Film showcase: The best of anima
CATTLE, directed by Patrick Bouchard, Canada, 2012, 8’55’’ – Grand Prix – Złoty Jabberwocky/Gold Jabberwocky
Interpretation of “Pictures at an Exhibition”, piano miniatures by Modest Mussorgsky. The film is inspired by the slow, sluggish, cumbersome movement of a mule drawing a heavy cart.
DELL’AMMAZZARE IL MAIALE/ABOUT KILLING THE PIG, directed by Simone Massi, Italy, 2011, 6’20’’ – Srebrny Jabberwocky/Silver Jabberwocky
When a pig is dragged out of a pigsty to be slaughtered, during a brief moment out in the open it is able to see the sky and look at the world around.
SUUR MAJA/BIG HOUSE, directed by Kristjan Holm, Estonia, 2011, 10’24’’ – Brązowy Jabberwocky/Brown Jabberwocky
On an ordinary summer evening residents of an ordinary block of flats gather outside in the courtyard. One of them, a resident driven by conflicting motives, uses the situation to his advantage and as a result the end is obvious and easy to anticipate.
VELOCITY, directed by Karolina Glusiec, Great Britain 2012, 6’ – Special Gold Jabberwocky for the Best Animated Etude
I have always thought that my memory is impressive. I just wanted to show you these drawings. A collection of drawings, a collection of memories, a collection of what is lost. These images do not exist, but the drawings do. The memory is only inside my head, in my mind.
SUNNY AFTERNOON, directed by Thomas Renoldner, Austria, 2012, 6’50’’ – Special Mention
This is a confrontational merger of a faux-avant-garde movie with a mock-video clip, which poses a number of point-blank questions regarding film conventions, typical taboos, and stereotypes entrenched in diverse movie genres. Both music and images have been also accordingly assembled together so as to show the cliches and limitations of film genres in question.
DRÓŻNIK/STATION MASTER, directed by Piotr Szczepanowicz, Poland, 2012, 11’ – Special Mention
A single man working as a station master somewhere in the middle of nowhere, where even trains do not stop, is the protagonist of this short film. His main pastime is playing the trumpet. Until one day there ...
LE GRAND AILLEURS ET LE PETIT ICI/HERE AND GREAT ELSEWHERE, directed by Michèle Lemieux, Canada, 2012, 14’25’’ – Special Mention
A man engrossed in his own thoughts is suddenly shaken out of his intellectual state by a sudden realisation of his own existence. He keeps on pondering upon the outside world, the world he inhabits, considering a wide array of topics, ranging from the evolution of life and the development of the particles, which create the matter, to the mysteries of memory and the conundrum of death.
UNA FURTIVA LAGRIMA, directed by Carlo Vogele, France, 2011, 3’08’’ – Special Mention
The last journey of a fish that sings its own death song, starting from the market where the purchase takes place and finishing on the frying pay.
DEMONS, directed by Theodore Ushev, Bulgaria, Canada, France, 2011, 3’43’’ – The Great Underrated Prize (“WIELKI NIEDOCENIONY”)
On the first day after the first Sunday after the first summer rain the Red Cat is sitting on the roof of an old house. The Cat is waiting patiently, following with his eyes the moon’s seeming journey across the sky. And the house? What does it contain? Demons? Witches?
OH WILLY…, directed by Emma de Swaef, Marc James Roels, Belgium, 2012, 16’ – Student Jury Award
Forced to return to his roots, Willy fumblingly attempts to become a noble savage. In his fifties, plump and self-conscious, Willy re-joins the ranks of nudists among whom he grew up so as to visit his dying mother.
POSLEDNÝ AUTOBUS/THE LAST BUS, directed by Martin Snopek, Ivana Laucikova, Slovakia, 2011, 15’ – Audience Award
The beginning of the hunting season. Forest animals rent a small bus and drive away to a safe haven. When a group hunters stop the car in the dead of the night, the passengers - for fear for their life - show them their true colours.