Best of Animation 1 – Dancing in the Dark

All films I selected are built on brilliant cinematography, I picked them from my professional filmmaker’s point of view. And organized them according to the psychology of the creator.A permanent activity of creative people is DANCING IN THE DARK. With the voices of the past. With the puppets you animate. With your fears of what’s growing from the germs of filmmaking. The Anatomy of Absence will help you to imagine your partner. And even in the dark you could laugh. Animation shows the beauty of the abyss and the way to survive it: the humour of an artist on the other side.The ability to transmit to the audience a strong emotion through the art of animation is a powerful weapon. For the audience it means you could kill or get killed, and feel the pain. You could enter the door to the filmmaker’s mind and take a virtual reality-trip to the world created by her or him. I believe in film, and the power of universal cinematographic language. And I hope you will enjoy the Festival and the Best of Animation programme as much as I do.Olga PärnFilmmaker, Tallinn

Voulez vous danser? (Voulez vous danser?)

Regie Director: Michaela Pavlátová / Tschechien / 2009 / 00:03:40 min. / Produktion Production: High Moral Qualities Films

Minimalistic etude about solitude.

Underground (Underground)

Regie Director: Mati Kütt / Estland / 1997 / 00:11:27 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: Nukufilm OÜ

Multiplying the existing points of view the actual oneness seems to change to unevenness.

In Absentia (In Absentia)

Regie Director: Quay Brothers / Großbritannien / 2000 / 00:21:00 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: BFI – British Film Institute

A woman sits in a room of an asylum and writes. The pencil point breaks under her fingers’ force. She places broken points on the sill, tears the paper, places it in an envelope and slips it through a slot. Is she writing to her husband?

Fini Zayo (Fini Zayo)

Regie Director: Jean-Luc Gréco, Catherine Buffat / Frankreich / 2000 / 00:08:00 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: Folimage Studio

A woman, alone against her children, with daily shouts and silences, and a recurring “Eat up Zayo”. A childish expression which brings back shared memories.

Bobby Yeah (Bobby Yeah)

Regie Director: Robert Morgan / Großbritannien / 05.2011 / 00:23:18 min.

Bobby Yeah is a petty thug who lightens his miserable existence by brawling and thieving stuff. One day he steals the favourite pet of some very dangerous individuals and finds himself in deep trouble. He really should learn, but he just can’t help it…

Fuga na Wiolonczele, Trabke i Pejzaz (Fugue for Cello, Trumpet And Landscape)

Regie Director: Jerzy Kucia / Polen / 05.2014 / 00:18:00 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: Krakow Film Foundation

A poetic film based on the relationship between images and music. A film about the process of evoking feelings and searching for landscape specificity by recounting events.