Mice, a small story

Speaker(s): Luce Grosjean, SFMD - Miyu Distribution, France

Description: In a dark subway tunnel, a group of mice find a gold ring-pull that seems to have a mysterious effect on one of them. Not so far from them, an owl and his enslaved rats are watching. The owl sends his rats to get hold of this strange object...

Ikibanchi

Speaker(s): Luce Grosjean, Miyu Distribution, France

Description: The story takes place in a megastructure where Gally, a young cyborg steals a mysterious and powerful artefact, kept by a giant Mecha.

Desire of Rails - Freedom

Speaker(s): Ihsu Yoon, Giantstep, South Korea
Junho Kim, Giantstep, South Korea

Ihsu Yoon is a CG artist with a background in art, design and architecture. His works are featured at many festivals such as SIGGRAPH and Onedotzero. Currently, He is a 3D art director at Giantstep after working for many awards winning studio including 1stAveMachine, Blur Studio, Method Studio, Psyop, The Mill.

Junho Kim is a motion graphic artist and sound designer based in Seoul, Korea. He worked for Giantstep and now works as the lead artist in the game production at EVR Studio.

Description: "Desire of Rails" is a film to demonstrate a concept of the conceptual art idea and the look of the art pieces in real world. In this movie, I set the pieces of art in the gallery space I designed. The handrails are awakened and have the desire to pass the limitation which is given to them to just existence for practical purpose. Through the AR devices, viewers can experience their childish dreams. First Dream – Roller Coaster Second Dream – Playing inside of a blanket in bedtime Third Dream – Revenge to the steps by jailing them Fourth Dream – Playing underwater Junho Kim added a feeling of dreamy liveliness to this film with his amazing sound work. Produced at Giantstep.

Wild Eyes

Speaker(s): Nina Prange, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Director, Germany

Nina Prange (*1993 in Munich) is a director and animator. She studied animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg and graduated with her animated short film “Wild Eyes”.

Description: Wild Eyes is a 2D animated, digitally hand-drawn short film about the blind girl Kitana who has to discover, that fulfilling her greatest desire demands a terrible sacrifice. The film uses her unique point of view to show how she perceives her surrounding and other people and how this leads to the decision she takes. As we see with our brains and our eyes are just one way of transmitting information, we visualized what she hears and feels through moving lines. To achieve the same hand-drawn look as in the outside view, without animating the person, that talks to her, by hand, we used the iPhone X with its newest facetracking technology for reference. It is an incredibly accurate way to capture the face of the voice actor without limiting his acting. After the recording we transferred the facial data to a custom mesh and staged the 3d object based on the concept art. Throughout the animation process we used the Facebook AR facedetection to quickly capture missing key poses. This workflow made it easy to place the lines correctly in perspective and motion.

Manen

Speaker(s): Luce Grosjean, Miyu Distribution, France

Description: Sergio, an old and solitary fisherman, takes out the heavy artillery to avenge a pelican.

The Lifeguard

Speaker(s): Patrick De Carvalho, Je Regarde, France
Cécile Mercier, Supinfocom Rubika, France
Milena Blin, Supinfocom Rubika, France
Clémentine Lecluse, Supinfocom Rubika, France
Iris Stanley, Supinfocom Rubika, France
Ming-Yang Zhao, Supinfocom Rubika, France
Rohan Kotnis, Supinfocom Rubika, France
Charlotte Humbert, Supinfocom Rubika, France

Director

Cécile has graduated from Supinfocom Rubika school (Valenciennes, France) with a Master in digital director. With Milena Blin, Clémentine Lecluse, Iris Stanley, Ming-Yang Zhao, Rohan Kotnis and Charlotte Humbert, she co-directed the film "The Lifeguard".

Milena has graduated from the Supinfocom Rubika school in Valenciennes with a Master in digital director.

Clémentine has graduated from the Supinfocom Rubika school in Valenciennes with a Master in digital director.

Iris has graduated from the Supinfocom Rubika school in Valenciennes with a Master in digital director.

