NZIFF: Animation NOW! Dark Hearts

Already three days into the New Zealand International Film Festival, with animated shorts galore. The Animation NOW! section of the festival rounds itself off with Dark Hearts, a series of films described as bleak, sexual, creepy, macabre. Check the website for scheduling details, but here is the run-down for the Dark Hearts programme.

The Inverted Peak (2016) Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod, Tom Angell
UK – 5 minutes

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_glAs05kmo0?rel=0&w=640&h=360]

Hadarim (2016) Shlomi Yosef
Israel – 5 minutes

Hadarim - Shlomi Yosef-0-640-0-360-crop

Dead Horses (2016) Marc Riba, Anna Solanas
Spain – 7 minutes

[vimeo 185655529 w=640 h=360]

Call of Cuteness (2017) Brenda Lien
Germany – 4 minutes

[vimeo 204913019 w=640 h=360]

Open Casket (2016) Noah Malone
USA – 3 minutes

Open Casket - Noah Malone-0-640-0-360-crop

The Pain (2016) Nadya Fedotova
Russia – 5 minutes

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvzmwOAocco?rel=0&w=640&h=360]

How Are You Today? (2016) Sophie Markatatos
UK – 7 minutes

How Are You Today - Sophie Markatatos-0-640-0-360-crop

Fruitbat (2015) Jesse Simpson
USA – 5 minutes

Fruitbat - Jesse Simpson-0-640-0-360-crop

Flies in May (2016) Caroline Jiang
Australia – 5 minutes

Flies In May-0-640-0-360-crop

Roommates (2016) Jamie Wolfe
USA – 3 minutes

[vimeo 168063874 w=640 h=360]

Candide “Home, Sweet Home” (2015) Zsuzsanna Kreif, Olivér Hegyi
Hungary – 7 minutes

Candide-Home Sweet Home - Zsuzsanna Kreif-0-640-0-360-crop

Reflecting Black (2016) Jan Utecht
Germany – 7 minutes

Reflecting Black - Jan Utecht-0-640-0-360-crop

Johnno’s Dead (2016) Chris Shepherd
UK – 8 minutes

[vimeo 177393575 w=640 h=360]


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