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tuesday 21 june, 8.00pm
cinema 2
(unclassified 15+)
Nuit Blanche | Arev Manoukian
Our annual wrap-up of hi-end, hi-concept digital
splendours from one of the great mother lodes of the form –
SIGGRAPH USA and SIGGRAPH Asia. |
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Cours
Toujours
Directors: Elise Garcette, Olivier Barre
Producer: La Station Animation
France, 1'48, 2010
Some pretty fancy high-speed scooter work and
a screeching flock of crazy birds provide the momentum for this
wild ride.
> www.lastationanimation.com |
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Nuit
Blanche
Director: Arev Manoukian
Canada, 4'39, 2009
A fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing
their brief connection in a hyper-real fantasy.
> www.arev.ca |
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Get
Out
Directors: Charlotte Boisson, Julien Fourvel, Pascal Han-Kwan, Tristan
Reinarz, Fanny Roche
Producer: ESMA Montpellier
France, 7'49, 2009
Gary has, as they say,
‘issues’. He may, or may not, be living in a beautiful,
beautiful aquarium but it looks like he'll never see the outside because
he has an all-consuming phobia of doors. Lucky he has a really good
doctor.
> www.esma-montpellier.com |
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White
Drawing
Director: Kurt Adams
Producer: Western Institute of Technology Taranaki
France, 5'34, 2009
An intricately crafted, ghostly and stark rendition of a gradually
collapsing countryside.
> www.paperkurt.com |
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Flyman
Director: Shu-Wei Chang
Producer: National Taiwan University Of The Arts
Taiwan, 2'50, 2009
A deep reservoir of crazy-brave
courage and a working knowledge of steam-powered ornithopter engineering
is not always enough to keep one safe in the dangerous skies. |
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Suiren
Director:/Producer: Tomoya Kimpara
Japan, 3'03, 2010
The ocean is a symbol of
life where seeds are born with purpose for their lives. So what if
it’s a machine?
> www.w0w.co.jp |
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The
Wonder Hospital
Beomsik ‘Shimbe’ Shim
South Korea, 11'34, 2010
An intensely intriguing
journey through a mysterious hospital that specialises in altering
the perception of physical beauty.
> www.shimbe.com
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The
Sandpit
Director/Producer: Sam O'Hare
USA, 5'30, 2010
An extraordinary act of ‘re-animation’
using more than 35,000 individual photos to re-imagine everyday New
York street scenes as something akin to a model train set.
> www.photography@pixelpollen.com |
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Mobile
Director: Verena Fels
Producers: Regina Welker, Franziska Specht
Germany, 6'30, 2010
A lonely cow decides to
make friends with some sheep, a dog, a couple of chickens, a pig and
a budgie on the other side of the room. There's just one little problem
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> www.animationsinstitut.de
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Mem
Directors: Ilja Brunck, Jan Bitzer, Csaba Letay
Germany, 1'48, 2010
A transfixing glide through
a world on the other side of the magnifying looking-glass.
> www.polynoid.org
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Amazonia
Director: Sam Chen
Producers: Sam Chen, Crystal Hsiao
USA, 4'50, 2010
The dangers of the jungle
floor are not all that they seem to be when the lights come up and
the applause begins.
> www.amazoniamovie.com
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Un
Tour De Manege
Directors: Nicolas Athane, Brice Chevillard, Alexis Liddell, Francoise
Losito, Mai Nguyen
Producer: Gobelins L’ecole de L’Image
France, 3'40, 2009
All pastel hues and soft focus. A very magic roundabout safely transports
a family across some dangerous divides.
> www.premium-films.com |
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Animation
History of Poland / Animowana Historica Polski
Director: Tomasz Baginski
Producer: Platige Image
Poland, 8'52, 2009
A millennium tour of Polish history. A visceral 3D visual history
of Poland's wars, rulers, triumphs, disasters and ever-changing landscape.
> www.platige.com |
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Loom
Directors: Ilja Brunck, Jan Bitzer, Csaba Letay
Producer: Regina Welker
Germany, 5'20, 2010
Astounding! An up-close
visualisation of the battle-royale between spider and prey as life
and death plays out on the strands of a web.
> www.animationsinstitut.de |
