Alongside a selection of films by this year’s artist-in-residence Pierre-Luc Granjon, who is joining us from France, the strand features films by the British artist Lizzy Hobbs, Canadian illustrator and animator Michèle Lemieux, Argentinian filmmaker Juan Pablo Zaramella, and a programme of films by Chinese women filmmakers selected by Yantong Zhu, Festival Director of the Feinaki Beijing Animation Week.
Lenght: 76′
Slika / The Painting
Michèle Lemieux (NFB)Canada, 2024, 11'00''
The Painting explores the 1652 portrait of Queen Mariana of Austria by Velázquez. Michèle Lemieux demonstrates incredible mastery of the pinscreen, playing with shadow and light to evoke the tragic fate of Mariana, who was married to her uncle at the age of 14. Both painful and tender, this experimental work is a poem of a film: a meditation on the brutality of institutionalized incest and art’s power to capture the soul.
Tricky Women 2010 / Tricky Women 2010
Elizabeth Hobbs (Tricky Women)Austria, 2010, '35''
Directed and animated by Elizabeth Hobbs whilst on an artist's residency in Vienna in the summer of 2009. Sound Design by Barnaby Templar and Music by Bradley Miles.
Star, star, zelo star mož / The Old, Old, Very Old Man
Elizabeth Hobbs (Spellbound Animation)United Kingdom, 2007, 6'38''
In 1635, the 152-year-old Thomas Parr is taken on a journey to the court of King Charles I. The King orders an immediate celebration of his aged visitors' longevity, with fatal consequences.
V redu sem / I’m OK
Elizabeth Hobbs (Animate Projects, Elizabeth Hobbs, NFB)United Kingdom, Canada, 2018, 6'04''
It is 1915. Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka’s tempestuous love affair with Alma Mahler ends dramatically and he volunteers to fight in the First World War. This animated film explores Kokoschka’s frame of mind following his heartbreak and the traumatic experience of war, by reflecting on the artist’s prints and paintings.
Iverka / The Flounder
Elizabeth Hobbs (Elizabeth Hobbs, Klangforum Wien, Tricky Women)United Kingdom, Austria, 2019, 6'24''
One day a humble fisherman catches an enchanted fish. Can the fish help him, and his wife improve their lot? The Flounder is an experimental interpretation of the short story 'A Fisherman and his Wife’ by the Brothers Grimm.
OIAF 2019 / OIAF 2019
Elizabeth Hobbs (Ottawa International Animation Festival)Canada, 2019, '45''
A signal film for Ottawa International Animation Festival 2019. This was made by printing letterpress onto paper in the print department at London College of Communication. The prints were recorded frame by frame under a rostrum camera and cut the sequences together to the score composed by Judith Gruber Stitzer.
Close Up / Close Up
Elizabeth Hobbs (Elizabeth Hobbs)United Kingdom, 2025, 1'14''
A painted paper cut out film celebrating movement and colour. Score by Hutch Demouilpied.
Beli volk / The White Wolf
Pierre-Luc Granjon (Sacrebleu Productions)France, 2006, 8'30''
A child manages to tame a huge white wolf, to ride on it. He and his little brother are delighted. But to feed their family, their father brings home one day an animal bigger than usual…a white wolf.
Velika zverina / The Big Beast
Pierre-Luc Granjon (Les décadrés Production)France, 2013, 6'25''
Throughout the kingdom a legend says that a huge beast will come to eat you when you least expect it.
36 000 let pozneje: Samo mimo grem / 36 000 Years Later: Je ne fais que passer
Pierre-Luc Granjon (Arte France, Folimage)France, 2015, 1'45''
A group of 15 artists from the Folimage studio were given the rare opportunity of visiting the Chauvet Cave, one of the oldest decorated caves in the world. This visit gave rise to 15 films and the emotional images tell the story of how these modern creatives were able to cross paths with the first artists in human history.
Nočni škornji / The Night Boots
Pierre-Luc Granjon (Am Stram Gram)France, 2024, 12'20''
While his parents are entertaining friends, a child leaves home in the middle of the night into the undergrowth, rubber boots on his feet. There, a little creature, curious and solitary, takes him into the heart of the forest to meet the nocturnal inhabitants that live there.
Šestnajstletnice / Sexteens
Juan Pablo Zaramella (Fundacion Huesped, JPZ Studio)Argentina, 2007, 5'16''
Three teenage girls and three stories that will mark their lives. We should talk with the young about entering adolescence: What are all the things that change? How do we perceive the world, our parents, our friends? How do we feel when we first experience intimacy? Let us exchange our stories, and talk about the possible endings for the stories of the three girls.
V operi / At The Opera
Juan Pablo Zaramella (JPZ Studio)Argentina, 2010, 1'00''
An original and particular moving night at the opera.
Luminaris / Luminaris
Juan Pablo Zaramella (JPZ Studio)Argentina, 2011, 6'00''
In a world controlled and timed by light, an ordinary man has a plan that could change the natural order of things.
The Tiniest Man in the World / The Tiniest Man in the World: Coffee + Tragic Officer + Little Referee + Photo Machine
Juan Pablo Zaramella (Can Can Club, JPL Films, Les Films de l’Arlequin)France, Argentina, 2017, 3'58''
What would life be like for a man that is just 15 cm tall? The answer is to be found in each episode of this stop-motion and live action series (53x1'10''). Our little friend is a formal, serious and calm man who tries to live in the real world without realizing how small he is. As he can’t see his limitations, his attitude is always dignified and he keeps persevering to live in a world in which he doesn’t seem to fit.
Potnik / Passenger
Juan Pablo Zaramella (JPZ Studio)Argentina, 2022, 10'00''
A journey through the conflicting relationship between a man, his social environment, and codes.