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AWARDS SCREEN |
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The Awards Screen focuses on showing some of the films nominated for The Academy Awards®, popularly known as the Oscars® in 2008 and 2009. The selection includes this year’s Oscar® winner ‘La Maison en Petits Cubes’ by Japan’s
Kunio Kato and England’s nominee ‘This Way Up’ by Smith & Foulkes. |
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La Maison en Petits Cubes |
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| As water levels rise, a grandpa who has been constantly building his house upwards reflects on his memories and family. |
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| Directed by Kunio Kato |
| Country: Japan |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 12 min |
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Oktapodi |
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| Two octopuses help each other in their slapstick escape from the grasps of a stubborn restaurant cook. However, even after overcoming insurmountable odds to reunite, their fight to stay together is not over. |
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Directed by Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand,
Quentin Marmier, Emud Mokhberi |
| Country: France |
| Year: 2007 |
| Running Time: 2 min, 27 secs |
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Presto! |
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| A stage magician's rabbit gets into a magical onstage brawl against his neglectful guardian with two magic hats. |
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| Directed by Doug Sweetland |
| Country: USA |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 5 min, 17 secs |
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This Way Up |
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| A series of misfortunes befalls a pair of undertakers on their way to the cemetery. |
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| Directed by Smith & Foulkes |
| Country: England |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 9 mins |
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I Met the Walrus |
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| In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. |
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| Directed by Josh Raskin |
| Country: Canada |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 2 min, 27 secs |
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Even Pigeons go to Heaven |
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| A priest conducts a frenzied chase to save a soul in peril. |
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| Directed by Samuel Torneux |
| Country: France |
| Year: 2007 |
| Running Time: 8 min, 26 secs |
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| ..SCREEN 2 |
INTERNATIONAL SCREEN |
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22 July - 4 August |
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The International Screen focuses on showing the best animation from around the world. The screen changes its programme over the 6 weeks of the Small World Festival. From 22 July - 4 August you can see 10 films; we are proud to present the UK premieres of Disney's Glago's Guest from the USA, The Cat Piano from Australia and Deconstruction Workers from Norway both having been featured in leading festivals in New York and Adelaide. From 5 - 18 August we present Channel 4's recently commissioned films by Animate TV and to finish 19 August - 1 Sept we present another selection of 10 of leading short animations in the World.
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Glago's Guest - UK PREMIERE |
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| The story of a strange meeting between a Russian soldier guarding a Siberian outpost and an extraterrestrial. |
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| Directed by Chris Williams (Walt Disney Animation Studios) |
| Country: USA |
| Year: 2009 |
| Running Time: 8 min |
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The Cat Piano - UK PREMIERE |
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| In a city of singing cats, a lonely beat poet falls for a beautiful siren. When a mysterious figure kidnaps the town's singers, the poet must save his muse and put an end to a nefarious symphony. Narrated by Nick Cave. |
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| Directed by Eddie White, Ari Gibson |
| Country: Australia |
| Year: 2009 |
| Running Time: 7 min |
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Deconstruction Workers - UK PREMIERE |
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| Two construction workers having an everyday conversation about an existensial question. They keep on building while the world around them falls apart. Will they find the answer to one of the most common questions in the western world? |
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| Directed by Kajsa Næss |
| Country: Norway |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 6 min |
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Granny O'Grimms Sleeping Beauty |
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| Granny O'Grimm, a seemingly sweet old lady, loses the plot as she tells her version of Sleeping Beauty to her terrified granddaughter. |
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| Directed by Nicky Phelan |
| Country: Ireland |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 5 min |
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John & Karen |
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| Polar bear John apologizes to penguin Karen. They renew their friendship over tea and biscuits. This delightful three-minute animation combines English warmth with a special sensibility and expressiveness. |
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| Directed by Matthew Walker |
| Country: England |
| Year: 2007 |
| Running Time: 3 min, 30 secs |
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New Moon |
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| An exploration of the cultural, human & creativenature of the moon. |
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| Directed by Mamoru Kano |
| Country: Japan |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 2 min |
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| ..SCREEN 2 |
INTERNATIONAL SCREEN |
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Animate TV - August 5 - 18 |
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| The 2008 edition of AnimateTV screened on Channel 4 in September 2008. Employing a broad range of techniques from rotoscope to timelapse and exploring a variety of themes, including the decline of the dawn chorus and the ambitions of an outsider artist, together they represent the freshest artistic talent from the UK. The series of 7 animations are shown together at Small World. |
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Cobra Mist |
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| Cobra Mist explores the relationship between the landscape of Orford Ness and the physical traces of its unusual military history. |
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| Directed by Emily Richardson |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 6 min 52 secs |
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Damaged Goods |
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| In this tragic love story played out by porcelain figurines on the back shelves of a bric-a-brac shop, a poor, down-at-heel boy falls for a beautiful girl with shattering consequences. |
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| Directed by Barnaby Barford |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 9 min 24 secs |
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Early Birds |
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| A hand-drawn rotoscoped animation from wildlife footage, that features interviews with people talking about their memories and experience of the dawn chorus. |
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| Directed by Suky Best |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 5 min 27 secs |
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Jeffery and the Dinosaurs |
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| A short documentary about a man whose struggle to overcome daily obstacles has produced an astonishing universe of outsider science fiction. |
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| Directed by Christoph Steger |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 6 min 38 secs |
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Tear Drops Blossom |
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| The story of a curious woman and the saddest man in the world.
