Animation Day
Eizo Bunka LibraryIN HIROSHIMA/Program
Program / Hiroshima City Cinematographic and Audio-Visual Library
Screening Only - 27th October
Sunday 27th October
Screening
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Address: 3-1 Moto-machi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima City 730-0011
Telephone: 082-223-3525
http://www.cf.city.hiroshima.jp/eizou/ (in Japanese only)
Admission: October 27th at Hiroshima City Cinematographic and Audio-Visual Library
(370 yen for Adults, 180 yen for Children)
(1) The Young Girl and the Clouds
Directed by : Georges Schwizgebel / 2000 / 4’30” / Swtizerland
HIROSHIMA ’02 / Special Prize
The adventures of Cinderella told in several scenes and cloud images.
(2) Lapsus
Directed by : Juan Pablo Zaramella / 2007 / 3’30” / Argentina
HIROSHIMA ’08 / Special Prize
A curious nun ventures into the darker side of her animated world.
(3) Dog
Directed by : Suzie Templeton / 2001 / 5’40” / U.K.
HIROSHIMA ’02 / Hiroshima Prize
A young boy longs for reassurance about how his mother died.
(4) The Regulator
Directed by : Phillipe Grammaticopoulos / 2004 / 15’30” / France
HIROSHIMA ’06 / René Laloux Prize
A couple adopts a child, built with many different pieces. But the choice of the pieces is so huge that the child will not be as perfect as he should be…
(5) Minuscule – The Ladybird
Directed by : Thomas Szabo / 2007 / 5’32” / France
HIROSHIMA ’08 / Special Prize
Imagine a National Geographic documentary crossed with a Tex Avery Cartoon. A combination of 3D characters and live footage, with no commentary or dialog, gives viewers a bird’s eye view of insects’ day-to-day existence: the ongoing adventures of our weird and wonderful bugs.
(6) Birdcalls
Directed by : Malcom Sutherland / 2006 / 4’58” / Canada
HIROSHIMA ’06 / Debut Prize
While checking messages on an answering machine, the written languages of birds come alive to show us a birds point of view.
(7) The Man Who Was Planting Trees
Directed by : Frédéric Back / 1987 / 30’00” / Canada
HIROSHIMA ’87 / Grand Prize
A story of a man existed in Provence, South France, who continually planted trees on deserted groundfrom before the World War Ⅰ to after the World War Ⅱ to bring green back there. Written by Jean Giono, and narrated by a French well-known actor Phillippe Noiret.