ANIMART 2021 - Competition

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Competition

Programme 10

Friday 23/07/2021 16:00 - 18:00 EEST - Animart Festival
Total Duration: 01:54:25

THE SOUND OF THE SUN / El sonido del Sol 11:19

Silvia finds herself in a world that seems strange, distant. She feels she doesn´t belong. It´s always been the same. In the middle of a protest against sexual minorities, she is going to find out that, even if the tide is stronger than her, she is not alone.

MAM'S OLD CHAIR 02:27

A film about repair, reuse, community and the joy that can obtained from every day objects. The chance find of an old chair highlights how locally sourced, locally made goods can be repaired and reused across many generations.

EPILOGUE 01:45

The decay of an elementary school's grounds.

TAG 04:39

This story is a sarcasm to today’ society. This is a made up world, I use Tag to represent for the stereotypes for different people. All of the people in society are labeled with different tags since they came to this world. I showed different stereotypes from different aspects, which is gender, body shame, social classes, only use score to define a student, and job stereotypes. People were tagged by others while they tag other people. They were defined by these tags and never reveal their true self. In the end, they decided to give up all the tags and became their true selves.

HEARTSPACE 03:05

Heartspace stands for everyone's inner world. Everyone has a different house which stands for their different personalities. Iris is a positive girl in reality. She is also gentle and soft. Therefore she has a water-like house in heartspace. Rankin has a warm heart and a tenacious personality in real life. Therefore he has wood power and wooden house in heartspace. One day Iris got a mental shock in real life which led to a catastrophe that happened in heartspace. A huge stone crushed the whole heartspace. Which destroyed Iris's inner world. This stone stands for Iris mind Trauma. Rankin's used his inner love and power to save Iris and destroyed the huge stone. He saved the iris inner world. It is also a growing up for him. He was always shy and hiding. However he finally broke through his inner barrier and found his courage. Rankin healed Iris, however, Iris also healed Rankin in other ways. When Rankin was lonely and isolated, she always proactively approached him. She always provides him the warmest smile. Which brings his courage and happiness. They healed each other and finally had a combined house. Which means finally their hearts connected together.

THE WOLF'S SOUL 04:26

A small sheep, sets off on a dangerous journey to save the souls of his flock. The story is about a small sheep born with a wild wolf soul. It is raised by a cold, lifeless flock, until it leaves the safe path one day to seek the souls of its flock, which have long been lost. On the way it meets a wolf-like soul thief who lives underground. Courageously the little one jumps into the depths of the underground to face the demon. Can such a small sheep stand up to such a demon?

FLIGHT OF MONOCHROME FEATHERS 04:15

This animated documentary visualizes a conversation with Keyvan Mahjoor, an Iranian visual artist who lives and works in Montreal, Canada.

HOMEWARD CLOWN 05:51

A lost clown travels across trouble stricken 1930's America to reunite with his circus family.

SPIRIT OF SHINTO 02:19

A boy sits on a lake overshadowed by the great Mount Fuji. He casts his line and waits; The line of the fishing rod tugs hard and he leaps to action hoping for a large fish on the other end of his line. A magical fish is on his line but what will he do with the fish?

ME AND MY MAGNET AND MY DEAD FRIEND / 我和吸铁石和一个死去的朋友 11:22

When I recalled my childhood, a magnet that accompanied me to grow up and a dead friend was the symbol of my past years. I tied the magnet to the trousers and pulled it out all day. The magnet could suck the iron on the road. Blocks or coins make me very happy. Until I met the friend who wanted to fly to the universe, he was as fat as I was, and then he accidentally fell into the water and died. My childhood was over.

ORANGE / 恶果 05:50

The film talks about the ties of blood. An old man has passed away. Those neighbour who know him was chatting together about the old man and his son, on the man's funeral, discussing what made the tragedy took place ages ago. As soon as neighbours mentioned whether the son would do the same on his own son, they showed up.

HOME SWEET HOME / 窝窝 06:31

One day, an orphanage girl met a stray puppy by chance. Later they became best friends due to shared loneliness. One day, when they both sneaked out to play snow, the puppy accidentally found his mother and original home.

LUNAR MOTH / 虫见月 06:21

This story is about the luna come back to the sky with help from a moth. A moth who meets the moon trapped in a pond and asks the moth to take it back to the sky. Just as they waited for the Galaxy to pick up the moon and return to the night sky, another full moon rose in the sky... ..

DEAREST, MY LITTLE CAT / 亲爱的小猫咪 04:49

After a whole night working overtime, one her way back to her rental accomendation, she saw the body of a died cat under the streetlight. She went home scilently, and associated that scilent death with her own life and future, she felt helpless but had to let it go.

HOSPLAND / 医园 06:15

The little girl comes to a magical amusement park called "Hospland" , where the clown invites her to join him. At the amusement park, the little girl is forced by the clown to blow strange streamers and drink strange pills, even had a red liquid in a balloon strapped to his hand. The clown takes her to a strange circus. The little girl is invited to perform the magic show as a guest. She is transformed into a puppet on the stage, tied up, attacked with a knife, and even stuffed with cotton until she explodes, the joker steps up to stop it, but he misses the floor and falls into the abyss. Dad Woke up, see the bed of the daughter alive, and yearning for the outside world, the father made a decision, not to let the terminally ill daughter continue painful treatment. The two went to a real-life amusement park together, and the little girl went to heaven on a merry-go-round.

THE GUIDE TO CINEMA / 观影指南 02:38

One day, when catty goes to the cinema to see his long-awaited (R-rated) animated movie< Super Cat Vs Man>, he gets into his seat in anticipation. In the back row a father sat down with his three children, who shouted; The man next to him huddled in his seat and snored. During the movie, a couple used a flashlight to find their seats. People in the cinema doing candid.The children started screaming cry, also upset the popcorn in catty‘s head. The cries of children and the snoring of adults hovered over the cinema。 Then released movie screen villain who has the explosives.Catty is staring at the screen, imagining himself carrying the explosives lit.The cinema is immediately surrounded by white light, all the noise stopped.When catty wake up from fantasy and film had ended.Other people were gone, catty is disappointed from the cinema to leave.

RESONANCE / 琴语 11:01

In the 1990s, a boy met with a girl on a green train. Their experiences and vexations were quite different expect for one common ground- the love for music and piano. At night, they softly tapped against the wall and performed a symphony of dream with the language confined to themselves only to solace each others’ souls. On the next day, they embarked on their own paths and went towards different future.

DAYFLY / 蜉蝣日记 14:05

Life is a ray of sunshine that breaks the darkness. In the vast universe, the process of human beings and all things in the world to die is as short and gorgeous as a dayfly. Please feel the world while you are alive. The "dayfly" with only one day's life and the time of the day are used as clues. The time starts at 0:00 and ends at 24:00 the next day, interspersed with three short stories.

HELMUT 03:49

Being weightless can be a heavy burden, as Helmut knows. From experience he learned that some pebbles in the boots protect him from drifting off into space. But sometimes it just won't work.

VOYEURIX/3SMUS 01:38

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