Short animated films from all over the world
PANORAMA A’
01. WHEREVER YOU GO THERE YOU ARE / Onde Quer Que Vás, Lá Estarás, 2’
02. TOO LATE FOR TEARS, 4’ 34’’
03. THE MOTH COLLECTOR, 1' 47''
04. SMALL HOUSE, 6’ 15’’
O5. GROUND RUNNING, 1’ 30’’
06. SAMPLE, 1' 29''
07. THE MIDNIGHT GUESTS, 3’ 40’’
08. KEYS, 3’ 34’’
09. WINTER PILULES, 4’ 30’’
10. THE CONTROL MASTER, 6' 45"
11. YESTERDAY’S FUTURE TOMORROWS, 1’
12. STAY IN MY MEMORY, 4’ 18’’ (Video Clip)
13. WITCHIDK, 3’ 40’’
14. THE EYE, 3’
15. THE GREEN FAIRY, 4’ 47’’
16. RED RIDER, 2’ 36’’
17. THE STEALTH, 2' 30''
01. WHEREVER YOU GO THERE YOU ARE / Onde Quer Que Vás, Lá Estarás, 2’
Portugal / UK 2008
Director: Sara Barbas
Storyboard and Animatic: Sara Barbas, Ricardo Blanco
Original Music: Igor Higa, Leo Mendes
Technique: 2D traditional animation (pencil on Paper)
Sound Design: Phil Zentner
Editing and Compositing: Sara Barbas, Sérgio Duque, Vibeke Cleaverley
Dialogues: No dialogies
A little girl, a woman, and an old lady are all in constant movement. They live their own simple journeys that culminate together in one unique and revealing story ending.
02. TOO LATE FOR TEARS, 4’ 34’’
Argentina 2007
Direction, Script, Animation: Pablo Polledri
Technique : 2D animation
Music : No music
Producer : Pablo Polledri
Dialogues : Yes
With the aim of curbing violence are taught classes of weapons. A story about violence and stupidity.
03. THE MOTH COLLECTOR, 1' 47''
UK 2008
Director: Chloe Rodham
Script: Not Applicable.
Animation: Chloe Rodham
Technique: Combination of 2D computer animation and puppet stop motion.
Sound: Chloe Rodham
Producer: UCA (Contact person - Lesley Adams)
No dialogues
A moth collector is drawn deep into a forest at night by a particularly unusual specimen of prey. Unbeknown to the man, something else within the forest is putting together a collection. A dark yet beautiful tree gathers various objects found throughout the forest, and now it has its eyes on a new prize just within its reach.
04. SMALL HOUSE, 6’ 15’’
Estonian 2008
Direction: Kristjan Holm
Script: Kristjan Holm
Animator: Kristjan Holm
Technique: Drawn on the paper, scanned, pasted on the background, laserprinted and photographed on the lighttable, with specific illumination set.
Composer: Kristjan Holm
Producer: Ülo Pikkov
Produced: Estonian Academy of Arts in 2008
Dialogues: No
Every time he goes to the bed and turns off the light, something urgent reminds: toilet seat was left up, slippers are not exactly parallel, tap is dripping… Unfortunately the small house, where everything happens is on the shore. How does it look from the dark sea? Doesn’t it remind… Yes, it does and catastrophe is on the way...
05. GROUND RUNNING, 1’ 30’’
UK 2007
Direction: Ben Mitchel
Script: Ben Mitchel
Technique: 2D traditional
Editing: Ben Mitchel
Music: N/A
Producer: Ben Mitchel
An infant is propelled into the world and given a glimpse at the frenetic life ahead of him.
06. SAMPLE, 1' 29''
UK 2008
Direction: Jens Blank
Script: Jens Blank
Technique: 3d, pixilation, live action
Editing: Lucy Donaldson
Music / sound: Luis Fernandez
Producer: Jens Blank
Combining the urban and the organic, Sample takes a look at the fantastic world of micro organisms.
07. THE MIDNIGHT GUESTS, 3’ 40’’
Belarus 2009
Direction: Ylia Ruditskaya
Script: Ylia Ruditskaya
Animation: Ylia Ruditskaya
Technique: 2D computer cutout
Music: Dmitri Milovanov
Production: Ylia Ruditskaya
Four friends undertake a dangerous journey in the midnight. Someone is waiting for them, someone is laying down the table for the late guests. On their way one is lost, the other one stops, intrigued by the flickering wings of a moth…
08. KEYS, 3’ 34’’
France 2008
Direction: Oliver Pierre-Noël
Script: Oliver Pierre-Noël
Animation: Oliver Pierre-Noël
Technique:
Music: Oliver Pierre-Noël
Production: Oliver Pierre-Noël
The piano's keys are alive. They fly away and become real characters. A short 3D animation in music, on an arrangement of Schubert' s famous op.100 trio.
