Everything’s different but nothing has changed. A trip through a sunken maze of memories and dreams.
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Everything’s different but nothing has changed. A trip through a sunken maze of memories and dreams.
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.
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?
The man lives alone in a small apartment. The little contact he had with other people has dropped to zero since the rabbit appeared. Every attempt to get the rabbit out of his apartment has failed and since he is not sure whether or not pets are allowed in the building, he does not let anybody enter his apartment.
It’s safer inside – less crazy, too. But when you do have to go out, go in a crowd and go in a rush. It’s the only way.
Official Music Video directed by Joseph B. Carlin
Queens of the Stone Age performs in the music video “Go with the Flow” from the album “Songs for the Deaf” recorded for Polydor Records. The features the band playing on the back of a Chevrolet pickup truck driving down a desert highway. Visually, the band is rendered in black and white against a red background.
Four flawed friends travel to the tropics where things go wrong.
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.
Candaş Şişman, an artist who manipulates human perceptions using different disciplines, talks about his multi-sensory installations that appeal to different senses at the same time, and the production processes of his experience-centered projects.
In this MasterClass, the artist Aurora Gasull discussed her fascinating journey through what became known as Visual Music, abstract cinema, absolute cinema…; her personal motivations and tools at the beginning of this path, and their development until today, in chronological order.
Dark feelings harvested during the childhood of a kid erupt in violence after his mother passes away.
A grieving mother uses left behind data to create a replica of her dead son. Her longing wish to have him back seems fulfilled, but soon the child must realize the limits of his artificial existence.
This is a film about identity loss in the totalitarian world of computer technology. In a meeting between a human and an artificial being, we can witness the creation of biomorphic reality.
A funny dog “psycho” or a “heart attack” encounter.
Existential problems David solves by dance
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.
This short animation film was created by Mark Reynolds while attending New York Film Academy’s Animation Program with Robert Appleton.