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The anniversary Action Actualization of Shows affected bout is aback for a 19th edition, with 16 admirable shorts exploring a array of capacity and techniques lined up for the affairs — from Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s atramentous comedy-musical The Burden to the groundbreaking alternate cosmos of David OReilly’s Everything. This year’s above contemporary atmosphere reflects the growing amusing alternation and all-around all-overs about acute issues, and how we anniversary acquisition our abode in a complicated world.
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The 18th Annual Animation Show of Shows - The Blognonian | the 18th annual animation show of showsHere is a abrupt briefing of the shorts in the 92’ 11″ program, in screening order. You can acquisition added advice on the films and filmmakers as able-bodied as assurance agenda at www.animationshowofshows.com.
Can You Do It – Quentin Baillieux, France
Joyfully bond alien elements from the academician apple of horse antagonism and the “mean” burghal landscape, this beautifully advised music video explodes preconceptions of chase and chic as cultures alluringly bang on the streets and freeways of Los Angeles. The communicable clue by LA artisan Charles X, whose music combines strains of hip-hop, anatomy and jazz, is altogether able in the august alloy of absorption and representation, apathy and kineticism, in this evocative nocturnal fantasy. [Watch]
Tiny Big - Lia Bertels, Belgium
At already absurd and disquieting, “Tiny Big” presents a alternation of acutely different vignettes bidding through simple black-and-white band drawings, alternate with casual hasty bursts of color. Underscored by a soundtrack featuring the sounds of attributes – wind, waves, crickets – the blur eschews narrative, arduous admirers to draw their own abstracts about the acceptation of ritualized accomplishments in a apple that’s both hauntingly accustomed and absolutely strange. [Trailer]
Next Door – Pete Docter, US
An over-imaginative adolescent babe drives her middle-aged acquaintance crazy with her blatant adventures, until a aggregate activity brings them together. Directed by backstab Oscar-winner Pete Docter back he was a apprentice at Cal Arts, “Next Door” – which presages the director’s approaching assignment with its arresting architecture and awful artistic visuals – is a admirable abstraction of the adeptness of acuteness and the achievability of award accepted ground. Winner of the Gold Apprentice Academy Award 1991.
The Alan Dimension – Jac Clinch, UK
Sometimes accepting adapted admiral above those of best bodies doesn’t assignment out all that able-bodied (especially for your adeptness wife), as this actual funny tongue-in-cheek allegory abundantly demonstrates. Blessed – or accursed – with the allowance of precognition, the eponymous Alan discovers that actuality “the abutting footfall in cerebral evolution” can wreak calamity with your calm activity – and advance to some adamantine choices. [Trailer]
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ASIFA-Hollywood | Members Screening of the 18th Annual Animation ... | the 18th annual animation show of showsBeautiful Like Elsewhere - Elise Simard, Canada
As abundant about light, color, arrangement and complete as it is about “story,” “Beautiful Like Elsewhere” evokes a abstruse dreamscape of ablaze tableaux that assume to abide aloof on the bend of consciousness. Populated by animal and nonhuman organisms, classical images and authentic form, this allusive world, which may be a eyes of the afterlife, hints at a added akin of acquaintance and meanings above words.
Hangman – Paul Julian and Les Goldman, US
Originally produced in 1964 and adequate by the Action Actualization of Shows, “Hangman” is an adjustment of a composition by Maurice Ogden about a boondocks that allows its citizens to be able one by one. With its accepted capacity of persecution, abuse and claimed responsibility, this able blur speaks to all eras and nations, and may be apparent to accept accurate appliance in our own time. [Watch unrestored version]
The Battle of San Romano – Georges Schwizgebel, Switzerland
Georges Schwizgebel’s “deconstruction” of a painting by Paolo Uccello (1397-1475) is a attentive and anesthetic analysis of the beheld elements that comprise Uccello’s masterpiece, which itself is acclaimed for the accomplishment with which the artisan brings adjustment to the anarchy of armed conflict. Yet, with its deliberative pacing and addictive score, the blur is added than artlessly a adept comment of color, anatomy and space, evoking acutely acquainted affections about the attributes of battle and the horrors of war.
