ANIMATION Shorts Festival - Nov. 21/22 event
Animation, Independent, Short Films
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bodies that fight, 3min., Chile
Directed by Catalina Ibañez
The meeting between the performance and the crowd. The idea embodied in everyone's gaze. Happiness by own judgment carried out. The meeting of the ideal with reality, embodied in the woman's body.
http://www.cinando.com/cintamanifilms
https://instagram.com/cintamanifilms
OUT OF HAND, 3min., South Africa
Directed by Justin Daniel
When one-armed mad scientist, Dr. Victor von Thalamus, completes his mechanical arm creation, he tasks his moronic monster assistant, Bunsen, to watch over the arm while he runs errands. Bunsen is stunned upon the realization that the arm is alive and is on a mission to create havoc. Comedic struggles and failure ensue as Bunsen tries to capture the arm resulting in the destruction of the laboratory.
HISSY FIT, 3min., South Africa
Directed by Kyra Cross
Leeora is an anxious witch looking for a quiet place to sit in her school’s library. Leeora is shushed by the librarian and walks off. Leeora bumps into a fellow witch, Maddie. They fall and Leeora’s anxiety grows, she runs to the back of the library. Leeora hides and Maddie pops around the corner. Leeora is frightened and transforms into a cat. Both confused, a big chase erupts. The library is destroyed. During the aftermath, Maddie pulls herself and Leeora’s book from the rubble. Realising Maddie’s intentions Leeora transforms back. The girls laugh and get caught by the angry librarian.
LIGHTS OUT!, 3min., South Africa
Directed by Atiyya Mayet
Luna is exhausted as she works late into the night, aided by her desk-side lamp. The lamp (Laaitie) comes to life and suggests that she get some rest. Luna dismisses Laaitie and resumes working. They go back and forth flipping Laaitie’s light switch on and off. Eventually, Laaitie flips his switch off, runs away and Luna chases after him. After catching him Luna flips his switch, revealing that she is standing on a ledge, atop her apartment building. Realizing the danger, she has put herself in, she makes the conscious decision to go to bed and turns the light out.
BY TWO, 4min,. South Africa
Directed by Wiam Botma
A stubborn old man goes about his daily routine, struggling with every task due to his age. He hears a ring from the doorbell and finds a robot has been sent to aid him in his old age. As he goes about his daily routine the robot continually tries to aid him, much to his annoyance. A mishap in the bathroom is the final straw for the man, unaided he tumbles down the stairs and gets stuck in a pot, and the robot comes to his aid. The man now visibly relaxed enjoys the help of the robot in his life.
re:connection, 8min., USA
Directed by Kristina Tran
A 3D animated short film about a mechanic, her robot companion, and the path they take to reconnect their relationship.
https://re-connection.carrd.co/
https://www.instagram.com/reconnection.mp4/