Dir: Various
Recommended Ceritificate: 18
Always one of the most popular programmes at Flatpack, this year’s roundup of new animation will offer useful evidence to future generations of our networked, over-stimulated age.
In the Air (dir: Martinus Klemet) is a chilling Estonian short which comes with a great synopsis: “The telecommunication between the wolf and humans leads to a situation where the law of gravity changes to the unknown.” The External World is the latest from 2008 Flatpack guest David O’Reilly, an insane 3D tapestry not for the faint-hearted, and this year’s BAFTA-winner The Eagleman Stag (dir: Michael Please) rattles through the life of one frustrated taxonomist. Some welcome minimalism is provided by Tord and Tord (dir: Niki Landroth Baer), a dry comedy about a fox and a rabbit, and in Stanley Pickle Victoria Mather employs pixillation (aka: animating with people) to beautiful effect.
© Flatpack Festival 2010