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| Directed by Michael Aubtin Madadi |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 5 min |
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The Black Dog's Progress |
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The sad story of the Black Dog is told with a series of flipbooks. The scene grows denser as
looped scenes accumulate and the narrative develops. |
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| Directed by Stephen Irwin |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 3 min 14 secs |
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Without You |
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| Without You is a visual exploration of London's industrial suburbia. Following colours and surfaces into abstraction, the film reveals the complexity of apparently simple forms. |
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| Directed by Tal Rosner |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 4 min 50 secs |
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| ..SCREEN 2 |
INTERNATIONAL SCREEN |
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19 August - 2 September |
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| ..SCREEN 3 |
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SCREEN |
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| The Student Screen features some of the most outstanding work from the past 5 years by students from the Royal College of Art in London, England, Supinfocom in Valenciennes, France and The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark. These are three of the leading animation courses in the world and Small World brings together their work. |
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The RCA is the world's only university of art and design devoted solely to postgraduate degrees in fine art, applied art, design, communications and humanities. These films were produced by students on the MA Animation course. |
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Flower Pots |
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| A figure goes on a journey through the various stages of growth until he gets re-potted. |
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| Directed by Rafael Sommerhalder |
| Country: England |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 5 min |
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On Time Off |
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| Fire and ice creams, and dramas between strangers on a swelteringly hot, crowded holiday beach. |
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| Directed by Bill Porter |
| Country: England |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 4 min, 30 secs |
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Bald Dad |
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| Memories of a father-son relationship examining the mountains children make of molehills. |
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| Directed by Kristian Andrews |
| Country: England |
| Year: 2007 |
| Running Time: 5 min |
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Adjustment |
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| Adjustment traces the break-up of a relationship relived through an obsessive requirement by the films narrator to record events the two have shared. |
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| Directed by Ian Mackinnon |
| Country: England |
| Year: 2006 |
| Running Time: 6 min, 20 secs |
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| ..France |
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Supinfocom (école SUPérieure d'INFOrmatique de COMmunication, roughly University of Communication Science) is a computer graphics university with campuses in Valenciennes, Arles (France) and Pune (India). In November 2007, the school was ranked No. 1 worldwide by the American magazine "3D World," with criteria such as the distribution of student films and prizes in festivals around the world. |
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Facteur Mineur (Supinfocom) |
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| The final battle led by the miners at the closing of their pencil mine. |
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| Directed by Marc Czerwiec, Geoffrey Skrajewski, Arnaud Joli, François Ruiz |
| Country: France |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 6 min 24 secs |
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En tus Brazos (In your Arms) (Supinfocom) |
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| The remarkable tale of the greatest tango dancer of the 1920s who finds himself confined to a wheelchair after an unfortunate accident. His partner shows him how nothing can stop the tango dancing couple. |
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| Directed by Edouard Jouret, FX Goby and Matthieu Landour |
| Country: France |
| Year: 2004 |
| Running Time: 4 min |
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Hernando (Supinfocom) |
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| A crazy conquistador's crew tries to find the hideout of the famous pirate Hernando, in a very colourful MGM musical inspired way. |
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| Directed by Thomas Bernos, Jérôme Haupert & Nicolas Lesaffre |
| Country: France |
| Year: 2004 |
| Running Time: 4 min |
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Tim Tom (Supinfocom) |
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| Tim and Tom persevere and successfully connect despite the interference of a giant omnipotent human hand. There are references to animation techniques throughout the film, from the opening titles (in the form of a thaumatrope) to the cute flipbook facial expressions. |
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| Directed by Romain Segaud and Christel Pougeoise |
| Country: France |
| Year: 2002 |
| Running Time: 4 min 20 secs |
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The Animation Workshop - Center for Animation is Denmark’s leading animation institution with activities within the areas of education, culture, communication and business. The Animation Workshop is an independent management unit under VIA University College, and has a strong network of international companies, artists and educations. |
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Train Bombing |
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| Train Bombing is the story of a young graffiti artist who by an unlikely series of events accidently creates the masterpiece of his life. |
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| Directed by Sylvester Rishøj Jensen and Bodie Jahn-Mulliner |
| Country: Denmark |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 2 min |
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Sheep |
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| A rebellious sheep seeks vengeance on a hungry wolf. Even though the sheep is well prepared for battle, tempering with the natural order of the food chain is a dangerous venture. |
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| Directed by Nicole Gallagher |
| Country: Denmark |
| Year: 2009 |
| Running Time: 3 min 15 secs |
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Project Alpha |
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| The race to space is on. As nations compete, we follow the progress of a single chimpanzee who's been recruited into the Space Program. His results might prove influential for the better of all mankind. ...will he be up to it? |
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| Directed by Matthias Bjarnason, Christian Munk Sørensen, Nicolai Slothuus |
| Country: Denmark |
| Year: 2008 |
| Running Time: 3 min |
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Leitmotif |
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| “Leitmotif” is the story about the last lonely member of a jazz band, only living trough the music and the daily visits of a white cat. But one day the nostalgia takes over and he gets a crazy idea |
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| Directed by Jeanette Nørgaard, Marie Jørgensen, Mette Ilene Holmriis, |
| Country: Denmark |
| Year: 2009 |
| Running Time: 7 min 6 secs |
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Pig Me |
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| Pig Me is the story about a pig that escapes from a slaughter house. He finds his way to a pet shop and discovers the nice and warmth atmosphere between the customers and the animals getting bought. He also wants to get bought, but he realizes that nobody wants to buy a pig. The only solution he can find to that problem is to dress up as the other animals in the pet shop. |
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| Directed by Ditte K. Gade, Jorge Figueroa, Marie-Louise Højer Jensen, Mette Rank Tange, Rebecca Bang Sørensen |
| Country: Denmark |
| Year: 2009 |
| Running Time: 7 min |
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