International Animation Film Festival, Nov 24 - Dec 2, 2010

Animated Night

above 18 years old

2009

Sweet, sexy, thrilling and funny, the Animated night is a once in a year festive undertaking of animation lovers. Watching the Anilogue panorama programme in one is a 5-hour animation marathon good in company, and with occasional drink breaks.

SHORTFILMS IN PROGRAMME:

SERENADE
Directed by Orsolya Bajusz
Austria, 2009, 2’03’’
Producer: Orsolya Bajusz

The sad little clown pours the despair of his wretched soul into a bittersweet lullaby. The burring of his mandoline splits through the silent orange night like an arrow. The trees and flowers cry together with the godforsaken little jester, mourning beauty and purity.

REVISION / REVIZIJA
Directed by Goran Trbuljak
Croatia, 2009, 3’21’’
Producer: Vinko Bresan

Woman's hands are thumbing through some six hundred drawings of peckers on the papers with the title of the measuring tools factory. They are closing and putting away the portfolio. Under the portfolio we can see, in photographic accuracy, a sample of what was in the drawings. The hand reaches for that unique sample only to discover it is also not real.

1ST PING PONG LESSON WITH LUCHA LIB
Directed by Pash (Martin Kohout)
Czech Republic, 2008, 3’
Producer: Martin Kohout

A very short film about wrestlers, ping pong players, fair play and predestinations.

SHOALS
Directed by Jan Bohuslav
Czech Republic, 2009, 8’
Producer: Filmova a Televizni Fakulta AMU (FAMU)

About creation and its shoals. About symbiosis between the creator and his imaginary inner world. However, to create this world the creator needs means that make him dependant on the outer world.

WATCHING OANA
Directed by Sébastien Laudenbach
France / Belgium, 2009, 15’
Producer: Arnaud Demuynck, Les Films du Nord

Oana is working. I am watching her. Tonight, the very last file will be closed. She doesn’t want to translate the words of others anymore. She thinks tomorrow she will start writing her own words. But she won’t, I know that…

MESSAGE IN THE STREET / STRASSENBOTSCHAFTEN
Directed by Sarah Weckert & Evamaria Schaller
Germany, 2009, 4’12’’
Producer: Sarah Weckert & Evamaria Schaller

Walking through the streets, keeping eyes and ears open, you will see and listen to the stories of your city.

AMPUTEE
Directed by Annkatrin Hausmann
Germany, 2009, 1’51’’
Producer: Heiner Simons

By meeting the Jellyfish, the Marasoti feels what it means to be abandoned in the big city.

MAGUS MAXIMUS
Directed by Emanuel Strixner
Germany, 2009, 8’
Producer: Baden-Württemberg GmbH, FILMAKADEMIE

“Magus Maximus” plays in an imaginary ancient amphitheatre where an old, fat magician is trying to perform a levitation trick with his female assistant. But he’s long lost his magic power and fails constantly. The entire audience has already fallen asleep except for one last drowsy viewer.

DIARY OF A BOOK OF RECORDS INSPECTOR / DIÁRIO DE UMA INSPECTORA DO LIVRO DE RECORDES
Directed by Tiago Albuquerque
Portugal, 2009, 11’
Producer: Humberto Santana - Estúdios ANIMANOSTRA

Scenes of the life of a woman responsible for the verification of the records for the
Guinness Book.

MY FRIEND IS A CLOUD / PRIETENUL MEU E UN NOR
Directed by Anton Octavian
Romania, 2009, 4’30’’
Producer: Anton Octavian

You wonder who this great friend is? Look up on a cloudy day and you may see him on a floating island playing the piano.

THE COMPETITIVA / LA COMPETITIVA
Directed by Hernan Cieza/ Adriana Delfino
Spain, 2009, 20’
Producer: Hernan Cieza/ Adriana Delfino

Two employees of a peculiar ramshackle factory of “caganers” express their creativity to the fullest in order to dazzle the waitress who serves lunch daily. The exuberant competition in which they are embarking ending aside the original games to make way for darker feelings.

WATCH ALICE BLEED
Directed by Fredrick Andersson
Sweden, 2009, 11’
Producer: Fredrick Andersson

Watch Alice bleed is a music and theatre show, performed by the animated sister, Alice and Alex Gore. Alex chops Alice head off with a big knife. And then she feed the Gorehound. She read a short poem from the book of blood. And she decides to animate.

SELFPORTRAIT
Directed by Fredrick Andersson
Sweden, 2009, 3’
Producer: Fredrick Andersson

Fredrik draws self-portrait. The camera moves around in the room and register what happens in the background.

