Ionian ContemporaryAnimation Festival ICONA December, 4th-6th, 2020
Professional Competition 4
Saturday 05/12/2020 18:00 - 21:00, Sunday 06/12/2020 06:00 - 09:00
Total Duration: 2:33:17
- White Lobster / Langosta Blanca 08:35 Mexico 2019
Directed: Paul Gomez Lopez Screenplay: Paull Gomez Lopez, Eddy Guifarro Production: Luis Enrique Andrade Nery, Gonzalo Estrada Dialogue Language: Spanish 3 humble fishermen surviving in a unpropitious sea, today they find a white lobster that will drag them to a dark greed path.
- CHESS 06:30 Russian Federation 2019
Directed: Alexey Pochivalov Screenplay: Alexey Pochivalov Unexpected clay chess game ...
- Has the Sun Turned Up Next Morning 06:10 Uzbekistan 2020
Directed: Hristina Belousova Screenplay: Hristina Belousova Production: Dante Rustav Dialogue Language: Russian This abstract film is a fantasy on the theme of violence, collected from the feelings, pain and stress. The fantasy which is visual, textual and musical ... It invites you to plunge into the moment ‘after the violence’ and to speculate about the feeling of something that exists within us .... maybe the soul itself?
- (study for) Swedge of Heaven 09:43 United Kingdom 2020
Directed: Richard Forbes-Hamilton Swedge of Heaven is a moving image project that continues a line of the artist's practice engaging with the nature of experience in relation to place – particularly through the perspective of being connected to a place whilst simultaneously being a stranger to or outside of it. Using real world locations in Essex, Swedge of Heaven explores liminal/transitional/peripheral spaces and realms, navigated by a reanimated rave mascot and a wooden Neolithic fertility figure. Although from distant moments in history, the protagonists are both figures indicative of ritual gathering created by Essex communities. Within the work the isolated figures hover in cultural/historical flux, a state of simultaneous belonging and alienation as they pass through and around places seemingly suspended on the edge of conventional time and space. The project employs experimental digital animation techniques that bring together 3D generated models of real world objects/sites and computer generated actors that navigate in and out of these virtual real world spaces.
- Rude Sleeping Beauty 03:00 United States 2020
Directed: Paul Baker Screenplay: Paul Baker Production: Paul Baker, Cindy Maram Dialogue Language: English The real story of Sleeping Beauty.
- SATURNO 07:11 Argentina 2019
Directed: Gaspar Aguirre Screenplay: Gaspar Aguirre Production: Román Sovrano Dialogue Language: Spanish On a rainy night, a young man receives a strange and unexpected visit. Someone seems to be interested in him and his dear Saturno.
- Raccoon With Bitcoin / Bitcoin'i OlanRakun 03:48 Turkey 2020
Directed: Serdar Çotuk Screenplay: Serdar Çotuk Production: Berat İlk, Serdar Çotuk Dialogue Language: Turkish A jammed elevator, a Raccoon and his Bitcoin. Among Flamingos, the Raccoon who lost his Bitcoin in chaos, goes after Flamingos.
- Pangäa 13:30 Austria 2020
Directed: Markus Keim, Beate Hecher Screenplay: Markus Keim, Beate Hecher Production: Beate Hecher, Markus Keim In the field of tension between work and private retreat, the downfall of an administrative officer is sketched who is no longer up to his changing environment and who finally succumbs to it through his own disappearance. As an administrative employee of a corporate group, the protagonist experiences the same constant stations of his monotonous everyday life. Quite casually and at first unnoticed by him, his surroundings begin to change and deform until one morning he finds an empty office and is confronted with the fact that this everyday life no longer exists. What remains is a society without a human face in a deserted architecture... a city minus people in its poetic and cruel beauty.
- London Holidays 11:00 Latvia 2019
Directed: Janis Cimmermanis Screenplay: Maris Putnins Production: Maris Putnins The men of the "Rescue team" are finally on holiday and are traveling on their yellow boat through the English Channel. The satellite phone is ringing; London's famous clock "Big Ben" has broke down and the "Rescue team" rushes to fix it. Morning comes and “Big Ben” is working again! However, when it comes time to ring, the solution found by the “Rescue team” is a great surprise to the Queen of England...
