BACK TO 3RD SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL

From the beautiful expressionistic use of CGI in HA’Aki to the stunning oil paintings in Black Dog to the hilarious live-action dada of Tango Finlandia, the short films in this program bring a fascinating and fascinated eye to the mechanics of movement. Orgesticulanismus makes an unexpected and affirming gesture towards creativity as it reinvents mundane activities through meticulous illustrations depicting precise clockwork-like movements. Hungu, inspired by the Brazilian practice of Capoeira, combines 2D with sand animation to spin a frenetic tale of the cycles of life. Time Out of Place transforms the streets of London into study in flux, as multiple patterns of motion simultaneously map past, present and future. Along the way, observe the Burrowing Owl as it constructs a Rube Goldberg machine! Watch in amazement as Hot Dog pursues life as a firefighter! Delight in Jeff Scher’s animated paintings of a menagerie of nighttime insects and man’s best friends in Fly by Night and Dog Days.

Black Dog (Son Dong-Rack, South Korea, 9 min); Dog Days (Jeff Scher, USA, 2 min); Fly by Night (Jeff Scher, USA, 2 min); HA’Aki (Iriz Pääbo, Canada, 5 min); The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl (Mike Roush, USA, 5 min); Hot Dog (Bill Plympton, USA, 6 min); Hungu (Nicolas Brault, Canada, 9 min); Matter in Motion (Semiconductor, England, 6 min); Orgesticulanismus (Mathieu Labaye, Belgium, 10 min); Retouches (Georges Schwizgebel, Switzerland/Canada, 6 min); Tango Finlandia (Hannu Lajunen, Tomi Riionheimo, Finland, 6 min); Time Out of Place (Semiconductor, England, 10 min) (TRT 76 min)

November 14, 2008, 6:30 pm, Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema