Two Sisters (Caroline Leaf – Canada) 10’ 00’’
On an isolated island off the coast, two sisters live alone, away from the rest of the world. One sister, Viola’s face is terribly deformed, and she writes beautiful novels in the darkness of their home. The elder one, Marie, is protective of her sister and won’t let a soul see her, out of fear. But one day, a fan of Viola’s books swims up on shore… What will happen when the two meet?
Tango (Zbigniew Rybczynski – Poland) 08’ 00’’
A child enters a room to get back his ball. Slowly, the entire space becomes filled with bizarre characters, all of them intent on repeating the same gesture ad infinitum.
Hedgehog in the Fog (Yuri Norstein – USSR) 10’ 00’’
A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect…
The Wooden Leg (Darren Doherty and Nick Smith – UK) 07’ 00’’
A young girl’s life is transformed when she receives a magical wooden leg with a life of its own…
The Cow (Alexander Petrov – USSR) 10’ 00’’
In the Russian countryside, a family lives next to a railroad track. A boy remembers when he and his parents had a cow, living off its milk and using it as a beast of burden. The cow has a calf that the boy’s father sells. The cow, perhaps grieving for its lost calf, acts strangely, bolts from the boy, and meets with disaster. The boy dreams of calf, cow, train, and plow in a phantasmagoric collision. Later, the boy’s remembrance of things past becomes sweet and elegiac. A paint-on-glass animation from 1989.
Second Class Mail (Alison Snowden – UK) 04’ 00’’
A lonely woman sends off for a special mail-order package.
The Big Snit (Richard Condie – Canada) 05’ 00’’
A couple plays Scrabble. He’s stuck with seven E’s and getting nowhere fast, so she decides to do some housework. While she’s out of the room, he glances at her letters; she catches him at it and an argument ensues. Meanwhile, a nuclear war is breaking out, with chaos in the streets as people try to escape the city before bombs fall. The couple’s argument escalates; they bring up their pet peeves – “you’re always shaking your eyes,” “well, you’re always sawing the furniture!” Can there be reconciliation before annihilation? And, what about the Scrabble game?
Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones – USA) 07’ 00’’
Daffy is harassed by an unseen, trickster animator, who keeps changing backgrounds on him, messes with the soundtrack, switches props and humiliates him with buffoonish costumes.
A Year Along the Abandoned Road (Morten Skallerud – Norway) 12’ 00’’
The film was shot in Super Panavision 70 (65 mm negative) and shows a whole year passing by in Norway’s Børfjord at 50,000 times the normal speed. The camera was moved slightly each day, and so the film gives the viewer the impression of seamlessly travelling around the fjord as the year goes along, each day compressed into a few seconds.
n an isolated island off the coast, two sisters live alone, away from the rest of the world. One sister, Viola’s face is terribly deformed, and she writes beautiful novels in the darkness of their home. The elder one, Marie, is protective of her sister and won’t let a soul see her, out of fear. But one day, a fan of Viola’s books swims up on shore… What will happen when the two meet?
Tango (Zbigniew Rybczynski – Poland) 08’ 00’’
A child enters a room to get back his ball. Slowly, the entire space becomes filled with bizarre characters, all of them intent on repeating the same gesture ad infinitum.
Hedgehog in the Fog (Yuri Norstein – USSR) 10’ 00’’
A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect…
The Wooden Leg (Darren Doherty and Nick Smith – UK) 07’ 00’’
A young girl’s life is transformed when she receives a magical wooden leg with a life of its own…
The Cow (Alexander Petrov – USSR) 10’ 00’’
In the Russian countryside, a family lives next to a railroad track. A boy remembers when he and his parents had a cow, living off its milk and using it as a beast of burden. The cow has a calf that the boy’s father sells. The cow, perhaps grieving for its lost calf, acts strangely, bolts from the boy, and meets with disaster. The boy dreams of calf, cow, train, and plow in a phantasmagoric collision. Later, the boy’s remembrance of things past becomes sweet and elegiac. A paint-on-glass animation from 1989.
Second Class Mail (Alison Snowden – UK) 04’ 00’’
A lonely woman sends off for a special mail-order package.
The Big Snit (Richard Condie – Canada) 05’ 00’’
A couple plays Scrabble. He’s stuck with seven E’s and getting nowhere fast, so she decides to do some housework. While she’s out of the room, he glances at her letters; she catches him at it and an argument ensues. Meanwhile, a nuclear war is breaking out, with chaos in the streets as people try to escape the city before bombs fall. The couple’s argument escalates; they bring up their pet peeves – “you’re always shaking your eyes,” “well, you’re always sawing the furniture!” Can there be reconciliation before annihilation? And, what about the Scrabble game?
Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones – USA) 07’ 00’’
Daffy is harassed by an unseen, trickster animator, who keeps changing backgrounds on him, messes with the soundtrack, switches props and humiliates him with buffoonish costumes.
A Year Along the Abandoned Road (Morten Skallerud – Norway) 12’ 00’’
The film was shot in Super Panavision 70 (65 mm negative) and shows a whole year passing by in Norway’s Børfjord at 50,000 times the normal speed. The camera was moved slightly each day, and so the film gives the viewer the impression of seamlessly travelling around the fjord as the year goes along, each day compressed into a few seconds.