Ars Electronica Animation Festival on Tour 2019

worldwide

Since the Prix Ars Electronica began in 1987, computer animations have been among the essential elements of our annual worldwide media art competition. The awarded works selected by a jury of experts from among thousands of submissions do not only fascinate the visitors of the renowned Ars Electronica Festival every year. With the “Ars Electronica Animation Festival on Tour”, we’re presenting a selection of outstanding animations for educational institutions, film festivals and cultural organizations together with the participating artists and in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs.

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Short Circuit 1

This compilation presents new innovative trajectories within digital storytelling, expanded narration as well as current cinematography at the intersection of art and science and brings together works with contemporary positions, from computer-generated procedural structures to trailblazing examples of frame-by-frame animated sequences.

  • Strings / Ruini Shi (CN) | 05:12
  • City Rhythm / Siyeon Kim (KR) | 05:02
  • Influencers / Foam Studio (DE), sound by Antfood (NL) | 02:37
  • Quantum Superpositions / Markos Kay (GB) | 04:07
  • A Double Life / Studio Job, Joris & Marieke (NL) | 02:43
  • Acid Rain / Tomek Popakul (PL) | 26:00
  • Facing It / Sam Gainsborough (GB) | 07:32
  • tx-reverse / Martin Reinhart, Virgil Widrich (AT) | 05:02
  • The Great Indecision Council / Romain Tardy (FR) | 04:34
Strings / Ruini Shi (CN)

Strings / Ruini Shi (CN)
Quantum Fluctuations / Markos Kay (CY/UK)

Quantum Fluctuations / Markos Kay (CY/UK)
tx-reverse 360° / Virgil Widrich (AT), Martin Reinhart (AT)

tx-reverse 360° / Virgil Widrich (AT), Martin Reinhart (AT)

Short Circuit 2

This compilation presents new innovative trajectories within digital storytelling, expanded narration as well as current cinematography at the intersection of art and science and brings together works with contemporary positions, from computer-generated procedural structures to trailblazing examples of frame-by-frame animated sequences.

  • Seven Experiments in Procedural Animation / Karl Sims (US) | 05:00
  • Meandering River / onformative (DE) | 01:48
  • Les E• le• phants Seront Contents / Lucas Roussel, Charlotte Brun, Loic Frimat, Vincent Labis, Adrien Lannoy, Alice Lepoutre (FR) | 06:57
  • Pulse / Sarah Forest, Cecile Floucat, Pauline Javelot, Juliette Gales, Thibaut Wambre, Kevin De Garidel (FR) | 06:40
  • Seoul City Machine / Liam Young (GB/ AU) | 07:41
  • DIRTSCRAPER / Peter Burr (US) | 09:02
  • + / Max Hattler (DE/HK) | 02:32
  • Powder – New Tribe / AC-bu (JP) | 04:45
  • Operation Jane Walk / Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner (AT) | 16:14
Seven Experiments in Procedural Animation / Karl Sims

Seven Experiments in Procedural Animation / Karl Sims
Meandering River / Onformative (DE), kling klang klong (DE)

Meandering River / Onformative (DE), kling klang klong (DE)

Young Animations

Gifted young filmmakers annually submit their weird, subtle, witty, utopian, critical and dystopian works for consideration to the Prix Ars Electronica’s u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category (AT), bugnplay.ch (CH), mb21 (DE) and C3<19 (HU). The greatest hits are featured in Young Animations.  

The Countdown starts …

  • Blue Moon / Kilian Mayer, Jaqueline Eder, Stephanie Stigler, Selina Maurovich (AT) 18 years/ u19 | 07:12
  • I was not built for this / Felix Weidenholzer (AT) 17 years/ u19 | 02:44
  • 56 (Hungarian Lego Movie) / Daniel Papp (HU) 16 years/ C3 | 01:38
  • Shape of you / Students BORG Bad Leonfelden (AT) 16 years/ u19 | 01:47

Behind the Scenes

  • Logic / Erik Smit (HU) 17 years/ C3 | 02:38
  • MASKS / Anna Haderer 18 years / u19 | 02:27
  • The Last Sunrise / Agnes Kiraly (HU) 18 years/ C3 | 04:08
  • Promise – Entstehung eines Animationsfilms / Deniz K6seoglu (CH) 20 years / BnP | 04:12
  • Zum Glück faul gewesen / Minou Kropp (DE) 10 years/ mb21 | 02:53
  • Fluchtwege/Escape Routes / Students Grundschule am Eliashof (DE) 3. Klasse / mb21 | 03:18

Beautiful Nightmares and other scary things

  • The Nightmare before my Birthday / Celina Niederhuber (AT) 18 years / u19 | 04:41
  • Misunderstood / Mate Koncz, Andras Koncz 14 years/ C3 | 01:15
  • Aye, Aye! / Aruna Gallas, Julia Maier, Majda Sehovic (DE) 22 years / mb21 | 04:58
  • La chambre claire / Students BORG Mistelbach (AT) 16 years / u19 | 03:30
  • Alien Schreck / Helene Rietig, Clara Schneider, Rudolf Seidl, Yasmin-Melody Winge, Alexander Yamaguchi (DE) 11 years / mb21 | 02:53
  • Die Goldene Rundfahrt mit PILU, dem Pilatusdrachen / Yanik Schwab (CH) 19 years/ BnP | 02:27
  • LEGO: Feuer und Wasser / Thomas Speckhofer (AT) 18 years / u19 | 07:57
LEGO Fire and Water / Thomas Speckhofer

LEGO Fire and Water / Thomas Speckhofer
Nightmare before my birthday / Celina Niederhuber (AT)

Nightmare before my birthday / Celina Niederhuber (AT)

Where the Ars Electronica Animation Festival on Tour 2019 has been screened so far…

January 8 – February 15, 2020 Gasteig Open Video, Munich Germany
February 29, 2020 ARS Electronica Animation Festival on Tour // RISE CoE, Nicosia Cyprus
March 7 – 15, 2020 Pixelsfest, Yekaterinburg Russia
February 7, 2020 Libraries Unlimited, Exeter Great Britain
June 6 – 7, 2020 Ars Electronica Animation Festival // CerModern Ankara Turkey
September 3 – 26, 2020 LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijon Spain
September 24 – October 1, 2020 Götzendämmerung, Munich Germany
October 23 – 25, 2020 Patchlab Digital Art Festival, Krakow Poland