The Student Moving Image Festival Of Wales

International Animation 2

12.02.2010 | 15:30 | Studio

Yellow Belly End
UK/ 2009/ 9’
National Film and Television School
Philip Bacon

An enormous cliff top, blue sky, multiple deaths and a man keeping a meticulous note of it all. This man lives a relatively peaceful and tidy existence, filling his time by watching others ending theirs as they jump from the top of the cliff. Soon, however, he finds circumstance plotting against him as he is drawn ever nearer to the edge of the cliff himself.

Max
Canada/ 2009/ 7’ 40"
Director & Writer: Jeffrey Zablotny

A traditionalist animator gets an unexpected visit by an auditor, which rapidly spirals out of control. Max mixes traditional animation techniques with digital rotoscoping and motion graphics for a nerve-wracking jaunt into the life of an animator.

Operatatatata
France/ 2009/ 05'15"
Antoine Rota

The godfather of a New York mafia family goes to the opera to please his wife. Three hired killers from a rival family come up with a scheme to gun him down from the stage. Unfortunately, their plan does not go as they had anticipated.     

Le son du pignon
France/ 2008/ 2"
David Martin

A bicycle repairman absorbed in a dull everyday work, is swept over by the repetitive rhythm. He becomes the conductor of an exhilarating mechanical music.

Stop Animation
China
Mikkel Askheim Haabeth

Lightning
China
Jack Chen