International Competition Abstract and Non-Narrative Animation

Abstract and non-narrative animation A

Ghost Cell

Antoine Delacharlery | France | 2015 | 7 min

This dreamy and at the same time scientifically stylized documentary takes us into an inner organic world of Paris. Through the all-seeing eye of a virtual microscope, we explore the city’s aged structure and realise its fragility. The impressive 3D animation makes do without using colour range.

Th 05/05/2016
17.00-18.08

J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 07/05/2016
18.00-19.08

Schwarzenberg Hall

All Rot

Max Hattler | United Kingdom, Germany, Hong Kong SAR China | 2015 | 4 min

Responding to the compositional and aesthetic qualities of abstract expressionism and camera-free animation, All Rot uses photographic reanimation to render the mundane environment of a decaying crazy golf course into a rapturous split-screen experiment in synesthetic cinema.

Th 05/05/2016
17.00-18.08

J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 07/05/2016
18.00-19.08

Schwarzenberg Hall

The Five Minute Museum

Paul Bush | United Kingdom, Switzerland | 2015 | 7 min

The latest film by Paul Bush is a playful field trip around English and Swiss museums where the exhibits come to life and reveal their stories. It is a celebration of the chaotic diversity created by our minds and hands. The author also pays homage to the magical eccentricity of museum collections.

Th 05/05/2016
17.00-18.08

J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 07/05/2016
18.00-19.08

Schwarzenberg Hall

Setting West

Judith Poirier | Canada | 2015 | 6 min

The author of Setting West uses period printing materials from eminent letterpress studios and copies them directly to the 35 mm film stock. Typical fonts and symbols serve as references to western ‘Cowboys and Indians’ stereotypes. The visuals combined with the soundtrack create an extraordinary commentary on the classical film genre while simultaneously exploring the formative years of typography and printing.

Th 05/05/2016
17.00-18.08

J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 07/05/2016
18.00-19.08

Schwarzenberg Hall

The Love Story

Evan Grothjan | United States | 2015 | 6 min

The disturbing form of The Love Story uses the aesthetics of advertising motion design in contrast with subheads and organic, abstract and otherwise seemingly odd motifs. The ideals of the American dream, the main theme of the film, are constantly re-evaluated and the result is an inevitable and hard awakening.

Th 05/05/2016
17.00-18.08

J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 07/05/2016
18.00-19.08

Schwarzenberg Hall

OTTO

Dario Imbrogno, Salvatore Murgia | Italy | 2015 | 2 min

OTTO was created with the intention of making a metaphoric and abstract commentary on the natural cycle of events that often change the rules of those who are involved in them. To fulfil his intention, the author worked with very physical and infrequently used forms of expression, such as regular paper.

Th 05/05/2016
17.00-18.08

J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 07/05/2016
18.00-19.08

Schwarzenberg Hall

Detour

Jasmijn Cedee | Belgium, Netherlands | 2015 | 7 min

The author takes the viewers on a walk through an unknown environment outside the known world. It is a testimony about a form of escape whereby we rather prefer the longer and more complicated path to the beaten one. In a largely abstract graphic style, the author manages to evoke the feelings we experience when living in the wild.

Th 05/05/2016
17.00-18.08

J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 07/05/2016
18.00-19.08

Schwarzenberg Hall

O

Erick Oh | United States, South Korea | 2015 | 4 min

Erick Oh often focuses of minimalist plots developed into unimaginable shapes and dimensions. This time, as the title suggests, it is the motif of a ring that penetrates and defines everything. It can be the creation of the universe, the flow of time or the creation of life from chaos.

Th 05/05/2016
17.00-18.08

J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 07/05/2016
18.00-19.08

Schwarzenberg Hall

Squame

Nicolas Brault | Canada | 2015 | 5 min

Squame explores the body’s sensitive envelope, the skin. The ephemeral animated desquamations, created with the help of sugar casts, evoke fragile landscapes in a world at the edge of abstraction. Somewhere between archaeological artefacts and macroscopic observations, the crumbly frontiers of these human bodies elude our gaze.