09. WINTER PILULES, 4’ 30’’
Romania 2008
Direction: Ion Octavian Frecea
Script: Ion Octavian Frecea
Animation: Ion Octavian Frecea
Technique: 3D Maya, After Effects
Music: Antonio Vivaldi
Production: Ion Octavian Frecea
Dialogues: No
Divertissement in middle of the winter between two mans. In the end the spring is coming and the heroes (actors) are changing too…
10. THE CONTROL MASTER, 6' 45"
UK 2008 Direction: Run Wrake
Script: Run Wrake
Animation Assistants: Martin Morris, Thomas Mitchell
Technique: After Effects and Photoshop
Sound Editor: Jon Newman
Dubbing Mixer: Nigel Heath
Producer: Run Wrake
Music: Daniel Morgan
Production: Sclah Films for Veer
"In peaceful Halftone City, a mysterious heroine and a brave ally face the ultimate threat...."
11. YESTERDAY’S FUTURE TOMORROWS, 1’
UK 2007
Direction: Chris Furby
Script: Chris Furby
Animation: Chris Furby
Technique: An Adobe After Effects Project from Digital photography
Audio: Ambient street sounds/Sound Effects
Production: Chris Furby
Dialogues: Subtitles (English)
A not entirely serious surreal vision of the future. We have seen the future! And we’re as likely to be wrong about it as anyone else…
12. STAY IN MY MEMORY, 4’ 18’’ (Video Clip)
UK 2008
Direction: Katy Davis
Script: Katy Davis
Animation: Katy Davis
Technique: 2D mixed media animation
Music: Bim
Producer: Katy Davis
Dialogues: Lyrics
Dreamy 2D mixed media animation about love and loss. A girl journeys
through a magical popup book searching for her lost love/memories of her lost love.
13. WITCHIDK, 3’ 40’’
Italy 2009
Direction: Mauro Frau
Script: Mauro Frau
Animation: Mauro Frau & Lorena G. Romero
Technique: 3D Computer Animation
Music: Luciano Maria Serra
Production: Mauro Frau
A man in a subway wonders why there is a white monkey standing by his side…
14. THE EYE, 3’
Germany 2009
Direction: Chin-Chun Chang
Script: Chin-Chun Chang
Animation: Chin-Chun Chang
Technique: Drawing on paper
Music:
Xialo Shen
Producer: Chin-Chun Chang
The story of “The eye” is about the journey of experiencing depression and rebirth, lost and found.
15. THE GREEN FAIRY, 4’ 47’’
USA 2009
Direction: Sung Joon Kim
Script: Sung Joon Kim
Animation: Sung Joon kim
Technique: 3D animation
Music:
Sung Joon Kim
Producer: Sung Joon kim
It's a love story about the Fairy the mermaid. The Fairy exist on land and the mermaid can only exist in water, like most small creature, they can only exist fun a day or two.
16. RED RIDER, 2’ 36’’
Latvia 2009
Direction: Martins Paulinus
Script: Martins Paulinus
Animation: Martins Paulinus
Technique: Drawing animation
Music: Juris Riekstins
Producer: Rija Films
A humorous story about a little girl with Napoleon syndrome. Through childlike joy she not only tames the wolf, but her grandmother as well.
17. THE STEALTH, 2’ 30’’
India 2008
Direction: Binoy Mathew & Sajeev Kumar
Script: Binoy Mathew & Sajeev Kumar
Concept: Binoy Mathew & Sajeev Kumar
Animation: A.P. Binson & Jithin C. Shine
Technique: 3D animation
Music: Oppuz
Production: WaterMelon Studios (P) Ltd, Cochin
Dialogues: No
“The Stealth” is focused on a sheer surveillance and attack system where sound is sensed, identified and targeted to destroy human manifestations in a stealthy manner.
It suggests certain situations that though everything appears normal on the surface, stealth operations are persisted and one will be identified by its sound.
The film is the first part of a series in which the various phases of sound is analyzed in its creative and technological aspects.
