IAD International Shorts Showcase [2023]
Please not this session is rated: Unrestricted M (Mature) – Restricted to persons aged 15 and over unless accompanied by an adult.
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Indie animated shorts are the engine room of the international animation world. They’re the backbone of pretty much every animation festival in the world and the core element of the MIAF mission. Literally thousands are made every year and the best of them speak volumes for the dazzlingly creative possibilities that the unique properties of animation offer the artist with the imagination and skill to fully exploit them.
ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film d’Animation), the international organisation devoted to cultivating and promoting the art, craft and profession of Animation – and the overseers of International Animation Day events around the world – threw open their doors to animators who wanted to offer their latest films for consideration at all IAD screenings.
This program brings together an inspiring, eclectic collection of these new films and in the process provides a great snapshot of what’s happening in the world of auteur, independent animation right now.
Fittingly, the program opens with an outstanding, eye-popping, brain-bending new Australian film that will be introduced by its creator, Georgia Kriss. Georgia will walk us through some of the original artwork, run a couple of pieces of early developmental animation, and take a couple of questions from the floor before we knuckle down to see what the rest of the world has to offer.
Manimorphs
Georgia Kriss
Australia, 11’12, 2022
A surreal-hilarious jaunt following three lab-test animals who get a crash course in humanity after being doused in a mysterious chemical, morphing into (kinda) humans and escaping their cages.
After The After Party
Jess Mountfield
UK, 2’55, 2022
After a couple of drinks, a girl admits to her best friend that she’s always wanted to know what it would feel like to be kissed by another girl.
7 Missing
Yuval Katz
Israel, 7’00, 2022
Agent M, a post-traumatic special agent, embarks on a transformative mission to retrieve six missing agents from a mysterious shaman.
Only Human
Nolan J. Downs
USA, 4’00, 2022
You know that the natural order has changed when the slugs have risen up and appear to be none too choosey about who they chew on.
The Sprayer
Farnoosh Abedi
Iran, 8’45, 2022
In a land contaminated and occupied by the Sprayer army no one is permitted to grow any kind of plant and doing so is considered a seditious act punishable by death.
The Cactus
Ricardo Kump
Brazil, 10’25, 2022
Finding himself paralysed in a remote and hostile environment, a man turns to an inner force to help him adjust to a whole new reality.
Fly
Patty Stenger
Netherlands, 2’25, 2023
Margot’s daughter might be trying to decide what’s best for her mother but Margot has plenty of her own ideas on that subject, thank you very much.
Fur
Zhen Li
USA, 6’30, 2022
A crush gone mouldy. The mind can take us places we sometimes refuse to recognise but know all too well.
Ashkasha
Laura Maltz
Spain, 6’17, 2022
Guided by the power of her curiosity, Ashkasha embarks on a bizarre journey into an uncanny world in search of her missing head.
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