The Conservatorium, Laman Street, Newcastle
Sunday 28 October 2012 // 1:00pm – 8:30pm
The AIAF Newcastle Presentation will run from 1:00pm till 8:30pm. Click on each tab for a more specific rundown of each screening.
AIAF Newcastle program
| International program 1 (68 mins) | 1:00 – 2:30 |
| Rubber house (60 mins) | 2:30 – 3:30 |
| Australian Panorama (74 mins) | 3:30 – 5:00 |
| International program 2 (73 mins) | 5:00 – 6:15 |
| International program 3 (72 mins) | 6:15 – 7:30 |
| Late Night Bizarre (60 mins) | 7:30 – 8:30 |
For more information on the AIAF, visit their website here.
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Aussicht (2010, Germany) Director: Paul Stoll Duration: 3’20 A thrilling fiesta of digital deconstruction turned up to 11. |
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Big House (2011, Estonia) Director: Kristjan Holm Duration: 10’24 The Estonians do it again! Every house has a rhythm but this one pushes it out into the front yard for a one-off mini symphony. |
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Butterfly Dream (2011, USA) Director: Woonha Jang Duration: 8’25 Cleaning up the blood is only the first step. There’s still the weird fridge to deal with. |
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Crowded (2011, UK) Director: Luke Sault Duration: 2’37 They saw me as worthless coz I was trying to do things and failing all the time. It’s a crowded landscape. |
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How To Eat Your Apple (2011, South Korea) Director: Erick Oh Duration: 1’30 Apple eating as a Daliesque spectacular spectator spectacle. |
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Metachaos (2010, Italy) Director: Alessandro Bavari Duration: 8’27 When two dichotomous and diametrically opposed realities meet and mi, we enter into the Metachaos. |
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Moxie (2011, UK) Director: Stephen Irwin Duration: 5’45 A sad face, a dead bear, a subdued detective and a lemon enema. |
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Passenger (2011, USA) Director: Africanus Okokon Duration: 3’51 An entrancing re-animated view of a ride home in the dark. |
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Preferably Blue (2010, New Zealand) Director: Alan Dickson Duration: 10’43 Not everybody loves Santa – especially this Easter Bunny |
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September (2011, France) Director: Thibault Chollet Duration: 2’50 An extravaganza of reconstruction starting with ships awash in the deep blue and ending in a solitary exit. |
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Stopover (2011, Switzerland) Director: Neil Stubbings Duration: 3’00 Idiot delivery boy picks the wrong pyramid for a toilet stop. |
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Swarming (2011, Finland) Director: Joni Mannisto Duration: 7’18 When a red-cheeked boy flips the switch to insecticidal the bugs rise up for revenge. |
Rubber House will be presenting some of their work during the animation festival. More information will be available about their schedule shortly.
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Barn Owl (2011, Australia) Director: Anna Spencer Duration: 4’30 Master of life and death. A mistake made in the flush of naïve youth – a gun pointlessly pointed at a noble creature of the night. |
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The Cartographer (2011, Australia) Director: Jane Shadbolt Duration: 11’30 A girl adrift in a storm in a sea of letters finds herself tossed into a world of mysterious motives, uncertain geography and desperate times. |
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Dukes Of Broxstonia – Tomatoes (2011, Australia) Director: Suren Perera Duration: 3’00 Yeah – The Dukes! And this time the drummer is totally strung out on tomato sauce. |
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Gob The Space Cadet (2011, Australia) Director: Bridget Acreman Duration: 3’15 Lieutenant Gob cuts quite a figure as he races across the cosmos – he’s in a hurry it’s the biggest day of his life. |
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Golden Hour (2011, Australia) Director: Lucy Fahey Duration: 2’49 A beautifully simple film – moving life with fruit, sailing ship and Hills Hoist. |
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Gristle (2011, Australia) Director: Jamie Clennett Duration: 4’00 Life hanging on a hook is as much about perspective as fate – not that fate pays any attention in the end. |
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Joyride (2012, Australia) Director: Alyssa Rothwell Duration: 2’27 An intricately synchronised, exquisitely elegant chorus of lines – the purest form of animation perfectly performed. |
