ANIMATED SHORTS
WEDNESDAY 4TH NOVEMBER
4:00 PM THE OLD PRESBYTERY €5
Granny O'Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
Ireland 2008 5 min Colour
Granny O'Grimm, a seemingly sweet old lady, loses the plot as she tells her version of Sleeping Beauty to her terrified Granddaughter. In her retelling the Elderly Fairy, not invited to Beauty's christening because she isn't as exciting as the younger more glamorous fairies, exacts her revenge on a society obsessed with youth and beauty.
Director Nicky Phelan
Colour Contamination
Ireland 2008 3 min Colour
Colour Contamination is the story of a clean cut business man who is averse to all things colourful. He enters a waiting room filled with colourful plastic chairs and is forced to confront his worst fears.
Director Louise Bagnall
The Finger Trap
Scotland 2008 4 min Colour
The elderly but young-at-heart Wilson Brown becomes stuck in his Chinese finger trap toy whilst preparing an anniversary surprise for his wife.
Director Julia McLean
Natural Causes
Ireland 2009 5 min Colour
A communications break down leads to an alliance between the most unlikely of characters in finding a solution to their problems.
Director Barry Holian
Space Travel according to John
Scotland 2008 3 min B&W
In this short soap-powder animation, ten-year-old John theorises on the miracle of space travel and speculates as to what the future might have in store.
Directors Jamie Stone & Anders Jedenfors
Cardboard Boy
Ireland 2009 3 min Colour
Cardboard Boy is a short, stop motion animated film which tells a harsh truth about life. The film revolves around a little boy playing in a cardboard box and using his innocent imagination to turn the box into all sorts of objects. It displays the power of one’s imagination and how children will always be child and will play and dream despite their background and situation.
Director Kelley O'Sullivan
Man Makes History
Australia 2008 3 min Colour
In a 1950s style History textbook, we turn to the timeline. It charts great moments in history with old-fashioned sketches and old-fashioned views. A narrator is pontificating about the “History of Man”. His pompous attitude annoys a woman who is relegated to the menial tasks in history. She decides to ignore the narrator and take matters into her own hands. She speeds ahead in the timeline, causing havoc for all mankind. Using satire and slapstick, Man Makes History challenges the way history is written.
Director Sally Bothroyd
It's All About George
Ireland 2009 4 min Colour
Meet George and Irene. Married for a decade and three kids later they still have the energy for the daily battles with life and each other. Even though they have their quarrels and disagreements they have a respect for each other that runs through most young families. At times they don’t know whether to hug or kill each other. George is a man who can do it all….Well; in his own mind anyway. He thinks he is a DIY expert; there is no job too big or too small. The problem is, as the old saying goes “some things are better left alone”. Irene is a simple woman who is looking for peace and tranquillity in her life. Will she get her wish is the big question????
Directors Roy Lecane & Don Field
You Are My Hero
Germany 2009 8 min Colour
Are heroes always what they seem to be?
Director Tobias Bilgeri & Raphael Wahl
There's Somewhere under My Bed
Ireland 2009 3 min 20 sec Colour
After loosing his favourite toy, a dinosaur. A young boy travels on an unexpected adventure to the centre of the earth. On his travels his dinosaur comes to life as they discovery a new world and the dangers of getting home.
Director Christina O'Donovan
El Pianógrafo (The Pianographer)
Costa Rica 2008 2 min 39 sec Colour
It is animation that experiments with various techniques to achieve a sad and very emotive storytelling.
Director Eduardo Brenes
Elephants
UK 2008 12 min 30 sec Colour
In a totally grey world, a little girl’s life is turned upside down by an infestation of elephants.
Director Sally Pearce
Sandpiper
Ireland 2008 6 min 35 sec Colour
Poignant story of a young boy, living with his father in the West of Ireland, saving a Sandpiper with a broken wing from Vicious Seagulls. He tends the injured bird and releases it back into the wild.
Director Jimmy Murakami
The Rooster, The Crocodile and The Night Sky
Ireland 2008 5min 30sec Colour
‘The Rooster, the Crocodile, and the Night Sky’ is a tale of passion, loss, surreal comedy and explosive violence. The film is animated in a cut-out style combining a variety of elements such as cardboard, tinfoil, paint on glass animation and super-8 film footage to create a dreamy, hand-made aesthetic.
Director Pádraig Fagan
Falling
Northern Ireland 2008 5 min Colour
Institutionalised in Northern Ireland at the age of 21, Peter Hanlin spent ten years under psychiatric supervision for continuing to claim he heard voices and experienced revelation through lucid dreaming. From direct conversations with Peter, Falling re-imagines Peter's claims and their outcome.
Director Paul Hamilton
Jimbo Clementine
Germany 2008 6 min Colour
The hermit Jimbo lives with his carnivorous plant Clementine in a tree house somewhere in the middle of nowhere. As he takes away Clementine’s beloved coco plant to have the intoxication for himself, she takes revenge…
Director Roman Kalin
Trolley Boy
Ireland 2009 3 min 54 sec Colour
Trolley Boy is fed up with his job. He tries to lift his mood by inventing a little bowling game pushing trolleys into stacks but, as he has set his goal too far away, he keeps missing it. His anger and his efforts finally build up into a giant monster made of trolleys but it takes him a long time to realize that this unexpected creation is far more uplifting than getting a strike in his game.
Director Teemu Auersalo