Projects in categories: Animation

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An intimate insight into the relationship between a mother and her son in the midst of the most dangerous journey of their lives. BAFTA Film Awards 2020 - Nomination - Best British Short Animation

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Iceland is a country marked by its frozen nature and extreme temperatures, which give it a certain touristic appeal. The harshness of the climatic conditions and the enthusiasm of tourists regularly cause car accidents to happen. From this phenomenon, verging on absurdity, the artist and filmmaker Ruaidhri Ryan had planned to make a road movie, one that he will never finish. He thus adventures into the different phases of pre-production, production and post-production of what this film could have been. This film captures the hilarious diary of this failure, in which Ryan calls on a 4x4, a GPS gnawed by the cold, an elf and a Viking guide with whom he maintains a virtual correspondence. Moving between simulated reality, video games and cinema, the film explores the geography of a country marked by the exoticism of its landscapes, often used as backdrops for Hollywood movies. A hilarious look at the way in which new technologies condition our ways of representing territories. Official Selection Visions du Réel 2019 - International Competition - World premiere

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The story of Diva – a fading superstar preparing for a comeback performance at the 2065 'eSports Olympics' – and Geo, an AI with artistic yearnings. Set in a smoke-and-mirrors realm of fantastical architecture, sentient drones and snow-deluged jungles, AIDOL revolves around the long and complex struggle between humanity and Artificial Intelligence. Fame – in all its allure and emptiness – is set against the bigger contradictions of a post-AI world, a world where originality is sometimes no more than an algorithmic trick and where machines have the capacity for love and suffering. Contemporary anxieties and fixations – the rise of AI, the formulaic dictates of celebrity, the hegemony of technological giants – are refracted through a quixotic prism. AIDOL is accompanied by a score composed and orchestrated by the artist.

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In these dark times, you may think that every hazard has been identified, but nobody has taken in consideration how dangerous dance can be… Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - Shorts Programme

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Using real pop-up paper folds filmed in 3D and enhanced with VFX, these titles introduce viewers to the bucolic setting for 'Queens of Mystery' - a tongue in cheek mystery tv series about three crime writer sisters helping their cop niece solve murders.

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Following his death, Lother Schramm finds himself in a disorientating and nightmarish afterlife. A short, animated sequel to Jörg Buttgereit's 1993 film SCHRAMM. Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2020

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Set on the island planet of Kairos Linea, ELEVEN ELEVEN is a multi-linear narrative that places users in the center of the action as its inhabitants count down the final 11 minutes and 11 seconds to an extinction-level event. The only guarantee for survival is aboard a rescue ship that will launch just before the clock hits zero, transporting a lucky few to the safety of a floating ark in the sky. The narrative plays out in real-time and focuses on six main characters whose stories intersect as they try to make it to the ship, or face the reality of what could be their final moments. Official Selection SXSW 2019 - Virtual Cinema Competition - World premiere

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In 1961 Elvis misses his cue at a recording session and politely starts again. Analogue sound is converted to video showing the audio frequency spectrum, and a shuffle dancer from recent online footage dances through it.

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Separate projections combine, unifying, becoming whole. Twelve animated projections combine to develop a rhythmic dialogue exploring the intrinsic relationship between sound and image using 16mm film, paint and a projector.

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A barefoot dancer possibly contravening local laws busks in St.Mark's Square, Venice. His performance is captured from the internet and focused into 24 narrow panels to show pattern and movement flow across time.

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In the midst of a searing heatwave, two little children find a way to cool everyone down. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - Graduation Short Film Competition

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