Ming-Yang has graduated from the Supinfocom Rubika school in Valenciennes with a Master in digital director.

Rohan has graduated from the Supinfocom Rubika school in Valenciennes with a Master in digital director.

Charlotte has graduated from the Supinfocom Rubika school in Valenciennes with a Master in digital director.

Description: An old man returns to his beach where he spent his childhood, the wind rises, a storm approaches, and submerge him little by little into his memories.

O28

Speaker(s): Patrick De Carvalho, Je Regarde, France
Otalia Caussé, Supinfocom Rubika, France
Geoffroy Collin, Supinfocom Rubika, France
Louise Grardel, Supinfocom Rubika, France
Antoine Marchand, Supinfocom Rubika, France
Robin Merle, Supinfocom Rubika, France
Fabien Meyran, Supinfocom Rubika, France

Distributor

Otalia has graduated from Supinfocom Rubika school (Valenciennes, France) with a Master in digital director. With Geoffroy Collin, Louise Grardel, Antoine Marchand, Robin Merle and Fabien Meyran, she co-directed the film "o28".

Geoffroy has graduated from the Supinfocom Rubika school in Valenciennes with a Master in digital director.

Louise has graduated from the Supinfocom Rubika school in Valenciennes with a Master in digital director.

Antoine has graduated from the Supinfocom Rubika school in Valenciennes with a Master in digital director.

Robin has graduated from the Supinfocom Rubika school in Valenciennes with a Master in digital director.

Fabien has graduated from the Supinfocom Rubika school in Valenciennes with a Master in digital director.

Description: In Lisbon, a german married couple is about to get aboard the legendary n°28 tramway, but how should you ract when the brakes let go and embark you on a vertiginous race... with a baby on board.

Stress

Speaker(s): Patrick De Carvalho, Je Regarde, France
Simon Dauchy, Pôle 3D, France
Tom Delforge, Pôle 3D, France
Antoine Wilmot, Pôle 3D, France
Théo Mechref, Pôle 3D, France
Julien Delcroix, Pôle 3D, France

Distributor

Simon Dauchy has graduated from from the Pôle IIID school in Roubaix. With Tom Delforge, Antoine Wilmot, Théo Mechref and Julien Delcroix, he co-directed the film "Stress".

Tom Delforge has graduated from the Pôle IIID school in Roubaix. In 2018, he co-directed the short film "Stress".

Antoine Wilmot has graduated from the Pôle IIID school in Roubaix. In 2018, he co-directed the short film "Stress".

Théo Mechref has graduated from the Pôle IIID school in Roubaix. In 2018, he co-directed the short film "Stress".

Julien Delcroix has graduated from the Pôle IIID school in Roubaix. In 2018, he co-directed the short film "Stress".

Description: In an oppressing environment, a child plays with a knife.

Bound

Speaker(s): Luce GROSJEAN, Miyu Distribution, France

Description: Two young brothers break their relationship out of pride.

阿公 A Gong

Speaker(s): Luce GROSJEAN, Miyu Distribution, France

Description: A journey of a 7-years-old boy's acceptance of his grandpa's death in a traditional Taiwanese funeral.

The Way Home

Speaker(s): Kai Lun Pang, DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore, 6KU Studios, Singapore
Wee Tat Lee, DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore, 6KU Studios, Singapore
Lay Siong Toh, DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore, 6KU Studios, Singapore
John Yu Liang Liew, DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore, 6KU Studios, Singapore
Georgia Low, DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore, 6KU Studios, Singapore
Karen Mei, DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore, 6KU Studios, Singapore
Yan Yu Toh, DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore, 6KU Studios, Singapore
Clement Tan, DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore, 6KU Studios, Singapore
Jin Wei Chan, DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore, 6KU Studios, Singapore
Alvan Lim, DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore, 6KU Studios, Singapore

Kai Lun is a graduating student from DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore. He is the Director and Animator of The Way Home, his graduation film. He was in charge of the film's cinematography and story direction. He specializes in animation.

