N+2: 2003
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12 abril 2012

Malenkaya nochnaya simfoniya - Dmitry Geller (2003)


МАЛЕНЬКАЯ НОЧНАЯ СИМФОНИЯ / La pequeña Sinfonía nocturna / The little night Symphony
Sin Diálogos / No Dialogue

Un gato negro se queda solo en casa durante la noche. Este corto, en directa alusiva al teatro y basado en la pieza musical de Mozart "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik", explora la percepción del gato en su soledad, cuando los bizarros espectros de la noche salen y danzan entre sí. 


Cortometraje ganador de los premios: Festival «SUZDAL» 2004, Russia; Grand Prix, Festival «KROK» 2004, Ukraina; "Best experimental film" "ANIMAYEVKA" 2004, Bielorusia; Festival "GATO DE LA LUNA" 2007, España.


"(...) Young Dmitry Geller, a Russian author as well, also tells his story without words. A Little Night Symphony (Malenkaya Nochnaya Simphoniya) is indeed based on Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, the emotions and the rhythm arising from the music, but nevertheless, Geller has succeeded to make music come alive which in turn is made visible and comes alive through the power of Geller's expressionist drawing, which letting us in on his fantasies as seen through the eyes of a black stray cat."


"[Dmitry Geller] born in Sverdlovsk in 1970. Took part in many painting and drawing shows in Sverdlovsk Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Copenhagen and Washington. Came to animation industry in 1990. Worked as an animator at A-film Studio in Sverdlovsk. In  1998 started to work as a director. In 1997 finished Higher courses for Animation Screenwriters and Directors. Directed more than 20 animated commercials. At present works at Pchela Studio."



LINK

https://rapidshare.com/files/1353818643/2003Malenkaya.nochnaya.simfoniya-D.Geller.www.nplus2.org.avi

28 febrero 2012

To Have and To Hold - Emily Mantell (2003)


No Dialogue / Sin Diálogos

"To have and to hold" es una mirada humorística a los roles que desempeñan tanto la mujer como el hombre dentro los esquemas sociales relacionados con la sexualidad.


Una diversidad de figuras estilizadas de mujeres tienen bajo su mando a un diverso grupo de falos, cada quien ajustándose a la medida del otro. Una profunda exploración, y sátira, a las relaciones de poder que se crean entre ambos géneros a partir del sexo.


"This film is a humorous look at relationships and sex. It’s drawn animation with lighting effects added. I made it in 2003-4 at the RCA."


"I graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2003 with an MA in Animation.  My film 'Gifted' won the best student film in the British Animation Awards in 2004.  After working on Tim Burtons 'Corpse Bride' I went on to win a Creative Pioneer Award from NESTA for my business idea 'Prude' which I ran for two years.  I am now focusing on my creative and teaching ambitions."
Emily Mantell (http://www.wlv.ac.uk)


LINK

https://rapidshare.com/files/3694809206/2003TohaveandTohold.EmilyMantell.www.nplus2.org.mp4

24 febrero 2012

Walking on by - Theodore Ushev (2003)


Caminando por ahí
No Dialogue / Sin Diálogos

Este corto relata la vida cíclica de un individuo desde la perspectiva misma de su andar, mostrando logros y trivialidades a las que hay que enfrentarse cuando uno va caminando por ahí. Animado mediante Flash, en los primeros intentos de dicha técnica, esta muestra denota una estética visualmente simple pero a la vez concreta y bien definida, sello de la obra de este autor.


Nacido en Bulgaria, Theodor es egresado de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Sofía.
Emigró a Canadá en 1999, donde rápidamente adquirió una buena reputación como animador con cortometrajes como The Man Who Waited y Tzartitza, que le valieron numerosos premios. Como director de animación de la película en 3D Facing Champlain, Ushev sobresalió por su afilado talento y su interés en desarrollar nuevas plataformas de entrega de contenidos, como se evidencia en su sitio web y en su micro-película Sou, creada para visualizarse en teléfonos celulares.


