An unexpected collection of animated films, where the horror, the dark, the pain and the sorrow are dominating.


Still: ΤUTU, Georges Sifianos & Pascal Dalet, France 2001

The films were selected by Vassilis BOUTOS

THURSDAY 3, 2009 23:45 (50’ 05’’)
01. PARALYSIS, Motoko & Takashi Tokuyama, Japan 1992, 13' 05’’
02. PRELUDE TO EDEN, Michel Gagne, USA 1995, 3’ 35’’
03. DOG, Suzie Templeton, UK 2001, 5’
04. SARGE-1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Noam Abta & Yonatan Bereskin, Israel 2003, 1’ 35’’
05. EELS (Aal im Schaedel), Martin Rahmlow, Germany, 2006, 17’
06. POLDEK, Claudius Gentinetta, Switzerland, 2004, 10’ 50’’


FRIDAY 3, 2009 00:45 (56’ 51’’)
01. STANLEY, Suzan Templeton, UK 1999, 7’ 01’’
02. THE TELL TALE HEART, Raul Garcia, Spain 2005, 10’
03. SMILE, Noam Abta & Yuval Markovits, Israel, 2005, 6’ 50’’
04. SWEET SALT, Katerina Athanasopoulou, UK 2005, 7’
05. ΤUTU, Georges Sifianos & Pascal Dalet, France 2001, 26'


SATURDAY 4, 2009 00:45 (42’ 99’’)
01. THE LAST TRIP, Pablo Polledri, Argentina 2007, 3’ 50’’
02. VIOLETA, Marc Riba, Anna Solanas, Spain, 2006, 9’
03. BROCULA, Michel Seretis & Loukas Boussounis, Greece 2008, 4’ 29’’
04. THE WEREPIG, SAM, Spain 2008, 16’ 40’’
05. MAMMON, Robin Fuller, UK 2008,4’ 52’
06. LIVE LIFE, Jonathan Pasternak, Israel 2007, 5’ 28’’

The credits

01. PARALYSIS, 13’ 05’’
Japan 1992
Direction: Motoko & Takashi Tokuyama
Script: Motoko & Takashi Tokuyama
Animation: Motoko & Takashi Tokuyama
Technique: Puppet, stop motion animation
Music / Sound: Nichiei Rokuon
Production: Motoko & Takashi Tokuyama
Dialogues: No

A short, unusual day of an old man. He lives in a quiet building that has a bath, underground room and home cinema. In the same building is living another one man. Also a pale woman. The old man runs through the building, prompted from something. He feels enclaving and decides to act…



02. PRELUDE TO EDEN, 3’ 36’’
USA 1995
Direction: Michel Gagné
Script: Michel Gagné
Animation: Nasos Vakalis, Mark Koechier, Dave Brewster, James Mansfield, Kevin Johnson
Technique: 2D animation hand drawn. digitally photographed and colored.
Production: USA 1995
Dialogues: No

This visually charged short from animator Michel Gagne imagines the big battle that begat the Big Bang.



03. DOG, 5’
UK 2001
Direction: Suzie Templeton
Script: Suzie Templeton
Animation: Suzie Templeton
Technique: Puppet animation
Music: Kostas Kyriakidis
Producer:
Language: English

A young boy longs for reassurance about how his mother died. To protect each other, he and his fa-ther hold their agony inside, where it festers.



04. SARGE-1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, 1’ 35’’
Israel 2003
Direction: Noam Abta & Yonatan Bereskin
Script: Noam Abta & Yonatan Bereskin
Animation: Noam Abta & Yonatan Bereskin
Technique: Stopmotion (Clay Animation)
Music: Yuval Markovich, Noam Abta
Producer: Noam Abta & Yoanta Bereskin
Voices: Yonatan Bereskin

A funny extreme animation. The cops at the station arrange a birthday surprise for the trigger happy Sarge...



05. EELS / Aal im Schaedel, 18’
Germany 2006
Direction: Martin Rahmlow
Script: Dominik Steffan
Technique: 3D animation
Animation, design: 
Martin Rahmlow, Onni Pohl, Waldemar Fast,
Music: 
Jens Gröetzschel
Editing:
Simoni Blasi
Production:
Dialogues: No

A traveller suffers from a mysterious disease. He is searching for salvation in this animated film.



06. POLDEK, 10’
Switzerland 2004
Direction: Claudius Gentinetta
Script: Claudius Gentinetta
Animation: Claudius Gentinetta
Technique: 2D Animation
Music: Hagazusa, Karin Schwarzbeck, Melinda Nadi Abonji
Producer: Jonas Raeber
Production: Swamp Trickfilm & Schweizer Fernsehen
Dialogues: No

Poldek, a small dog, lives with a poor old lady in a one-room apartment. The tenement block is part of a tumbledown grey town out in the nowhere, forgotten by prosperity. The dog is hungry, howls and eats flies that are magically attracted by the old woman. She leaves home every day in search of something edible. An unsavoury little horror-story with a lot of action.


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01. STANLEY, 7' 01''
UK 1999
Direction: Suzan Templeton
Script: Suzan Templeton
Animation: Suzan Templeton
Technique: Puppet Animation
Music: Jonny Templeton & Sam Butterfield
Producer: Suzie Templeton
Production: Siaduc
Dialogues: No

While his frustrated wife wreaks violence and death in the kitchen, Stanley finds life and love in a beautiful cabbage in is growing in his barren back yard.