Th 05/05/2016
17.00-18.08

J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 07/05/2016
18.00-19.08

Schwarzenberg Hall

Retro Future

Mirai Mizue | Japan | 2015 | 7 min

“The world of the future I imagined when I was young is quite different from the world we live in now”. This was the sentence the author used to describe his latest film, in which once again we see his elaborate abstract composition constantly in motion. This time veiled in nostalgia.

Th 05/05/2016
17.00-18.08

J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 07/05/2016
18.00-19.08

Schwarzenberg Hall

The Sleepwalker

Theodore Ushev | Canada | 2015 | 5 min

Celebrated and versatile Canadian director Theodor Ushev takes us on a surreal journey through colours and shapes inspired by the poem Romance Sonámbulo by Federeico García Lorca. A visual poem set to the rhythm of fantastic dreams and passionate nights following the tradition of great Catalan painters and Balkan music.

Th 05/05/2016
17.00-18.08

J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 07/05/2016
18.00-19.08

Schwarzenberg Hall

Prague!

Matyáš Trnka | Czech Republic | 2015 | 13 min

Is Prague a place to live or just a tourist attraction? Why do people move away from its centre and then feel like foreigners when they come back? The film confronts the magical beauty of the historic city with the ubiquitous tourism that has long since crossed the boundaries of good taste and morality. Is any chance that the city can still be purified – and its beauty restored?

Th 05/05/2016
17.00-18.08

J. K. Tyl Theatre

Sa 07/05/2016
18.00-19.08

Schwarzenberg Hall

Abstract and non-narrative animation B

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U.

Adrian Regnier | Mexico | 2015 | 5 min

Mexican artist Adrián Regnier Chavez works somewhere on the boundaries of video art, film and animation. His film U. takes us to a strange urban space which, like other environments, falls into decay. The soundtrack of the film helps to create a mesmerising atmospheric spectacle with gravity-defying airiness.

Fr 06/05/2016
21.00-22.08

Su 08/05/2016
15.30-16.38

Světozor Cinema

If You Say Something, See Something

Gina Kamentsky | United States | 2015 | 2 min

The viewers may remember Gina Kamentsky, who focuses on animating directly on the found footage, from last year’s Anifilm. Her new film If You Say Something, See Something draws along the same lines as last year’s Jiro Visits the Dentist – it is once again a playful, lively and inventive film combining abstract and concrete shapes.

Fr 06/05/2016
21.00-22.08

Su 08/05/2016
15.30-16.38

Světozor Cinema

4min15 in the Developer

Moïa Jobin-Paré | Canada | 2015 | 5 min

The film confronts a young woman with an urban landscape and visualises their mutual influence. The images gradually decompose, blend and recompose again… Canadian animator Moïa Jobin-Paré made her visually captivating film by using a combination of several animation techniques including classical stop-motion animation.

Fr 06/05/2016
21.00-22.08

Su 08/05/2016
15.30-16.38

Světozor Cinema

Drift Following the Seam

Maik Perfahl | Austria | 2015 | 4 min

Maik Perfahl’s film is a dark experimental simulation of nature inserted into a dreamy mechanical world full of noises. The Austrian filmmaker, oscillating between architecture, design and computer graphics, linked moving shapes in a 3D space with a purposeful soundtrack and created a disturbing atmosphere.

Fr 06/05/2016
21.00-22.08

Su 08/05/2016
15.30-16.38

Světozor Cinema

The World Welcomes Fame

Burlat Alexis | Belgium | 2015 | 7 min

The director, a graduate of the Brussels art school La Cambre, takes us on an extraordinary trip into a geometric universe where he uses one cube and four colours to create an infinite number of variations. The constantly changing image, shifting quietly from simplicity to complexity and back again, is very intensely interlinked with the soundtrack.