Wee Tat is a graduating student from DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore. He is the Lead Technical Director of The Way Home, his graduation film. He was in charge of rigging and solving technical difficulties on the characters and assets in the film. He is a 3D generalist, specializing in 3D modeling and rigging.

Lay Siong is a graduating student from DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore. He is the Lead 3D Artist of The Way Home, his graduation film. He was in charge of pre-visualizing the environments of the film, including scene layout and asset modeling. He specializes in 2D concepts and visualizing them in 3D.

John Liew Yu Liang is a graduating student from DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore. He is the Art Director of The Way Home, his graduation film. He was in charge of pre-visualizing the film, working on concepts and designs. He specializes in 2D concept and design work.

Georgia is a graduating student from DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore. She is the Story Lead and Composer of The Way Home, her graduation film. She handled the story beats of the film, including storyboards and animation. She specializes in 2D concepts and design work.

Karen is a graduating student from DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore. She is the Lead Animator of The Way Home, her graduation film. She specializes in Character animation.

Yan Yu is a graduating student from DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore. She is the Key Animator of The Way Home, her graduation film. She was in charge of key animation of our creature, Crawley, including creating animation tests and cycles. She specializes in Character animation.

Clement is a graduating student from DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore. He is a 3D Artist of The Way Home, his graduation film. He was in charge of designing multiple environments in the film, notably the final scene that featured hexagon rocks. He is a 3D generalist specializing in modeling.

Jin Wei is a graduating student from DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore. She is 3D Artist of The Way Home, her graduation film. She was in charge of creating multiple assets for the film, including enviroment modeling. She is a 3D Generalist specializing in 3D assets and modeling.

Alvan is a graduating student from DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore. He is the VFX Lead of The Way Home, his graduation film. He was in charge of designing the shader network of the film's look and feel in Unreal Engine, including multiple VFX assets and render passes. He specializes in Game VFX.

Description: The Way Home is the first DigiPen student short film to be done entirely inside Unreal Engine 4. The film seeks to push the boundaries of stylized animation and define the potential of an animation pipeline in a game engine. As the field of animation continues to evolve in it's medium, the game industry has been slowly providing high fidelity and rendering quality that can rival commercial renderers. This only allows a bigger canvas for the animation medium, including new experiences like VR and AR storytelling. By finishing this film, we hope to share the experience of using a game engine as the main driving force in an animation production. Real-time is the future of animation and the possibilities are endless - we think anyone can use it, even students and untrained artists seeking opportunities in the game industry.

One Pair Coat

Speaker(s): Yi Luo, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Animationsinstitut, Germany

YI LUO comes from China, lives since 2007 in Germany and started her studies in animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in 2015. She publishes her illustrations and comics using the pseudonym Yinfinity. In 2016 she received the Bavarian Literature Scholarship with her comic debut Running Girl.

Description: Jolanda and Hendrik are a couple. They have very close relationship. Hendrik is her favorite coat to put on. We see a day in their life.

Purpleboy

Speaker(s): Patrick De Carvalho, Je Regarde, France
Alexandre Siqueira, Bando à Parte, Portugal

Distributor

Alexandre Siqueira was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1980. Since 1999 he develops and collaborates in several animated films projects. In 2010 he finish the animation filmmaking course at la Poudrière school, where he directs "Journey to the Sunflowers Fields". "Purpleboy" is his latest animated short film.

Description: Oscar is a child who sprouts in his parents garden. Nobody knows his biological sex but he claims the masculine gender. One day Oscar lives an extraordinary but painful adventure in an authoritarian and oppressive world. Will he manage to have the identity recognition he desires so much?

Iam Twisq

Speaker(s): Red Wong, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Ray Mok, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ISAN /, Morr Music, Hong Kong

Red Wong Aims to gain knowledge and develop skill in Animation, Motion Graphics, Currently, a student studying in new media in the school of creative media in Hong Kong City University.

