The Animation NOW! segment of the New Zealand International Film Festival is broken down into appropriate categories, and day two of NZIFF showcases two more of those chapters. Firstly, the Black & White session, a series of short films that dazzle the senses even without color. The ten black and white animated shorts first showing in the Auckland leg of the festival are as follows (do check out the trailers where available):
Child (2016) Viktor Stickel, Iring Freytag, Linus Stette
Germany – 9 minutes
Among the Black Waves (2016) Anna Budanova
Russia – 11 minutes
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Deus (2016) Rebecca Essler, Alexandra Battault
France – 5 minutes
RED RIDING HOOD REDUX (2017) Danijel Žeželj
Croatia – 12 minutes
[vimeo 188532312 w=640 h=360]
Radio Wave (2016) Miyajima Ryotaro
Japan – 3 minutes
Roger Ballen’s Theatre of Apparitions (2016) Emma Calder, Ged Haney
UK – 5 minutes
[vimeo 170479884 w=640 h=360]
O (2015) Erick Oh
USA – 3 minutes
[vimeo 137100802 w=640 h=360]
Tarpit (2016) Adam Leyland
UK – 4 minutes
The Walker (2016) Thibault Chollet
France – 6 minutes
[vimeo 137100802 w=640 h=360]
I Want Pluto to be a Planet Again (2016) Marie Amachoukeli, Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka
France – 12 minutes
[vimeo 186663376 w=640 h=360]