Vladimir Leschiov, Lithuania, 2004, 35mm, 7'
She comes at night, quiet as a cat, to take his sleep away until he feeds her. All she needs is milk brought by him somewhere between sleep and reality. Her name is Insomnia.
Jelena Girlin, Marii-Liis Basskovskaja, Urmas Jõemees, Estonia, 2004, Beta, 18'
Rita is a common woman. Her body knows how to menstruate, make love, give birth too, but also how to kill unborn babies…
Izabela Bartosik, Poland, 2004, Beta, 9'22''
The subject of the film is a dance, a symbolic dance, which expresses the emotions of the two main characters – the dancers – a man and a woman. It shows different stages in the life that they are spending together.
Artur Dauti, Albania, 2004, 35mm, 7'45''
The history of the human being, representative of a certain society in movement, but with unknown direction. The man in relation with himself, with the surrounding environment, with the society he is part of. Physically and symbolically chargeable. The atmosphere is the same, a society in movement.
Veronika Schubert, Austria, 2005, Beta, 5'10''
Tele-Dialog is based on the German term “einfach gestrickt“ which means translated into English “simply knitted“ concerning the simple plot structure of TV-series like soap operas and talk shows. The film consists of more than 800 frames which were knitted with black and white wool on an analog knitting machine. The sound of this knitting-animation is found footage from television. Sentences from different entertainment series have been mixed together. The abstract story is based on emotions, clichés and platitudes but appeares like a complex discussion.
Zdeněk Durdil, Czech Republic, Beta, 7'30''
This short film shows us the ways the mankind got to know more about the reasons and connections to our existence. “The Truth“ that is didactical, and was described by human rules is put to a contrast with the endless eternity of the Universe. The message of the film is not to describe the truth again or better, it is merely a critical meditation of a man standing under the night sky.
Goran Trbuljak, Croatia, 2004, 35mm, 7'42''
The film, through exploring the pregnancy, allows all kinds of unrealistic situations. Pictures of a pregnant woman, in all kinds of helpless positions on the couch, always in the same corner of the room, are mixed with pictures of passages, daylight, darkness, shadows on the walls and the ceiling. Laying there helplessly in expectation, she is amused by the projections which should show how time passes by very slowly. The movement of the pregnant woman is in animation, as in life, reduced. The choice of music and sounds in this film is essential, as it needs to contribute to the atmosphere of fatigue, helplessness, boredom and expectation.
Marek Skrobecki, Poland, 2005, 35mm, 16'41''
Ichthys is metaphoric, film parable about the persistence of waiting, hope and fulfilment told in unique and unconventional manner. The main character is a mature man. He appears in a restaurant which interior resembles sacred building. He is the only client there and is greeted by the waiter with cherub’s face. The waiter takes the order and leaves. The client waits for his return… Time goes by making everything grow old. When finally, the ever-young waiter appears with ordered meal, the client looks like he is dead…
László Csáki, Hungary, 2005, 35mm, 5'
The chalk-drawn film is based on Richard Brautigan’s novel Revenge of the Lawn. The film tells the story of a childhood memory. After the death of grandpa’, Jack took over the domesticities, and delivered grandma’s bourbon on his truck. Grandma’s whisky served as salutary refreshment during prohibition times.
Arash T. Riahi, Austria, 2005, Beta, 6'
What in the beginning of Mississippi appears to be a lavishly choreographed dialog between natural chaos and abstract structure is revealed at some point as an autonomous concert of forms. At first one would assume that Arash T. Riahi’s intoxicating visual composition amounts to simply making chaotically spraying drops of water on the one hand and geometrically structured (and dominated by a bright red) fields of color on the other accessible in the contrapuntal rhythm of their movements. Gradually the point of view offered at the beginning starts to falter through subtle shifts in perspective and focus until the borders between chaos and structure, between abstraction and representation, begin to blur and the visual levels, apparently arranged artificially, meld into a uniform, concrete shape through interaction with the slowly beginning noise on the soundtrack.
Magda Dulčič, Croatia, 2004, Beta, 3'20''
Every film by itself exists as an animated micro entity, but also as a part of a cycle which can go around in circles infinitively. There is no hero in a classical sense. The essential question is how much we can reduce an idea and still make it function as a miniature entity. That is why a gag is introduced. By itself or as a global metaphor it functions as a key to acknowledge the position of absurdity.
Claude Luyet, Xavier Robel, Switzerland, 2004, 35mm, 3'
Sudden movement of a crowd in the same direction. The final effort of a runner. Print of a film before editing.
Regina Hofer, Austria, 2005, DVD, 8'
An animation movie about human behaviour in an artificial environment.
Gábor Ulrich, Hungary, 2005, Beta, 3'30''
V minutah pred koncem je videl nimfe, a kasneje le dež.
