Selected from 60 graduate showreels 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 1 screens just before this one at 7:30pm.
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Tuna (Cliona Noonan, Ireland)
A late-night supermarket cashier with a strange obsession is visited by a mysterious customer.
2019, 6min
School: National Film School IADT
The Ostrich Politic (Mohamad Houhou, France)
Ostriches carry on their daily activities burying their heads, believing it’s instinctive behavior. However, research proves otherwise.
2018, 6min
School: Gobelins
Hole (Gil Goletski, Canada)
Mo is an adult with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Mo spends a lot of time in their brain. Today, a hole started following them.
2018, 6min
School: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Shadow Passage (Ali Aschman, UK)
A woman explores her own psyche through its manifestation in a sequence of identical, yet progressively smaller, rooms inhabited by multiple selves.
2019, 4min
School: Royal College of the Arts
A Gong (Zozo Jhen, Tena Galovic, Marine Varguy, Yen-Chen Liu & Ellis Ka-yin Chan, France)
A seven year-old boy slowly comes to terms with his grandpa’s death during a traditional Taiwanese funeral.
2018, 6min
School: Gobelins
Bubbles (Rachel Fitzgerald, Ireland)
A puppet grows frustrated with her puppeteer’s bad habit.
2019, 3min
School: National Film School IADT
Hounds (Ido Shapira & Amit Cohen, Israel)
The life of a dog, trained to act as human, changes when a pack of wild dogs gathers around his house.
2018, 6min
School: Bezalel
Cosmos Express (Mocong Yuan, USA)
A girl decides to leave this world. Her body and soul have a last conversation as she walks down the path of her life, one last time.
2019, 7min
School: School of Visual Arts
You Used to Bring Me Flowers (Nofar Schweitzer, Israel)
Male and female relations are examined through the gesture of giving flowers.
2018, 5min
School: Bezalel
Grand Bassin (Héloïse Courtois, Chloe Plat, Victori Jalabert & Adele Raigneau, France)
An afternoon at the swimming pool.
2018, 6min
School: ENSI
Parasite (Yajun Shi, USA)
A stunning depiction of the conflict between human development and nature using abstract shapes and movement.
2018, 2min
School: Pratt Institute
Somewhere In-Between (Luca Tagliarini, UK)
An animator struggling to draw after the loss of her mum begins to see the frames of her own movements.
2019, 3min
School: Bournemouth University
Now 2 (Kevin Eskew, USA)
Who’s grooming whom? Scenes of puzzling new truths piercing through the foam veil.
2019, 9min
School: CalArts