International festival of animated films Třeboň Czech Republic May 1st - 6th 2018

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Abstract and Non-narrative Animations B

V&T

Bennet Meyer | Germany | 2017 | 4 min

V&T is an experimental video clip. It shows an audiovisual interpretation of an inner battle between common sense and compulsion. CG images slowly take over a real female body. The author also refers to a quote by Friedrich Schiller: “The human mind’s good sense requires its natural origin, but condemns it at the same time.”

V&T

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema

The Battle of San Romano

Georges Schwizgebel | Switzerland | 2017 | 3 min

A movement within a painting, which begins with the savagery of a battle and comes to a halt in a rendition of a masterpiece from the 15th century: The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello. The famous painting is a perfect perspective study combining surface and depth effects. The same methods are used by the Swiss master of painted animation.

The Battle of San Romano

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema

Crux

Alexandre Roy | Canada | 2017 | 4 min

The director transforms a basic symbol into complex abstract structures. Accompanied by rhythmic music, the cross forms more and more complicated patterns. Among them we see fingerprints stamped on the 35 mm film stock that flicker through, give the robotically exact film a human touch and refer to the author’s personal relationship to the symbol.

Crux

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema

Silo

Gina Kamentsky | United States | 2017 | 3 min

A journey around an abandoned grain silo outside the animator’s studio. In this non-narrative essay, the author works with real-life footage and with her favourite material – film stock. It is her way of showing admiration of the simple yet significant construction. She personifies it in detail and the soundtrack hints at its historical context.

Silo

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema

Divisional Articulations

Max Hattler | Hong Kong SAR China | 2017 | 5 min

Repetition and distortion drive this audio-visual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music and geometric digital animation collide in an electronic feedback loop, and spawn arrays of divisional articulations in time and space.

Divisional Articulations

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema

The Train, the Forest

Patrick Buhr | Germany | 2017 | 4 min

Through the window of a train, we watch the landscape. We pass running people and trees with birds taking flight from them. But as the train enters a tunnel, the perspective suddenly changes. Our world is turned upside down and we find ourselves among the protagonists. Minimalist computer animation works skilfully with basic lines and takes us all the way to an oppressive and unlikely end.

The Train, the Forest

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema

Dreamland

Mizue Mirai | France | 2017 | 5 min

Renowned Japanese wizard of abstract and geometric animation Mirai Mizue once again urges us to switch off our rooted sense of perception. Once again, we submerge into his rectangular world which constantly grows from nothingness. First a typical block appears out of nowhere and the structure starts to grow profusely. Dreamland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Dreamland

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema

Boy Transcoded from Phosphene

Rodrigo Faustini | Brazil | 2017 | 3 min

Trapped in phosphene (seeing stars), raw documentary footage unfolds its digital self, receding into its abstract infancy, a memory image unspooled from the dependency of a referent, affected by its internal life. A computer sees without eyes, an algorithm imagines.

Boy Transcoded from Phosphene

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema

Elegy

Paul Bush | United Kingdom, Switzerland | 2017 | 6 min

A film of stone and light – just stone and light. It is a study of the decoration of a sacral building deconstructed by the director in order to reveal its beauty in great detail. Quoting S.T. Coleridge: Elegy is a form of poetry natural to the reflective mind. Sorrow and love became the principal themes of the elegy. Elegy presents everything as lost and gone or absent and future.

Elegy

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema

Water Dream

Koji Yamamura | Japan | 2017 | 11 min | FR

This film depicts evolution from the birth of life to a whale in the sea with music and images paying homage to the American contemporary composer George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae (1971). There are four parts: Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic. This specific “music video” made by a renowned Japanese artist was originally intended as a part of the Eternite exhibition organized by the Museum of Natural History of Nantes.

Water Dream

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema