Animation DayIN HIROSHIMA/Program
Hiroshima City Cinematographic and Audio-Visual Library
(Eizo Bunka Library) / 2F Hall
28th October, 18:00 -
(1)The Ride to the Abyss
Dir:Georges Schwizbegel 1992 / 4'00" / Switzerland
HIROSHIMA1992 Category E - Shorter than 5 minutes[Second Prize]
Two riders on galloping horses; they disappear, then reappear alternating with other animated images moving to the same rhythm as their own.
(2)Balloon
Dir:Ken Lidster 1991 / 12'00" / U.K.
HIROSHIMA1992 Category B - Debut works[Second Prize]
A little girl and her balloon meet the changing form of a darkness in a humorous struggle between good and evil.
(3)Sticky Ends
Dir:Osman Cerfon 2010 / 6'13" / France
HIROSHIMA2012 Debut Prize
Jinx is a man with the head of a fish. Misfortune bubbles escape from his mouth. When one of them follows somebody, he becomes dogged by bad luck, and comes to a sticky end...
(4)Lost and Found
Dir:Philip Hunt 2008 / 24'10" / U.K.
HIROSHIMA2010 Special International Jury Prize
A magical tale of loneliness and friendship based on the award-winning book by Oliver Jeffers. One day, a boy finds a penguin on his doorstep and decides to take it home.......even if that means rowing all the way to the South Pole!
(5)Breakfast
Dir:Izabela Plucinska 2006 / 2'17" / Poland,Germany
HIROSHIMA2008 Renzo Kinoshita Prize
At the breakfast table a man and a woman don't have anything to say to each other...
until a wind blows into the room and turns their lives upside-down.
(6)Stressed
Dir:Karen Kelly 1994 / 7'11" / U.K.
HIROSHIMA1996 Special International Jury Prize
Using pencil and rendered animation “Stressed”follows the residents of an apartment block whose interwoven lives are made more stressful by the tension and pressure of city life. We watch and see how various stressful events of the day make them behave, and in turn have a knock-on effect on others.
(7)KALI, THE LITTLE VAMPIRE
Dir:Regina Pessoa 2012 / 9'27" / Portugal/ France/ Canada/ Switzerland
HIROSHIMA2012 Hiroshima Prize
This is the story about a boy not like the others that dreams about finding his place in the world. As the moon passes through different phases, also Kali should face his inner demons, pass through his fears to, at last, come across his passage to light. One day he will disappear...or maybe it's just another phase of a cycle.