Tower 37 siphons every drop of water from a once-pristine lake, that is, until the station's steward realizes that it is slowly destroying an entire ecosystem.
The Incident at Tower 37 (2009) is a ten-minute HD animated film, written and directed by Chris Perry and produced within the collaborative animation curriculum at Hampshire College.
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"The Forbidden Forest is inspired by the work of Arthur Machen, who was a Welsh writer of supernatural fiction from the late 19th and early 20th century, specifically his classic tale “The White People”."
A tale about 1,000 years of Polish history in the format of a musical-visual poem. The story starts with the beginning of the Polish nation in the ninth century, and shows the most important events and processes that took place until the 21st century.
Poland
Running time: 8’51″
Directed by Tomek Bagiński (Fallen Art)
Inception is one of the finalists of the film competition "Done in 60 Seconds" by Jameson Whisky in Germany.
Using Victorian prints, Wolfgang Matzl created this stop-motion version of Christopher Nolan’s Inception for a contest that required filmmakers to produce a movie with a maximum length of 60 seconds.
This decidedly creepy animated short takes audiences inside a gloomy orphanage where an evil caretaker seasons the children’s gruel with poison. A newly arrived little girl decides to take matters into her own hands—aided by an unlikely secret weapon.
A great film.
The English translation, “barking island,” fails to capture the meaning of the original French, literally “dog of history.”
Synopsis: Constantinople, 1910. Too many stray dogs in the city streets. The newly established government, influenced by the model of Western society, tries to find out from European experts how to get rid of them before deciding, alone, to deport thirty thousand dogs to a deserted island off the coast of the city.
Director of the film: "Of course, the hidden meaning of the film is the Armenian Genocide" - said Avedikian during his last visit to Armenia. "And we can not forget that the same Young Turks organized, and committed horrific murder of 30,000 Armenians in 1909 alone," - added the director.
Palme d'Or - Short Film, 2010
Title:Barking Island Original title:Chienne d'histoire Year:2010 Director - Scenario:Serge Avedikyan Paintings:ThomasAzuélos Composer:Michelle Kars Country:France Duration:00:14:27 Translation:Not required
To SFF-rated ATHENS 2011, με νέο λογότυπο και νέα εικόνα θα διεξαχθεί στον κινηματογράφο ΜΙΚΡΟΚΟΣΜΟΣ 10-16 Μαρτίου. Θα προβληθούν ταινίες μικρού και μεγάλου μήκους από 23 χώρες.
Μεταξύ αυτών και η Παγκόσμια Πρεμιέρα της ταινίας “The Whisperer In Darkness” βασισμένης σε διήγημα του H.P. Lovecraft και σε σκηνοθεσία Sean Branney. Μια μέρα πριν την έναρξη του φεστιβάλ ο Sean Branney θα είναι στην Αθήνα σε μια ειδική εκδήλωση αφιερωμένη στην ταινία, και την H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society της οποία αποτελεί ιδρυτικό μέλος.
Στο 6ο SFF-rated ATHENS δοκιμάζουν τις ικανότητές τους στην σκηνοθεσία και δύο ιερά τέρατα των Ειδικών Εφέ, βραβευμένοι με Όσκαρ: Ο Phil Tippet (Όσκαρ για Return of The Jedi και Jurassic Park) με ένα 4 λεπτο μεταλλαγμένων που κόβει την ανάσα (και διάφορα μέρη του σώματος), αλλά και ο Greg Nicotero (Όσκαρ για το The Chronicles of Narnia) με μια χιουμοριστική ταινία με θέμα ένα … Πρακτορείο Τεράτων.
SFF-rated ATHENS 2011 will take place in MIKROKOSMOS FILMCENTER, March 10-16. We will screen short films and features from 23 countries including:
The World Premiere of “The Whisperer in Darkness” , the new H.P.Lovecraft film by the H.P.Lovecraft Historical Society, directed by Sean Branney. Sean will be with us here in Athens from Wednesday March 9, for a special event celebrating the film and the artistic achievement of HPLHS.
In the 6th SFF-rated ATHENS, two holy men of Special Effects are trying their hand (and devices) in directing: Phil Tippet (Special Effects Academy Award for “Return of the Jedi” and also for “Jurassic Park”) offers a 4-minute mutant short that takes your breath away (along with various parts of your body), while Greg Nicotero (Special Effects Academy Award for “The Chronicles of Narnia”) gives us a humorous short about a … Monster Talent Agency.
Κατεβάστε το αναλυτικό Πρόγραμμα Προβολών του SFF-rated 2011, εδώ.
Download the detailed Screening Schedule of SFF-rated 2011, here. Επίσημο site του Φεστιβαλ
Based on a true legend of the famous unsolved code.
The film contains 16 hidden messages that hold clues to the characters' secrets. Eight are fairly easy requiring only a close eye. Six are moderately difficult using various encryption methods. Two are extremely difficult requiring a genius mind to decrypt.
"The film uses a unique style of rotoscoping to build a flat, graphic, world that that I have yet to see elsewhere. Based on a true legend of the most difficult cipher ever created, the 10 minute film centers on Professor White, cryptographer extraordinaire, who is on the trail of the notoriously uncrackable Thomas Beale cipher—a century-old riddle hiding the location of a fortune in gold that has tormented its pursuers since inception. But White is not alone—shadowy forces are tight on his tail".
83rd Academy Award - Best Animated Short Film 2011
The short is based on Shaun Tan’s 2002 children’s book of the same name.
A boy finds a strange creature on a beach, and decides to find a home for it in a world where everyone believes there are far more important things to pay attention to.
