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International Animation Exhibition - Presentation

From a banal conversation between two friends to an awesome exercise with the possibilities of image and frame. The 12 films that make up this edition of Animation shows unite some of the most exciting work to have been evaluated by the selection committee. The sample from several countries (France, Netherlands, Spain, Finland, England, Switzerland and Canada) is inventive, creative, complex and often confusing. Put aside any false idea of the typical characteristics of an animated film. What you will see here is quite different - and deeply stimulating.

Some short films will even mess with audience expectations. This is the case of "All Consuming Love: Man in a Cat", which works the surreal to reflect on the real: a man lives in a cat and controls the animal - or a cat which lives in a man and holds the controls over him, to make known. Much simpler but no less weird, is “Volíem Ser Els Reis del Mambo”, which is a record of a selfless chat between a somewhat mischievous subject and his friend.

The intensity of the experience will take place especially in "Nemasco," in which the image on the screen itself is transformed into language, mixing music and traits apparently undefined; and in the striking “Crépuscule”, a mixture of eroticism and a lot of horror. The meta-language is the motto of "Feu Sacré", making the film its spring-master at the same time that it mocks the vanity of the society of the spectacle through a wax museum in which the actors are big stars.

The playful in various forms is present in "Amar”, "The Eagleman Stag", "Daniel, Une Vie en Bouteille" and "(EGO)," as well as the search for a certain type of shock comes from "Chienne D 'histoire "and" Mad Dogs and Englishmen".

It's really an infinite world, of this show, and words will never be enough to make justice to the films themselves. Here it is shown that the animation before being a technical choice, can (and should) be an aesthetic definition. In this way, it can renounce of wanting to be visually competent to become, above all, artistically relevant.

João Toledo, Leonardo Amaral, Luiz Pretti, Marcelo Miranda, Ricardo Mehedff & Tiago Mata Machado

Selection Committee – International Short Films