Ray Mok A Hong Kong student studying creative media in Hong Kong City University and specialize in motion graphic, 2D animation and hand-drawn animation. Currently, works as freelance motion graphic designer.

ISAN (Robin Saville and Antony Ryan) is an English electronic music duo. The name was initially explained as Integrated Services Analogue Network - a play on ISDN, reflecting their preference for analogue synthesisers.

Description: Hong Kong is known as a concrete jungle and we seek for a different angle to review Hong Kong’s city landscape from the sight of a bird. The music video of “Iam Twisq” is re-creating an urban playground by animating shapes, forms and colours extracted from the original buildings.

"Birth of Planet Earth" Fulldome Excerpt: The Collision that Formed the Moon

Speaker(s): Donna Cox, The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America
Robert Patterson, The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America
AJ Christensen, The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America
Kalina Borkiewicz, The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America
Stuart Levy, The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America
Jeff Carpenter, The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America

Dr. Donna J. Cox, MFA, is the first Michael Aiken Chair, Director of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory, the Research & Education division, and the eDream Institute at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications; and Professor School of Art+Design, University of Illinois. She and her collaborators millions with cinematic presentations of science in international fulldome digital museum shows, IMAX movies, and feature films. She is co-editor and contributor to “New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts” (2018). She’s received numerous awards. ACM SIGGRAPH awarded her the distinguished lifetime achievement award for digital art, July 2019.

Robert Patterson is a visualization designer at NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Lab and Associate Director for Production of the eDream Institute. For over 25 years, he has collaborated with scientists to produce visualizations for informal science education. Patterson choreographed and art directed visualizations that have appeared in NOVA, Discovery Channel, IMAX 3D and planetarium productions. Patterson co-created Virtual Director, a tool that enables voice and gesture-controlled navigation and camera choreography for collaborative design of visualizations. He creates cinematic presentations of scientific data in astrophysics, astronomy, networking, atmospheric science, and oceanography for stereoscopic 3D and UHD displays to inspire broad public audiences.

AJ Christensen is a visualization programmer for the Advanced Visualization Lab at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He focuses on scripting, scene design, derived data, and data flow, and is a programmer-designer for visual effects tools like Houdini and Nuke. In addition to his film credits with the AVL, he contributed to the Oscar winning science-inspired renderings of gravitational lensing around a black hole in the film “Interstellar” with effects studio Double Negative.

Kalina Borkiewicz is a visualization research programmer in the Advanced Visualization Lab at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where she writes software that processes and visualizes various types of massive scientific data. She recently created the open-source software Ytini to make visualization tools freely available to artists and scientists. Kalina contributed to the creation of such films as "A Beautiful Planet" (IMAX), "Solar Superstorms" (fulldome), and "Seeing the Beginning of Time" (4K). She gave a talk at TEDxUIUC, a local chapter of the TED conference, describing her path as a woman engineer.

Stuart Levy is a research programmer, geek, and systems administrator at the Advanced Visualization Lab at NCSA. He enjoys data conversion, and is the current maintainer of the group’s Virtual Director software and related tools, including partiview. He is passionate about physics and astronomy, but happy to be able to work on visualizing molecular machinery too. Among past contributions to pieces that have appeared in SIGGRAPH’s Electronic Theater, his favorite credit is as “technical shepherd.”

Jeff Carpenter is a multimedia designer and post-production specialist. He collaborates with scientists and artists to bring their work to a wider audience. He focuses on the art/design side of the production pipeline, including 2D & 3D visualization, media design, video production, editing, and compositing. Jeff is fluent in a variety of tools, including Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Nuke, Maya, and Houdini. Jeff’s work has been seen on PBS, the Big Ten Network, planetarium & theatrical venues around the world, with permanent exhibits at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and the Spurlock Museum.

