Best of International Student Animation II

Best of International Student Animation II

Genre

Animation

Run time

1h 10min

Conformis

Germany 2011, 5'46''

REŽ/DIR: Martin Grötzschel, Benjamin Manderbach

Prod: Martin Grötzschel, Benjamin Manderbach

Conformis tells a story about being other. It is about the dance, as a feeling of individuality, immediately threatened by the march of the masses. Our barefoot friend is about to discover his own dance, which is why he has to escape.

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Different

Germany 2011, 4'30''

REŽ/DIR: Dennis Stein-Schomburg

Prod: Dennis Stein-Schomburg, Roland Fischer

One child is different than the others. Because of her dreamily and sportive nature she doesn't match the generally accepted behavior of the other kids. Being different makes her more and more lonely. But in the end her loneliness saves her from being killed by the bomb that hit the orphanage

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How To Disappear

Germany 2011, 2'57''

REŽ/DIR: Merlin Flügel

Prod: Rotraut Pape

A film about the subconscious, the melancholy, the end and the beginning. A hypnotic voyage without any wind.

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I Am Tom Moody

United Kingdom 2012, 6'55''

REŽ/DIR: Ainslie Henderson

Prod: Ainslie Henderson

An exploration through the mind of a musician in a moment of stage fright. we join him in his quest to marry his conflicted inner voices and ally his younger self.

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Last Breath

United Kingdom 2012, 7'55''

REŽ/DIR: Ying Ping Mak

Prod: Animation Staff RCA

An account of events when Yeuk Seng slowly grasps the fact that he has become a social outcast as a breathing person. Refuses to give in, he is now struggling to live in a city that he does not belong to anymore.

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Morning Train

Switzerland 2012, 5'16''

REŽ/DIR: Delia Hess

Prod: François Chalet

After spending the night together, a couple parts ways. Guided by the activities of the man's morning rituals, she travels into a dream accompanied by the rhythms of the morning train and finds herself alone once again.

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Open Play, Forgetting Eye

Japan 2012, 8'39''

REŽ/DIR: ALIMO

Prod: Koji Yamamura

The film is made with the Surrealist game, “exquisite corpse” as its core methodology. Pictures are drawn and drawn repeatedly. After several days one forgets the images he has drawn himself. Through the accumulation of coincidences and contiguities, the act of "combining the forgotten images together" generates interstices, and finally this play gets its own rhythm and opens itself like a window through which the sunlight streams.

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Playing Ghost

United Kingdom 2012, 9'57''

REŽ/DIR: Bianca Ansems

Prod: Andrew Start

Five year old Amy and her Mum are divided in grief for Dad, occupying very separate worlds in their struggle to cope. But whilst Mum sinks into numb solitude, struggling to keep to routine, Amy seeks a more magical escape that ultimately has its own perils.

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Reverso

France 2012, 7'14''

REŽ/DIR: Clément Lauricella, Arthur Seguin, Kimberly Honma

Prod: Clément Lauricella, Arthur Seguin, Kimberly Honma

Barney lives with his father, Walter, in a little suburban house. He tries to live a normal life, even though Barney is different: his sense of gravity is inverted.

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Tap To Retry

Israel 2012, 4'27''

REŽ/DIR: Neta Cohen

Prod: Neta Cohen

'TAP TO RETRY' is a frenetic series of super-shorts, metaphors for the way we conduct ourselves in this hectic era of information overload. It aims to give a perceptible interpretation to vague, undefined concepts, but in a way that will only add to the disorientation we all feel at times, living in a world where real and virtual constantly mix and shift.

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The Day I Turned Into A Ghost

Germany 2011, 3'45''

REŽ/DIR: Christine Geisser, Kirsten Carina Geisser

Prod: Christine Geisser, Kirsten Carina Geisser

A poetic music video about "him", who can't let go and "her", who's finally taking a decision.

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When One Stops

Finland 2012, 6'30''

REŽ/DIR: Jenni Rahkonen

Prod: Eija Saarinen

The world won’t stop turning even when one stops turning with it.