Michaela Ostadalova, Slovakia, 2005, Beta, 4'40''
Short movie about the moment when you discover a monster in your family house.
Vladimir Mikhaylov, Ukraine, 2005, Beta, 5'
The film present the artist life of world Bohemians in Paris at the beginning of 19th century. The reminiscence of an older man give us access to the atmosphere of Montmartre, Le Moulin Rouge. The art stylistics of the film remind of the artistic style of Tolouse-Lautrec and of the other French impressionists of this period.
Rastko Ćirić, Serbia and Monte Negro, 2005, Beta, 10'30''
An account of a life cycle of the Metamorph, a considerably strange, ever-changing creature.
Iveta Grófová, Slovakia, 2004, Beta, 5'
Music video of well-known song by Milan Lasica and Jaroslav Filip, two important Slovak comedians and musicians.
Nana Swiczinsky, Austria, 2005, 35mm, 8'30''
The vanishing points of the title correspond with the immersion in color and form: as geometric proto-elements, which in the course of their processing continually threaten to disappear, but also as pictorial anchors, sturdily affixed to the original material. In between: anamorphoses of that which is withdrawing, as it should.
Jadranko Lopatić, Croatia, 2005, Beta, 1'
There are two kinds of men: one who lives rebellious and one who always says: “Yes, darling“.
Radek Doskočil, Czech Republic, Beta, 7'
A short film about a parrot living in an exotic and harmonious Africa, who due to its own inattention, is captured and delivered into a grey industrialized area. There, his life will continue as a prisoner in a cage. View on grey high buildings, seasons pass by and dreams and home souvenirs are slowly replacing the sad reality. Is dream an only way to escape?
Brane Solce, Slovenia, 2005, DVD, 2'
Playing with forms, colours, sounds, that from time to time resemble something from reality…
Tomasz Siwiński, Poland, 2005, Beta, 8'24''
A poetic story about the passing of time.
Tomek Baginski, Poland, 2004, 35mm, 5'50''
Atoll. A forgotten military base somewhere in the Pacific. Soldiers, exemplary officers the Army can't yet get rid off and who have lost their minds due to the hardships of past missions, are sent there. There, far away from civilization, laws and rules they nurture their insanities. Sergeant Al cultivates his love for young, brave soldiers. Dr. Friedrich cultivates his talent for photography. And the old, mentally lost General A creates his art. He uses neither paper nor canvas. He attempts something completely different. Fallen Art is Tomek Baginski's second short animated film, following his successful short The Cathedral, nominated for an Oscar in 2003.
Ferenc Rofusz, Hungary, 2005, 35mm, 11'
Phil is a real cool businesman who uses the whole world for his own aims and doesn't care about anyone and anything. One day he is in a wrong place in a wrong time. Cause the dog playing with the hairdryer unfortunately throws it into the yakuzi where Phil sits in. From that time Phil's life turns upside down as when he “wakes up“ he is a dog and he tries to catch a ball with his mouth…
Andrey Tsvetkov, Bulgaria, 2004, Beta, 4'50''
A little fish dreams of wide ocean freedom beyond his aquarium, but soon learns to appreciate his own small empire. A slightly bewildering, entirely beguiling saga of a little Dali fish dreaming of freedom.
Riho Unt, Estonia, 2005, Beta, 21'
The heroes of the film are three bear cubs from the cult painting by Ivan Shishkin Morning in a Pine Forest. Have lost their painter mom, the three brothers Henry, Vincent and August happen to appear in Paris, the city of the artists. All attempts to earn their living as artists fail. Their impressionistic “collies“ won't be acknowledged. Under cover as circus lions the bear cubs travel back to Russia to find the heritage of their mom.
Iva čirič, Serbia and Monte Negro, 2005, Beta, 8'10''
A little girl draws a big drawing of princess on the wall, and leaves. In the room, strange things begin to happen.
Jan Bohuslav, Czech Republic, 2004, Beta, 3'20''
About justice and human shadow.
Michaela Copikova, Slovakia, 2005, Beta, 5'36''
Short story about FAT friendship.
Géza M. Tóth, Hungary, 2005, 35mm, 4'35''
Five minutes before the Big Performance Maestro is getting ready behind the curtains. Time is slowly ticking away...
Darko Kreč, Croatia, 2005, Beta, 6'30''
Little house on a tree is a film about loyalty and friendship that are able to overcome all trials.
Renato Foder, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2004, DVD, 3'28''
Visualization of a dream.
Illir Kaso, Albania, 2005, Beta, 4'45''
A curious worm is in the middle of a chess field trying to stop the clock. The idea of the film shows the great desire to stop the time, something that is impossible.
Boris Despodov, Bulgaria, 2004, 35mm, 7'
One never knows where love will burst in from. Nor does one know about infidelity either, for that matter.
