Competition 3

Microscopia 04:32
Austria 2016
Directed by: Nikolaus Jantsch


The content of this work is about code, the code that surrounds us, that builds the chains of life, the code that is the source of all living and non living structures. Is there a relation between the macro and the micro world? has a bug a similar surface as the moon? This film is a cooperation with the dutch composer Stephan Dunkelman and the austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Jantsch.




Pink Bubbles 02:51
USA 2017
Directed by: Pei Yao
Screenplay: Pei Yao
Animation: Pei Yao
Technique: Pei Yao
Music: Kaspar Kaae
Production/School: School of Visual Arts
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: N/A


Pink Bubbles is a short 3D animation about a lonely whale looking for a companionship. Diving underwater, this whale has been ignored by other whales because their calls are on different frequencies. As he is a fighter, he never gives up on finding someone who can understand him. His longing leads him to a tragic end.



Dear Mr. Ernest / Estimado Sr. Ernest 10:00
Spain 2016
Directed by: Miguel L
Screenplay: Miguel L
Production/School: Nexo AV Audiovisuales
Dialogue language: Spanish


Mr. Ernest is a miserly, lonely old man who lives in a mansion world far away from the world. In the past, if he were able to do harm, he would. However, before it is too late, he decides to turn his life around and become a model citizen, deservedly remembered for his goodwill.




Expiration Date 04:21
USA 2017
Directed by: Shwenn, Shunya Chang
Screenplay: Shwenn, Shunya Chang
Animation: Shwenn, Shunya Chang
Technique: Shwenn, Shunya Chang
Music: Jerome Leroy
Production/School: Shwenn, Shunya Chang
Dialogue language: English


Looking for a lasting love seems like looking for a can without expiration date…… A poetic story about searching for an unexpired romance, a mélange of sexy fantasy and innocent love.



The Other Side 03:50
Canada 2017
Directed by: Ching Cheng


A solider walked across the line to search for a monster.




Ghost Beats 03:16
United States of America 2017
Directed by: Brent Barson
Screenplay: Brent Barson
Animation: Brent Barson
Technique: After Effects, frame-by-frame
Music: Steve Ricks
Dialogue language: none
Subtitles language: none

A ghost story about exclusion and acceptance, and the power of music and dance.



Progress / Fortgang 04:12
Switzerland 2016
Directed by: Otto Alder
Screenplay: Otto Alder
Animation: Adrian Flury
Technique: 2D Computeranimation, Mixed Media
Music: Georg Bleikolm
Production/School: Gerd Gockell
Dialogue language: no dialogue
Subtitles language: no dialogue


What?s left are images, ordered by memory. A home, the cat, friends ? Otto Alder?s restless photo animation balances openly and honestly on the border between what was real and what was also meaningful. Photos are caught in twitching loops like struggling insects in the spider web of recall. A brief poetic respite and then the unabashed run-up to the emotional finish.



Stroke 04:59
United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Jiani zhao, Emanuele Romano
Screenplay: Jiani zhao, Emanuele Romano




Fundamental 07:10
Taiwan 2017
Directed by: Shih-Chieh Chiu
Screenplay: Shih-Chieh Chiu
Animation: Shih-Chieh Chiu, Ming-Chieh Chang
Music: Hsiao-Chin Lin, Szu-Yu Lin (Winsoubd Studio)
Production/School: Shih-Chieh Chiu / National Taiwan University of Arts
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: N/A


This is the story of a teenager who discovers the strange and terrifying reality behind fundamentalism. Warped into an ultra-religious environment from a young age, his surroundings force him to adhere to a rigid and sometimes irrational world-view. He eventually succumbs to the madness, and lives consumed by guilt while devouring every crumb of false hope thrown at him from his religious community. One day he gathers the courage to leave his faith behind, and sees that human existence is actually a more nuanced experience than the black and white reality in which he grew up in.




Hemi - Gentle 04:04
Turkey 2017
Directed by: Laris Kilimci
Screenplay: Laris Kilimci
Music: Hemi Behmoaras
Production/School: Hemi Behmoaras


The frame by frame painted animation for Hemi's single "Gentle" plays with the perception of being on the road and experiences of losing a sense of reality.




MS. Belly / 貝莉小姐 05:40
Taiwan 2017
Directed by: Lin, Chih-Yu
Screenplay: Lin, Chih-Yu
Animation: Lin, Chih-Yu
Technique: Lin, Chih-Yu
Music: Chen, Chihlin
Production/School: National Chengchi University


This is a female magazine collage animation. Only the character, Ms. Belly, is made from the creator's own body. The other materials are all from magazines. Ms. Belly is a young lady, a fantasy girl with a round belly. Round belly is big and fat, rolling up and down. Ms. Belly loves her belly, even if people do not like it. In Ms. Belly 's world, the girls' coming-of-age ceremony is to join the transformation for the perfect body. And their ultimate dream is to enter the perfect temple. Ms. Belly was waiting in the clinic, then accidentally saw the operation of the transformation. The girls were in a coma in the factory and forced cutting limbs, face, liposuction. Ms. Belly is frightened and escaped, fleeing into a mysterious world, began a fantastic journey ... ...



Lotus Lantern / 蓮花燈 06:30
China 2017
Directed by: Xingpei Shen
Screenplay: Xingpei Shen
Animation: Xingpei Shen
Technique: Hand-drawn, Rotoscope
Music: Xuan Zhou, David Coop
Production/School: Rhode Island School of Design
Dialogue language: Non-dialogue
Subtitles language: N/A


A peek into the wax lotus. Lotus Lantern is a tribute to late Chinese singer Zhou Xuan, a missing link between filmmaker?s queer identity and Chinese heritage.




Bits - The whippet made from random stuff 03:45
United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: james Pollitt
Technique: Experimental Stop Motion
Music: Danny Ryan
Production/School: Home Made
Dialogue language: None
Subtitles language: English


This is BITZ. Using my pet whippets as inspiration I set myself the challenge to build a functional stop-motion puppet using ONLY the random junk I had in my toolbox. There was no design or drawing before I started, her creation was an exploration into the balance between style and function.




And The Moon Stands Still 10:47
Belarus 2017
Directed by: Yulia Ruditskaya
Screenplay: Yulia Ruditskaya, David Lindner Leporda, Helen Simon, Katarina Koster
Animation: Yulia Ruditskaya
Technique: 2D Computer
Music: Izzy Gliksberg
Production/School: David Lindner Leporda
Dialogue language: No Dialogue
Subtitles language: No Subtitles


The presence of the moon affects all under its glow. The film explores the lunar cycle and the energies invoked by its radiance.



The Sadness Will Not Last Forever / Het verdriet zal niet eeuwig duren 08:18
Russia 2016
Directed by: Alexei Dmitriev
Screenplay: Alexei Dmitriev, Mathieu Janssen
Animation: Alexei Dmitriev
Technique: paint on glass
Music: Frank Boeijen
Production/School: Alexei Dmitriev
Dialogue language: Dutch
Subtitles language: English


The most beautiful paintings are those which you dream about when you lie in bed smoking a pipe, but which you never paint.



Seen Again 10:30
USA 2017
Directed by: Peter Murphey
Screenplay: Peter Murphey
Animation: Peter Murphey
Technique: 2-D hand drawn digital and paper
Production/School: Peter Murphey
Dialogue language: English


A troubled man, trying to make sense of his life while driving through the Arizona desert, encounters difficult memories from his past that appear as a storm of personal objects falling from the sky. This experimental, hand-drawn and collage, 2-D animation explores the power of memory as manifested through objects from our past.