80 mins (Cert tbc)
Showroom Cinema 3
Thursday 6 April 5.30pm / Saturday 8 April 6.45pm

Static
Derin Seale - Australia 1999 (12')
Static revolves around our own perception of reality and the world of those who construct and control it. It was commissioned through a scheme by the The Youth Music Australia - supported by a legion of film, music and business organisations - along with a feature and two other short films. The scheme aimed to match composers with film makers to foster a greater culture of understanding music in film.

The opportunity inspired Derin Seale, a graduate of the University of Technology, Sydney, to write Static. His idea was to make it short on dialogue and allow the music to communicate. "It's almost retro - like silent films, where there was much more interaction with the audience and the music," he says. "For a film-maker, music is like tangible emotion - you can turn it on and off, so even silence becomes a powerful, dramatic tool.

"Music is often internalisation. So Static is about the last few moments at the end of a young man's life - his psychological breakdown when he detaches from his body and just lives in his mind."

Shot by his father, the Oscar-winning cinematographer John Seale, Static is "a moody, atmospheric piece based in spaces more than dialogue", it is scored by Queensland-based Steven Baker.

Weightlessness
Magdalene Kourti - UK/Greece 1999 (4'20")
Weightlessness is the expression of underwater evolutions; the relationship between the embryo in amniotic fluid and the body in water.

Magdalene graduated from the London Guildhall University

Virus
Birgitta Hosea - UK1999 (4'10")
About psychological epidemics, this film uses the metaphor of a virus to examine the transmission of ideas.

Birgitta Hosea is a digital artist with previous experience in art direction and set design. Previous films have included 'Waves' and 'Virus Street', and she has screened her work at Lux, Chicago Underground Festival and Raindance.

Wanted
Milla Moilanen - Finland 1998 (11')
Wanted is based on the archival materials of the Uppsala Institute for racial biology, which closed in the 1960s, and deals with people's classification based on outward appearance. A timely subject, with our identity now being masked by the cover of technology.

Milla Moilanen works as a computer animator, designer and director and also lectures on graphics, animation and design in several institutions and schools in Finland.

U-Man and U-Man Gradiation
Julian Dajez - France 1997 (4'30" + 2')

Bio Zoo
Julian Dajez - France 1999 (4')

Attack
Mikros Image - France 1998 (1')

notdef
M Notdef - Austria 1999 (3'25")
An electronically treated landscape experiment.

M Notdef is a graphic Designer and electronic media artist living in Austria.

How Will It Be?
Tony Kemplen - UK 1999 (2')
A recently unearthed school photograph from 30 years ago inspired this short reminiscing on faces and memories from the past.

Tony Kemplen is an artist working across various media. Recent new commissions have included 'polyglot' for the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and 'Homer's Baby' a CD ROM for Site Gallery. Although he has used sound extensively in recent work, video is a new departure for him.

Pianoman
Toby Penrose - UK 1999 (10') (8' excerpt)
Pianoman is the story of a traveller's visit to a forgotten city in the desert, where he has a terrifying encounter with the woman he had once loved.

Toby first made films at the age of nine, using his father's 8mm camera to make pixillated and animation films. After a period of teaching philosophy and studying art he wrote a number of short scripts and made several experimental films and videos. Toby joined the NFTS Animation Direction course in September 1995 and Pianoman is his graduation film. He is particularly interested in exploring new styles of film-making and is now developing further shorts and a live action feature.

All Skit Ska Bort
Katerina Mistal - Sweden 1999 (3'20")
A man tries to peel off dirt from his skin.

Katerina Mistal studied at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm and has exhibited work throughout Scandinavia. She originally started out as a photographer, moving into digital photography and video whilst studying at the School of Visual Arts, New York (Computer Arts Dept).

Fennesz 'Aus'
SKOT (4')
Christian Fennesz started his career as the singer/guitarist/songwriter in the group Maische, one of the more interesting bands to occupy the Viennese underground during the late eighties. With their demise in 1993, Fennesz rethought his approach to return in 1995 with the 12" EP "Instrument" on the Austrian electronic label Mego. Having freed himself of the constrictive band format he was able to freely experiment with new electronic means and a whole new audience. Since then he has released an EP on Syntactic records and a full length CD for Mego entitled "Hotel Paral.lel" was released in 1997.

Pita 'iii'
SKOT (1'02")
Peter Rehberg started the use of Pita moniker in early nineties, as a DJ playing ambient/experimental sounds in so called chill out rooms. This period of social activity bore the fruits which led to the setting up of the Mego label, and the serious start to recording his own music.

Current activities include running the Mego label and MDOS mail order, and the irregular Johnny YesNo nights, recording, and still DJing but now being more interested in the sonic possibilities of the CD glitch rather than the vinyl scratch or tape collage.

Farmers Manual Live in Stockholm
SKOT (6'56")
During their performance Farmers Manual seek to shift the local atmosphere from dissolution and clumsiness through manual change and ecstatic fiddling into an imaginative state of complex monotony or endless associative babbling. Towards the end the authors become the audience and the audience is confronted with a stage populated only by machines, which can't get out of infinitely rendering a stream of slight semantic madness. The set up then is what is normally considered a sort of installation. All this is done with the help of extreme frequencies and distorted digitally generated images.