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The Last Photo (2011, Australia) Director: Lissa Pascale Duration: 7’30 Just stunning! My father went missing in action during the war. I always thought he was just across the sea or over the mountain just out of sight and that is where I went to find him to the end of the earth. |
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Nullarbor (2010, Australia) Director: Alister Lockhart and Patrick Sarell Duration: 10’18 A long road, two guys and two cars. |
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One Past Midnight (2011, Australia) Director: Terry Formosa Duration: 1’24 There’s evil in the house on the top of the hill. Something happened in the incandescent light at one past midnight. |
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Predator (2012, Australia) Director: Jilli Rose Duration: 8’50 A graceful and uber-colourful swim amongst the creatures of a deep blue netherworld. |
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Real People (2011, Australia) Director: Meredith Uborka Duration: 6’52 Christmas has rolled around and the pressure is on. Can’t do the lousy supermarket coleslaw, better not bring cruddy presents – and gotta find a girlfriend fast! |
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Rippled (2011, Australia) Director: Darcy Prendergast Duration: 3’57 An exciting, utterly absorbing ballet of light and movement emerging from the swamp, running a hundred late-night back-alley gauntlets and back to the swamp again. |
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Il Sogno (2011, Australia) Director: Lidia Castelletto Duration: 1’05 An ephemeral study in simple black line of the transparent, transient simplicity of nature and some of her loveliest forms. |
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Sumo Lake (2011, Australia) Director: Greg Holfeld Duration: 3’00 Size is important in sumo – but you have to have the right moves too. And a fondness for the classics helps. |
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About Killing The Pig (2011, Italy) Director: Simone Massi Duration: 6’20 The rural life is often full of harsh, simple, beautiful truths and the most natural of realities |
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La Detente (2010, France) Director: Pierre Ducos and Bertrand Bey Duration: 8’30 War is hell – even for an army of balloon heads on a candy coloured seek and destroy mission. |
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En Parties (2011, France) Director: Hugo Bravo Duration: 3’49 Modern deco blended with post-modern cubism – coming to a screen near you. |
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Jack And Chuck (2011, France) Director: Alexandre Chaudret/ Thomas Crepin/Maureen Kressmann Duration: 6’40 What devil’s pact would you make? Would you swap your tongue for the chance of a much greater literary voice. |
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Luminaris (2011, Argentina) Director: Juan Pablo Zaramella Duration: 6’00 We owe McLaren much. A day in the life of an army of stylish light-bulb factory workers. |
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The Making Of Longbird (2011, UK) Director: Will Anderson Duration: 15’18 A chance to go deep inside the mystery. What does it take to tame an animated character and make a great film? |
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Mighty Antlers (2011, Denmark) Director: Sune Reinhardt Duration: 4’30 A midnight forest road encounter turns antler-satanic – and that’s bad! |
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Montego (2011, Estonia) Director: Chintis Lundgren Duration: 11’22 Journey down a train track, past an elegant cocktail and press the button to enter the death department. |
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My My‰ (2011, China) Director: Lei Lei Duration: 4’32 A crazy-cool cascading collage of colourful imagery – and pants. |
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Out On A Limb (2011, Germany) Director: Falk Schuster Duration: 5’03 An elegant look into the simple, competitive world of birds and the resting places they try and share. |
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Beat (2011, Israel) Director: Or Bar El Duration: 7’26 A desperate attempt to draw a straight line within a pulsing ballet of cubes and squares |
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Body Memory (2011, Estonia) Director: Ulo Pikkov Duration: 9’00 Many memories dangle by the finest of threads being pulled by forces out of sight and out of control. |
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Bon Voyage (2011, Switzerland) Director: Fabio Friedli Duration: 6’18 The dangerous journey from peril to imprisoned safety is just a numbers game. |
