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Masterclass by Vibeke Sørensen. Vibeke Sørensen is an artist and professor working in digital multimedia, animation, interactive architectural installation, physical computing, and networked visual music. Her creative work includes Illuminations (2013), a large scale illuminated folding screen, an interactive visual-music installation incorporating plant biofeedback, ubiquitous computing, and electro-acoustic music that she composed. Vishwaroop (2014) is a 4K generative dome animation with music by sitar virtuoso Kartik Seshadri, and Mood of the Planet (2015) is a kinetic light-sound sculpture incorporating global, real-time big data, Twitter, and music composed by Sørensen. Her work, Mayur (2015), with music by Kartik Seshadri, is a 4K animation inspired by Asian textiles, symbols, and cosmologies. She has produced wearable technologies incorporating biofeedback, abstract animation and music including Digital Amulet: Smart Necklace (2017), and her most recent installation Starlight (2021) is in collaboration with NTU physicists Prof Lock Yue Chew and Dr. Andri Pradana, as well as CSH Vienna / SFI Complexity Scientist Prof John Stephen Lansing. Starlight is an interactive installation that visualizes Quantum Entanglement using actual data from the Cosmic Bell Experiment. Her current research and creative work engages bio and eco-art/design, and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University it includes explorations of musical and calendrical polyrhythms from Bali to Kauai, and on the emergence of Jungian archetypes from dream networks.

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by Stella Hartman

Sometimes our life looks like the storm that throws us from wave to wave, while we are looking for safe harbor.

The director interview with Natasha Cetner.

• Documentary
• Making of

On her Masterclass “Unsung Women Heros of Animation”, the well known Animation Journalist, Nancy Denney-Phelps reflects why there is so few women in the animation industry, even though almost 65% of all animation students are female and why we all know the Fleisher Brothers and Walt Disney, but with a few exceptions, the women who blazed the animation trail are almost unknown to us. Denney-Phelps is a distinguished animation journalist and a well-known guest in many Animation Festivals. She writes an animation blog to the Animation World Network – AWN.

• Documentary
• Making of
• Non-narrative

by Miloš Tomić

A reckless boy desperately seeks the attention of his photographer father, whose obsession with his art creates both distance and connection between them. Through growing up amid this creative chaos, their bond slowly strengthens. Combining hand-drawn and stop-motion collage, the film journeys through the archive of Slovenian photographer Dragiša Modrinjak and the director’s own personal experience.

by Cheng-Hsu Chung

Tonight we are serving your relationship with food and body! Inspired by the online phenomenon of Korean eating videos that make people droll and feast, Mukbang presents the visualisation and mental reflection of the binging culture through an eventful dinner experience.

by Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook

To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China’s greatest heroines in the process.

• Comedy
• Pre-school

by Timon Leder

A mouse gets trapped in a big truckle of cheese. Busy munching its soft core, he forgets about his famished friend outside. Meanwhile, the cat is waiting…

by Anita Killi

Attempting to escape her realty, a desperate girl climbs down into a deep dark silo. She finds solace in an injured bird. In an intense but quietly told story, we see the struggle of a depressed young girl. We don’t always see what’s going on in mind of our children. A small thing can be enough to give them new energy to continue their lives.

The Moomins are back, just like you remember them! The third season is all about adventures and obstacles won with curiosity, enthusiasm and a great dollop of humour. Watch this behind the scenes video.

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Family
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• Family
• Fantasy
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• Drama
• Family
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• Fantasy
• Family
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Steve Box, the director of the animation series, tells Moomin.com why he ended up directing a new interpretation of the much-loved stories and what is the magic behind the production that drew in so many renowned A-list professionals to re-create the warm, adventurous and philosophical world of the Moomins.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Family
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• Family
• Making of
• Fantasy

Marika Makaroff, creative director and executive producer at Gutsy Media on building a new animated world based on Tove Jansson’s original stories.

• Drama
• Adventure
• Family
• Making of

by Jay Hiukit Wong, Ellis Kayin Chan

The dream of a goldfish to return into its wild form uproars her long-forgotten memories, and a self-conscious monsoon is about to be uninhibited.

• Fantasy

by Julian Gallese

A series of videos commissioned by Days Off.

• Experimental
• Music video

Moanan: Behind the Scenes of the Animation

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• Family

by Daniela Hýbnerová

Snorting, coughing, humming, clicking, … Ever present horrorful orchestra of the surrounding world drives a young lady mad. Noises coming from neighbouring flats take shape of their creators and break into the flat of the young lady, where they cause unthinkable torture. There is no hiding for our heroine and so she has to learn how to live with it.