SCREENING SUNDAY 11TH SEPT 4:30PM (FUSE BOX)
ANIMATION FORNICATION
Have fun fornicating with this festival favourite, bringing with it everthing from traditional hand-drawn techniques to surreal alchemical animations.
PRESENTED BY
BLOOD AND CINNAMON | JESS MOTT & STEVE REINKE | 2010 | USA | AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Creatures discuss existential crises as they flip and rotate and disappear from view.
GO FISH | RONNIE CRAMER | 2011 | 1:00 | WORLD PREMIERE
Has the world gone mad and been taken over by flying fish?
FRAGMENTS | GEORGE VARETTAS & COSMIN HRINCU | AUS | 6:00
A frail old man, dependent on oxygen, travels across a wrecked landscape. He finds a small, fragile egg: an object that triggers memories and emotions.
THE DEATH OF JOHNNY FORCEPS | TIMOTHY DAVID ORME | 2011 | 4:36 | USA | WORLD PREMIERE
When the town myth dies, police interview people who knew him to try to paint the picture of his life.
WISDOM TEETH | DON HERTZFELD | 2010 | USA | 6:00 | AUS PREMIERE
Nigel gives in to his friend’s innocent request to help with his wisdom tooth stitches.
CAMERA OBSCURA | MARTA MAIA | 2010 | AUS| 5:30
A stop-frame animation about a lady who hides away from the world and creates a camera obscura in her home.
SCARY ON THE RADIO | ANNALIESE CIEL WALKER | 2010 | AUS | 3:40
Expresses the relentless nature of progress and technology, particularly in relation to the mass media.
REDDISH BROWN & BLUEISH GREEN | SAMANTHA GURRY | U S A | 2011 | 3:15 | WORLD PREMIERE
Using a found object (a baby book found on a curb) as a catalyst, this film explores a family’s destructive journey through childhood.
EVERYTHING THAT CLUNKED ALONG | JOSHUA BELINFANTE | 2010 | 7:00 | AUS
Enter Herman Antipode’s carnivalesque prison, where every night is like the last moments before curtain call. Witness everything that clunked along today.
FIESTA BRAVA | STEVEN WOLOSHEN | 2011 | 3:30 | CAN
The crazy cattle stampedes on the streets of Pamplona have ended. Now, the bulls are throwing the world’s biggest party.
A MEDITATION IN COLOUR AND LIGHT | JON BEHRENS | 2011 | 5:00 | USA
A stunning hand painted and optically printed film that will make your mind melt.
WRECKING BALL | GUY VERGE | 2011 | AUS | 3:05 | WORLD PREMIERE
As a family’s repressed emotions take a sinister material form, and the analog world in which they live is corrupted by the digital, the family falls apart. Based on a scene from Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ and inspired by the likes of Jan Svankmajer.
MALEKA | TONY LAWRENCE | 2010 | AUS | 1:00
A dream of Carl Jung, realised in 8mm stop-frame cardboard animation.
LONG IN THE FAMILY | RYAN BORNEN | 2010 | AUS | 2:20 | WORLD PREMIERE
Wacky friends come over and quickly adopt to social rules of the tribe.
POISON IVY | HAZEL GORE | 2011 | SCOT | 5:00 | AUS PREMIERE
A young Ivy is affected by a childhood abandonment event. As an Adult, she receives a letter she cannot open. She believes this letter is from the absent person.
STAR CROSS | TED WIGGIN | 6:00 | USA | WORLD PREMIERE
Potted plants, a snake, and boolean bugs are drawn to the light. For further exploration find the heaviest rock you can carry and xerox it, then bury a balloon.
COLLISION | SARAH EDDOWES | AUS |3:30| 2010 | WORLD PREMIERE
A surreal stop-motion animation that experiments with textural effects, and explores the power struggle between a man and a horse.
BLACK MOON | BRANDON BLOMMAERT | 2010 | 1:30 | AUS PREMIERE
One thousand beams of radial light for strata advancement.
THE SECRET STORY | SHAHRIAR SHADAB | 2010 | AUS | WORLD PREMIERE
A student in Iran is caught doing something he’s not supposed to be doing; having an imagination. His teacher, an enforcer of a strict inflexible system will not allow it.
LUMINOUS FLUX | GREGORY GODHARD | AUS | 2011 | 2:00 | WORLD PREMIERE
An abstract animation made with hand painted glass panels, which is inspired by the ability to measure the perceived power of light.