UNE TOILE
Directed by Ophélie Tailler
Belgium, 2008, 2’45’’
Producer: Koninklijke Academie Schone Kunsten

Many people are scared of spiders, but it is unclear why exactly. In this film, spiders are shown in a different way: they are elegant, float and dance across water (and even underwater).

BLIND DATE
Directed by Ben Verschooris
Belgium, 2008, 7’
Producer: KASK, Ben Verschooris

Three people meet thanks to a cat, a car and a blind date.

BITTE WENDEN
Directed by Joris Bergmans
Belgium, 2008, 7’
Producer: KASK Hogeschool Gent, Jean-Marie Demeyer

A hitchhiker is picked up by a driver. The discomfort of this first encounter pervades the entire film, gradually confusing the characters’ roles. Broken German GPS Steffie completes the chaos.

COLCHIQUE
Directed by Jean-Luc Greco/Catherine Buffat
France, 2008, 10’
Producer: Laurent Pouvaret

A poetic and melancholic evocation of some volatile moments in Fernand's life, a little boy who lives with his mother Josette, his aunt Louise and a feisty dog, Colchique.

A MOVING BUSINESS / LAUFENDE GESCHÄFTE
Directed by Falk Schuster
Germany, 2009, 8’34’’
Producer: Falk Schuster

Moving Business shows a world where the characters clocks beat to a different rhythm. Two people living next door to one another but still in completely separate worlds. But one day their paths cross and their worlds are turned upside down. What happened?

THE RAT TRAIN ROBBERY / DIE SCHIEFE BAHN
Directed by Jim Lacy & Kathrin Albers
Germany, 2008, 11’
Producer: Stoptrick / Hamburg

Since the British train privatization went so well, the German government has decided to follow their lead and privatize their own rail service. German Rail, once a Mercedes among Fiats, is now ready for the stock market, but what happened to all of those German Rail employees we always loved to hate...

PIMPIN’ PLANET MARS
Directed by Rune Eriksson / Erik Eriksson
Norway, 2009, 6’
Producer: Rune Eriksson / Erik Eriksson

NASA can only watch when martians take control over the rovers.

SÁIVA
Directed by Tuva Synnevåg
Norway, 2009, 8’32’’
Producer: University College in Volda

This story takes place in a Sami mythological landscape (Samis are the indigenous people os Scandinavia). It is about a girl, searching for her dead boyfriend.

ME AND MY MONSTER
Directed by Claudia Röthlin
Switzerland, 2008, 3’21’’
Producer: Gerd Gockell, Otto Alder, Jochen Ehrmann

A little girl is terribly afraid of monsters. They are everywhere: in the cellar, out on the street and under the bed. They even look over her shoulder when she does her homework.

FLOWERPOTS
Directed by Rafael Sommerhalder
UK / Switzerland, 2008, 5’07’’
Producer: Royal College of Art, London

A short film about flowerpots, hats and habits.

THE TRAP / KATISKA
Directed by Joni Männistö, Janne Kukkonen, JP Saari, Mikko Korhonen
Finland, 2008, 4’33’’
Producer: Eija Saarinen

A heart-warmingly shivering short story of a girl, her father and a fish.

NIGHTSCAPE / NACHTSCHATTEN
Directed by Elke Mosler
Germany, 2009, 4’16’’
Producer: Academy of Media Arts, Cologne
A child cycles through a dark forest at night. Suddenly it gets thrown off the road and into the wood by an aggressive car. In the wood the child finds a strange glowing creature that is tangled up in a bush. After the child untangles it, a mysterious adventure begins.

BOB
Directed by Jacob Frey & Harry Fast
Germany, 2009, 3’
Producer: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

A hamster chases his love around the globe. Will he get her?

CAVITY EXPRESS
Directed by Kenji Muto
Japan, 2009, 10’
Producer: Kei Shozusawa, Toru Maeda

“Brush your tooth, or the Cavity Express will come get ya!”
Dentist apprentice boy EGG, and his side-kick cavity pal C1 hops into the mechanical-biological-train “Cavity Express” to explore through cavity world to accomplish necessary training need to achieve yearning DOCTOR title! Toothbrush and Toothpaste as his arsenal, Boy EGG resist against bad-nasty-cavities to rush for the “End of the Journey Station”!!
CAVITY EXPRESS is one of a kind, fantasy adventure animation!

AUGUST
Directed by Matthias Hoegg
United Kingdom, 2009, 4’25’’
Producer: Matthias Hoegg and The Royal College of Art

Unwanted visitors disturb the tranquillity of a campsite at the height of summer. While mayhem breaks out on the lawn, a group of ants makes brave new discoveries in the grass.

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