Synopsis:
We talk about the creation of the series, the attitude to artificial intelligence, cooperation with producers, ambitious projects, and creative clashes that may arise during their implementation.
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The lecture covers animation in the context of new media and how it changes under the influence of other types of contemporary art, such as games, performance, installation. What kind of new animation tools emerged? How to use bugs and mistakes in search of innovation? How to use AI in contemporary animation?
- Documentary
- Making of
- Experimental
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Interview with Olga Pärn, illustrator, animator, and director from Belarus who currently lives in Estonia.
- Documentary
- Experimental
- Making of
- Non-narrative
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A robot with an old-fashioned incandescent lamp head is hiding in a city ruled by led lamp heads. When his secret is descovered he must run away. But where?
- Drama
- Sci-Fi
- Experimental
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Interview with Tomek Popakul who took both the Grand Prix and the ;DSAF Audience Award with Acid Rain at 16th Animateka.
- Making of
- Experimental
- Drama
- Music Videos
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Our first part of the lecture will focus on pioneers and experiments. We will also find out how Ukrainian animators in the 1920s made advertisements, propaganda, and children’s stories, sometimes even combining all of them in a single artwork. We will also discuss the problems that Ukrainian animation faced and how it bothered and threatened the Soviet government. In the second part of the lecture, we will talk about how and where the animated film heritage is preserved today. What is the size and significance of the animation collection kept at the Dovzhenko Centre.
- Documentary
- Making of
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Priit talks on the creation of his film HOTEL E (1992). How he got the idea, the structure of the film, filling the basic structure with events, solutions for style of animation and visual design as well as describe the work process. The master class is moderated by Ukrainian animation director Mykyta Lyskov.
- Documentary
- Making of
- Non-narrative
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In this presentation, experimental animator Jon Gillie will discue his early work in moving image, using analogue and digital mediums. Illustrating with examples, he discussed some influences in his work, approaches to abstraction, and the importance of sketching.
- Documentary
- Making of
- Abstract
- Experimental
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In this touching presentation, Pedersen describes the creative and visual processes behind three of his films produced by Mikrofilm: The folkloric anxiety of The Boyg (2016), The looping limbo of Zolle: Resign (2021) and the nuclear petri dish of Little Boy (2018).
- Documentary
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Making of
- Non-narrative
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In a city of drawn characters, we witness the arrival of an entity of unknown materiality. With a mysterious presence and its exotic allegories, it starts to enchant people, awakening their most insane senses.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Fantasy
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Sci-Fi
- Musical
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In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. We see her go against the stream of the indifferent masses, and make daily visits to the museum of natural history to make drawings of the ever increasing number of extinct animal species. Her considerate character doesn’t protect her from a bacterial infection when a global pandemic strikes. When her health deteriorates, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Sci-Fi
- Experimental
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During a PowerPoint presentation, statistical diagrams are breaking free from their restrictive coordinates. A trip into the sensual world of statistics begins.
- Documentary
- Making of
- Non-narrative
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In 1999 a boy becomes obsessed with the Y2K bug; In the distant future a girl is learning to be a priest in a religion based upon the ‘artefacts’ left behind by the boy.
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi
- Drama
- Experimental