Best of Animation 3 (Men and Women)

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.

Cloud Cover (Cloud Cover)

Lisbeth Svärling / Großbritannien / 2000 / 00:05:29 min.

In a city seemingly full of happy people, one young woman walks about with a small dark cloud directly over her head. It follows her up the stairs and into her apartment. She tries slamming the door on it, getting rid of it with a vacuum cleaner, and dumping it in someone else’s shopping cart. But the cloud doesn’t leave her, until she meets a young man who has his own sunshine. Is love the way she’s going to get rid of her cloud? Or will change have to happen from within?

en petites coupures (small cuttings)

Marie-Jo Long / Frankreich / 1997 / 00:04:30 min.

Experimental film in stop motion on the theme of love encounters and their side effects.

Hug (Hug)

Saki Iyori / Japan / 2013 / 00:03:08 min.

I lose things to hug, I look for things to hug, I feel oneself.

Morceau (Piece)

Sébastien Laudenbach / Frankreich / 2006 / 00:02:01 min.

You’ve left and I hold my breath, and from this air, sulphur emerges.

Hilary (Hilary)

Anthony Hodgson / Großbritannien / 1994 / 00:08:59 min.

Once upon a time there was a fairy princess and she was called Hilary. Hilary worked in an office with a rubber plant and a man whose name she’d forgotten, and she lived with her mother and her mother’s father who was 76 and deaf and who secretly ate dog food, although it wasn’t much of a secret.

Jumping Joan (Jumping Joan)

Petra Freeman / Großbritannien / / 00:07:45 min.

With the dark resonance of the nursery rhyme from which it is drawn, this river story probes isolation and imagination, all painted directly onto hard plaster.

Pixel Joy (Pixel Joy)

Florentine Grelier / Frankreich / 12.2012 / 0:02:09 min.

When pixels enjoy themselves…

Rabbit Punch (Rabbit Punch)

Kristian Andrews / Großbritannien / Jun 2008 / 00:05:34 min.

A story of adolescent rural life and the inevitable waywardness of experiences earned the hard way.

The Old, Old, very Old Man (The Old, Old, very Old Man)

Elizabeth Hobbs / Großbritannien / 2007 / 00:06:38 min.

The film is based on a true story. Thomas Parr lived from 1483-1635 and was presented to Charles I by Thomas, Earl of Arundel when he was 152 years old. He died following the excitement and is buried in Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth Hobbs tells the story of his final moments at the court of King Charles by painting and erasing blue ink on a single white bathroom tile.

Grudge Match (Grudge Match)

Graeme Patterson / Kanada / 2009 / 00:03:28 min.

The film explores the competitive nature of male bonding through stop-motion animated high school wrestling. Based on 4 years of experience in this sport, Graeme Patterson engages in the memories of wrestling and the male relationships involved. Set in an empty gym two friends engage in over 3 minutes of intense physical exchange with the intention of exposing each other’s weaknesses.

Guardami o non guardarmi (Look at me or look at me not)

Magda Guidi / Italien / 2014 / 00:01:36 min.

Two girls look at each other, but they don’t know who they’re looking at.

The old crocodile (The old crocodile)

Koji Yamamura / Japan / 2005 / 00:12:55 min.

A very old crocodile, so old that he had witnessed the building of the pyramids, was suffering from rheumatism, and no longer able to catch his food. In desperation, he decided to eat his great grand son. Abandoned by his family he left the Nile and met an octopus far away from home.