highlighting the best new International Short Form Animation, familiar narrative structures that have characters we can identify with are interspersed with more experimental films. The inclusion of both conventional and challenging works – highlighting the indefinable nature of animated film – demonstrates the limitless capacity of the form.

Screening with:

Aanaatt

• Max Hattler /
• UK, Japan, Germany /
• 2008 /
• 5 mins

The ever-changing shape of Analogue Futurism

Director: Max Hattler
Producer: Max Hattler
Music: Jemapur

Colchique

• Jean-Luc Greco, Catherine Buffat /
• France /
• 2008 /
• 10 mins

A poetic and melancholic evocation of one volatile moment in the life of Fernand, a little boy who lives with his mother Josette, his aunt Louise and a feisty dog, Colchique.

Directors: Jean-Luc Greco, Catherine Buffat
Producer: Laurent Pouvaret
Scriptwriter: Jean-Luc Greco
Editor: Nathalie Pat
DoP: Jean-Pierre Chalignié
Production Designers: Jean-Luc Greco, Catherine Buffat
Music: Alexis Pecharman

Esterhazy

• Izabela Plucinska /
• Germany, Poland /
• 2009 /
• 25 mins

Esterhazy is sent by the Patriarch to Berlin in 1989 to find a huge, healthy and beefy bunny wife. After a long, extensive search he finds a paradise of bunnies near the Berlin Wall.

Director: Izabela Plucinska
Producer: Monika Sajko-Gradowska
Scriptwriters: Izabela Plucinska, Anna Jadowska
Editor: Dirk Schreier
DoP: Izabela Plucinska
Production Designer: Agata Rojek
Sound Production: Kacper Habisiak, Marcin Kasinski
Music: Max Knoth

Inukshuk

• Camillelvis Théry /
• France /
• 2008 /
• 9 mins

On the last polar day, on the singing ice, Inuk and the mischievous bear see their white world change to a black ocean of a whale with big eyes.

Director: Camillelvis Théry
Producer: Bruno Bianchi
Scriptwriter: Camillelvis Théry
Editor: Gwen Mallauran
DoP: Olivier Gillon
Production Designer: Camillelvis Théry
Sound Production: Loïc Burkhardt
Music: Camillelvis Théry

Mutt

• Glen Hunwick /
• Australia /
• 2008 /
• 7 mins

A simple game of ‘fetch’ is Mutt’s only desire in exchange for loyalty and hard work, but the harsh taskmaster, Mac, is too busy to play.

Director: Glen Hunwick
Producer: Beth Frey
Scriptwriter: Glen Hunwick
Editor: Gary Woodyard
DoP: Jon Billington
Sound Production: Jason Murphy
Music: Blair Joscelyne

Postalolio

• Marv Newland /
• Canada /
• 2008 /
• 5 mins

Every frame of this film is a postcard which has been sent through the mail before being filmed

Director: Marv Newland
Exec Producer: Fred Seibert
Editor: Alen Puaca
DoP: Bruce Alcock, Joe Truesdell, Alen Puaca
Production Designer: Marv Newland
Sound Production: Craig Waddell, Ewan Deane
Music: Joe Venuti, John Carroll, Paul Plimley

Reach

• Luke Randall /
• Australia /
• 2009 /
• 4 mins

A tiny robot is given the gift of life with only one limitation: the length of his power cable. When a curious bird appears at the workshop window, his lust to live outside of his reach may be his demise.

Director: Luke Randall
Production Designer: Luke Randall
Music: Philip Glass

Unravel

• Caroline Huf /
• Australia /
• 2008 /
• 7 mins

Experimental work allowing thoughts and images to surface through improvisation of the sculpting and animation processes.

Director: Caroline Huf
Producer: Caroline Huf
Scriptwriter: Caroline Huf
Editor: Caroline Huf
Music: Frankie Death

Variations Sur Marilou

• Félix Dufour-Laperrière /
• Canada, France /
• 2008 /
• 6 mins

Marilou seems to haunt, exhaust, and entice her lover all at once. Beautiful chiaroscuro sketches of the female nude accompany the observations of a man consumed by desire.

Director: Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Producer: Gerald Leroux
Scriptwriter: Felix Dufour-Laperriere
Editors: Nathalie Pat, Félix Dufour-Laperrière
DoP: Felix Dufour-Laperriere
Sound Production: Olivier Calvert, Philippe Deschamps, Yann Legay
Music: Serge Gainsbourg

Western Spaghetti

• PES /
• USA /
• 2008 /
• 3 mins

An appetising meal is prepared from inedible objects in this work of magical stop motion.

Director: PES
Producer: Sarah Phelps
Editor: Sam Welch

The Yellow Bird

• Tom Schroeder /
• USA /
• 2008 /
• 12 mins

A young man flees the draft for World War I and finds a job on a cattle ranch in eastern Montana. He accidentally shoots himself and takes a horse drawn cart to try and reach medical attention.

Director: Tom Schroeder
Scriptwriter: Jay Orff
Sound Production: Tom Schroeder
Music: Tom Schroeder