| The backbone of the annual
AIAF mission! Almost every one of these films is an Australian premiere.
We received more than 2000 entries from every corner of the world
and this collection of the best of them is your up to date snapshot
of the international animation scene. |
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Tale About The Animated Image
Joris Clerte
France 2006, 3’30
The history of animation condensed
in three and a half action packed minutes – with a reminder
of how hard it is to animated hair!
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The Life Size Zoetrope
Mark Simon Hewis
UK 2007, 6’30
Animation is created one frame at a
time, 24 frames for a second. A bold imaginative experiment using
real people with giant flipbooks strapped into a giant, revolving
zoetrope. An absolutely unique perspective on the art of creating
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Flighty
Leigh Hodgkinson
UK 2006, 1’30
Bugs don’t live long, not long
at all. In fact in the time it takes to read this, your average
bug will have…..
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Wibbel-Ich &
Gluck
Janona Arendt
Austria 2006, 3’00
Fine art with a raw edge. A combination
of water colour montages, captivating sketches and imagery borrowed
from archives of short film and auteur animation. |
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Onion Skin
Paul Jadoul
Belgium 2007, 4’00
Layer upon layer, our character gets
parred down to his intrinsic essentials. |
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End Of The Street
Andy Martin
UK 2007, 5’00
A street-level response to the Beaufort
Wind Scale in which an unseen visitor whips up all kids of chaos
on the inhabitants of an unsuspecting neighbourhood. |
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Al Dente
J.F. Barthelemy, M. Francois, L.O. Carlos Felipe
France 2007, 6’00
A crazy kitchen, an inspired chef and
some pretty happy pasta. |
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E. Toubal, Y. d’Incau, T. Castellani, C. Renaudin
France 2007, 6’00
Ancient Japanese graphics and samurai
tattoo design is brought to startling digital life in this sumptuously
animated work. |
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The Life
Jin-Ho Ryu
Korea 2007, 6’45
One of the finest examples of the manipulation
of light in an animated film that you will ever see. An extended
illumination of lives lived amongst the machinery of mankind.
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The Accident
Sarah Nesteruk
UK 2007, 3’00
Gorgeously drawn in deep blue ink,
this films perfectly captures the depth of the main character Paul,
a man caught in a life not entirely of his own making. |
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Love Triangle
Yasmeen Ismail
UK 2007, 3’00
Ah, can there be any greater love than
samosa love? |
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On Water
Fruzsina Gaal
Hungary 2007, 4’00
A deceptively simple film which strips
away the visual complications of scenery to more fully capture the
clash of cultures that exist between the man woman. |
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Pork Cutlet
Do-Young Kim
Korea 2007, 3’00
Hoh man! The dangers and various burdens
of being one of the tastiest kids on the block. |
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Beton
Michael Faust, Ariel Belinco
Isreal 2006, 6’50
Although wrapping us in its painterly
beauty, Beton brings home of the complex horrors of war and the
simple desires for peace in all its forms. |
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Cancre
R. Berthou, S. Burie, L. Covet
France 2007, 5’00
A small boy rides a wave of dark blue
ink all the way into a strange parallel universe where he gets to
pain the wall with a family of box heads.
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Better To Have Loved
Karen Macey
UK 2007, 3’00
….than never to have photographed
at all. If every picture is worth a thousand words, these walls
have a lot to say. |
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Black Grapes Of The
Chest
Yui Hamagashila
UK 2007, 1’45
An intensely detailed drawn cascade
of fascinating, intertwining elements combine to create of wall
of vision that will kickstart the most dormant of imaginations.
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Mister Sandman
Q. Vien, A. Akhdar, M. Faugaret
France 2007, 4’45
Reaching deep into the dreams of the
town’s children, evil Mister Sandman finally meets his match
when he too must close his eyes. |
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