Description: This visualization of a scientific simulation shows the giant impact that formed the Moon. 4.5 billion years ago, the early Earth collided with a Mars-sized rock called “Theia”, resulting in a spinning disk of lava and vaporized rock hotter than the surface of the sun. In this sequence, we see the first 24 hours of the 100-year process of our Moon’s formation. This 1.1 million-point smoothed particle hydrodynamics model was 32 gigabytes and featured 492 data snapshots, which were interpolated by a factor of ten to play back smoothly on a 4K fulldome cinema screen. Using Houdini, special sprites used instanced spheres with a procedural falloff shader to face the hemispherical camera lens, to prevent intersection artifacts as particles evolved from solid to liquid to gas, and to avoid camera intersection. Other particles were surfaced as solids and liquids, and dynamic geometry lights allowed the emissive surfaces to illuminate diffuse surfaces. Processing and rendering a million translucent sprites was prohibitive on the AVL’s 30-machine cluster, so the team used their custom Blurend pipeline to process imagery on the Blue Waters supercomputer. The shot was completed in Nuke, adding a Milky Way background and grading the mixing planet-forming material.

Like and Follow

Speaker(s): Brent Forrest, Forrest + Schlage, Japan
Tobias Schlage, Forrest + Schlage, Japan

Born in Montreal, Brent Forrest started his animation career at Red Rover studios in Toronto as a co-op student in 1999. There he learned the craft of animation from some of Canada’s finest draftsmen. He has won awards for both his animation and special effects work including a Gemini nomination for title design. Today he works as a Technical Director in one of Tokyo’s top animation studios.

Born in Hamburg, Germany, After graduating from animation school, Tobi turned his year-long passion of creating short films into a profession. In his years as a character animator and CG generalist he worked on all aspects of production. He started in Germany and moved to Japan, which gave him a new perspective. European and Japanese film making are very different, and both methods have pros and cons. Combining the best of both worlds, he created a unique style of grounded, emotional storytelling paired with unusual and extravagant visuals.

Description: When a kid starts spending time in the real world, it’s up to his smartphone to bring his attention back to where it belongs. Like and Follow is the first short film created by Brent Forrest and Tobias Schlage. It follows a little boy who cant see anything but the display of his smartphone. Each time he starts to realize the beauty and dangers of the world around him, his smartphone forces his attention back to the screen. The production of the film started in spring 2018 and was finished in April 2019.

Samsara

Speaker(s): HYUNJOON JOO, Korea National University of Arts, South Korea

1989 Born in Seoul, South Korea 2019 Graduated from Korea National University of Arts of Multimedia.

Description: There was a boy who took care of a fig tree which did not bear any fruit for a long time. One day, he went to another world through his dream and got the fruit he wanted so much but he feel he could not get enough. //// There was a boy who took care of a fig tree which did not bear any fruit for a long time. One day, he went to another world through his dream and got the fruit he wanted so much but could not get. Before long, however, the boy got tired of the world where everything he wanted was possible. In the end, he came back to the real world and kept on taking care of the fig tree.

The Little Ship [Japan Media Arts Festival 2019 Award-Winning Program]

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Description: (New Face Award) This is a story about a girl and her friend - an elephant. They spend together all the time, but childhood ends sooner or later.

Penguin Highway (trailer) [Japan Media Arts Festival 2019 Award-Winning Program]

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Description: (Excellence Award) Aoyama-kun, a fourth-grader, has a crush on One-e-san who works as a dental assistant at a dental clinic. One day, he witnesses One-e-san throwing a Coke can that transforms into a penguin. Can Aoyama-kun find out how this penguin is related to One-e-san? This is a story of a mysterious, unforgettable summer.

OKKO’S Inn (trailer) [Japan Media Arts Festival 2019 Award-Winning Program]

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Description: (Excellence Award) Okko is a 6th grade girl who spends her time learning to become the innkeeper of her grandmother’s inn, “Haru no Ya”. With the help of the ghost Uribo and her other peculiar friends, she slowly learns to fill the shoes of her new role. This is the story of Okko and her family that couldn’t be told via a television series or the original childrens’ novels.

DORAGON PILOT - Hisone＆Masotan - [Japan Media Arts Festival 2019 Award-Winning Program]

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Description: (Excellence Award) “I will fly with you through the sky.” Hisone Amakasu is a rookie stationed at the Air Self-Defense Force's Gifu base. Throughout her life, Hisone felt as if her honest personality continually led her to hurt the feelings of the people around her.

