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ANOBA-AWARD 2009

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INTERNATIONAL SHORTS
For Sock's Sake

France 2008
4 min 47 s
Cut-outs, 2D animation

regi/dir: Carlo Vogele
Prod:

A sock escapes from the clothes line to go clubing ...

 

The Cat Piano

Australia 2009
8 min 28 s
2D computer

Regi/dir: Eddie White, Ari Gibson
Musikk/music: Benjamin Speed
Forteller/narrator: Nick Cave
Prod: Jessica Bretnall, The Peoples Republic of Animation

A city of singing cats is preyed upon by a shadowy figure intent on performing a twisted feline symphony.

 

About Love
Italy 2008
4 min 33 s
Animated objects

Regi/dir: Giacomo Agnetti
Anim: Ilaria Commisso
Musikk/music: Giacomo Agnetti
Manus/script: Giacomo Agnetti, Davide Bazzali
Prod: Magic Mind Coorporation

The long and intermittent love story of Adam and Jane is the object of the strange study of a research group.


The Control Master

United Kingdom 2008
6 min 36 s
2D computer

Regi/dir: Run Wrake
Anim: Run Wrake

What happens when a powerful device falls into the hands of scientist-turned-villain Doctor Moire? Who will rescue Halftone City from this oversized creep?


Retouches

Canada 2008
5 min 13 s
Drawing on cels, drawning on paper

Regi/dir: Georges Scwizgebel
Anim: Georges Scwizgebel
Musikk/music: Normand Roger
Manus/script: Georges Scwizgebel
Prod: Studio GDS, NFB

Between the ebb and flow of the tide and the breathing of a sleeping young woman, animated paintings succed in changing themselves into another.

 

Runaway
Canada 2008
8 min 40 s
2D animation

Regi/dir: Cordell Baker
Anim: Cordell Baker, Chris Cormier, Jason Doll
Musikk/music: Benoit Charest
Lyd/sound: Howard Rissin
Manus/script: Cordell Baker
Prod: Michael Scott, Derek Mazur, NFB

Happy passengers are having a great time on a crowded train, oblivious to the unknown fate that awaits them around the bend. The ensuing crisis leads to a class struggle that is as amusing as it is merciless.


MUTO
Italy 2008
7 min
paintings on walls

Regi/dir: Blu
Anim: Blu
Musikk/music: Andrea Martignoni
Lyd/sound: Andrea Martignoni
Prod: Mercurio Film Cinematografica

An ambiguous surrealistic animation painted on public walls in Baden and Buenos Aires


Tiny Legs of Fire

Australia 2008
1 min 30 s
Live action, 2D computer

Regi/dir: Doug Bayne
Anim: Doug Bayne
Musikk/music: Paul Searles
Manus/script: Doug Bayne
Prod: Doug Bayne

When you wait for a bus, odd useless thoughts comes to you.


L'Homme à la Gordini
The Man in the Blue Gordini

 
France 2009
10 min
Drawing on paper

Regi/dir: Jean-Christophe Lie
Anim: Jean-Christophe Lie, Julien Dexant
Musikk/music: DJ Moule
Lyd/sound: Sébastien Marquilly, Fabien Devillers
Manus/script: Jean-Christophe Lie
Prod: Valérie Schermann, Prima Linea Productions

In an imaginary suburb in the end of the 1970s, it's customary to wear nothing neither underpants nor trousers, only orange tops. With the help of a masked insurgent ina blue Gordini R8, Mr R and his wife are preparing a radical clothing revolution.


Oktapodi

 
France 2007
2 min
3D computer

Regi/dir:Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, Emud Mokhberi
Musikk/music: Kenny Wood
Lyd/sound: Vincent Hazard
Prod: GOBELINS l’école de l’image

Two Octopi fight for their lives with a stubborn restaurant cook in a comical escape through the streets of a small Greek village.


The Necktie

 
Canada 2008
12 min 26 s
classical puppet animation

Regi/dir: Jean-François Lévesque
Anim: Jean-François Lévesque
Musikk/music: Hugo Fleury
Lyd/sound: Marie-Claude Gagné
Manus/script: Jean-François Lévesque
Prod: Michèle Bélanger, Julie Roy

This is the story of the disillusioned Valentin, a model emplyee in a dead-end job. When he rediscovers an old accordion hidden in a closet, he regains the joy of life.


'Lost and Found' will be screened seperately after a 'making of' presentation by the director Philip Hunt Saturday November 14th, 12.00
Lost and Found

 
United Kingdom 2008
24 min
3D computer

Regi/dir: Philip Hunt
Musikk/music: Max Richter
Manus/script: Philip Hunt/Oliver Jeffers
Prod: Sue Goffe, Studio Ak

One day a little boy finds a penguin on his doorstep. Allthough unsure what to do at first, he becomes determined to help the penguin find his way back home ...