Shorts Animation Competition 1 (2022)

Festival
PÖFF Shorts 2022
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

Films

Baltic premiere

The Flying Sailor

Local title
Lendav madrus
Original title
The Flying Sailor
Director
Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis
Country
Canada
Year
2022
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

Two ships collide in a harbour, an explosion shatters a city, and a sailor is blasted skyward. With ears ringing, blood pulsing and guts heaving, he soars high above the mayhem and towards the great unknown. A bold blend of comedy, suspense and philosophy, The Flying Sailor is an exhilarating contemplation of the wonder and fragility of existence.

Director
Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis
Runtime
Trailer

Baltic premiere

Ice Merchants

Local title
Jääkaupmehed
Original title
Ice Merchants
Director
João Gonzalez
Country
Portugal, France, United Kingdom
Year
2022
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.

Director
João Gonzalez
Runtime
Trailer

Baltic premiere

Hardly Working

Local title
Vaevu töötav
Original title
Hardly working
Director
Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf
Country
Austria
Year
2022
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

Hardly Working sheds a limelight on the very characters that normally remain in the background of video games: NPCs. They are non-player characters that populate the digital world as extras to create the appearance of normality. A laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper and a carpenter are observed with ethnographic precision. They are Sisyphus machines, whose labour routines, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.

Director
Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf
Runtime
Trailer

Baltic premiere

Backflip

Local title
Backflip
Original title
Backflip
Director
NIkita Diakur
Country
Germany, France
Year
2022
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

Attempting a backflip is not safe. You can break your neck, or land on your head, or land badly on your wrists. None of that is nice, so my avatar does the trick. It practices on a 6-core processor with the help of Machine Learning. The processor is not the newest but still calculates 6 jumps per iteration. One iteration takes one minute, this is 360 jumps in an hour and 8.640 jumps in a day. I wouldn’t be able to jump so much myself.

Director
NIkita Diakur
Runtime

Baltic premiere

Supper

Local title
Õhtusöök
Original title
Vacsora
Director
Dániel Bárány
Country
Hungary
Year
2022
Programme
Shorts Animation Competition

During a dysfunctional family dinner, oppressed family members battle their oppressors. The battle for domination leads to a monstrous outcome.

Director
Dániel Bárány
Runtime
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