Experimental Animations # 1
| Saturday | Hope Alkazar | 12:30 |
| Saturday | Hope Alkazar | 12:30 |
Perfect City: The Bravest Kid
Shengwei Zhou
6' 19'' | 2023 | Digital
United States
Chased by his nightmare knife hand, the paper boy has to confront his real fear which supposed to be his hope.
The Announced Traged
Thanut Rujitanont
6' | 2023 | Digital, super 8
Thailand
“The Announced Tragedy” uses animation production as a process of memory consolidation. The work can be seen as a personal memory extension that preserves the irrational and incomplete memories of the director towards the house where he grew up. The work recalls the space and time of these memories, ultimately overwriting, re-editing, and re-materializing them in the form of animation. The work consists of 4 chapters, each chapter enacts a specific memory the director had as a child in his house.
Mother's Child
Naomi Noir
Naomi Noir
9' 20'' | 2023 | Color
Netherlands
Mary can't catch a break. Fusing motherhood with being a full-time carer for her disabled son has her up to her ears in red tape, barely keeping afloat. A surreal situation is looming.
Cosmic Rage
Emilia Izquierdo
9' 10'' | 2024 | Color
United Kingdom
Cosmic Rage - Dark Constellations, is an experimental film composed by hand drawn animation and archival footage that explores dance and music as forms of resistance, powers of liberation and cosmic communion.
Using as base Maya Deren's book on Haitian vodou, her Haiti footage and Alejo Carpentier's book ‘A Kingdom of This World’ on the Haitian Revolution, the piece explores myth, freedom and how the communicative power of the body has been instrumental to survival and emancipation, particularly in political circumstances in which subjects are not allowed to use words, such as historical slavery, colonization and totalitarian regimes. In this way dance/music can be experienced as a method of claiming human rights and freedom but also as an exploration of how the human is integrated in the cosmos.
