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Interview with the director Pablo Ballarin, interviewer Amin Abbasi. In this interview, you can get the answers to the following questions: Was there a personal experience or event that prompted the creation of this film? What was the biggest challenge with this film?
Experimental filmmaker and animator Blanca Rego (1974, Ferrol·Spain) discussed her creative process and introduced us to some of her abstract films.
Some time ago, on a winter morning, a little girl went out looking for firewood, she went far away from home and came across a blood trail... she followed it.
A cosmic entity talks to humankind. Meanwhile, three dinosaurs cross the desert guided by a shooting star.
Picacho must prepare for an important boxing match and a crucial interview while struggling with the strange, emotionally charged relationship he has with his trainer. The film blends sport, surrealism, and romance through an experimental visual style.
Martin Sheen (The West Wing) and Matthew Modine (The Dark Knight Rises) rebel against authority at their retirement home in this poignant comedy for adults. Using hand-drawn animation, Wrinkles leaves room for both tears and laughter as it pokes fun at society’s attitudes towards the elderly.
Woody & Woody pretende ser un modesto homenaje al gran cineasta neoyorkino, con diálogos frenéticos impregnados de ironía e ingenio y con unos dibujos de trazos vibrantes que parecen moverse a ritmo de jazz.
A gentle animation that played Sundance and Ann Arbor. Newly orphaned and freshly wounded from a loss, a boy lends his companion a prosthetic arm for the day. The companion records the arm being exposed to different textures and materials. What will become of the limb and the video recordings?
It’s a starry night in a poor neighborhood in Latin America. Oscar is sleeping in his room when a sudden wind wakes him up. From his window, he sees a little goldfish in a dirty puddle gasping for air.
For ages, teddy bears have been locked in a war against their sworn enemy, the unicorns, with the promise that victory will usher in a new era. A beautifully animated journey from the humiliations of teddy bear bootcamp to the psychedelic horrors of the Magic Forest.
Two bears go hunting unicorns, their favourite prey. Unicorns have soft flesh and delicious blueberry-flavoured blood that bears need to stay beautiful.
In a faraway land where the rain never stops, six-year-old Kyna spends her days playing carelessly with her dog Nana under the protective “umbrella beard” of her father, Din. He let it grow in order to shelter Kyna, who developed fear of rain on the day she was born. One night, Kyna’s life turns upside down when Nana disappears. To find her, Kyna will have to embark on an adventure of self discovery and she will be bound to face her great fear, the Rain.
Uka is a little girl who lives in a grey abandoned factory. While she’s painting of of her canvas, she finds a way of changing how she sees the world.
The Windshield Wiper is a very personal and particular vision on love and relationships.
Ointments, elixirs and poultices. Enriqueta and Ramoneta will attend to your needs with discretion, reserve and pleasant manners at Sunset Street No. 17A, Barcelona. Not sold in drugstores or chemist’s shops.
Within lines and shapes, hands touch, feel and experience each other, searching for the limits beyond their skin.
Clara is a self-demanding, perfectionist, nine-year-old girl. Despite her efforts and deprivations, especially from the temptations her friend Bea offers continuously, she gets a failing grade in Physical Education. She has embarked along a path of obsessions and self-deception that will lead her to fall into a bottomless pit. A journey through darkness on which she’ll lose everything and the people close to her, in particular her parents, full of doubt and questions, will be the beacon to show her the way out of the tunnel. Will she manage to do it?
In this talk, Paul Prudence talked about his performance work, which focuses on ways in which sound and generative video can be cross-wired to create live visual-music experiences. He unravelled his process looking at the use of generative graphics combined with sound collage and field recordings to create narrative fictions from the materials of pure abstraction. He touched on his use of expanded projections systems, such as planetarium domes and large screen configurations, to create hypnotic and immersive live experiences.
MASTERCLASS – ARCHITECTURAL FRACTALS by JULIUS HORSTHUIS (NL). “I’ll take the audience through some of the fractal landscapes. We will look at some of the characteristic features of those fractals, almost like we’re watching architectural facets. What creates those features? What is it about fractal math that makes it so engaging? What else is there to explore?” – Julius Horsthuis
Masterclass by Maura McDonnell. With a background in painting, music, mathematics, history, education, and music & creative arts with technology, Maura McDonnell has been creating abstract visual music works since 1997.