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The Boy With Quite A Long Pair Of Arms (2011, Holland) Director: Eric Butter Duration: 2’16 Very long arms have a thousand different uses around the home and school-yard. |
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Coming Of Oracle (2010, Estonia) Director: Prohveti Sund/Rao Heidmets Duration: 10’00 Tethered as we are to our imaginations, it is our job to embrace them or break free. |
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Djuma (2012, Italy) Director: Michele Bernardi Duration: 3’50 A wild ride from the forest to the broken city on the back of a wolf |
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Hisab (2011, Ethiopia) Director: Ezra Wube Duration: 7’56 A goat and a dog took a taxi ‰ÛÒ an evocative journey through an Ethiopian cityscape. |
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Pummel Nankeen (2011, USA) Director: Ismael Sanz-Pena Duration: 3’00 A skewed expose of social mores and train sets in crisp black and white. |
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The Room With No Corners (2011, USA) Director: Jenna Caravello Duration: 5’00 A peep-hole glimpse into the most bizarre of worlds. |
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Tweng (2011, Germany) Director: Sandra Dollo and Uli Berthold Duration: 2’15 A relentlessly crazed pastiche of wild imagery from Zombie Flesh Eater. |
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Viewpoint (2011, South Korea) Director: Sae-By Kwangbo Duration: 7’00 A hairy, fiery piece of gracefully savage eye-popping wonder. |
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Yonalure: Moment To Moment (2011, Japan) Director: Ayaka Nakata and Yuki Sakitani Duration: 7’53 A supreme flight of wondrous animated fancy – a graceful cavort through an ever changing magic villagescape. |
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Bear-Horse (2009, USA) Director: Steve Stark Duration: 3’46 Bear-Horse is bad-ass. He solves problems his way. He’s Bear-Horse. That’s right! |
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Compartments Or “I Am Not A Monster” (2011, Belgium) Director: Hannah Letaif Duration: 3’40 Every apartment block has lots of rooms. And every room has a person or two. And every person has a lot of orifices and appendages. |
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The Confession Of Father John Thomas (2011, Australia) Director: Elka Kerkhofs Duration: 5’00 A father with a load on his mind. |
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Dr Breakfast (2011, USA) Director: Stephen Neary Duration: 7’12 An eye-popping pseudo “Weekend At Bernies” style romp featuring a couple of wise deer a special doctor and a dude that needs a lotta help. |
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Dukes Of Broxstonia – Planet Of Babies (2011, Australia) Director: Suren Perera Duration: 3’00 Yep – the Dukes is back. And they’re on the wrong planet. |
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Frosted Chocolate Cake (2011, Italy) Director: Donato Sansone Duration: 2’40 Co-joined twins a flock of birds a flotilla of fish and a spooky rabbit. |
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Goat Away (2009, USA) Director: Steve Stark Duration: 1’13 Problems with goats? You need…… |
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Mulvar Is Correct Candidate (2011, Canada) Director: Patrick Desilets Duration: 1’08 Mulvar make precious fuel come from eyes! Vote Mulvar. |
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Phobias Of Guard Rail (2012, Italy) Director: Marco Capellacci Duration: 5’00 Taking tie sucking and Mini-Me eye-pouring to a strange new level. |
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Septimana (2010, France) Director: Sylvain Cappelletto Duration: 4’10 WARNING: GRAPHIC SEXUAL CONTENT MAY OFFEND. |
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SPONCHOI Pispochoi (2010, Japan) Director: Pecorapedna (Ikne Sugidono and Miyako Mishio) Duration: 6’07 Warts! Moles. Oh – let’s start exchanging. |
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There’s a Dead Crow Outside (2011, USA) Director: Morgan Miller Duration: 1’00 Sometimes the film title is all you really need – especially if you’re a raccoon. |
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Twins (2011, Slovakia) Director: Peter Budinsky Duration: 5’26 Siamese twins fight it out in the boxing ring but the competition really heats up when it’s time for bed. |
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Vacuum Attraction (2010, USA) Director: Morgan Miller Duration: 4’00 Home alone and kickin’ back in his underwear in front of bad TV – the vacuum cleaner probably looked like a pretty good idea at the time. |