Directed by Andrew Ruhemann - Shaun Tan Running time 15 minutes Country Australia Language: English (narration) Narrated by Tim Minchin
Destino is an animated short film released in 2003 by The Walt Disney Company. Destino is unique in that its production originally began in 1945, 58 years before its eventual completion. The project was a collaboration between American animator Walt Disney and Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, and features music written by Mexican songwriter Armando Dominguez and performed by Dora Luz.
This early short film from the director of Following (1998), Memento (2000), The Prestige (2006) and Inception (2010) was made when he was a student in London. Nolan was studying English Literature at University College London when he started to make 16mm films at the college film society, of which the surreal short DOODLEBUG was one. This early film shows the preoccupation with narrative boundaries Nolan would later explore in his feature films and has the simplicity common to many good shorts. The film was produced by his now-wife and producing partner, Emma Thomas.
A man waits patiently in his apartment to squash a bug, but he could be hurting himself more than he realizes.
"We did the effects on the best machines we could at the time, for free. We painted our own blue screen with paint from John Lewis shop that doesn't actually work very well. It's worth paying for the proper paint it you're ever faced with a similar dilemma." Christopher Nolan on Doodlebug
1988 - "Wolność nogi / Freedom of the Leg". A dream-like story of a sleeping man whose body parts live their own lives at night to return to him in the morning - all except one leg which has chosen freedom. Its owner as well as a crowd of homeless men chase the leg, but it grows feathers and flies away as a bird. A grotesque tale with a poetic ending and with interesting music by Janusz Hajdun.
Piotr Dumala was born in Poland and studied sculpture and animation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His award-winning animated ?lms include Lagodna (Gentle Spirit, 1985), Nerwowe zycie kosmosu (Nervous Life of the Universe, 1986), Sciany (Walls, 1987), Wolnosc nogi (Freedom of the Leg, 1988), and Franz Kafka (1990).
Dumala's films have won multiple awards. Lagodna was winner of the Golden Ducat at the International Film Festival in Mannheim, Germany, in 1985, and received an award for the Best Animated Film at the International Short Film Festival in Toures, France. Dumala received a Mister Linea Award at the Treviso International Animation Festival for his 24 episodes of the series Nerwowe zycie, and, in 1998, Sciany received the Grand Prix at the International Short Film Festival in Krakow, Poland, and Special Jury Award at the International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France. In 1992, Franz Kafka received the Grand Prix at the 10th International Animation Film Festival in Zagreb, Best Animated Film at the International Film Festival in Madrid, Grand Prix at the International Animated Film Festival in Espinho, and Best Cartoon Animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Dumala's most recent piece is an adaptation of Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment (Zbrodnia i kara) which premiered at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in September 2000 and received the prize for Best Design at that festival. In 2001, Crime and Punishment was awarded the Public Prize at the Summer Film Festival in Kazimierz, Poland, and at the International Animation Film Festival in Espinho. In 2003 Dumala was awarded a Luna de Valencia at the Valencia Film Festival for his lifetime achievement in animation. He received the Albin Brunovski Prize in Uherske Hradiste for his artistic creativity in the art of animation, and a Grande FeFe Award at the FeFe Festival in Warsaw for his artistic independence in the field of animation. Dumala has created four MTV idents: Charlatan won the Broadcast Design Gold Award in Orlando, Florida, in 1994, and was a finalist in the New York festivals. Kafka Meets Dostoyevski received an International Broadcast Design Gold Award in 1996.
In addition, Dumala has made commercials and TV trailers; a short public service announcement for Amnesty International; and a ten-second sequence created for the Absolut Vodka website showcasing independent animation. He teaches animation at the Film, Television and Drama School in Lodz, Poland; is a guest professor at the Animation House at Konstfack in Eksjö, Sweden; and a visiting lecturer at Harvard University. He is involved in writing and journalistic activities, and published Razor Game (Male, 2000), a collection of short stories. He also creates graphics, paintings, illustrations and poster designs. He is currently working on his new film The Forest.
Awards: 1989 - Grand Prix at 1st Animated Film Biennial FAZY'89 in Bielsko-Biała; Brązowy Lajkonik at 19th National Short Film Festival in Cracow; Professional Prize at the Kiev KROK Festival; 1990 - 1st Prize for a 5 to12 Minute Film at the Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films.
Michaela Pavlatova was born in Prague, Czech Republic, in 1961. In 1987 she graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague. As an animation film director, her films have received numerous awards at international film festivals, including an Oscar nomination for Reci, reci, reci/Words, words, words, the Grand Prix in Montreal, and accolades at Berlin, Tampere, Hiroshima, Stuttgart and the list goes on. Her short animated film, Repete, has also won a series of awards including the Grand Prix at the International Animation Festival Hiroshima and Golden Bear in Berlin.
1991, 8 min, cell animation. Prod.: Kratky Film Praha
Director, animation, design: Michaela Pavlatova
1995, 9 min. animation on papers, Prod.: Kratky Film Praha
Director, animation, design: Michaela Pavlatova
In a world made entirely out of paper, the wistful drawings in a man′s sketchbook are brought to life by the rhythm of a train journey....
"Train of Thought was made as our graduation film from The Arts Institute at Bournemouth in 2008-2009. Although we used digital compositing software, all the animation and models were done by hand, not with CGI. The film took approximately 9 months to complete, from storyboards through to the final edit. It was a team effort, and we were especially lucky to work with talented modelmaking students, and a mix of professional and student actors".
Directors:
Leo Bridle & Ben Thomas Actors:
Napoleon Ryan & Marie Thomas Galvin Animation:
Leo Bridle & Ben Thomas
The music is by Portico Quartet arranged by Jack Wyllie
and sound design by Andrew South vimeo.com/andrewsoundesign