Discrete Figures (a part of work) [Japan Media Arts Festival 2019 Award-Winning Program]

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Artists: MANABE Daito/ISHIBASHI Motoi / MIKIKO / ELEVENPLAY

Description: (Excellence Award) Dance performance generating bodily expression through mathematical / collective intelligence-based methodology. With AI and machine learning offering new insights into the body schema and movement, numeric data and analytical results derived from it inform the choreography.

The Girl Without Hands (Trailer) [Japan Media Arts Festival 2019 Award-Winning Program]

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Description: (Excellence Award) The Girl Without Hands is a feature-length animated film that breathes new life into the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same title published in the very first edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales, which the Grimm Brothers compiled in the beginning of the 19th century.

Datum (a part of work) [Japan Media Arts Festival 2019 Award-Winning Program]

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Description: (Excellence Award) Pioneering video work utilizing symmetric handling of space, color and time integrated in high-dimensional space.

Am I a Wolf? [Japan Media Arts Festival 2019 Award-Winning Program]

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Description: (New Face Award) The students are performing a theater called “The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats”. Everybody has a role. They are totally taken in by their roles in a way that the boundary between reality and acting rarely can be distinguished.

Invisible [Japan Media Arts Festival 2019 Award-Winning Program]

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Description: (New Face Award) Depicting waning presence and invisibility: A nameless, forgotten man has turned invisible and is fading from existence. Can the effervescence of life be restored to this invisible man in a single animated short film? Those around him take no notice of him... No longer able to bear the fragility of presence, his body rises to flutter into the sky, with even gravity letting go... soon he will vanish entirely.

La Chute [Japan Media Arts Festival 2019 Award-Winning Program]

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Description: (Grand Prize) A short animated film inspired by Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy Inferno. As the celestial beings descend to the Earth and begin destroying the activities there, disturbing the world’s order and creating chaos. Initiated by these terms, a tragic fall leads to the parturition of the crucial opposites: Hell and Heaven’s circles. The film depicts the grand theme of loops, metamorphoses, and degeneration and regeneration.

WAAAH [New Motion Short Films]

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Description: I synchronized the sounds of babies crying and the frustration I've experienced throughout the years. Everyone was born crying and grew up crying. I want to go back to being a baby again.

Rayons ft. Predawn - Waxing Moon [New Motion Short Films]

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Description: I directed and produced the music video for "Waxing Moon", by Rayons ft. Predawn. The video was inspired by the word "Rayons," which means "ray of light" in French, and the song title, "Waxing Moon". Light is the central theme of the video and it portrays the world at dusk.

Echo Chamber [New Motion Short Films]

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Description: Cy Twombly and Roland Barthes, what are they doing? This is a journal about the seductions and sufferings of the text.

Veil [New Motion Short Films]

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Description: A Kyogen stage. An eye doctor's examination room. A sushi counter. Distance, feeling, and desire drift about between two beings that come into contact in different spaces. In the form of animation, Veil rekindles and scrutinizes our familiar sensations, perhaps felt somewhere, sometime.

Rabbit's Blood [New Motion Short Films]

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Description: Rabbit’s Blood is a story about a society of two rival groups; sinister cloaked men and neutralist rabbits who have human-looking bodies and live underground.

Layers Act [New Motion Short Films]

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Description: This video was created by layering two transparent films drawn with simple patterns to give a multifaceted visual effect. Developing the video involved research on special effect animation methods used before the advent of computer graphics. It was shot by moving the film manually to the AUDIO ARCHITECTURE soundtrack and the video was edited to optimize physiological comfort.

L’Œil du Cyclone [New Motion Short Films]

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Description: A mind and body attempt to transform. Yet, unable to escape from itself, it returns to its original existence. Self-love is the theme of this metamorphic animation.

Unfamiliar Ones [New Motion Short Films]

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Description: An ordinary story unwinding in a peculiar world.

