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Austrian animation director and media-artist Reinhold Bidner is working in the fields of animation, media art and games. In his Masterclass Encounters & Inbetweens, Reinhold talks about and discuss his artistic animated experiments in between various disciplines, formats and techniques. He will also present images and video excerpts. The session was moderated by Animatricks Creative Director Hämid Shajarian.
Adopted girl is telling us a story about how families come to be. But sometimes that can be different – as she tells us in a story about her own, special family.
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.
A shrew is looking for a new home, with no success. Little does he know, that he’s about to make a discovery that could change the future of his kind.
After his plane crashes on a small uninhabited island, a young man and his dog must find a way home.
While protecting his village from a rampaging boar-god, the young warrior Ashitaka becomes afflicted with a deadly curse. To find the cure that will save his life, he journeys deep into sacred depths of the Great Forest Spirit’s realm where he meets San (Princess Mononoke), a girl raised by wolves. It’s not long before Ashitaka is caught in the middle of a battle between iron-ore prospecting humans and the forest dwellers. He must summon the spirit-powers and all his courage to stop man and nature from destroying each other.
Konstantin is moving away from the wonderful empire of the plywood pirates. But how he can confess it his best friends Laurin and Digger?
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Peter is a kind boy having problems with his bullying schoolmates. One day he finds the solution to his problem in the wisdom of an old Slovenian folk tale where he discovers the way how to put up with his situation. Peter Peteris a modern story in a rap performance which shifts in its original way between present time and the past with a clear message “Take a stand for yourself!”
Hamish Fint, a crotchety old man used to a life of seclusion inside his submarine balanced precariously atop a mountain, struggles to maintain equilibrium when an unwelcome visiting seagull rocks his world.
The daily life of a little hen housekeeper, torn between her work, her children and her old mother.
While bird-mother Paula is away searching for food, her son Peep gets unexpected help from a Paper Plane. Together they head out exploring the magical world around them. But their friendship is soon to be tested…
Argentina 1983. A woman is devoting herself to the care of her sick father, a retired soldier. Her daily routine is set by the ticking of a clock which accompanies all of her tasks. As days go by, the woman withdraws more and more into her own little world, refusing to face reality.
This short, silent animated pilot for an upcoming children’s series plays with the canonical story of Noah’s Ark, in which Noah was tasked with saving pairs of animals from extinction. The creators, however, add a small but clever twist – a pair of creatures that Noah would definitely not have wanted to save.
Only a Child is a visual poem created by over 20 animation directors under the artistic supervision of Simone Giampaolo, which gives shape and colour to the original words spoken by Severn Cullis-Suzuki at the UN Summit in Rio in 1992, a child’s desperate call to action for the future of our planet.
A charcoal animated documentary about an ex-homeless man, and the changes he has made as a recovering alcoholic.
Akiko Takakura is one of the last survivors of the atomic bomb explosion of Hiroshima. During Obon, she receives the spirits of her parents and is haunted by memories. Her father is an authoritarian and traditional man. Akiko’s childhood consists of constant rejections and beatings. But the horrors of the atomic bomb and Japan’s subsequent capitulation change everything. Finally Akiko experiences fatherly love in the midst of Hiroshima’s ruins.
A woman who can’t stand the passing of time sucks everyone and everything she loves inside herself to keep them with her forever. Eventually, she turns into a black hole. A thousand unchanging years pass inside her dark embrace until one day, the Singularity wakes.
Three diffferent stories about a relationship between a father and son, taking place in different social milieux.