Theorore Ushev is one of my favourite animators and a helpful one as well. I use his work to demonstrate the possibilities of Flash animation with my students. He's also a superb artist which helps. He has two independent outlets for his work, ushev.com/ and mortadellatv.com. I'm featuring two of his animations but all his work is better than excellent. Walking On By is just that: a guy takes a stroll through all the stones and arrows that life can throw at him. He's as bouncy at the end as he is at the beginning. It was produced in 2003 and has been used with all my classes to explain the walk cycle and much beyond. Theodore is very witty and his simply drawn character and basic idea is a triumph of its sort... Theodore was born in Bulgaria but moved to Canada in 1999. Increasingly his work is not available on-line. He is however becoming a mainstay of the North American and European festival circuit. Last year his Tzaritza opened the Carrousel International du Film de Rimouski. ("Little Lili finds a tzaritza, a magic shell that will grant her a wish. She decides to use this magical gift to bring her grandmother, who lives near the Black Sea, to Montreal." NFC) His latest movie, Tower Bawher, is due to be screened later this month at the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2007. It's described by the National Film Board of Canada as a "wild ride through the pages of a chapter in modern art" which sounds just about right for Theodore.
Ian Lumsden (Animation Blog)



Theodore Ushev is an animator, graphic designer, illustrator and multimedia artist, from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
He was born in Bulgaria and graduated stage decoration, animation, and make-up at Plovdiv's School of Scenic Arts. He obtained a Master degree in Graphic Design from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia. He first made a name as a poster and graphic designer, before moving to Montreal in 1999. There he quickly gained a reputation as an animation filmmaker with for the National Film Board of Canada, with films such as Vertical, The Man Who Waited, Tower Bawher, Tzartitza, Sou and Drux Flux, winner of the Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. In 2010, he completed a short animated documentary about Arthur Lipsett, entitled Lipsett Diaries. In March 2011, Lipsett Diaries received the Genie Award for Best Animated Short at the 31st Genie Awards.



He created live show multimedia and promo animations for the British band Public Symphony and David Gilmour’s “In an Island” album and live tour, and the illustrations for Chris Robinson' book "Ballad of a Thin Man: In Search of Ryan Larkin" (2008).


 LINK

https://rapidshare.com/files/2481337504/2003Walkingonby.TheodoreUshev_www.nplus2.org_.mp4

02 febrero 2012

Gack Gack - Olaf Encke (2003)


 Cluck Cluck
No dialogue/Sin diálogos

Es una oficina donde el tirano jefe, Dr. Brock, ejerce con tremenda ira su autoridad contra los trabajadores cuando éste se percata de algún error; sin embrago, las estresantes condiciones de trabajo obligan al Dr. Brock a ser reemplazado por Martin, el supervisor.

Enfermizo primer film animado de Encke y su bestiario, cabal sátira que sugiere esa tremenda violencia que presenta día a día el mundo burocrático. 


"This is, quite simply, a horrific little film. I cannot pretend that it is enjoyable to watch. It is brutal and utterly bleak. And yet I find myself thinking about it frequently, weeks after having viewed it.

Collected in Spike and Mike's 'Unprotected' DVD, 'Gack Gack' (I'm assuming this is what chickens say in German since the alternate English title is 'Cluck Cluck') pursues a single nasty scenario: a henhouse-office in which ranks of chickens sit at typewriters all day doing nothing but typing 'Gack Gack Gack Gack Gack Gack', filling pages with the single word. (Already existential hell, right? And appropriate from the culture that brought us 'Arbeit macht frei'.) Worse, this operation is presided over by an astonishingly foul office manager: a hippo whose rage over a mistyped 'Gak' invariably results in the murder of a hen (the culprit? a hen picked entirely at random? it is not clear that the boss knows whose 'Gak' is it); and who exalts in working his bovine secretary's udders for his own pleasure, even as she weeps at being so used. A ray of hope--the hippo's death by heart attack--is introduced specifically to be smashed down when the iguana (tuatara?) replacing him, a superficially pleasanter personality, ends up being more of the same: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Spike and Mike program humor almost exclusively in their collections, and it is quite possible that they found this short funny in that 'sick and twisted' way of theirs. I don't find it funny in the least; I think it is desolate and desperately depressing; and the horror it evokes in 7 brief minutes is precisely why is it very nearly a great film."
smegma23 (IMDb



LINK

https://rapidshare.com/files/4011564646/2003.Gackgack.O.Encke.avi