 2008
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  3RD Place - 2010 Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival of Seattle

Charlie Thistle (USA)

Running time: 15m

      Director:       Bragi Schut Jr.
      Writer(s):       Bragi Schut Jr.
      Producer(s):       Kirsten Wagner, Esther Goodstein
      Director of Photography:       Paula Huidobro
   
      Cast and Credits:
      Charlie - Jon Keel
      Ezzie - Leslie Stevens
      Narrated by - David Markus

Alma- 2009

Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

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Alma, a little girl, skips through the snow covered streets of a small town. Her attention is caught by a strange doll in an antique toy shop window. Fascinated, Alma decides to enter...

'Alma' es el primer corto dirigido por Rodrigo Blaas, un animador español afincado en California que trabaja para Pixar desde el año 2002. En este tiempo, Rodrigo ha participado en películas tan importantes como 'Buscando a Nemo', Cars', 'Los Increíbles', 'Wall-e' y 'UP', pero esta es la primera vez que se enfrasca en un proyecto independiente.

El corto ha ganado numerosos premios, entre ellos a mejor corto animado en el LA Shorts Fest y en el Animacor (el Festival Internacional de Animación en España), así como el premio a la Mejor Opera Prima en I Castelli Animati de Italia.

2-nd Place - 2010 Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival of Seattle

Web oficial: almashortfilm.com


ALMA

Country:  Spain, USA
Year:      2009
Running Time: 5.5 minutes
Director: Rodrigo Blaas