Synopsis:
Smile’ is an experimental animation about how the pressures and expectations girls face from a very young age can cause a damaging effect to their mental wellbeing and self-value.
- Director:
- Jenny Jokela
- Year:
- 2016
- Country:
- United Kingdom, Finland
- Running time:
- 1 min.
- Original title:
- Smile - trailer
- Production type:
- Student
- Producer:
- Jenny Jokela
- Animator:
- Jenny Jokela
- Script writer:
- Jenny Jokela
- Music composer:
- Jenny Jokela
- Sound designer:
- Jenny Jokela
- Editor:
- Jenny Jokela
- Production:
- Royal College of Art
- Distributions:
- Vimeo, Royal College of Art
- School:
- Royal College of Art London
- Genres:
- Drama, Experimental, Non-narrative
- Tags:
- Feminism, Body Image, Mental health, Trauma, Identity, Shame, Poetic, Transformation
- Audience:
- Adults
- Festival selections:
- Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Encounters Film Festival
- Awards:
- Best Student Film at Encounters Film Festival
-
Barbeque
2017 Adults 6 min
by Jenny Jokela
Barbeque is the visceral journey of coping with posttraumatic stress disorder by Jenny Jokela.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
-
Happy Ending
2018 Adults 5 min
by Ara Choi, EunJu Ara Choi
With real testimony from a Korean prostitute, this beautiful painted animation explores what it is like to be the subject of other people’s pleasure.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
-
The Porous Body
2018 16+ 6 min
by Sofia El Khyari, Sofia el Khyari
A young woman who lives in her thoughts goes back to the sea to centre herself. As she dives into the water, she dives under her skin and penetrates her psychological wrapping.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
-
Live a Little
2018 16+ 4 min
by Jenny Jokela
Live a Little is a visual poem about the anxieties and struggles of fitting in and acting in accordance with the social norms of how a young woman should behave.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Experimental
-
SKINT
2015 16+ 1 min
by Jenny Jokela
SKINT’ is about punk’s ability to create through destruction and finding beauty in the damaged.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
-
The Lost Mariner
2014 16+ 6 min
by Tess Martin
An animated interpretation of Dr. Oliver Sacks’ case study found in his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. It uses photographs to visualize the rare memory condition of the patient Jimmie G.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
-
Pining
2017 16+ 2 min
by Caibei Cai
An unobtainable feeling.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
-
Washed Out: Hard to Say Goodbye
2017 16+ 4 min
by Jonathan Hodgson
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
-
Aamuhämärä
2015 16+ 1 min
by Jenny Jokela
Aamuhämärä is my animation for the Rhythmanalysis elective at Royal College of Art. Aamuhämärä is the Finnish word for dawn, but directly translated it means morning-dusk/-darkness/-gloom, which captures the feeling I wanted to visualize in my animation.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
-
Hanne
2005 Adults 7 min
by Éva Magyarósi
Story of a love triangle in which a girl is living her everyday life on the beach when Hanne appears. As unexpected as she is, she disappears as suddenly.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
-
Enducated
2020 7+ 7 min
by Xavia Chen
Once upon a time, there was a crawling tortoise. The tortoise was told that as long as it keeps going, it will reach the goal. But, why reaching the goal? The story is a reflection of the education system in Asia. High school students aimlessly pursue the one and only goal – getting into the perfect university. But what is next?
- Drama
- Coming-of-Age
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
-
Eating in the Dark
2020 Adults 9 min
by Inari Sirola
Through snakey dildos, setting boundaries and a journey through a mind bending forest we follow Siro’s quest for self discovery.
- Drama
- Romance
- Experimental
- Non-narrative