This year, LIAF’s Digital Panorama takes
a broader view of the ever evolving world of hi-res digital animation
than previously. The programme still plays host to highly imaginative
abstract digital animation but these films sit beside films with
a clearer narrative structure, films obviously inspired by those
immersed in the gaming animation community, works being adapted
from other mediums and those creating digital art for gallery
spaces.
Jona / Tomberry
Rosto AD, Holland, 2005, 12’15
Adapted from his graphic novel, Rosto has created a confounding
world which awaits the ultimate horror.
Theros
Georgios Cherouviai, UK, 2’40
A frightening picture of industrial malaise in which buildings
sprout like headstones from the desert.
Yu
J. Fabbris & N. Guiraud, France, 2005, 5’15
A thrilling point-of-view hyper-powered flight through a sinister,
futuristic landscape.
Zero Degree
Omid Khoshnazar, Iran, 2005, 8’00
Artist and camera conspire in a menacing revenge plot against
a murderer.
Bitcrusher
Harald Holba, Austria, 2004, 11’00
A floor plan gradually grows into a digital architectural structure
with a few purely digital glitches.
Panthera
Alex Kim, Australia, 2005, 1’15
A skeletal predator prowls the back alleys of a steel grey city
looking for prey – any prey!
Akkad
Gregoire Pierre, France, 2005, 7’15
A stunning kaleidoscope of pedestrians, traffic and commuters
in a symmetrical metropolis.
Ar(r)etes
S. Blond & J. Call & Q. Ricci, France, 2005, 5’00
The ocean becomes a dumping ground where a new type of nasty sea-life
is evolving.
Rupture
Jean Detheux, Canada, 2004, 3’00
Visually and aurally discordant, dancing shapes like coloured
x-rays meld with flashes of sound.
Re: Those Sounds You Sent Me!
Richard Jousiffe, UK, 2005, 3’00
A non-figurative piece which operates as a visual realisation
of sounds emailed to the filmmaker.
Warning, Petroleum Pipeline
Jan van Nuenen, Holland, 2005, 4’45
A frantic, fierce industrial grade digitisation and reconstruction
of an industrial grade landscape.
Flesh
Edouard Salier, France, 2005, 10’00
A majestic digital ‘re-painting’ of any entire cityscape
- with a platoon of found soft porn movies.
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