The author’s film is inspired by the experience of a study stay in the Norwegian city of Volda. It describes the joint ascent of a pair of heroes to a local landmark – Rotsethornet. The author uses classic animation, for which she used painting with gouache paints to depict the sleepy atmosphere of a Norwegian town.
The range of Chintis Lundgren’s work has recently gone beyond her artistic and commissioned work, and she has begun filming a series for young audiences called Manivald and the Absinthe Rabbits. But Lundgren hasn’t forgotten her sense of humour or the expressiveness of silent animal faces. This short music video, which for some may be reminiscent of Alexey Alexeev’s Log Jam, is one of the first teasers of the series.
The film portrays a repetitive nightmare linked to a specific location, an apartment where the author spent the first twelve years of her life. The film works with elements of sleep paralysis and anxiety. By combining rotoscopy with old family photos and videos, the viewer has the opportunity to immerse themself into this dream.
This associative study based on a stream of seemingly unrelated photographs was created in a semester project as a part of guerrilla mapping. The left frame depicts city scenes, the right frame forest scenes. It’s up to the viewers to detect and find similar elements and connections in two different worlds.
The main character receives a letter from his girlfriend, who lives in the city of Jonkio. She asks him to save her from the place. He decides to go and it takes him a whole day to get to a place where he could hop on a train that goes to the city.
Sometimes we all miss our homes. The director’s country house has an image of an intangible safe space built of memories. What if we never forget them? What if we can keep those memories alive in our hearts forever?
In her film experiment, a student from the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen who also teaches animation to children uses obsolete objects, plastic wrap, foil and an overhead projector to create various moods. They appeal to the viewers not only thanks to their visuality, but also thanks to a poem of the same name by Ewald Murrer.
This unusually morbid music video is full of black humour and surprises. Made with a distinctly stylized stop-motion, it shows a woman dealing with lovers who are late, unfaithful or otherwise dissatisfactory, while breaking the law with a smile on her face.
This experimental short film was made as a graduation project in the Studio of Film and TV Graphics of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. The author found the inspiration for her film when travelling through Scotland and she managed to transfer the country’s atmosphere to the viewers despite using only wool.