Joanna Rusinek, Poland, 2005, Beta, 6'
A desolate, windy island is a house of Tum, who dreams about traveling. Finally, he sails away on his dream journey, but ...
Leopold Maurer, Austria, 2005, DVD, 10'20''
11 short movies about human behaviour and human relationships.
Marta Pajek, Poland, 2004, Beta, 5'20''
Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, after all the apples have fallen from the trees everything is asleep. In a small flat mother and child are also sound asleep. Meanwhile, when the mind sleeps…
Lora Markova, Bulgaria, 2005, DVD, 1'52''
A story about the imaginative process of painting, drawing and thinking, referring to Exupery’s Draw me a sheep and inspired by the Zen tale: A fish asked of another fish, "I have always heard about the sea, but what is it? Where is it?" The other fish replied, "You live, move and have your being in the sea. The sea is within you and without you, and you are made of sea, and you will end in sea. The sea surrounds you as your own being."
Matej Lavrenčič, Gorazd Bizjak, Miha Perne, Slovenia, 2005, Beta, 4’33’’
Small rodents are rescuing the world from a giant pair of scissors gone wild. Music: Moveknowledgement.
Janko Mandič, Srčan Prodanovič, Slovenia, 2005, Beta, 2'30''
The story inverts reality when a bull turns against an unsuspecting butcher.
Simone Massi, Italy, 2004, Beta, 3'
“I go up to my ancestors back, then down, until home.”
Ivana Sebestova, Slovakia, 2005, 35mm, 6'30''
A true story about the origin of Leonardo da Vinci's La Gioconda. Florence, 1500 A.D.: A commedia dell'arte troupe performs a love story: Harlequin desires for Columbine but she loves a noble and mysterious painter – Leonardo da Vinci. As the story muddles up, nobody knows any longer what is the performance and what reality. Just Leonardo stays cool and transforms the emotional mess of the actors into master pieces.
Mahler, Austria, 2005, Beta, 5'
This park ain’ t no bed of roses.
Kolja Saksida, Slovenia, 2005, Beta, 6'
Koyaa, the main and only character in the film, lives alone on a hill in the Alpes. Because he is isolated from civilization, he makes up different tricks and activities to shorten his time and make it more colorful. The film contains four short episodes and in each one of them the character falls in a different comical situation.
Izabela Plucinska, Poland/Germany, 2005, 35mm, 9'30''
Theresa and Viktor, a middle aged couple, live in an appartment above a jazz club. They can't sleep at night because of the music coming from the club. Perhaps it is a welcome distraction from their mundane lives?
Igor čorič, Serbia and Monte Negro, Beta, 3'44''
Nature is beautiful, but not merciful.
Ferenc Cakó, Hungary, 2004, 35mm, 7'
Before going to a rendezvous, the hero of the film takes a bath, shaves, brushes his teeth and combs his hair. This can be a problem, if you are a character in a clay animation film. And then it isn’t even worth while.
Jelena Bešir, Serbia and Monte Negro, 2005, Beta, 8'
Love story.
Zoltán Szilágyi Varga, Hungary, 2004, Beta, 1'57''
There are many ways to “brighten up”. Most of them are complicated, but there are some simple ones among them. But what is brightening up? The film tries to answer this question while it shows one of the possible ways.
Brigitta Bödenauer, Austria, 2005, Beta, 2'
While most abstract films make use of monochrome and often digitally generated elements, Bödenauer drew her images with charcoal and pastels and then set them in motion: At first the picture condenses rapidly, accompanied by the rustling of Miguel Carvalhais’ soundtrack, then seems to gallop forward, driving and pulsing, along with a monotone ringing. Suddenly, a cut – tabula rasa: The screen turns almost completely white, the sound stops abruptly. And cautiously a new drawing of fragile lines takes shape.
Maria Miletič Dail, Slovenia, 2005, Beta, 7'
When did you last take a look and see what’s at the bottom of your garden? I mean a really good look? So come with us down to the cherry tree, get down on your hands and knees… Don’t breathe. Stay absolutely quiet…, look even closer and wait to see if anything moves. If you look hard enough – and if you believe hard enough – then before long you’re sure to see signs that the BeBuzz are about.
Václav Švankmajer, Czech Republic, 2005, 35mm, 25'
We can see a Town with an extensive Labyrinth. Day and Night alternate above the Town and Labyrinth, and the Sun and Moon revolve in a seemingly never – ending cycle. Suddenly the machine grinds to a halt and stops working. An endless night sets in... Our Hero enters the Labyrinth. He passes through its dark corridors, watched by Guards – at first sight immobile antique statues of women, which however come alive behind the Hero’s back. On his voyage into the heart of the Labyrinth the Hero passes through three tests
Vanja Matovič, Slovenia, 2005, Beta, 45''
Humorous short animation with two characters Errol and Flint, in its essence tells about shifty human nature when apparent looser becomes winner.