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Microcinema International’s international touring film festival, Independent Exposure, is currently in its eleventh year. The 2006 Animation program contains an assorted collection of innovative moving image artists who are pioneering the development of new and exciting ways of approaching animation. Artists featured in this program are from a variety of different countries, some of which include Bulgaria, Australia and Germany.
The program includes shorts by Signe Baumane and Joanna Priestley whose works are sold in our online DVD store. In addition to these artists Federico Solmi’s animations and drawings have been shown at the Drawing Center in New York, as well as around the world. His short featured here, “Rocco Never Dies” was also featured at the last Impakt Film Festival. In contrast to moving image artists with a long experience in animation, this program also presents lesser known animators and ones just at the beginning of their careers, like “Space Travel” by Steven Lall, an excellent animation which is Lall’s second short.
| Catalog Number: MC-576 |
Type: Shorts Compilation |
Genre: Mixed Genre, Various |
| Copyright: 2006 |
Length: 61 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 0 (All) |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: |
UPC: 880198057693 |
| Label: Blackchair Collection |
This is a Microcinema Exclusive title.
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Films In Compilation
75% PAL Bars Horse directed by
Tina
Willgren
Sweden,
Animation,
2005,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:01:45
Animated color bars and the sound of horses. AN ode to a logical collapse.
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Dentist directed by
Signe
Baumane
USA,
Animation,
2005,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:10:00
An enthusiastic dentist, a reluctant patient , and a strange picture on the wall...
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Elegant Disposition (An Introduction) directed by
Will
Forrester
USA,
Video Art / Film Art,
2006,
other video,
Color,
Dolby SR,
00:04:00
We often search for beauty in the most peculiar places. Our perceptions of what is actually aesthetically pleasing are formed by our cultural surroundings. If I were to accept America's mainstream definition of beauty, I would have to compromise my soul. Therefore, I have attempted to sway my thoughts to a place that opposes the status quo. And I continually question, what is the true meaning of an elegant disposition when I find beauty in nearly everything I see?
Through a lengthy process of experimentation, I have attempted to transform mundane imagery into a lyrical fluidity which tries to exist in the same realms as music.
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Tick-Tack directed by
Boris
Despodov
Bulgaria,
Animation,
2004,
35mm,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:06:30
One never knows where love will burst in from. Nor does one know about infidelity either, for that matter.
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Walk for Walk directed by
Amy
Lockhart
Canada,
Animation,
2005,
16mm,
Color,
Optical,
00:10:00
Lockhart’s unparalleled understanding of the fantastic and grotesque combined with her completely original aesthetic sensibilities create and inhabit an animated landscape where a seemingly endless parade of kooky little creatures walk themselves straight into trouble, but always find a way out. Created using over 1000 hand painted paper cut outs and puppets, with hand drawn/painted backgrounds.
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Look for Me directed by
Laura
Heit
United Kingdom,
Art / Artist,
2005,
digital video,
Color,
Dolby Digital,
00:03:00
What would you do if you woke up one day and you were invisible? That was the first question I asked actress Sarah Anthony in an interview that became the voice over for this film. Look For Me is a film about desire, and the reality of that desire. Told using handmade patterns and digital animation, Look For Me follows an invisible woman for a day as she learns what it’s really like to wander around unseen.
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Dew Line directed by
Joanna
Priestley
USA,
Animation,
2005,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:05:00
Abstract choreography, based in botanical forms.
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Instructional Guide to Dating, The directed by
Siobhan
Bowers
Australia,
Animation,
2005,
35 mm,
Color,
Dolby SR,
00:07:00
There are many hazards to avoid in the airport of love. How do you choose a co-pilot to take on your journey? What is the best way to eject from a date that's in a tailspin? How do you avoid excess emotional baggage?
The Instructional Guide to Dating is essential for every modern girl and hipster guy to navigate through the turbulent modern dating scene.
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Beginning, Middle and End directed by
Daniel
Greaves
United Kingdom,
Art / Artist,
2004,
digital video,
Color,
00:04:30
An unconventional and atmospheric film in three parts illustrating the cycle of life.
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Fold, The directed by
Kim
Collmer
USA,
Animation,
2004,
DV,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:04:11
Shot underwater in the Adriatic and a giant wooden water bucket, the Fold explores water as a reflective surface, creating mirrored images and abstract cellular animations.
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Space Travel directed by
Steven
Lall
United Kingdom,
Animation,
2005,
Digital Video,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:04:05
Space Travel is about a spaceman on a spiritual journey. Screen space represents the world which he is travelling through. He shows people he encounters a paper with a question. He tries to solve his quest by finding or not finding the answer on the piece of paper he carries.
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Rocco Never Dies directed by
Federico
Solmi
USA,
Animation,
2005,
Digital Video,
B&W/Color,
Magnetic Monaural,
00:03:52
“Rocco Never Dies” is a drawing animation based on the XXX movie of Italian porn superstar Rocco Siffredi. It is a documentary of the life of one of the greatest Italian icons in U.S. society of all times. In the original movie, Rocco Siffredi plays the role of a special agent, a kind of a hardcore version of James Bond. In his great efforts to save the world from a nuclear terrorist attack, Rocco Siffredi is running into a lot of dangerous adventures, and of course gorgeous sex performances, but all for one goal: to save humanity from evil. The animation will take place in this absurd scenario of an imminent world catastrophe in which Rocco, during his call for duty, will discover to be mortal. In fact, during the filming of his masterpiece Rocco Never Dies, Rocco Siffredi will have a heart attack while he is performing in a gang bang. After a desperate attempt to rescue him, following a crazy drive in an ambulance through the streets of New York City, Rocco will die at Beth Israel Hospital, at the age of 37. He will be acclaimed by the public as a war hero and given a State Funeral. “Rocco Never Dies” is a celebration of the absurdity and triumphs of the contradictions in today life, but it is also a romantic story about a man of strength, who came from a small town to conquest the glory of life with a tremendous work.
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