Animated Short Films: Bridges Festival 2021

Animated Shorts

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ANIMATED SHORT FILMS

WORLD WIDE

View some of the best short films from worldwide celebrated filmmakers.

March 2021

03. 13-15

For

Professionals and Emerging Artists

Tickets

Duration

30 - 40 minutes

Where

Due to current restrictions, we have made all the programming available to watch online.

why short films?

We aim to introduce, examine and celebrate various forms of animation of objects. For us, animation is expressed in various forms, including puppetry, automation, stop-motion animation, film, digital animation and robotics. We are curious about objects that explore human stories and form relationships with humans. We want to expanding the conversation of what puppetry and animation are and how they touch the contemporary world.

Colin St-Cyr Duhamel

Creator of: MINIMAL MINUTE

Armed with an inventor’s mind and a passion for storytelling, Colin St-Cyr Duhamel has devoted himself to puppetry since he was 16. Designer, maker, performer and director, he adds yet another dimension to his art by taking mechanical design classes at École Polytechnique. Among his most recent collaborations, we find: Kid Koala’s Storyville Mosquito, Cirque du Soleil’s innovation lab Nextasy, Cabaret Décadanse, and the Scooby-Doo! live show. Colin is part of the Montreal-based street-performing duo Les Pas Sortables.

MINIMAL MINUTE

How short can a story be? Geometric puppet cartoons for everyone. Fun fact: This series draws lessons from brain science to tickle your neurones with moments of strangeness, emotion and fun.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Minimal Minute acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, La Fabrique de Théâtre Insolite (Les Sages Fous), Crane Creations Theatre Co. and Les Pas Sortables.

Soetkin Verstegen

Creator of: FREEZE FRAME

Soetkin Verstegen is an animated filmmaker based in Brussels. Her films are composed of different handmade techniques: drawing, sculpture and experiment. She studied Scriptwriting and Cultural studies and is an alumna of the Animation Workshop’s AniDox:Residency in Denmark and Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany. Next to making independent work, she is a freelance animator, puppet and set builder for studios and teacher of animation workshops.

Freeze Frame

Freeze frame: the most absurd technique since the invention of the moving image.
Through an elaborate process of duplicating the same image over and over again, it creates the illusion of stillness.

Identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice. The repetitive movements reanimate the animals captured inside.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Director, writer, animator: Soetkin Verstegen
Sound: Andrea Martignoni, Michał Krajczok

With the support of
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany
Saari Residency – Kone Foundation, Finland
Atelier 105 residency – Light Cone, France
Fish Factory Creative Centre, Iceland

Photo by Iresa Cho

Dr Max Hattler

Creator of: Serial Parallels

Max Hattler is an artist and academic who works with abstract animation, video installation and audiovisual performance. He holdsa master’s degree from the Royal College of Art and a Doctorate in Fine Art from the University of East London. His work has beenshown at festivals and institutions such as Resonate, Ars Electronica, ZKM Center for Art and Media, MOCA Taipei and BeijingMinsheng Museum. Awards include Supernova, Cannes Lions, Bradford Animation Festival and several Visual Music Awards. Maxhas performed live around the world including at Playgrounds Festival, Re-New Copenhagen, Expo Milan, Seoul Museum of Art andthe European Media Art Festival. He lives in Hong Kong where he is an Assistant Professor atSchool of Creative Media, CityUniversity of Hong Kong

SERIAL PARALLELS

This experimental animationapproaches Hong Kong’s built environment from the conceptual perspective of celluloidfilm, by applying the technique of film animation to the photographic image. The city’s signature architecture of horizon-eclipsing housing estates is reimagined as parallel rows of film strips: Serial Parallels

This short film is only available as a projection at:
Halo Espresso Bar (3024 Hurontario St, Mississauga, ON L5B 4M4)

Serial Parallels (2019) trailer from Max Hattler on Vimeo.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Director: Max

HattlerMusic: Lux

PrimaAnimation: King Lam Chan, Po Yi Chan, Hinyi Cheuk, Ka Man Chow, Cheuk Hei Kai, Tsz Ching Kwan, Hau Ying Lui, Ka Man Luk, NgaiWan Ma, Cheuk Lam Mui, Kam IanSio, Susan Sun, Qi Yu Teo, Ka Yiu Wong, Crystal Yip, Ka Man Yu, Max HattlerCode: Sune Petersen

Available formats: DCP, 1080p HD h264, 24fpsLength: 4’33″Year: 2017

Kenia Mattis

Co-Founder of: LISTENMI ANIMATION STUDIOS

Kenia Mattis is a co-founder of ListenMi, an award winning Digital Design Studio. ListenMi designs and builds culturally relevant digital products for global audiences.Her productions of note include a Sesame Street short film collaboration ‘D is for Dress Up;’ the award winning animation concept The Adventures of Kam Kam (now in development), and Fimimoji.com, helping lovers of Jamaican culture to express themselves fluently with culturally savvy emojis.

The Adventures of Kam Kam - Space Explorer

The Adventures of Kam Kam is an animated short that tells the story of a little Jamaican girl who as a space explorer goes where no one has ever gone before. Her boundless imagination propels her and Glowjuice, her favourite squishy fishy toy, into the most intergalacticosmical adventure!

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Created/Written by: Kamika Aziza

Directed by: Leo Rhule

Narrated by: Kenia Mattis

Produced by: Kenia Mattis

Production Team: Jenille Brown, Gashwayne Hudson, Djet Layne, Donald “Icon” Medder, Joelle McFarlane, Patrick Meikle

Collaborators: Eugene Ffolkes, Fabian Jervis, Matthew Wallace

Credit: Daniel Simion, Fesliyan Studios, Mike Koenig, Xilith117

CREDITS

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WORLD WIDE

March 2021

For

Tickets

Duration

30 - 40 minutes

Where

why short films?

Colin St-Cyr Duhamel

Creator of: MINIMAL MINUTE

MINIMAL MINUTE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Soetkin Verstegen

Creator of: FREEZE FRAME

Freeze Frame

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Photo by Iresa Cho

Dr Max Hattler

Creator of: Serial Parallels

SERIAL PARALLELS

This short film is only available as a projection at:
Halo Espresso Bar (3024 Hurontario St, Mississauga, ON L5B 4M4)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Kenia Mattis

Co-Founder of: LISTENMI ANIMATION STUDIOS

The Adventures of Kam Kam - Space Explorer

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Checkout 606

Applefun with Mike – Ontario

Old Man and the River – Toronto

land acknowledgement

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WORLD WIDE

March 2021

For

Tickets

Duration

30 - 40 minutes

Where

why short films?

Colin St-Cyr Duhamel

Creator of: MINIMAL MINUTE

Creator of: FREEZE FRAME

Photo by Iresa Cho

Creator of: Serial Parallels

Co-Founder of: LISTENMI ANIMATION STUDIOS

land acknowledgement

Ⓒ 2021 - All Rights Are Reserved

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