Baloney Speaker (Sasanomaly) [New Motion Short Films]

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Description: Using match boxes as a motif, "Baloney Speaker" depicts the troubled heart of a young man who, in order to protect himself, cuts ties with others and locks himself up in his inner world. This film exhibits a fusion of numerous tiny worlds made up of 60 match boxes, which were designed and produced by the director himself. Many of the designs are deliberately irrelevant to the song's lyrics; however, Atsushi Makino effectively creates extraordinary moments by linking them to key lyrics throughout. Stop motion, rotoscoping, hand-drawn animation, and computer graphics techniques were used.

Ladybirds'Requiem [New Motion Short Films]

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Description: The terrifying pages of the storybook I couldn't help opening. The recurring nightmares. The pain I felt from seeing that yellow fluid oozing from the ladybug's legs. The scary things from my childhood are now beautiful and nostalgic memories. Whether they took place in dreams or reality, they all remain in my memory as precious nightmares. Ladybug's Requiem is an animation that lets you take another peek into those recurring childhood nightmares.

ROCK'N ROLL MARCH / Eiichi Otaki [New Motion Short Films]

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Description: Created based on a project wherein contemporary filmmakers create music videos for 1970s pop music. Singer/songwriter Eiichi Otaki returns from the grave and marches with musical spirits while singing. He imitates Elvis Presley and finally makes his way out into the light. The song incorporates the rhythm Second Line, which is used for funeral marches in New Orleans.

Traces [SICAF2019 Award-Winning Program]

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After she achieved her film Bachelor’s degree, Sophie Tavert decides to become a film writer and director. During her University Cinema Studies, she produced 8 experimental films. Her films “Un amour” (2009) and “MAD” (2016) were successful in festivals. After graduating from the Clermont-Ferrand school of Fine-Art, Hugo Frassetto continued his studies at the La Poudriere animated film school in Bourg-les-Valence. Since 2009, he has worked as an animator on several animation films: “Sous un coin de ciel bleu”, “Vasco”, TV series like “Bingo Bongo” and “Miru Miru”.

Description: (Grand Prize) 36,000 years ago, in the Ardèche river gorge, when an animal was painted, it was hunted. When it is again time to go Hunting and Painting, Gwel is appointed head of the group of hunters while Karou the Painter and his apprentice Lani set off to paint the walls of the great cavern. But they hadn't counted on meeting a cave lion.

An Ant [SICAF2019 Award-Winning Program]

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Directors: Yewon Ji, Yirang Yang, Dahan So Born in 1995, Ye-won Chi graduated from Korea Animation High School in 2013, and Department of Moving Images in Konkuk University in 2018. Her works as a director includes “Travel, Travel, Travel” in 2012.

Description: (Best Korean Film Award) A god lives alone on a lonely star. He meets an ant that is hit by the tears he has shed. In the god's lonely world, the ant means everything to him, and they have a happy moment together. But by the time the god forgets his loneliness, the ant leaves his world.

Big Wolf & Little Wolf [SICAF2019 Award-Winning Program]

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Graduated at the ENSAV La Cambre animated film workshop, Remi Durin together with 3 fellow graduates from the same school, set up in 2006 L’Enclume Animation, an animation studio which makes short films, adverts, long films, video clips, TV series… He is currently working on a feature film for children, "Yuku and the Flower of the Himalayas", written and co-directed by Arnaud Demuynck.

Description: (SICAF Choice Award) Big Wolf lives quite contentedly alone under his tree. One day he sees a Little Wolf approaching him who seems determined to keep him company. But Big Wolf has no need for his company. He likes the quiet life and his routine. At least, that’s what he thought… Based on the kid’s book by Nadine Brun-Cosme and Olivier Tallec, published by Flammarion jeunesse.

Reneepoptosis [SICAF2019 Award-Winning Program]

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Renee Zhan is a Chinese/American director and animator from Houston, TX. She graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies in 2016 and is currently working toward her MA at the National Film and Television School. In her films she is interested in exploring themes of identity, sexuality, and ugliness.