02. THE TELL TALE HEART, 9' 45''
Luxembourg, Spain, USA 2005
Direction: Raul Garcia
Script: Raul Garcia (adaptation)
Music: Javier Lopez de Guereña Principal
Producer: Raul Garcia, Stephan Roelants, Manuel Sicilia
Voice: Bela Lugosi
Language: English

One of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous short stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart” was published in 1843. The story is a psychological portrait of a mad narrator. A murderer who can not stop hearing his victim’s relentless heartbeat. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a horror story and psychological thriller told from a first-person perspective.



03. SMILE, 6’ 50’’
Israel, 2005
Direction: Noam Abta, Yuval Markovich
Script: Noam Abta, Yuval Markovich
Technique: 3D animation combined with live footage
Music: Moti Cohen
Editor: Noam Abta, Yuval Markovich
Producer: Noam Abta, Yuval Markovich, Yoav Abramovich, Animation Unit - Bezalel Academy of Art and design, Sam Spigel School of Cinema
Cast: Yuval Segev, Adar Parnas, Yaara Gotlieb, Michal Fish
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles

While visiting friends, Yuval starts to suspect a plot to harm him. The ominous signs keep appearing until paranoia takes over.



04. SWEET SALT, 7’
UK 2005
Direction: Katerina Athanasopoulou
Script: Katerina Athanasopoulou
Photography Luis Graham-Yool
Music: Repairman
Woman: Gwynne McElveen
Man: Ben Hardy
Producer: Becalelis Brodskis

A love story of obsession and sharp teeth: She’s the hunter, He’s the trembling fish.



05. ΤUTU, 26'
France 2001
Direction: Georges Sifianos, Pascal Dalet
Script: Georges Sifianos, Pascal Dalet
Animation: Alexis Appert and other
Technique: Cells animation
Music: Munch
Production: Trans-Europe-Films
Dialogues: No

Its the history of small boy that lives with his dictatorial grand mother in a public district of Paris. The difficult conditions of life push him to imagination. However the reality is certain times more impressive from the imagination. A stem can sprout in the place of a cut hand… The film can be read as a travel from children's in the adult age.


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01. THE LAST TRIP, 4’
Argentina 2007
Direction: Pablo Polledri
Script: Pablo Polledri
Animation: Pablo Polledri
Technique: 3D animation
Music: Graeme Revell - Fantomas
Producer: Pablo Polledri
Dialogues: No

The horror begins when a woman decides to give a lift to a person that she finds by the road. A sus-pense story that shows it is not advisable to travel along with strangers…



02. VIOLETA / 
Violeta, la pescadora del mar negro, 9’
Spain 2006


Direction: Marc Riba, Anna Solanas

Technique: Puppets
animation
Animation, design: Núria Riba

Cinematography: Anna Molins

Music: Natàlia Miró do Nascimento

Editing: Sergi Martí

Visual effects: Àlex Villagrasa

Sound: Anna Solanas

Art direction: Marc Riba

Production & Distribution: I+G stop motion



Violeta loves best fishing into the darkest depths



03. BROCULA, 4’ 29’’
Greece 2008
Direction: Michel Seretis, Loukas Boussounis
Script: Michel Seretis, Loukas Boussounis
Animation: Michel Seretis, Loukas Boussounis
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Hellowen, Chopin, Oilers, Bach
Producer: Michel Seretis, Loukas Boussounis
Dialogue: No

Despite the efforts of his father to raise him as a descent bloodthirsty vampir, our little Brocula pref-fers to eat vegetables. His father tries to change him in every possible way, but is he going to achieve that...?



04. THE WEREPIG, 16’ 40’’
Spain 2008
Direction: SAM
Animation: Julia Peguet, David Caballer, SAM
Technique: Stop-motion, Clay
Music: Ramon Guiner
Production Company: Ignacio Benedeti Cinema
Producer: Xose Zapata
Dialogues: English & Spanish

Two American tourists who want to go to Benidorm accidentally head for Galicia. Their lack of man-ners and hygiene get them kicked out, as luck would have it, into deserts of Castilla. Just when they lose heart, they are taken in by an affectionate elderly couple.



05. MAMMON, 4’ 52’
UK 2008
Direction: Robin Fuller
Script: Robin Fuller
Animation: Robin Fuller
Technique: Puppet Animation
Music: Jeremy Eaves
Production: Robin Fuller
Narration: Paul Robinson

A poet relates the story of how the promise of wealth and fame tempted him into turning his back on his muse, forgetting the beauty at the heart of his craft. 

Mammon was commissioned by Slamdance Film festival as part of their $99 special program.



06. LIVE LIFE, 5’ 28’’
Israel 2007
Direction: Jonathan Pasternak
Script: Jonathan Pasternak
Animation: Jonathan Pasternak & Adva Markovitch
Technique: Puppet Animation
Photographer: Jonathan Pasternak & Eldar Dahan
Editor: Jonathan Pasternak & Sahar Brill
Producer: Jonathan Pasternak & Ran Pasternak
Production: Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design

A monk during the black plague searches for redemption while he deals with death all around him. Based on a true story.



Still: SMILE by Noam Abta & Yuval Markovits, Israel 2005