PROGRAMME 4 (119)
Friday 12, March 2010 / 19:15-21:00

The List

01. RED-END AND THE SEEMINGLY SYMBOLIC SOCIETY, Robin Noorda & Bethany de Forest, Netherlands, 15’
02. THE UNPLUGGED SON, Milla Nybondas, Finland, 8’ 56’’
03. NAKED FACTORY, Bhopal, France, 3’ 31’’
04. THE GREAT GREY SHRIKE, Chintis Ludgren, Estonia, 6’ 22’’
05. LOG JAM, Alexei Alexeev, Hungary, 6’
06. IN THE NAME OF ART, Mardo El-Noor, New Zealand, 11’ 30’’
07. CLEAN CAROUSEL, Andreas Bødker, Denmark, 2’ 29’’
08. COUCOU, Brigitte Archambaoult, Canada, 7’ 20’’
09. PSST PP PIANO, Gregor Zootzky, Germany, 10’ 40’’
10. THEATRE PATOUFF, Maarten Kampan, Netherlands, 8’
11. ACCORDING THE BIRDS, Linde Fass, Nethelands, 5’ 26’’
12. UNCLE, Maciej Sznabel, Poland, 8’
13. PIGEON: IMPROSSIBLE, Lucas Martell, USA, 6’ 12’’

The Films

01. RED-END AND THE SEEMINGLY SYMBOLIC SOCIETY, 15’
Netherlands 2009
Direction: Robin Noorda & Bethany De Forest
Script: Robin Noorda
Animation: Robin Noorda & Bethany De Forest
Technique: 4K Digital stop-motion animation
Music: Phantom Frank
Producer: Rocketta Film
Dialogues:

Ants gather sugar cubes in an mari cave in order to built a palace. This turns out to be a nursery to cultivate larvae. These grubs grow in a cave and reveal themselves as bizarre, marching gluttons called Cricusts.



02. THE UNPLUGGED SON, 8’ 56’’
Finland 2009
Direction: Milla Nybondas
Script: Milla Nybondas
Animation: Milla Nybondas & Antti Laakso
Technique: Puppet animation
Music: Frederic Chopin & Matti Strahlendorf
Producer: Turku Arts Academy 2009
Dialogues: Yes

After years of travelling, Adrian arrives to dad’s birthday dinner, but feels like an outsider. Thanks to his present to dad he gets in contact with his family again.


03. NAKED FACTORY, 3’ 31’’
France 2009
Direction: Bhopal
Script: Bhopal
Animation: Bhopal
Technique: Drawing, 2D computer animation
Music:
Producer: Bhopal
Dialogues: No

Visit a chimera factory where work and alienation are muses of Satan… Antichrist total.


04. THE GREAT GREY SHRIKE, 6’ 22’’
Estonia 2009
Direction: Chintis Ludgren
Script: Chintis Ludgren
Animation: Chintis Ludgren
Technique: Drawings
Music: Kristjan Raidna
Producer: Chintis Ludgren
Dialogues: Yes

The Great Grey Shrike is a strange wildlife-story about the very peculiar manners of the great grey shrike, the common cuckoo, starlings and other birds.


05. LOG JAM, 6’
Hungary 2008
Direction: Alexei Alexeev
Script: Alexei Alexeev
Animation: Alexei Alexeev
Technique: Alexei Alexeev
Music: Alexei Alexeev
Producer: Studio Baestarts
Dialogues: No

Log Jam is an animated series showing how three "professional" musicians, the Bear, the Rabbit and the Wolf try to rehearse in the forest regardless of the circumstances.


06. IN THE NAME OF ART, 11’ 30’’
New Zealand 2009
Direction: Mardo El-Noor
Script: Mardo El-Noor
Animation: Mardo El-Noor
Technique: 2D coumuter animation, Silhouette
Music: Mardo El-Noor
Producer: Mardo El-Noor
Dialogues: Yes

In The Name of Art’ is a visually inventive short film of silhouettes and a world of artists.


07. CLEAN CAROUSEL, 2’ 29’’
Denmark 2010
Direction: Andreas Bødker
Script: Andreas Bødker and Tommy Bredsted
Animation: Simon Flytkjær
Technique: 2D, Cut-out
Music: Per Møllehøj, Heine Hansen, Lars Tormod Jenset
Producer: Ole Madsen, Fabulab
Dialogues: No

A dedicated man works hard to provide a sparking clean carousel for the children but the forces of nature are working against him.

08. COUCOU, 7’ 20’’
Canada, 2010
Direction: Brigitte Archambault
Script: Brigitte Archambault
Animation: Brigitte Archambault
Technique: 2D computer animation
Music: Jean-Philippe Thibault
Producer: Brigitte Archambault
Dialogues: No

This film describes the fragility of the passage from childhood to adolescence. It takes a look, at times dark and at times humorous, at children’s fears and anxieties when they are confronted with their first sexual experience


09. PSST PP PIANO, 10’ 40’’
Germany 2009
Direction: Gregor Zootzky
Script: Gregor Zootzky
Animation: E. Pohl & C. Nass & J. Dermani & D. Berns & K. Unger
Technique: Drawing on paper, animo
Music: Simon Stockhausen
Producer: Gregor Zootzky
Dialogues: No

This film tells the story of the early avant-garde and its development through the historical influences of both world wars (WW I & WW II) with the main focus on a Studio in Cologne, called „Atelier Mary Bauermeister“, 1960-1962.


10. THEATRE PATOUFF, 8’
Netherlands 2008
Direction: Maarten Kapman
Script: Maarten Kapman
Animation: Maarten Kapman
Technique: Stop-motion, objects
Music:
Producer: Musch &Tinberqen
Dialogues: No

Inanimate objects, such as tables, chairs, a room, and even photo cameras, film projectors and small fantasy cars perform an animated and spectacular theatre show, dragging us along to places and events that are impossible in the theatre.


11. ACCORDING THE BIRDS, 5’ 26’’
Netherlands 2008
Direction: Linde Faas
Script: Linde Faas
Animation: Linde Faas
Technique: paper drawn animation, 2d computer animation
Music:
Producer: St. Joost Art Academy
Dialogues: No

The morning dawn reveals an great grey owl. With his arrival the birds awake, filling the woods with their sounds and movement.


12. UNCLE, 8’
Poland 2008
Direction: Maciej Sznabel
Script: Marcin Jazynski & Maciej Sznabel
Animation: Maciej Sznabel
Technique: 3D computer animation
Music: Kuba Orlowski
Producer: Serafinski Studio & Maciej Sznabel
Dialogues: Yes
Subtitles: English

A story about change, devotion and what happens when you cross the thin line between friends.


13. PIGEON: IMPROSSIBLE, 6’ 12’’
USA 2009
Direction: Lucas Martell
Script: Lucas Martell
Animation: Lucas Martell
Technique: 3D Animation
Music: Christopher Reyman
Producer: Lucas Martell
Dialogues:

"Pigeon: Impossible" is the tale of Walter, a rookie secret agent faced with a problem
seldom covered in basic training…