animation
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.
MENTAL STATES
Mental confusion, fears and dead-end states form the undercurrent of this program. A young woman breaks free of her everyday life and embarks on an uncertain journey. A story about outsiders in a pub, a group therapy session with animals, and a boy trapped in societal constructions.
GENDER
This program portrays fairly diverse gender positions: A man and a woman meet each other – an unpleasant yet at the same time provocative situation between attraction and rejection. An experimental animation about gender and sexuality with vagina and penis as its main elements. An analysis of anorexia and a black comedy about a couple with differing attitudes towards gender norms.
WORLD MACHINES
Urbanization and globalization in the digital age is one example. Another one is a movie portraying various traditional patterns of the Ainu people, the native inhabitants of Northern Japan. Seoul City Machine is a city symphony of an urban space of tomorrow, written and narrated by an AI chatbot. Or maybe a city portrait of young people and their personal data.
STATEMENT
A group of soldiers set off on a peaceful exploration of the city through a war zone in the middle of Manhattan, a game of pretended emergencies, a society that buries its head in the sand. Filmmakers take a stand on various political issues such as censorship in Saudi Arabia or ask questions about staged images in the refugee crisis.
EXPERIMENTAL
This program presents new innovative trajectories within 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.
Quantum Logos
Mark Chavez (US), Ina Conradi (SG), Tate Chavez (US), Bianka Hofmann (DE), Bob Kastner (AU)
In an immersive reactive audio-visual experience, Quantum Logos uses cultural archetypes to explore natural phenomena focusing on the basics of quantum theory. We attempt to utilize aspects of intuitive, assumptive cultural models to describe the nature of existence as confirmed through scientific observation. The media artists Mark Chavez and Ina Conradi, sci-art producer and developer Bianka Hofmann and science communicator Bob Kastner form the collective Quantum Travelers
