FESTIVALS - Black Maria Film + Video Festival (USA) set I - short films /90 min./NIGHT TRAIN / JOHN ZISSOVICI / USA / 2008 / 3’30’’
In this highly kinetic work Google Earth images of rooftop golf driving ranges in Japan are transformed into an abstract collage.
THE BELLOWS MARCH / ERIC DYER / USA / 2009 / 4’55’’
A kaleidoscopic march of concertina-like figures/soldiers prance as rain descends on the fallen, who are reborn as colorful plants blooming in fake time-lapse images.
LOST AND FOUND / JEFF SCHER / USA / 2007 / 3’
Unlike most of today’s feature animations, which seek to make the incredible credible, these early animations celebrate the incredibleness of the worlds they drew.
ENERGY / THORSTEN FLEISCH / GERMANY / 2007 / 5’
An uncontrolled high voltage discharge of approximately 30,000 volts creates an animated tempest in this spellbinding work.
SEBASTIAN’S VOODOO / JOAQUIN BALDWIN / USA / 2008 / 4’07’’
The altruistic protagonist summons up the courage to martyr himself in order to save the life of others.
TENDER BODIES / JAMES DUESING / USA / 2003 / 8’10’’
A madcap computer animation that imagines a time when genetic experiments become a hobby for the priviledged elite.
THE TRAIN HOME / GRAHAM BURNS / USA / 2009 / 6’30’’
A WWII American veteran returns home from Japan...
LOOPLOOP / PATRICK BERGERON / CANADA / 2008 / 5’
A visual tour de force. One Thousand images, captured on a long train ride through Vietnam, slide by one another and stack up like a crazy quilt of images and sounds as the film runs forward and backward similtaneously.
FUZZY INSIDES / MICHAELA OLSEN / USA / 2009 / 5’30’’
This voyeuristic puppet animation peeks behind the scenes of life and love in vignettes of four scenes. Relationships fitfully develop romantically as the quirky characters’ confidence blossoms.
SITTING / LEIGHTON PIERCE / USA / 2009 / 4’25’’
An impressionist-like video enhanced with subtle locomotion. A female nude is bathed in light as luminous as that in Édouard Manet’s classic painting “Déjeuner sur l’herbe.”
TWIST OF FATE / KAREN AQUA / USA / 2009 / 8’40’’
This hand drawn animation explores the noted filmmaker's experience with cancer treatment.
HOURGLASS / FERN SEIDEN / SWEDEN AND USA / 2009 / 4’
This photo collage and drawn animation is a global warning.
PICKLES FOR NICKELS / DANIELLE ASH / USA / 2009 / 8’
An elder Jewish pickle vendor and a bakeshop owner find that change looms everywhere.
PHANTOM CANYON / STACEY STEERS / USA / 2006 / 10'
This handmade collage animation was created from over four thousand images from Eadweard Muybridge's famous series of “Human and Animal Locomotion” photographs from the late 1800s.
P.R. / BRYAN LEISTER / USA / 2005 / 1’
The iconographic graphic design of P.R. turns media driven culture against itself by converting a simple yet powerful trope inside out.
OFF-LINE / TOM GASEK / USA / 2009 / 8’40’’
This digital animation is set inside a microwave oven where a circuit board full of anthropomorphized diodes, fuses, and transistors short circuit and burn themselves out in a final effort to meet the demands of their mission.
Kino Muza 4.00 p.m. tickets: 10 zl
