You are invited to experience new flavours of the most prominent and innovative animation. Get inspired and thrilled by new visual inventions. The programme showcases artwork engaging new methodologies and practices, like real-time engines, motion-capture, machine learning, algorithmic animation, glitch, hyperrealistic materials etc. Photorealistic imagery which took years to create is generated in a few minutes by algorithms. It seems so easy to create amazing art today. However, there is a great deal of low-quality production made and few meaningful masterpieces. After the screening you are invited to the informal talk “What is our creative role in times when the computer does the job?” and reflect on future of creativity in the age of artificial intelligence and powerful computing easily accessible to the masses. (2019)
2 min 38 s / 2019 / Australia
'A New Hope' is a challenging metaphor for everyone affected by the tech age that still considers some developments today as normal in our culture, traditions and society.
Directors: Alex Mikhaylov, Max Chelyadnikov Company - Loop
3 min 42 s / 2016 / Japan
Using openFrameworks to code optical illusion of spatial perception.
Directed by Baku Hashimoto
58 s / 2018 / China, USA
Awaken Akira was created by two friends, Ash Thorp and Zaoeyo (XiaoLin Zeng), who wanted to collaborate on a tribute to the iconic anime, Akira, by Katsuhiro Otomo. It’s creation took over a year, as we had to coordinate our time on it with other project commitments. We hope you find it was well worth the wait and truly enjoy our efforts.
Directors: Ash Thorp and Zaoeyo (XiaoLin Zeng)
3 min 35 s / 2018 / USA
A first-person interactive story showcasing the capabilities of Unity 2018 for powering high-end visuals for game productions.
Directed by Veselin Efremov Company - Unity
5 min 14 s / 2013 / USA
Box explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping on moving surfaces. The short film documents a live performance, captured entirely in camera.
Produced by GMUNK Company - Bot & Dolly
4 min 40 s / 2015 / USA
CLOUDS is an interactive documentary and a portrait of this community of digital pioneers, explored through the lens of code. The project asks questions about the future of creativity at a time when algorithms play an important role in shaping culture. Shot entirely with kinect camera.
Directors: Jonathan Minard, James George Producer: Winslow Porter
1 min 39 s / 2016 / UK
Continuing the theme of New Natures, six individual films pick up on the obsessions of our digital culture, and mimic visual mechanisms that have become part of our culture – through minimal graphical interventions on lush tropical scenery.
Directed by Marcus Wendt Produced by FIELD www.field.io
47 s / 2018 / Germany
This abstract and modern video visualizes the main features of Fazua e-bike engine. It is super light, it fits in many different setups and at the speed of 25km/h the engine disconnects from the bike, which let's you easily continue paddling with higher speeds.
Directed by Vincent Schwenk
2 min 55 s / 2018 / Germany
A suburbian blockparty. Rave, drone, bbq and icecream. Then a stunt.
Directed by Nikita Diakur
2 min 20 s / 2012 / UK
Forms is a series of studies on human motion, and its reverberations through space and time.
Directors: Quayola, Memo Akten Produced by Beccy McCray Company - Nexus Interactive Arts
58 s / 2018 / Canada
The intention was to show how a digital thought evolves, how AI becomes self aware and re-structures its physiology, constructs layers of digital consciousness, creating a tapestry, architecting a new law of physics. Design is inspired by neural networks, spiderwebs and patterns in nature. Designed for Ash Thorp’s “Edifice”.
Directed by Serjan Burlak
4 min 30 s / 2017 / China
Greatness is a code-based generative lyrics video directed and programmed for the track Greatness produced by Karma Fields featuring Talib Kweli. The entire lyrics video consists of multiple variations of a customized generative system programmed using Processing.
Directed by Raven Kwok
2 min 38 s / 2018 / UK
Hype Cycle is a series of futurist films exploring human-machine collaboration through performance and emerging technologies.
Directed by Matt Pyke Company - Universal Everything
6 min 15 s / 2016 / UK
Hyper-Reality presents a provocative and kaleidoscopic new vision of the future, where physical and virtual realities have merged, and the city is saturated in media.
Directed by Keiichi Matsuda Producers: Wu Yu Zhou, Carlson Bull Company - Fractal
1 min / 2017 / Australia
Art and animation of an integrated brand campaign for the University of Melbourne showcasing its distinctive curriculum, the Melbourne Model. Based on actual ongoing research projects of the University, Onesal crafted 16 abstract fantastic landscapes illustrating the many possible futures.
Directed by Nahuel Salcedo Produced by Ailin Brunner Company - Onesal Japan
42 s / 2018 / Italy
As the Molasses flavors are brought to life through abstract paintings, each one an artistic representation of the taste it is named for, we drew inspiration from the iconic graphic element of the Molasses packs, the very brushstroke decoding this neat concept through 3D play involving liquid colorful paint, dynamic brush effects and product.
Direction: Ditroit Produced by Ada Korvafaj Company - Ditroit
2 min 32 s / 2016 / USA
Orbis Integra witnesses the unleashing of a world in which there is a willful, conscious impulse in nature. Where the cymatic phenomena are experienced as transitory objects. Kinetic monuments that show us the shape of a frequency that would otherwise remain invisible. Unperceived. Unknown.
Directed by GMUNK Produced by Gayatri Roshan Company - JOJX
3 min 16 s / 2018 / Sweden
Meet Grant: A determined man with true grit. Set in a grim and dire situation Grant finds refuge in the one and only abandoned car in the middle of nowhere. A full CG monologue where he has time to ponder about his past.
Directed by Fredrik Löfberg Produced by Goodbye Kansas Studios
1 min 42 s / 2018 / USA
Ever wonder where all these babies are coming from? 🤔 Prepare for the sound of babies giggling as their animated avatars are bashed about something terrible by hooded aliens in the middle of a desert.
Directed by Mike Diva Company - Lord Danger
1 min / 2019 / Australia
The relationship humans have with technology is being redefined, and the divide between humans and machines is getting increasingly narrower. We set off to explore this relationship from an intimate angle. Subtle. Suggestive. Elegant. Powerful. We did so by introducing a set of unconnected scenes that indirectly represent what goes on inside one’s body when getting closer, establishing a connection and finally consummating the union with a significant other. In that case, that significant other is represented by technology.
Produced by Ailin Brunner Company: Onesal Japan
3 min 3 s / 2018 / Germany
The Shark in the Park visualizes the growth and development process of a special strawberry species called “Parco Pistris” which has been discovered by a Korean scientifical research group KSPRI in 2016. Film features all of the actually pretty stunning facts about the plant and still be entertaining in order to bring the piece not only to a biology focused but wider and younger audience.
Directed by Polynoid Produced by Selina Schmitt Company - Woodblock
53 s / 2018 / Australia
With the burr plant at its core, the film explores one of the most notorious examples of bio-mimicry, drawing the parallels between the technology and the nature that inspired it.
Directors: Alexa Sirbu & Lukas Vojir Producers: Alexa Sirbu & Lukas Vojir
3 min 5 s / 2018 / Russia
Volumes is a 4K Full CG art film exploring the juxtaposition of emotions with the laws of nature. Billions of colourful particles dance, play and communicate with each other in an eternal hypnotic ballet governed by the invisible forces.
Directed by Maxim Zhestkov