Fr 06/05/2016
21.00-22.08

Su 08/05/2016
15.30-16.38

Světozor Cinema

Rhizome

Boris Labbé | France | 11 min

Boris Labbé, the director of this fascinating film with minimal colour, believes that everything in the universe is closely connected – from the smallest things to the biggest ones. The director captures their movement and constant metamorphoses in a minutely elaborate whole and shows how these seemingly independent things exist in interaction.

Fr 06/05/2016
21.00-22.08

Su 08/05/2016
15.30-16.38

Světozor Cinema

Track

TOCHKA (Takeshi Nagata), TOCHKA (Kazue Monno) | Japan | 2015 | 4 min

This film was made by the Japanese art duo TOCHKA (Nagata Takeshi and Monno Kazue), which frequently uses the method of long exposure. In Track, the authors used a special and atypical method of light animation. They track the origins of mankind, the power of fire and prehistoric cave paintings motives.

Fr 06/05/2016
21.00-22.08

Su 08/05/2016
15.30-16.38

Světozor Cinema

Absent

Nikki Schuster | Austria, Germany | 2015 | 7 min

Austrian animator and sound designer Nikki Schuster draws on Freud’s theory about the magical phase of childhood – on a combination of hopes and fears that things are capable of keeping their secrets from us. With stop-motion animation, the film explores the world and a strange subculture of discarded things in derelict houses and other remote places.

Fr 06/05/2016
21.00-22.08

Su 08/05/2016
15.30-16.38

Světozor Cinema

Ghost Tracks

Jerome Boulbes | Japan, France | 2015 | 6 min

The dark film Ghost Tracks has viewers track a train that may still be ahead of us but also may be long gone. The film with a very specific tempo and mood is the result of the cooperation of the French director (of Moroccan origin) with experimental blues-noise musicians (Rinji Fukuoka, Masayoshi Urabe and Shizuo Uchida).

Fr 06/05/2016
21.00-22.08

Su 08/05/2016
15.30-16.38

Světozor Cinema

Here There

Alexander Stewart | Croatia, United States | 2015 | 5 min

Here There gives graphic form to memory’s malleable, straying lines. It begins as a traveller’s sketchbook, drawn in Croatia in the summer of 2014, but details soon fade away into abstract impressions on the edges of memory. This film is a reduction to the essence, a condensed feeling of one place and time.

Fr 06/05/2016
21.00-22.08

Su 08/05/2016
15.30-16.38

Světozor Cinema

Vanishing

Jan Šrámek, Veronika Vlková | Czech Republic | 2015 | 6 min

The film illustrates the events happening in a Japanese interior with an inner symbolism of the laws of space and item placement. Thematic animation is defined by suggested territory, and observed symbolism but also by a tendency to abstract the production “process” into fragments of created images that have no narrative character but rather define a flickering moment of memory and fantasy.

Fr 06/05/2016
21.00-22.08

Su 08/05/2016
15.30-16.38

Světozor Cinema

Jazz Orgie

Irina Rubina | Germany | 2015 | 2 min

This one-minute jazz ride will immediately draw viewers into a choreography of dots, lines and shapes creating a dizzying rhythmical and sundry game of colours and shapes. German director Irina Rubina simply got carried away by jazz tones and made a refreshing film in which images and sounds are inseparably connected.

Fr 06/05/2016
21.00-22.08

Su 08/05/2016
15.30-16.38

Světozor Cinema

Urbanimatio

Hardi Volmer, Urmas Jõemees | Estonia | 2016 | 8 min

The remarkable project Urbanimatio was created by a duo of Estonian filmmakers in ten random cities throughout the world. The result is a poetic portrait of the anonymous urban sphere. The authors were particularly interested in the themes of evolution and decay, ageing and regeneration but also in the visible magic of the dynamic symbiosis of stone, concrete, wood and steel. The authors describe their film as “magical realism in its most natural form.”

Fr 06/05/2016
21.00-22.08

Su 08/05/2016
15.30-16.38

Světozor Cinema