The Runt
Andreas Hykade
Germany,2006,10 mins
The Runt appears to be a deceptively simple film, but rumbling beneath are a variety of deep and emotional themes ranging from loss of innocence, ritual, responsibility and death.
The Runt is the final part of Hykade’s country trilogy that includes We Lived in Grass (1995) and Ring of Fire(2000). The trilogy deals with Hykade’s childhood in the Bavarian countryside and have received awards and acclaim around the world for their startling, uncompromising insights into the deep, dark recesses lurking beneath the flesh. Hykade is currently working on an animated feature called, Jesus.
Famine
Hugo Cuellar
UK,2006,9 mins
Winter… The streets of Insect City echo with the hungry cries of its starving inhabitants. When a cannibal starts preying on the weakened insects, a small fly is framed for the heinous crime. Can he save them from the growing menace about to engulf the city?
Nominated for the McLaren Award at EIFF 2006.
Slurpophobia
Sigga Bjorg Sigurdardottir
UK, 2006,5 mins
Sigga's disquieting drawings and animations demonstrate situations between creatures that look like people or animals but do not have to be either. They simply exist to demonstrate a situation or a state of mind.
Solo exhibits 2006: Paracide Park, CLARK Gallery, Montreal, Canada Sigga Bjorg Sigurdardottir, subzone1 Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Human Trial
John Butler
UK,2006,5 mins
Human Trial depicts an extraordinary rendition to the Chamber of Commerce. Extraordinary rendition is the new practice of outsourcing interrogation and torture services to client states with experience and expertise in these areas. It is a key technique in the war on terror.
John Butler works as a 3D animator and designer in Glasgow, mainly for television.
Oompie Ka Doompie
Mandy McIntosh
UK,2006,19 mins
Oompie ka Doompie is a hybrid animated journey to 1970s Johannesburg. Animator/Director Mandy McIntosh uses 2 and 3D animation combined with video to examine the visual detail of her family’s experiences as white immigrants during Apartheid. The work skilfully blends materials in a way which underlines the separateness of black and white life, the naivety of the family and what they brought back to Scotland when they eventually left. At the heart of the film is the relationship between two white girls and Selina, the black woman who cared for them in the daytime, when their mother and father were out at work.
Drawings and further visual developments from the work will be exhibited at Paisley Museum in January 2007. Mandy McIntosh has just completed an intense series of experimental animation workshops with children from two schools in Renfrewshire as part of this project.
Beelines
Rachel Bevan Baker
UK,1997,6 mins
Sylvia inherits an apparently lifeless garden, but in spring the garden comes to life and Sylvia is fascinated by the bees and their mysterious and beautiful world.
Drawn animation, commissioned by Channel Four following a 3 month MOMI animation residency. Red Kite Animation was established in 1997 by award-winning producer Ken Anderson and award-winning director Rachel Bevan Baker. The company develops, finances and produces all techniques of animation for both TV and film.
Who I Am and What I Want
David Shrigley & Chris Shepherd
UK,2005,7 mins
A scribbled, strangely funny but highly unsettling examination of the human condition. The story of a man who bares his emotions, hang ups and desires in all of their dysfunctional absurdity then leaves us to assemble not only his identity but to question our own.
Dad’s Dead
Chris Shepherd
UK, 2004, 6 mins
A compelling story of friendship and denial, told through a series of ghostly reminiscences and visual flashbacks of a young man’s fragmented memories from the past.
As the story unfolds hero worship turns to revulsion, as the web of deception and violence that Johnno creates is revealed, pulling narrator and audience into his destructive wake.
Manipulated live action mutates and combines with ghostly digital animation, creating intense and original visuals.
Winner of Best Short Film at the 2004 British Animation Awards. Winner of Best Animation at 2003 British Independent Film Awards. Nominated for Best Animation Short at BAFTA Film Awards 2004.
We Believe in Happy Endings
Monika Forsberg & Susie Sparrow
UK, 2006, 4 mins
At the party, humans, animals and ‘other-worldly’ beings dance the night away. She’s a monster, she is gorgeous,
He is well fit, my fur is wet. I’m so happy I’m going to throw up. I’m going to kick your head in! We believe in happy endings.
A textured collage of drawn and digital 2D illustration with DV live-action. Writer/director/animator Monika Forsberg was born in Sweden and has been living in London for the past 11 years. She completed an MA Animation at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2001. Her film His Passionate Bride (Animus Films for C4, 2004) was nominated for BAFTA Best Animated Short.
