International festival of animated films Třeboň Czech Republic May 1st - 6th 2018

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International Competition of Abstract and Non-narrative Animation

The Sounds from the Drawers

Vítor Hugo | Portugal | 2017 | 7 min

In the beginning, there was an object, a very special collective instrument with 42 drawers and boxes and other pieces of furniture where the sound came from... Mechanical, elective, soft, noisy and mysterious. And from these sounds, pictures came in a synchronization exercise without ever losing us in the drawers’ labyrinthine memories.

The Sounds from the Drawers

We 02/05/2018
18.00-18.43
free seats: 77
Světozor Cinema

Fr 04/05/2018
15.30-16.13
free seats: 67
Světozor Cinema

Su 06/05/2018
16.00-16.43
free seats: 99
Světozor Cinema

How to Paint Your Rainbow

Erick Oh | United States, South Korea | 2018 | 2 min

Erick Oh has his own characteristic film language. He traditionally uses a white screen as a backdrop for a rapid microstory. This time, he chose the strange topic of reincarnation. A dying man causes new life to spring up – a flower. The flower evolves into a whole new ecosystem that matures to reconciliation and eventually forms a rainbow.

How to Paint Your Rainbow

We 02/05/2018
18.00-18.43
free seats: 77
Světozor Cinema

Fr 04/05/2018
15.30-16.13
free seats: 67
Světozor Cinema

Su 06/05/2018
16.00-16.43
free seats: 99
Světozor Cinema

Word!

Amos Mulder | Netherlands | 2017 | 8 min | EN

Word! is a visual exploration of language and is set in an alternate post-factual universe. Quotes in the form of tweets by philosophers and writers such as Wittgenstein, Heidegger or Carroll appear there. Between the chirping of birds and the evocative urban scenarios that unfold, the viewer is invited on a cinematic journey that interrogates our indissoluble relationship with words.

Word!

We 02/05/2018
18.00-18.43
free seats: 77
Světozor Cinema

Fr 04/05/2018
15.30-16.13
free seats: 67
Světozor Cinema

Su 06/05/2018
16.00-16.43
free seats: 99
Světozor Cinema

Persistence of Vision IV

Ismael Sanz-Pena | Norway | 2018 | 1 min

This humorous short film about the inevitability of death and the human struggle was shot at Frogner Park in Oslo, Norway. It is a follow-up to the author’s architectonic sketches in which – like in last year’s Persistence of Vision III – he animated seemingly static construction elements of buildings. Slight visual moderation is in this case made up for by an expressive soundtrack. 

Persistence of Vision IV

We 02/05/2018
18.00-18.43
free seats: 77
Světozor Cinema

Fr 04/05/2018
15.30-16.13
free seats: 67
Světozor Cinema

Su 06/05/2018
16.00-16.43
free seats: 99
Světozor Cinema

Not My Type

Gerd Gockell | Germany, Switzerland | 2017 | 3 min

An experimental animation about the history of typography, print media and a mosquito experiencing Shakespeare’s most famous quote. The Swiss director takes us on a captivating journey to the kingdom of letters. They are layered on each other and show their aesthetic beauty through the ages. Other important elements are the texture of the surface beneath the letters and, of course, the film’s elaborate soundtrack.

Not My Type

We 02/05/2018
18.00-18.43
free seats: 77
Světozor Cinema

Fr 04/05/2018
15.30-16.13
free seats: 67
Světozor Cinema

Su 06/05/2018
16.00-16.43
free seats: 99
Světozor Cinema

Interstitial

Shunsaku Hayashi | Japan | 2017 | 7 min

Figures move through an indistinct space. A combination of real-life footage with stylized drawings is accompanied by a disturbing soundtrack. The film depicts the individuality in the serial solidarity of the individual. How to be single? In the continuous identity of atoms, what can divide it from the plurality? What can divide it from the continuous time?

Interstitial

We 02/05/2018
18.00-18.43
free seats: 77
Světozor Cinema

Fr 04/05/2018
15.30-16.13
free seats: 67
Světozor Cinema

Su 06/05/2018
16.00-16.43
free seats: 99
Světozor Cinema

Waves

Vojtěch Domlátil | Czech Republic | 2017 | 3 min

An observer, who clears his mind and constrains his resources to work only with time and motion in space, can not only find pixilation rapture, but what’s more, if he connects to the wave, his journey will consume him in his entirety. And everything plays its part – waving of the grass, clouds, hills and valley, sunlight and also ourselves. A non-narrative pixilation of the Czech landscape.

