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Floralia III

Floralia III
Sabrina Ratté
Animation and Musique concrète 2021
Experimental Film
Canada
2021
4 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

A piece of soil with plants displayed in a cabinet – three-dimensional and yet only a digital image. The sound suggests a sterile exhibition space. As forest sounds start to play, the stems, leaves and blossoms dissolve in particles and layers. As if awakening from a coma, an organic rebellion flares up, a brief revolt against the technically perfect simulation of nature.

André Eckardt

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Director
Sabrina Ratté
Producer
Sabrina Ratté
Sound
Andrea-Jane Cornell
Score
Sabrina Ratté
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Impossible Figures and Other Stories I

Figury niemożliwe i inne historie I
Marta Pajek
International Competition Short Film 2021
Animated Film
Canada,
Poland
2021
16 minutes
Polish
Subtitles: 
English

Marta Pajek (digitally) created a complex, atmospheric universe – with minimalist means and yet rich in detail. References to contemporary history meet visions of an intuited, dystopian future. We are made aware of (our own) transience in subtle, but almost brutal ways. Ageing bodies, ageing ideas. In the end, the grande dame of Polish cinema, actor Anna Polony, sings: “… when will we ever learn?”

Borjana Gaković

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Director
Marta Pajek
Script
Marta Pajek
Editor
Marta Pajek
Producer
Piotr Szczepanowicz, Grzegorz Wacławek
Co-Producer
Maral Mohammadian
Sound
Michał Jankowski, Piotr Knop
Score
Aleksandra Gryka
Animation
Marta Pajek, Alex Boya
World Sales
Luce Grosjean
Winner of: Golden Dove Short Animated Film (International Competition Short Film)
Animation and Musique concrète 2021
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Neighbours
Norman McLaren
A neighbourhood dispute escalates … The pixilated movements of actors and scenery seem more and more absurd, heightened by the frantic sounds of the hand-drawn soundtrack.
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Neighbours

Voisins
Norman McLaren
Animation and Musique concrète 2021
Animated Film
Canada
1952
8 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

An escalating neighbourhood dispute as a pacifist parable on the Korean War. The pixilation, which Norman McLaren is said to have pioneered, makes plot and scenery look more and more absurd. The madness is heihgtened by frantic electronic sounds, which were also created by a special technique: McLaren drew optical sound signals in lines and dots by hand directly on the soundtrack.

André Eckardt

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Director
Norman McLaren
Cinematographer
Wolf Koenig
Producer
Norman McLaren
Score
Norman McLaren
Performer
Grant Munro, Jean-Paul Ladouceur
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The Quiet Zone

The Quiet Zone
Karl Lemieux, David Bryant
Animation and Musique concrète 2021
Experimental Film
Canada
2015
14 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

Electromagnetic waves cannot be detected by our conventional sensorium, but are perceived as stressful by electro-sensitive persons, “like a substance pouring all over you”. Karl Lemieux and David Bryant translate this invisible, inaudible threat into decay damage to original 16mm film stock. Visual wounds, wrapped in subtle drone sounds.

André Eckardt

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Director
Karl Lemieux, David Bryant
Cinematographer
Karl Lemieux, David Bryant, Mathieu Laverdière
Editor
Mathieu Bouchard-Malo
Producer
Julie Roy
Sound
Olivier Calvert, David Bryant
Score
David Byrant
Animation
Karl Lemieux