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The Concrete Jungle is a short animated film inspired by the limitless imagination of children. When a neighbour drills into a wall, who knows what a child thinks of a sound he doesn’t know and can’t identify. Maybe a herd of bisons is trampling through the neighbour‘s flat, or a savage cannibalistic tribe lives there. Thrilling tales of a small boy in a housing estate where even the most exciting adventures in the world can take place.
About justice and human shadow.
This film takes place in a world where clouds knowingly interfere with people’s lives. But the people don’t suspect a thing. The whole history of the clouds is revealed after a newborn cloud tries to help a selfish biker. However, because of the biker’s recklessness, nothing changes for humanity.
The Poliektova sisters will speak about transforming the initial idea of a story into a film, about the process of initial artwork, visuals and storyboarding. What are the important questions in the story and how can we create the main character?
This short but impressive experimental animation was made by students of the Studio of Animation at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia during a traditional school plein-air. It was inspired by the endlessly elaborate structures of the bark on trees near the Wallenstein Loggia. The students fittingly used the technique of non-phased animation – animation of real photographs.
In a postmodern take on revenge, a driver is chasing a bizarre estate caught up in a strange experiment.
Three kids spend the night at their grandpa’s house. To fill the silence after losing their grandma, the family’s storyteller, they begin to create their own stories and discover the power of imagination. This uplifting stop-motion film celebrates creativity and its healing magic.
Night lovestory of two outsiders, who meet in closed swimming pool in the middle of big city.
The native people of the surrealistic land of Superbia, where men and women form separate societies, face the changes sparked by the first equal couple in their history.
Flat sarcastic horror parody of comic series from the 1930s.
AnimatekaPRO is the Animateka festival platform for animation professionals and students. It was conceived as a place where one can learn about the latest trends, be updated on the latest developments, and meet exciting film professionals while exploring the fantastic world of animated film. As a part of AnimatekaPRO, for the fourth consecutive year, the AnimatekaPRO Pitch competition for projects in development will give an insight into the state of animation in ex-Yugoslav countries.
A gloomy city. Up from space it looks like a glowing spider’s web, but from the inside it is a concrete organism; inside its bowels thick human sediments move back and forth. And so does Mr. Spider.
Our children face ever greater threats as the climate crisis accelerates. It’s their future, so why aren’t we talking to them about it?
Animated essay about global situation of our society living in neoliberalism which tends to constant need of growth and increases inequality. Film is pointing out problems most of the people face in their everyday life without noticing it, and encourages us for seeking brighter prospects for the future and break through.
The topic of this lecture is to provoke the audience into being more sensitive to their everyday surroundings and to take note of precious material for their work (in any form) in small, rarely noticed phenomena, situations, objects, and movements. Ideas are not far from us. We often just need to change the angle from which we are looking at apparently mundane things. In addition, I will suggest a few games that could become ways of turning the slow and sometimes overwhelming process of animation (frame by frame by frame after one more frame…) into something more playful, even adventurous.
A story about dreams and desires, where reality may not be the only truth.
Official video for small pockets song “heads or tales” released March 25th, 2022.
Animation exercise.
The Big Sister – a person of colossal size – is trapped in sand in a deserted landscape. With no way to take care of herself, this burden falls on her resentful little sister.
An apartment building full of self centered inhabitants. Utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife. Widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol… While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard to solve triangle asking for absurd and irrational solutions. The consequences can easily become permanent, sometimes maybe too permanent. The film is a loose adaptation of a well-known biblical story while transforming it into an contemporary ironic narrative about how the world sometimes works.