Waves

We 02/05/2018
18.00-18.43
free seats: 77
Světozor Cinema

Fr 04/05/2018
15.30-16.13
free seats: 67
Světozor Cinema

Su 06/05/2018
16.00-16.43
free seats: 99
Světozor Cinema

The Tasmanian Tiger

Vergine Keaton | France | 2018 | 14 min

A Tasmanian tiger wanders around in his zoo enclosure. A glacier is slowly melting. Facing its predicted disappearance, nature exerts its fury, bursts over the frame and resists its extinction by transformation. Even though the authors work with a strong ecological message tempting them to be direct, the appeal of their film lies in a slowly built atmosphere and subtle hints.

The Tasmanian Tiger

We 02/05/2018
18.00-18.43
free seats: 77
Světozor Cinema

Fr 04/05/2018
15.30-16.13
free seats: 67
Světozor Cinema

Su 06/05/2018
16.00-16.43
free seats: 99
Světozor Cinema

V&T

Bennet Meyer | Germany | 2017 | 4 min

V&T is an experimental video clip. It shows an audiovisual interpretation of an inner battle between common sense and compulsion. CG images slowly take over a real female body. The author also refers to a quote by Friedrich Schiller: “The human mind’s good sense requires its natural origin, but condemns it at the same time.”

V&T

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema

The Battle of San Romano

Georges Schwizgebel | Switzerland | 2017 | 3 min

A movement within a painting, which begins with the savagery of a battle and comes to a halt in a rendition of a masterpiece from the 15th century: The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello. The famous painting is a perfect perspective study combining surface and depth effects. The same methods are used by the Swiss master of painted animation.

The Battle of San Romano

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema

Crux

Alexandre Roy | Canada | 2017 | 4 min

The director transforms a basic symbol into complex abstract structures. Accompanied by rhythmic music, the cross forms more and more complicated patterns. Among them we see fingerprints stamped on the 35 mm film stock that flicker through, give the robotically exact film a human touch and refer to the author’s personal relationship to the symbol.

Crux

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema

Silo

Gina Kamentsky | United States | 2017 | 3 min

A journey around an abandoned grain silo outside the animator’s studio. In this non-narrative essay, the author works with real-life footage and with her favourite material – film stock. It is her way of showing admiration of the simple yet significant construction. She personifies it in detail and the soundtrack hints at its historical context.

Silo

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema

Divisional Articulations

Max Hattler | Hong Kong SAR China | 2017 | 5 min

Repetition and distortion drive this audio-visual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music and geometric digital animation collide in an electronic feedback loop, and spawn arrays of divisional articulations in time and space.

Divisional Articulations

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema

The Train, the Forest

Patrick Buhr | Germany | 2017 | 4 min

Through the window of a train, we watch the landscape. We pass running people and trees with birds taking flight from them. But as the train enters a tunnel, the perspective suddenly changes. Our world is turned upside down and we find ourselves among the protagonists. Minimalist computer animation works skilfully with basic lines and takes us all the way to an oppressive and unlikely end.

The Train, the Forest

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema

Dreamland

Mizue Mirai | France | 2017 | 5 min

Renowned Japanese wizard of abstract and geometric animation Mirai Mizue once again urges us to switch off our rooted sense of perception. Once again, we submerge into his rectangular world which constantly grows from nothingness. First a typical block appears out of nowhere and the structure starts to grow profusely. Dreamland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Dreamland

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema

Boy Transcoded from Phosphene

Rodrigo Faustini | Brazil | 2017 | 3 min

Trapped in phosphene (seeing stars), raw documentary footage unfolds its digital self, receding into its abstract infancy, a memory image unspooled from the dependency of a referent, affected by its internal life. A computer sees without eyes, an algorithm imagines.

Boy Transcoded from Phosphene

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema

Elegy

Paul Bush | United Kingdom, Switzerland | 2017 | 6 min

A film of stone and light – just stone and light. It is a study of the decoration of a sacral building deconstructed by the director in order to reveal its beauty in great detail. Quoting S.T. Coleridge: Elegy is a form of poetry natural to the reflective mind. Sorrow and love became the principal themes of the elegy. Elegy presents everything as lost and gone or absent and future.

Elegy

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema

Water Dream

Koji Yamamura | Japan | 2017 | 11 min | FR

This film depicts evolution from the birth of life to a whale in the sea with music and images paying homage to the American contemporary composer George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae (1971). There are four parts: Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic. This specific “music video” made by a renowned Japanese artist was originally intended as a part of the Eternite exhibition organized by the Museum of Natural History of Nantes.

Water Dream

Tu 01/05/2018
21.30-22.14
free seats: 69
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
11.00-11.44
Puppet Theatre

Th 03/05/2018
18.00-18.44
free seats: 42
Světozor Cinema

Sa 05/05/2018
15.00-15.44
free seats: 21
Světozor Cinema