Genre

Animation

Run time

1h 10min

Conformis

Germany 2011, 5'46''

REŽ/DIR: Martin Grötzschel, Benjamin Manderbach

Prod: Martin Grötzschel, Benjamin Manderbach

Conformis tells a story about being other. It is about the dance, as a feeling of individuality, immediately threatened by the march of the masses. Our barefoot friend is about to discover his own dance, which is why he has to escape.

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Different

Germany 2011, 4'30''

REŽ/DIR: Dennis Stein-Schomburg

Prod: Dennis Stein-Schomburg, Roland Fischer

One child is different than the others. Because of her dreamily and sportive nature she doesn't match the generally accepted behavior of the other kids. Being different makes her more and more lonely. But in the end her loneliness saves her from being killed by the bomb that hit the orphanage

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How To Disappear

Germany 2011, 2'57''

REŽ/DIR: Merlin Flügel

Prod: Rotraut Pape

A film about the subconscious, the melancholy, the end and the beginning. A hypnotic voyage without any wind.

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I Am Tom Moody

United Kingdom 2012, 6'55''

REŽ/DIR: Ainslie Henderson

Prod: Ainslie Henderson

An exploration through the mind of a musician in a moment of stage fright. we join him in his quest to marry his conflicted inner voices and ally his younger self.

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Last Breath

United Kingdom 2012, 7'55''

REŽ/DIR: Ying Ping Mak

Prod: Animation Staff RCA

An account of events when Yeuk Seng slowly grasps the fact that he has become a social outcast as a breathing person. Refuses to give in, he is now struggling to live in a city that he does not belong to anymore.

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Morning Train

Switzerland 2012, 5'16''

REŽ/DIR: Delia Hess

Prod: François Chalet

After spending the night together, a couple parts ways. Guided by the activities of the man's morning rituals, she travels into a dream accompanied by the rhythms of the morning train and finds herself alone once again.

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Open Play, Forgetting Eye

Japan 2012, 8'39''

REŽ/DIR: ALIMO

Prod: Koji Yamamura

The film is made with the Surrealist game, “exquisite corpse” as its core methodology. Pictures are drawn and drawn repeatedly. After several days one forgets the images he has drawn himself. Through the accumulation of coincidences and contiguities, the act of "combining the forgotten images together" generates interstices, and finally this play gets its own rhythm and opens itself like a window through which the sunlight streams.

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Playing Ghost

United Kingdom 2012, 9'57''

REŽ/DIR: Bianca Ansems

Prod: Andrew Start

Five year old Amy and her Mum are divided in grief for Dad, occupying very separate worlds in their struggle to cope. But whilst Mum sinks into numb solitude, struggling to keep to routine, Amy seeks a more magical escape that ultimately has its own perils.

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Reverso

France 2012, 7'14''

REŽ/DIR: Clément Lauricella, Arthur Seguin, Kimberly Honma

Prod: Clément Lauricella, Arthur Seguin, Kimberly Honma

Barney lives with his father, Walter, in a little suburban house. He tries to live a normal life, even though Barney is different: his sense of gravity is inverted.

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Tap To Retry

Israel 2012, 4'27''

REŽ/DIR: Neta Cohen

Prod: Neta Cohen

'TAP TO RETRY' is a frenetic series of super-shorts, metaphors for the way we conduct ourselves in this hectic era of information overload. It aims to give a perceptible interpretation to vague, undefined concepts, but in a way that will only add to the disorientation we all feel at times, living in a world where real and virtual constantly mix and shift.

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The Day I Turned Into A Ghost

Germany 2011, 3'45''

REŽ/DIR: Christine Geisser, Kirsten Carina Geisser

Prod: Christine Geisser, Kirsten Carina Geisser

A poetic music video about "him", who can't let go and "her", who's finally taking a decision.

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When One Stops

Finland 2012, 6'30''

REŽ/DIR: Jenni Rahkonen

Prod: Eija Saarinen

The world won’t stop turning even when one stops turning with it.

Info

Rating

(none)

Production year

2012

Global distributor

-

Local distributor

Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival MTÜ

In cinema

11/14/2012