In addition to performing lots of buzzing, cracking and beeping sounds that come along with blocky, non-anti-aliased, flickering images, Farmers Manual put out lots of buzzing, cracking and beeping sounds on CD, which may also contain lumps of computer readable data.

73 mins (Cert tbc)
Showroom Cinema 3
Thursday 6 April 7.00pm / Friday 7 April 4.45pm

Inter Galactic Souvenir Shop
Boris Habek + D'amir Wanguard - Croatia 1999 (1'46")
A short experimental film exploring visual identity and story telling.

'Tellurian CGI' was founded by Boris Habek and D'amir Wanguard in Croatia in1998. Boris graduated from the Advanced 3D Animation program at the School of Communication Arts, NC, getting his international CGI experience in US based studios. Diamir has built his experience in the field of graphic design and CGI production in Milan, working as a freelancer for numerous agencies.

Faux Plafond
Français Vogel - France 1999 (5'30")

A Viagem
Christian Boustani - Portugal 1998 (10')
1543. A ship from Portugal drops anchor in Japan, for the first time, marking the beginning of expansion into the Far East. New trade routes are opened up and there is an intensive cultural exchange. Events were captured on a large collection of painted wall panels illustrated by a Japanese artist, creating a snapshot of this encounter between two worlds. The film uses both 2D and 3D effects to bring these screens to life. The film won a Honorary mention at Ars Electronica 1999.

Love Song
Bruce Currie - Australia 1998/99 (5'30")
A small rat tries his luck in the great game of love. He loves a cat and to win her heart, he is willing to risk his life. So, bearing gifts and with a special Love Song in his heart, he determines to woo her. But love is a dangerous game to play and he wisely prepares for the worst.

Love Song was commissioned by SBS Independent Film, Victoria and the Australian Film Commission. The piece was written directed and animated by Bruce Currie over a period of ten months. Bruce has been working as an animator for 20 years, as well as working as a wrier and director. He has worked on numerous projects ranging from television breaks to radio comedy, feature film fx to multimedia. He now primarily works in the 3D environment.

Mr Rawson - A case history
Christian Holland - UK 1999 (2'10")
www.catalystpics.co.uk
A short animated film portraying a case study of a paranoid schizophrenic. The sequence uses a wood carved effect with background models mirroring the doctor's narrative behind the face of the patient.

Catalyst Pictures have produced award winning animation for TV, corporate and multimedia. Most of their early work consisted of traditional 2D Cel and claymation, but in recent years this expertise has been developed in cgi.

Rendezvous
Peter Lemken - Gemany 1999 (10'20")
Day in, day out, two little wooden puppets - a man and a woman - do their duty in a little weather house, not knowing of the others existence. As lightening strikes the roof, their well ordered life goes awry...

Peter studied Visual Communication at the GH Kasselin Germany where Rendezvous was his graduation film.

Emma 18
Sam Morrison - UK 1999 (4'30") (30" excerpt)
Sam Morrison challenges the view that old is senile in his debut film for Channel 4. Emma's quiet life of semi-retirement is disrupted by the surprise family visit of Sylvie, Derek, Tom and Otis, who are just passing, on their way home. Their flying visit is abruptly ended by an upsetting phone call, yet Emma seems strangely unperturbed.

The Millennium Bug
Benjamin Smith - UK 1999 (3')
A short cgi ride film depicting our defence against the Millennium Bug's attack.

1999 Leaf London Effects and Animation Festival Award Winner for Best Simulation.

Toyota Goldfish Idents (7'30")
email - UK 1999
15 idents developed for Toyota following the Millennium Night celebrations and the morning-after of two goldfish.

Bet on Black
Frank Budgen - UK 1999 (1')
A crowd of punters at a snail race, waiting to see who is the first to cross the line. Shot in Cuba, this advert for Guinness, has the snails speeding along the track, to the waiting pint.

To Build A Better Mousetrap
Christopher Leone - USA 1999 (2'12")
The mousetrap of tomorrow is here today! The Merchant of Death 2000 doesn't just trap mice - it seeks out and destroys them! Another miracle of science from Blackmire Industries.

Christopher Leone is a screenwriter and animator based in Los Angeles. To Build a Better Mousetrap is his first film. he is currently writing a feature film called Extinction for Columbia Pictures.

Un Temps Pour Elle
Erwin Charier - France 1999
A seaside bathed in sunlight, a young woman moves into the light. She has come to the island to film an eclipse, time accelerates all around her, as the camera starts to roll.

Erwin Charrier currently works at Mac Guff Ligne, a French CGI company. Un Temps pour Elle is his first film and won an Honorary mention at Ars Electronica 1999.

Stationen
Christian Sawade-Meyer - Germany (4')
The odyssey of life through a monotonous, hardly fertile world with misleading influences; a creature drags a full crate of plants behind it, making its way through the expansive wasteland, looking for water.

Christian has been working with 3D images since 1995 and Stationen was created in collaboration with Udo bade and Tobia Alpert. The film won a Honorary mention at Ars Electronica 1999.