- Cracks in the Pavement / Entre Baldosas 08:51 Argentina 2019
Directed: Nicolas Conte Screenplay: Nicolas Conte, Micaela Doll Production: Nicolas Conte A beautiful and delicate flower grows amidst the asphalt jungle. A street rubbish bin witnesses the mistreatment of the Flower in the polluted public way. Concerned about her torment, the rubbish bin seeks a way to protect her.
- Difference and Repetition and Coffee 04:45 Japan
Directed: Masa Kudo Screenplay: Masa Kudo Production: Masa Kudo Dialogue Language: Japanese A swinging animation drawn with a pencil. It shows view of inside a coffee shop by panning the camera. The little difference is repeated by rotation, and the inside of the store changes as if you are looking at the car window.
- The Ball of the Cats / Le Bal des chats 02:33 France 2019
Directed: Andrea Kiss Screenplay: Andrea Kiss Production: Lionel Grosheny A ball of mice... at night. A big cat came and pretend he is dancing but tries indeed to catch a little mouse which enjoys a lot the cat’s game.
- Pearls 03:16 Israel 2019
Directed: Idan Barzilay Production: Netanel Orbach Dialogue Language: Hebrew The song "Pni'nim" (“Pearls” in Hebrew) by the artist Daniela Spector is a multi-dimensional piece: about a dream, a memory, and departure. Elusive and fluid, time functions as the fourth element, allowing the transitioning between the other dimensions. The music video tries to capture time, not by stopping it, rather than placing the character on the timeline, emphasizing its constant flow.
- Cava Grande - A Room Above The Earth 05:09 Turkey 2020
Directed: Tan Tuncag Screenplay: Tan Tuncag Set in a near future, an alien visitor from outer space stumbles upon our solar system and visits the moon colony, discovering humans. On her way to earth, she realizes that a giant asteroid is about the hit the earth. She changes her course towards this "global killer" and decides to take matters into her own hands.
- OUR BEST SOLDIERS - A Covid-19 Tutorial Video 03:35 Spain
Directed: Pablo Morales de los Rios Screenplay: Pablo Morales de los Rios Production: MORALES DE LOS RIOS Producciones SL Dialogue Language: English The COVID-19 is here. We have a new enemy. It's contagious. It's dangerous. It's implacable. And we have to beat him... Use your brain. Use your heart. Use OUR BEST SOLDIERS!
- IAN, A MOVING STORY / IAN, UNA HISTORIA QUE NOS MOVILIZARÁ 09:00 Argentina 2019
3rd Place - Professional Short Animation - AudienceDirected: ABEL GOLDFARB Screenplay: GASTÓN GORALI Production: MUNDOLOCO, GASTÓN GORALI , LAURA PLASENCIA Ian was born with cerebral palsy. Like all kids, he wants to have friends, but discrimination and bullying keep him from his beloved playground. Ian won't give up easily, accomplishing something that will surprise everyone.
- Cosmonaut 11:38 Estonia 2019
Directed: Kaspar Jancis Screenplay: Kaspar Jancis Production: Kalev Tamm An old Cosmonaut lives the same kind of life now in his flat in a concrete panel apartment building as he did in his youth in a space station. As before, he still carries out heroic missions and misses his close relatives, who he left behind on his home planet. His close relatives see the situation altogether differently. Is this old man capable of coming to grips with the norms that apply in society? A cosmonaut will always be a cosmonaut. To the very end.
- The Stork / Toonekurg 15:51 Estonia 2020
2nd Place - Professional Short Animation - JuryDirected: Morten Tšinakov, Lucija Mrzljak Screenplay: Morten Tšinakov Production: Kalev Tamm While smoking on the balcony, Citizen Stork is struck by a moment of clarity, in which he realises that he is not a person, but rather a bird. At the same time, a man and a woman are eating lunch. When a cuckoo jumps out of the clock, the man leaves the apartment in a hurry. The woman and the stork meet…
- The Heretic 07:44 Denmark 2020
Directed: Veselin Efremov Screenplay: Veselin Efremov Production: Silvia Rasheva, Aleksander Karshikoff Dialogue Language: English In a future where humans and technology can merge, we dare to challenge our ancient beliefs.
- The blue of salt / Le bleu du sel 10:00 France 2019
Directed: Alice Bohl Screenplay: Alice Bohl Production: Catherine Estèves Dialogue Language: French The blue of the salt is the journey of a young woman bruised by a mourning who tries to find peace in her memory. The train on which we embark with her is a night crossing until dawn, between dream and reality. She finds there the desire to live and be present to the world.
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