Screened as part of NZIFF 2001

Animation Now 2001 

90 minutes

The new millennium finds animators the world over just as busy with pencils, pastels, puppets, paint and scissors as they ever were. Certainly most of these films have bounced around the cyber-corridors and hallways of a computer at some stage of their gestation, but the link between an animator's imagination, a 'real' medium and your eyes is as real – and the results as enchanting, challenging and diverse – as they always were. — MT

Robots 2000

Director, Producer, Animator

Narrator

David Hopewell
UK
7 minutes

Puppet animation. Pseudo docu-soap of a day in the life of four suffering robots.

Le Processus 2000

Director, Animator

Music

Ivo Malec
,
Nine Inch Nails
,
Parmegiani
5 minutes

A uniquely designed, truly memorable addition to a staple theme of animators: the individual who steps out from the serried ranks.

Frame 2000

Director, Producer, Screenplay, Animator

Editor

Mohammad Ali Safoura

Music

Behrouz Noeepour
5 minutes

Paint and pastel on paper. Beautiful.

Ad Hoc 0-1072 2000

Director

UK
2 minutes

A constantly changing pencil-sketch landscape.

Complacency 2000

Director

UK
4 minutes

Drawn. A cautionary tale.

Jubilee 2000

Director

Producers

Koji Yamamura
,
Shin Miyoshi

Animators

Koji Yamamura
,
Kazumi Nakata
,
Chie Arai

Music

Kazuyoshi Nakamura
7 minutes

CGI and drawn. Elaborate zaniness from the Empire of Signs.

Frankly Caroline 1999

Director

Screenplay, Editor

Caroline Mouris

Voiceovers

Frank Mouris
,
Caroline Mouris

Music

Kevin Bartlett
,
Aural Gratification
USA
9 minutes

Many magazines were harmed in the making of this pop-memoir by veteran American cut-out director, Frank Mouris.

Kicsit Azotlan 1999

A Little Wet

Director, Animator

Production co

Pannonia Film

Photography

Zoltan Bacso

Editor

Magda Hap

Music

Béla Bartók
3 minutes

Chalk and pastel. Gorgeous coffee hues with generous art deco styling.

Driving Home 1999

Director, Animator

Producers

Ann Shenfield
,
Robert Stephenson
,
Paul Fletcher

Narrator

Anita Beckman

Music

Christopher Danfa
2 minutes

Paint on glass. Poignant and restrained impressions of a child’s turmoil while driving through a real and imaginary landscape.

The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg 2000

Director, Animator

Producer

Marcy Page

Executive producer

David Verrall

Digital imaging

Randall Finnerty
9 minutes

They say that there are two sides to every story – in this case there are two screens.

Endstation: Paradies 2000

Destination: Paradise

Director, Producer

Animators

Albert Radl
,
Jan Thuring

Editor

André Bigoudi

Music

Jan Henrik Weber
7 minutes

Puppet animation. From under the dust of an intensely detailed metal junk world, six rats set out to find the beauty.

For the Birds 2000

Director

Production co

Pixar

Producer

Karen Dufilho

Executive producer

John Lasseter

Supervising animator

James Ford Murphy

Model supervisor

Eben Ostby

Editors

Jennifer Taylor
,
Tom Freeman

Music

Riders in the Sky
USA
3 minutes

3-D CGI. From Pixar and the art director of Toy Story, the hilarious tale of angry little birds on a wire trying to defy the laws of physics.

Father & Daughter 2000

Director, Screenplay

Producers

Willem Thijssen
,
Claire Jennings

Animators

Michael Dudok de Witt
,
Arjan Wilschut

Music

Normand Roger
,
Denis Chartland

Awards

Academy Award, Best Animated Short Film 2001
12 minutes

Ink on paper. One day a daughter bids her father farewell. Some farewells are forever – some are just for a lifetime.

The Enchanted Bell 1999

O kouzelnem zvonu

Director, Animator

Production co

Jiri Trnka Studio
,
Kratky Film Praha a.s.

Designers

Aurel Klimt
,
Karel Kos
15 minutes

Relief, cut-out and puppet animation. Little Suzy and her medium-sized elephant set out to rescue a very special bell stolen from her village by some soldiers who plan to melt it down to make a new cannon.