Is there anything more beautiful than the romance left in the trace of an artist’s absent hand? Animation sometimes leaves the impression that we come into direct contact with an artist’s personal vision, that we can experience their talent through their recorded gestures. This shorts program explores wondrous artistic effects produced through drawing, puppetry and even computing. Included in the program are works from renowned masters of hand-drawn and painted animated films such as Koji Yamamura and Georges Schwizgebel. We also will see new forays into the field with stunning selections like Ars Electrionica winner Metachaos by Alessandro Bavari, the multidimensional tale of an iPod-owning bear in Hinterland and Gudrun Krebitz’s exploration of an inner world in I Know You.

August Song (Jodie Mack, USA, 5 min)

Belle and Sebastien: I Didn’t See it Coming (Lesley Barnes, Scotland, 4 min)

Flux (Candas Sisman, Turkey, 5 min)

Hinterland (Jakob Weyde, Jost Althoff, Germany, 10 min)

I Know You (Gudrun Krebitz, Germany, 5 min)

Metachaos (Alessandro Bavari, Spain, 9 min)

Muybridge’s Strings (Koji Yamamura, Japan, 13 min)

Romance (Georges Schwizgebel, Canada, 8 min)

Strata #3 (Quayola, France, 7 min)

Swoon X Cat Solen (Cat Solen, USA) 3 min

White No White (Anna Bergmann, Germany, 7 min)


Total running time 73 min.