• Balance

  • Hunger

  • Neighbors



Hayoun Kwon Selects: Animated Short Films



BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

  • Presented by
    Hayoun Kwon

We invited Hayoun Kwon to curate a program of animated films that deal with social or political issues. Her selection, including the work of Norman McLaren, Jirí Trnka, and Jan Svankmajer, focuses on films that deal with conflict on all scales, from an escalating fight between neighbors and the delicate balance between a group of men to the destructive hand of the state and of the constant formation of war. One of the first films to use computer animation contrasts self-indulgence with hunger and poverty. Whether hand-drawn, stop-motion animation, or derived from computer games, these short films engage with our times in creative and powerful ways.

Films in this Screening

Dust 2 Dust

Kent Sheely, United States, 2013

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • Digital
  • 5 mins
  • Kent Sheely

Balance

Wolfgang Lauenstein, Christoph Lauenstein, West Germany, 1989

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 7 mins
source
  • KurzFilmVerleih

The Hand (Ruka)

Jiří Trnka, Czechoslovakia, 1965

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • Digital
  • 19 mins
source
  • Krátky Film Praha

Formation II

Baden Pailthorpe, United States, 2011

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • Digital
  • 8 mins
source
  • Baden Pailthorpe

Dimensions of Dialogue

Jan Švankmajer, Czechoslovakia, 1982

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 13 mins
source
  • BAMPFA
permission
  • Athanor, Film Production Company

Hunger

Peter Foldès, Canada, 1974

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 11 mins
source
  • National Film Board of Canada

Neighbors

Norman McLaren, Canada, 1952

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 8 mins
source
  • National Film Board of Canada