*AIAF recommends this program is best suited
for an audience aged 14+
SIGGRAPH needs no introduction to the AIAF audience. Each August
it becomes the very centre of the universe for those interested
in all forms of digital art and the technologies behind the creative
digital culture we are immersed in. And here is our annual survey
of the best films that came out of SIGGRAPH 2010. |
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COURS
TOUJOUR
La Station Animation
France, 1'48, 2010
Some pretty fancy high-speed scooter
work and a screeching flock of crazy birds provide the momentum
for this wild ride.
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NUIT BLANCHE
Arev Manoukian
Canada, 4'39, 2009
A fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing
their brief connection in a hyper-real fantasy. |
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GET OUT
ESMA Montpellier
France, 7'49, 2009
Gary has, as they say,
‘issues’. He may, or may not, be living in a beautiful,
beautiful aquarium but he'll never see the outside because he has
an all-consuming phobia of doors. Lucky he has a really good doctor. |
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WHITE DRAWING
WITT
France, 5'34, 2010
An intricately crafted,
ghostly and stark rendition of a gradually collapsing countryside. |
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FLYMAN
Shu-Wei Chang
Taiwan, 2'50, 2009
A deep reservoir of crazy-brave
courage and a working knowledge of steam-powered ornithopter engineering
is not always enough to keep one safe in the dangerous skies. |
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SUIREN
Tomoya Kimpara
Japan, 3'03, 2010
The ocean is a symbol
of life where seeds are born with purpose for their lives. So what
if it’s a machine? |
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THE WONDER HOSPITAL
Boemsik Shimbe Shim
USA, 11'34, 2010
An intensely intriguing
journey through a mysterious hospital that specialises in altering
the perception of physical beauty. |
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THE SANDPIT
Sam O'Hare
USA, 5'30, 2010
An extraordinary act of
‘re-animation’ using more than 35,000 individual photos
to re-imagine everyday New York street scenes as something akin to
a model train set. |
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MOBILE
Verena Fels
Germany, 6'30, 2010
A lonely cow decides
to make friends with some sheep, a dog, a couple of chickens, a pig
and a budgie on the other side of the room. There's just one little
problem … |
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MEM
Ilija Brunck, Jan Bitzer, Csaba Letay
Germany, 1'48, 2010
A transfixing glide
through a world on the other side of the magnifying looking-glass. |
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AMAZONIA
Sam Chen
USA, 4'15, 2010
The dangers of the jungle
floor are not all that they seem to be when the lights come up and
the applause begins. |
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UN TOUR DE MANEGE
Gobelins
France, 3'40, 2009
All pastel hues and soft focus. A very magic
roundabout safely transports a family across some dangerous divides. |
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ANIMOWANA HISTORICA
POLSKI
Platige Image
Poland, 8'52, 2009
A millennium tour of Polish history. A visceral
3D visual history of Poland's wars, rulers, triumphs, disasters and
ever-changing landscape. |
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LOOM
Ilija Brunck, Jan Bitzer, Csaba Letay
Germany, 5'20, 2010
Astounding! An up-close visualisation of the
battle-royale between spider and prey as life and death plays out
on the strands of a web. |
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