Animations & Screenings
Why are we creative?
Hermann Vaske (DE)
Why are we creative? Does it run in our blood? Do we create in order to make ourselves immortal? Is it a reckless compulsion? Or is it simply a way to make a buck?
JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2019
The Japan Media Arts Festival honors outstanding works in a wide variety of media in four categories: art, entertainment, animation and manga. This program consists of various excellent films singled out for recognition by the 2019 Japan Media Arts Festival.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS CREATIVE AWARD
ISCA (International Students Creative Award) is an international arts and information media competition for universities, graduate schools and vocational schools, sponsored by the Knowledge Capital Association. It is an international competition open to students from Japan and around the globe.
ANIMATIONSINSTITUT OF THE FILM ACADAMY BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG
Animationsinstitut, part of Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg, is one of the world’s leading film schools, offering the areas of study “Animation Artist,” “Effects Artist,” “Animation/Effects Producing,” “Technical Directing,” and “Interactive Media.” This screening features some of the latest and greatest student projects realized at Animationsinstitut.
DIGITAL MEDIA, HAGENBERG CAMPUS
A behind-the-times fisherman leaves the safe harbor and sets outs to the open sea, two mail carriers deliver a huge eccentric package, a figure with an old-fashioned monitor plays a special version of the game rock-paper-scissors, a woman gets lost in a roundabout, and a gorilla eavesdrops on the conversation of two meerkats. This program features a selection of recent student works, ranging from narrative shorts to experimental animations, from the Digital Media Department at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in Hagenberg.
VR SHOWCASE
This program features a special selection of VR works that have been submitted to the Computer Animation category of this year’s Prix Ars Electronica. Visitors can emerge themselves into several presented projects.
ANIFILM PRESENTS: CZECH ANIMATION NOW
In this selection of short films, you can discover brand new Czech creations. It is a very diverse portfolio of contemporary Czech production offering shorts by students, films by experienced authors, and experimental works. Since one of the main goals of Anifilm is to cover all domestic creations, the Czech Horizon (Český obzor) competition category was established recently. All of the films presented here took part in that national contest.
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.
STUDIO FEATURE: PLATIGE IMAGE
Platige Image is an award-winning film production, VFX, animation and post-production company based in Warsaw, Poland. They work for the biggest brands in the world, the best video game publishers and some of the finest film directors. They started out as a studio composed of a dozen or so people producing mainly commercials and music videos. Gradually, they developed their team and expanded their portfolio with short films, cinematics, 3D live theatre sets, VFX for live action movies and special projects, such as museum installations.
LATENITE
The late night program: irreverent, satirical and little indecent. In Late Nite, the films walk the thin line between dead seriousness and biting satire; they are full of philosophical approaches on one side, and trashy humor on the other. Mourning and loss are processed in colorful and brutal cartoon aesthetic, memes and Internet humor thematized in the pixel format, and some of the films will remain a mystery even after thorough reflection.