PANORAMA B’
01. MEDUSA, 16’ 45’’
02. UNCLE PARROT’ S RHYMES, 9’ 30’’
03. THE SINNERS, 2’ 17’’
04. THE NUTU’S SHINING, 9’ 44’’
05. B612 MOONAGE DAYDREAM, 3’ 37’’
06. CHECKO, 12’
07. IN OUR HOME (Dar khane-ye Ma), 5’
08. WALKIES, 3' 22''
09. SOLITUDE, 10'
01. MEDUSA, 16’ 45’’
Italy 2008
Direction: Fredo Valla - Francesco Vecchi
Script: Fredo Valla
Animation: Francesco Vecchi
Technique: After effects
Music: Enrico Sabena
Production: Maxman coop.
Medusa is the name of an Italian submarine of the II World War. On January 30th, 1942, it was torpedoed by the English submarine Thorn. The Italian submarine sank in the Adriatic sea near the coast of Pola (Istria). Big part of the crew died in the burst. Fourteen men remained alive at thirty metres deep, imprisoned in the submarine stern. Torpedo-boats, submarines, steamboats, motorboats, a lighter and divers came to save them.
02. UNCLE PARROT’ S RHYMES, 9’ 30’’
Bulgaria 2008
Directors: Tsvetomira Nikolova, Anna Haralampieva
Script: Tsvetomira Nikolova
Animation Supervisors: Tsvetomira Nikolova, Anna Haralampieva
Technique: drawn on paper & computer processed
Music: Rumen Tsonev
Production Company: VizAr Productions
Producer: Vladimir Gurov
Dialogues: English
Variations of traditional folk nursing rhymes and tales from all over the world.
03. THE SINNERS, 2’ 17’’
Argentina 2007
Direction, Script, Animation: Pablo Polledri
Technique: 2D Animation
Music: David Simons
Producer: Pablo Polledri
Dialogues: No.
Seven beings who represent the capital sins (Greed, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, Lust, Sloth, Pride) coexist in time and space.
04. THE NUTU’S SHINING, 9’ 44’’
Italy-Argentina 2009
Director: Amelia Eguia – Julian Mantel
Script: Amelia Eguia – Julian Mantel
Animation: Amelia Eguia
Technique: Clay, Stop Motion and 2D computer.
Music: Julian Mantel
Producer: Toba Toba
No dialogue.
The appearance of a strange brilliancy will take Nutu through an
adventure that will help him know some of his own hidden virtues.
The Nutu's shining was made in Casas del Cerro, Spain with the
contribute of the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries.
05. B612 MOONAGE DAYDREAM, 3’ 37’’
Argentina 2008
Director: Guillermo Daldovo
Script: Guillermo Daldovo
Animation Supervisor: Guillermo Daldovo
Technique: 2D animation Flash
Music: Moonage Daydream “Arnold Corns version” David Bowie
Production Company: GD:DG
Producer: Guillermo Daldovo
No dialogue!
In a lonely planet in a galaxy far, is born a love, charm and an illusion, the hopes, anxiety, sadness and abandonment by an unrequited love.
06. CHECKO, 12’
Sweden 2008
Director: Erik Rosenlund
Script: Erik Rosenlund
Animation: Erik Rosenlund
Technique: Animation, pencil on paper, 2D computer with some 3D effects
Music: Martin Bird
Producer: Erik Rosenlund
No dialogue
An under performing office worker does everything he can to fit in.
07. IN OUR HOME (Dar khane-ye Ma), 5’
Iran
Director: Maryam Kashkoolinia
Script: Maryam Kashkoolinia
Animation Supervisor: Maryam Kashkoolinia
Technique: A kind of "Paint On Glass"
Music: Hami Haghighi
Production Company: DEFC
Producer: Shirin Nadri & Maryam Kashkoolinia
Persian dialogue
Subtitle: English
A little girl is introducing her family members, comparing them with animals.
08. WALKIES, 3' 22''
UK 2008
Director: Rachael Purdy
Script: Rachael Purdy
Animation: Rachael Purdy
Technique: Flash
Sound Mix: Rachael Purdy
Producer: Rachael Purdy
No dialogues
The comedic story of a man and his dog.
09. SOLITUDE / Tanhaai, 10’
Iran 2008
Direction: Mehrdad Sheikhan
Script: Mehrdad sheikhan
Animation: Behzad Rajabipour
Technique: 3D computer
Music: Hossein Alizadeh
Producer: Mehrdad Sheikhan
Dialogues: No
A stone colossus has lived a lonely life on his barren planet for thousands of years. Worn out by his solitude, he decides to change his fate.
