Selected from 60 graduate showreels and 30 countries this is a look at the best student work from all around the world – the first step on the animation ladder for these talented filmmakers, and the first time their wild and wonderful imaginations have been unleashed. Best of the Next Programme 2 screens just after this one at 21:00. You can buy tickets for both screenings for just £12 + booking fee.
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Inanimate (Lucia Bulgheroni, UK, National Film and TV School)
Katrine leads an ordinary life, with a regular job and a happy relationship until one day she wakes up and begins to see her world for what it really is.
2018, 9min
The Other (Marta Magnuska, Poland, Polish National Film School)
A crowd of people are waiting for the arrival of a mysterious newcomer to their village. Tensions build as they try to guess who he will be.
2017, 5min
Love me, Fear Me (Veronica Solomon, Germany, Babelsberg Konrad Wolf)
What would you be willing to do to be loved? A metaphor about the roles we play and the shapes we take, interpreted through the medium of dance and some incredibly expressive clay.
2018, 6min
Pulse (Sarah Forest, Cécile Floucat, Pauline Javelot, Juliette Gales, Thibaut Wambre & Kevin De Garidel, France, Supinfocom Valenciennes)
Jonas comes across a huge dead whale on a beach, harpooned from every side. From now on his vision of the world can never be the same.
2018, 7min
Wilted (Eve Travers, UK, Middlesex University)
An intimate autobiographical film documenting the filmmakers battle with the anxiety disorder body dysmorphia.
2018, 3min
If You Can (Hanna Rybak, Ukraine, Marie Curie University)
A simple, clear road map to becoming a superior lifeform.
2017, 1min
The NorthEast Kingdom (Alan Jennings, USA, Calarts)
A small tight knit New England community is shaken by the arrival of a newcomer. Meanwhile, a mystical creature quietly affects the lives of the locals.
2018, 8min
Phototaxis (Melissa Ferrari, USA, Calarts)
Rooted in nonfiction, “Phototaxis” connects Mothman, a prophetic demon in West Virginia folklore, and Narcotics Anonymous, the primary treatment programme in West Virginia’s addiction epidemic.
2017, 7min
Laugh Lines (Patricia Wenger, Switzerland, Hochschule Luzern)
Eight short interwoven stories about friendship, bravery, trust and most important of all – laughing.
2018, 6min
Log Boy (Fernando Puig, USA, Ringling College of Art)
A woodsman who loves to chop wood with his axe is pestered mercilessly by a boy made out of logs.
2018, 2min
A Love Letter To The One I Made Up (Rachel Gutgarts, Israel, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design)
A luscious screen-printed story about a lonely walk home, an underwater fantasy world and a love letter addressed to an imaginary “perfect” man.
2017, 6min
Ooze (Kilian Vilim, Switzerland, Hochschule Luzern)
A lonely lift operator brings his unappreciative passengers to their destination day in, day out. Little by little, it drives him out of his mind. A lift ride to hell.
2017, 5min
