Best of Animation 1 (Rotoscopy)

Four Best of Animation programmes give you the opportunity to see an exclusive selection of the most interesting and remarkable animated films of the last 10 years again. Grouped by topic – “Rotoscoping”, “Music”, “Men and Women”, and “As Simple as Animation” by filmmaker Maie Paccou.

Muy Bueno, Muybridge! (Muy Bueno, Muybridge!)

Diego Akel / Brasilien / 2014 / 00:02:40 min.

Different points of view on Muybridge. Short film made in rotoscope animation over images of Eadweard Muybridge.

Flammes (Flammes)

Anne-Laure Daffis, Léo Marchand / Frankreich / 2011 / 00:02:41 min.

A pen, colored pencils…

Encore des changements (Still more changes)

Benoît Guillaume,Barbara Malleville Malleville / Frankreich / 07.2013 / 00:09:55 min.

A man lost his head. He tries to catch it up, but this head is actually more than his head.

Un Orgasme (An Orgasm)

Fred Joyeux / Frankreich / 2012 / 00:01:20 min.

An orgasm in a flip book.

removed (removed)

Naomi Uman / USA / 1999 / 00:07:14 min.

Starting with a piece of vintage porn, filmmaker Naomi Uman painstakingly removed each female figure from the footage using nail polish remover, leaving a striking absence where there’s usually a fleshy presence. Uman’s celebrated film is a smart retort to pornography’s obsessive gaze at the female body.

Feeling My Way (Feeling My Way)

Jonathan Hodgson / Großbritannien / 1997 / 00:05:34 min.

A journey from home to work as seen through the filter of the conscious and subconscious mind. The film shows the trials and triviality of urban existence.

Snack and Drink (Snack and Drink)

Tommy Pallotta, Bob Sabiston / USA / 2000 / 00:03:55 min.

An animated documentary short starring Ryan Power. This autistic teenager in Austin, Texas walks into a local supermarket to get a snack and drink.

OSN (OSN)

Sébastien Laudenbach, Luc Bénazet / Frankreich / 2014 / 00:02:06 min.

A study of the origin of the names of a person, fictive or historical.

Crossing the Stream (Crossing the Stream)

Skip Battaglia / USA / 2006 / 00:04:00 min.

About work. About consciousness. A meditation on water, and the animation of water. A poem in the shape of a stream. For Bruce Baillie.

La pista (La pista)

Gianluigi Toccafondo, Simona Mulazzani / Italien / 1991 / 00:02:01 min.

A few vibrations of a tango dance announce the performance of an uneasy love story.

Fantômas (Fantômas)

Bastien Dupriez / Frankreich / 2005 / 00:01:20 min.

A short animation on music by Fantômas.

The Albatross (The Albatross)

Paul Bush / Großbritannien / 1998 / 00:15:00 min.

Cyprienne (Cyprienne)

Angèle Béraud / Frankreich / 2013 / 00:02:25 min.

Short about sexuality and passion shown by abstract, moving paintings floating over and over again into the shapes of two lovers.

Camila Moreno – El amor a las hierbas salvajes (Camila Moreno – El amor a las hierbas salvajes)

Cristóbal León, Joaquin Cocina / Chile / 2014 / 00:03:50 min.

Camila Moreno presents the video for her latest single “Love of wild herbs“.

Reality 2.0 (Reality 2.0)

Victor Orozco Ramirez / Deutschland, Mexico / 01.2012 / 00:10:58 min.

It was autumn and as soon as I arrived in Germany I started to miss my family, friends, tacos and the sun of Mexico but not everything was so bad because here there were no street kids, and no stray dogs and rats. Here, thanks to the advances in science, the rats were transformed into stray rabbits. I thought that in this exotic country I could distance myself from Mexico but I was wrong. Drug traffickers managed to take me back to Mexico in a ruthless way.

Markings 1-3 (Markings 1-3)

Eva Kolcze / Kanada / 2011 / 00:07:00 min.

A tactile journey in three parts.Markings 1-3 explores nature through the surface of celluloid, using such techniques as tinting, toning, painting and scratching.