Actress Diane Gardner talks extemporaneously about life, career goals and struggles in the world of show business, while colorful, animated images comment on, mirror, and probe the hidden meanings of her words.
Category: Short
A multiplicity of animation techniques enlivens this vision of the struggle between Shakespeare’s hapless buffoon and the forces of enchantment, set to the Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Felix Mendelssohn.
One day is much like another: a man’s day, somewhere on the outskirts of the city, in a dilapidated room. The torment of getting up, trembling hands searching among empty one-liter bottles, a face snarling back from the mirror, the escape, a tattered jacket over his pajamas, a two-kilogram loaf of bread, burning liquor down his throat… At first glance, this day is no different from those that came before…
A plastic puzzle of 16 parts, made in Finland: UFO, uterus, butterfly, playhouse. This prefabricated building, to be placed on the top of the mountains or the African coast, represented the dreamy future the humankind was about to enter in 1968. The story of the rise and fall of Futuro is the story of the idea of a future man, the idea which emerges and disperses.
Rut Hillarp’s film interpretation of the legend of Tristan and Isolde. She borrowed this classical theme from her collection of poetry The False Farewell. The White Hands is an attempted surrealistic visualization of a poem, using symbolic image sequences.
Two filmmakers travel around impoverished sectors of the cities of Bogotá and Cali in search of the images of abjection needed to complete a documentary commissioned by German TV. Meanwhile, another camera captures these “vampire” filmmakers feeding off the misery of their marginal subjects.
A nuclear awareness fan-film satire, from 1984, synced to “Life During Wartime” by the Talking Heads, created as an expression of dismay on that era’s trigger happy leaders. It traveled the world among like-minded films a generation ago, with recognition in Portugal, Tunis, Brazil, and around the US. The MPD awarded it the “Bill Barton Animation Film Award” in 1985.