New Shorts: Animation Variety Show (Repeat Screening)
Sunday, 23 January 2022
Image: Library of Paradise, Garden of Pain, Christopher Childs, 2021
Our annual animation selection continues to colour outside the lines. These animations are bold, political, hilarious and irreverent miniatures of the modern condition, drawing lines between agency, purpose and dissidence. The films attest to the ability of animation to depict the abstract and complex human experience in fascinating new ways. These characters may only exist on paper, but their emotions, predicaments and sentiments are entirely #relatable.
Curated by Emma Bouraba
FILM FOUND
Claudia Munksgaard-Palmqvist
3'
2021
Denmark
Look at a mistake that is not human. Be present in the uncontrollable intervention of the material. Between control and chance, surface and void a film will (perhaps) be found.
Due to legal reasons this Film is called Breaking Bert
Anne Isensee
5'
2021
Germany
How far does the self-determination of a cartoon character go? An animated „lehrstück“ in black and white.
Where Are You Really From?
Will Kim
2'
2021
United States
"Where Are You Really From?" is about the filmmaker's personal experience of receiving countless, repetitive, and racist comments living in America as an Asian American. It is the filmmaker's hope that people stop the Asian hate, systemic racism, and stereotypes.
Bardo
Aisling Conroy
4'
2021
Ireland
A woman questions her lifestyle choices when the travails of urban living are one day jolted into juxtaposition with a simpler way of life.
Gyroscope
Gabriel Böhmer
3:11
2021
United Kingdom
A young child finds magic and adventure when searching for a mysterious gyroscope in his grandparents' home. Created for Olovson, the new solo project by Grammy Award winning producer Jacob Olofsson.
All Those Sensations in My Belly
Marko Djeska
13'
2021
Croatia
While transitioning from male to female gender, Matia struggles with finding a genuine intimate relationship with a heterosexual man.
Library of Paradise, Garden of Pain
Christopher Childs
3'
2021
United Kingdom
In a luscious garden, a sickly man is cared for by a group of strange librarians.
Amayi
Subarna D
5'
2021
India
Amayi is a story of a woman who is haunted by nightmares of her past and her possible future of becoming the next village circumciser. When she is asked to take up the job and circumcise her daughter, she realizes she can't conform to the traditions and the customs of her community, she must fight back.
The Things Around Us
Magdalena Kreps
3'
2021
Germany
My mother collects things. Now I understand, she is a memory collector.
A hand-drawn animated short-film, in which I explore my relationship with my mother and her belongings.
Melancolia
Alina Popescu
4'
2021
Romania
Change is something that comes whether you search for it or not. When a nymph loses her ability to fly, the change that was forced upon her requires a complete transformation: she must let go of her yearning for the past and become something new, a being unconstrained by the limitations of her past.
Parked
Yoon Hei Cho
4'
2021
United States
An incident of an inconvenient attack at a parking lot. Panic attacks sometimes strike at unexpected moments. The film includes representations of having your internal consciousness struggle to get out of an inescapable internal torture chamber while your physical self remains paralysed.
Murmur
Shannon Silva
1'
2021
United States
A faint sound typically signaling disease or damage to the heart. A rumor.
Family Tape
Wei-Chia Wu
7'
2021
Taiwan
High saturation and collage-textured characters popping up from the screen with unexpected landscapes and sonic space constructing with Chinese pop music, soap operas, news edit, and distorted scoring, the video presents a common unconsciousness mental space of human being. Every character in the series is looking for something, chasing after something, waiting for something, or, trapped in something, creating a reflection of our daily contemporary emotion state. Family tape aims to provide a platform where adults and children can share different emotional formats in short narratives.
Geisha L.O.V.E.
Mike V. Derderian
8'
2021
Jordan
Geisha L.O.V.E. is a day in the life of a graffiti artist and her robot protector / companion set in 2155.
The action takes place within the span of 24 hours in Delphipolis, a futuristic city brought about by political upheavals and economic unrest in 2155.
Geisha paints slogans for freedom writers in this country, where graffiti is punishable by death. Geisha L.O.V.E. is a tough, no nonsense woman. A renegade graffiti artist in a dystopian world, where graffiti has become the only way to spread the word; and claim the city.