World Animation (世界動畫精選)

My first and only animation film at this year's HKIFF is World Animation. an assortment of 6 different shorts.

The first is Triangular Affair by Bydlo, a tale of division of labor in the modern world.



Another short feature is Oh Sheep which would shows how two flocks of sheep would refuse to be separated into different groups despite the efforts of their shepherds to separate them. An allegory of the relations of different nations led by different political leaders?.

The third is 7 minutes in the Warshaw Ghetto, a portrait of life in the ghetto in Warshaw seen through the life of a child. For its trailer, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6N2HQc_ZRs done in I-frame

The fourth, The Day I killed my Best Friend is a fantasy about the arrival of a girl's first period, an event which comes with surprise, fear and confusion. Its trailer can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd1I7qbg0TM

The fifth is Junkyard, which is a beautiful crafted animation about the adventures of two teenagers trying to find something interesting to do in the harsh environment of a junkyard full of dope and violence, an animation trying  to portray how friendship might be forged by two teenagers coming from two different social strata through their common exploration of the world of desolation inhabited by the poorer sectors of society. Its link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRyyNA3vYsQ

The last is Head Over Heels, an allegory of about how through years of marriage, a couple has come to live inside the same house but each lives its own life, one living on the floor and another living upside down on the roof and they could communicate only through mechanical devices but in the end, through looking at an old photograph of their younger days, the couple would finally live as a couple again on the same floor.