Wednesday 18 June, 6.30pm acmi cinema
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Sunday 22 June, 3.30pm
acmi cinema 1 (repeat)
18+
The backbone of the annual AIAF mission! We
received more than 2000 entries from every corner of the world and
this collection of the best of them is your up to date snapshot
of the international animation scene. |
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A
Tale About The Animated Image
Joris Clerte
France 2006, 3’30
The history of animation condensed in
three and a half action packed minutes – with a reminder of
how hard it is to animate hair!
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The Life Size
Zoetrope
Mark Simon Hewis
UK 2007, 6’30
Animation is created one frame at a time,
24 frames for a second. A bold imaginative experiment using real
people with giant flipbooks strapped into a giant, revolving zoetrope.
An absolutely unique perspective on the art of creating an animated
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Flighty
Leigh Hodgkinson
UK 2006, 1’30
Bugs don’t live long, not long at
all. In fact in the time it takes to read this, your average bug
will have….. |
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Wibbel-Ich &
Gluck
Janona Arendt
Austria
2006, 3’00
Fine art with a raw edge. A combination of water colour montages,
captivating sketches and imagery borrowed from archives of short film
and auteur animation. |
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Onion Skin
Paul Jadoul
Belgium
2007, 4’00
Layer upon layer, our character gets pared down to his intrinsic
essentials. |
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End Of The Street
Andy Martin
UK 2007, 5’00
A street-level response to the Beaufort Wind Scale in which
an unseen visitor whips up all kids of chaos on the inhabitants of
an unsuspecting neighbourhood. |
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Al Dente
JF Barthelemy, M Francois, LO Carlos Felipe
France 07, 6’00
A crazy kitchen, an inspired chef and some pretty happy pasta.
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Tender Waters
Assaf Benharroch
Israel 2006, 5’30
The Eiffel Tower’s elevator man meets a young boy who
wakes him up from his day to day routine. |
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Nothing Happened
Today
Reka Gacs
UK 2007, 4’45
A spectacularly busy film about the quiet routines of daily life.
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Underground
Audrey Lam
Australia 2007, 4’15
A super-charged photo-montage step by step David Hockney style voyage
down into the metro.
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Drop
David Seitz
Canada 2006, 3’30
The peculiar cycles upon which nature is built are entangled
in the creation of a liquid tree. 'Drop' is a short, gentle tale of
chaos, time and flow. |
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Don’t Let
It All Unravel
Sarah Cox
UK 2007, 2’00
Our fragile world is depicted as an increasingly rapidly unravelling
ball of thread. |
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Oktapodi
J Bocabeille, F Chanioux, O Delabarre, T Marchand,
E Mokhberi
France 2007, 2’30
An exhilarating tale of two octopi in love – no sushi chef can
keep them apart.
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5 Tears
Colin V Barton
USA 2006, 3’30
Part poem, part spell '5 Tears' looks at fake religion, fake
friends, false society, lost love, and loss of innocence each in turn.
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Even In Dreams
Alice Taylor
France 2007, 7’30
Juliette awakes one morning in a panic. She asks the man next
to her to leave at once because her husband Simon is coming back soon.
But Juliette has made a tragic mistake, from under the cover comes
the voice of Simon. |
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Candido
Jose Pedro Cavalheiro
Portugal 2006, 11.15
An utterly absorbing cavalcade of swirling imagery taking us
on a swooping, soaring journey. |
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