Description: (Jury’s Special Award) Three Renees go on a quest to find God, who is also Renee. As they traverse the mountains and valleys of Renee, they discover all the great joys, mysteries, and tragedies of being Renee.

Apart [SICAF2019 Award-Winning Program]

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Diana Cam Van Nguyen (1993, Czech Republic) studies animation at FAMU in Prague. She did internships in Birmingham and Lyon and participated as artist in residence in Vienna Museum Quartier. Her bachelor film "The Little One" (2017) was screened at dozens of festivals and won several awards. It also competes for ECFA Doc Award at Berlinale 2019.

Description: (Jury’s Special Award: Student Film) This short film about life after the loss of a loved one deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both live-action and animated film. Real experiences of the narrators are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations, looking into the thoughts of three young people untimely exposed to death.

DAD [SICAF2019 Award-Winning Program]

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Since graduating from Volda in 2002 Atle has been involved with a number of animated feature film, VFX and TV-Series productions in Norway. But has also directed short films, most notable "Fishing With Sam"(2009) as well as art and animation director on "Bendik and the Monster"(2014). Einar Dunsæd Founded Gimpville back in 2003, has since worked as director and animator at the company. Einar has a solid background from TV-series and film production, he was a central figure in the first Elias Productions.

Description: (Special Distinction Award : SICAF KID) Tommy‘s having a hard time sleeping, instead he looks at the moon, and fantasizes about where his dad might be, and what kind of man he is.

My Generation [SICAF2019 Award-Winning Program]

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Founder, owner and creative director of H5 (artistic director, film maker, graphic designer) graduate of ESAG-Penninhgen in 1994. His works include animation short films such as "Money Time" and "Logorama", tv commercials for brands such as Adidas, Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen, and many more.

Description: (Special Distinction Award) What if we put down our smartphones and opened our eyes wide shut? This is what suggests the short film “My Generation”: An 8 minute travelling shot where we go through different worlds; contemporary art, GAFA, sports, religions, pornography, politics, finance, sacred cows, generalized surveillance, all opiums of the people. It’s Jérôme Bosch teleported to the post Warhol era. If modern alienation is depicted, there is no moral judgement but a clinical detachment as with Stanley Kubrick: the facts, only the facts.

Son of the Sea [SICAF2019 Award-Winning Program]

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Born on September 2nd 1979 in Tehran, Iran, Abbas Jalali Yekta graduated in Cinema. He started his career as a character designer, storyboard designer and director by making short animated, documentary–animation and advertising films.

Description: (SICAF Asia Award) A man live in a house with his wife and the illusion of their son on the wall! This hallucination gradually creates some complications in their life.

A Gong [SICAF2019 Award-Winning Program]

Speaker(s):

Yen-Chen Liu is a visual artist born in Taiwan and currently based in Paris. Marine Varguy is a student in animation cinema in GOBELINS. Zozo Jhen is a visual artist and illustrator from Taipei, currently based in Paris. Tena Galović was born 1995 in Zagreb, and currently an MA animation student in GOBELINS. Ellis Kayin Chan is an animator, animation director from Hong Kong, based in Barcelona.

Description: (Special Distinction Award: Student Film) A journey of a 7 year-old boy's acceptance of his grandpa's death in a traditional Taiwanese funeral.

Hors Piste [SICAF2019 Award-Winning Program]

Speaker(s):

After a childhood of trips Léo Brunel went to MoPA and finished at l’École des Nouvelles Images(ENSI) for his diploma. He worked as a member of the collective Mega Computeur during 3 years at school. After a short break in a drawing prepa at the Atelier API, Loris Cavalier went in MoPA and during its scholarship, grew an interest in photography and special effects. Oscar Malet start studying drawing at Emile Cohl, then he went to MoPA and finished school at ENSI.

Description: (Grand Prize: Student Film)The two best rescue workers of the region are ready for their new mission. Despite their professionalism and their determination, it will not go as planned...