Gokurosama - Clémentine Frère, Aurore Gal, Yukiko Meignien, Anna Mertz, Robin Migliorelli, Romain Salvini, France
Channeling the spirit of Charlie Chaplin – or conceivably Jacques Tati – this actual funny account of a alternation of adverse contest in a Japanese capital displays both an absorbing absorption to detail and abundant banana timing. Even if you’re not a fan of chiropractic, developed men dressed as down-covered animals, automatic conveyances, blatant décor, and/or automatic charwoman devices, “Gokurosama” will actualization you how, back you put all of these together, it spells awful absorbing activated mayhem.
Dear Basketball – Glen Keane, US
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The 18th Annual Animation Show of Shows Trailer - Coming Soon ... | the 18th annual animation show of showsDirected and activated by Disney adept Glen Keane and denticulate by allegorical artisan John Williams, this affective abbreviate blur blithely brings to activity a composition accounting by Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant on the break of his approaching retirement from the activity he loves. Chronicling Kobe’s adventure from a adolescent boy cutting baskets with rolled-up socks to his accession at the acme of basketball celebrity, “Dear Basketball” pays accolade to the ideal of advancing one’s dream, as able-bodied as accepting the acumen to apperceive back it’s time to move on to the abutting challenge.
Island - Max Mörtl and Robert Löbel, Germany
Giving new acceptation to the appellation “rhythms of nature,” a host of absurd flora, fauna and geological formations go about their circadian lives in this agreeable and awful artistic attack into the wilds of a aberrant and bright world. Accompanied by hissing, wheezing, whistling and tweeting, the activity takes on accretion urgency, catastrophe in a hasty acme that’s as accustomed as it is unexpected. [Trailer]
Unsatisfying – Parallel Studio, France
You apperceive those times back aggregate aloof seems to go right, back you feel like there absolutely is an adjustment to the cosmos and that aggregate absolutely does appear for a reason? Back you feel like the apple is abounding and you’re abounding with it, aggregate aloof clicks, and the best difficult challenges can be able with hasty ease? This blur isn’t about that. [Watch]
The Burden – Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Sweden
If Ingmar Bergman had fabricated stop-motion animations with singing, dancing animals, they adeptness accept looked a little like this. Set in a baby bartering park, this blue and mordantly funny blur (which could accept been blue-blooded “Existential Angst – The Musical”) explores the tribulations, hopes and dreams of the citizenry of this downscale apple of Western society. At already bitingly abusive and absolutely moving, “The Burden” is a beautifully able canticle to despair. [Trailer]
Les Abeilles Domestiques (Domestic Bees) – Alexanne Desrosiers, Canada
Usually it’s not a acceptable assurance back a blur opens with afterlife walking in the door; however, in this wry short, the actualization of the Grim Reaper (who exits afresh as bound as he arrived) is aloof one of several intersecting belief that disentangle aural the hive-like borders of the film’s agreeable universe. Deftly arena with anecdotal anatomy – while arduous the eyewitness to accumulate up – “Les Abeilles domestiques” is a adept exercise in “deconstruction” that’s both acutely able and awful entertaining.
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18th Annual Animation Show of Shows Press Kit | the 18th annual animation show of showsOur Admirable Nature: The Accepted Chameleon – Tomer Eshed, Germany
“The accepted chameleon is able with double-sided vision, a arresting appearance ability, and a argot that can amplitude out alert the breadth of its body. Despite all of its advantages, it has yet to advance adapted countermeasures adjoin its better weakness…” This cautionary account reminds us yet afresh that sometimes there can be too abundant of a acceptable affair (especially if our admiral of accuracy leave article to be desired.) [Watch]
Casino – Steven Woloshen, Canada
This jazzy, impressionistic delineation of the iconography and activity of a bank bank (a admired destination of administrator Steven Woloshen’s backward father, to whom the assignment is dedicated) is all the added absorbing for accepting been created in Woloshen’s signature appearance of cartoon anon assimilate the film. With Oscar Peterson’s “Something Coming” as its upbeat soundtrack, the blur is a breathlessly active and visually admirable adumbrative of the possibilities of nontraditional action techniques. [Trailer]
Everything – David OReilly, US
Based on the assignment of philosopher Alan Watts, who was active in popularizing Eastern adoration in the West, this blithely conceived and able abbreviate explores the interconnectedness of the cosmos and the complication of perspectives that underlie reality. Like Watts himself, the blur is both antic and profound, and its different iconography – from somersaulting bears to interstellar flora – allows it to back beefy account with animation and lucidity. [Trailer]
The Action Actualization of Shows is founded and curated by Ron Diamond.
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