MIC Toi Rerehiko Film Programme | Living Room 2010

MIC Toi Rerehiko Film Programme for Living Room 2010

Living Room’s programme of live performance art, film and video for 2010 is curated around the atmosphere of surrealist artist Max Ernst’s book of collage Une Semaine de bonte from which this years theme “a week of goodness” derives its name. This years selection of animation films draws works to evoke the book’s surreal imagery by exploring imagination, dreamscapes and the architecture of the mind.

The Birth of Brainfly
5?54”
Dir: Nandita Kumar
A journey through and into Self, the constructed labyrinths of Ego, and the creative transcendence of the mind’s physical limitations that charts a surreal course of a psyche’s evolution within the invisible landscape of the mind.

Sleeper
3?59”
Dir: Craig Gladding
A young girl walks the borderline between the real and surreal into a dangerous world of gods and creatures in a dark fable that warns us about being on the wrong side of the tracks.

The Moth
4?23”
Dir: Campbell Farquhar
A tale of sleeplessness told with animation, dance and painted light.

Not Your Keytar
0?48”
Dir: Sally Tran
A cute little tune is hijacked by a young virtuoso who has some interesting ideas about how the composition can be improved.

Speekrlust
1?32”
Dir: Matt Pitt
An anime inspired striptease that audiophiles will find particulary tantalizing.

Lively, Lovely
2?49”
Dir: Eve Gordan
In an animation that recalls a turn of the century peep show, the gorgeous half nude Betty Boop’s legs appear suspended in space as she multiplies while kicking her way through a cheeky burlesque to the opening notes of “Five Card Shuffle”.

Unorthadox My Balance Sheet
8?44”
Dir: Sally Tran
An atypical caricature of typical workplace ecology, where even the banal becomes surreal, the only way out is through the paper shredder and even the lunchroom is a hazard.

Graham
1?14”
Dir: Paul and Kahra Scott-James
A man turned workstation automaton struggles against the nine till five gambit of slow grinding time and system failures.

Geisha Winter
0?51”
Dir: Ed Davis
A mesmerizing figure dances in the snow to a haunting tune.

Nystagmus
1?03”
Dir: Alistair Cheyne
A dark outsider gathers power and then heads into the city to wreak havoc.

Phlegmat’ic
1?32”
Dir: Gareth O’Brian & Sam Webber
We follow our hero through chaotic and shifting dreamscape as he gathers the supplies he needs to escape his surreal environment.

RIP
1?34”
Dir: Janette Goodey
This animation has been made in response to the music ‘Gnarled’ by Claire Nash. The textures of sound are explored  through paper and stop motion, 2D and 3D drawings. The process of creation creates it’s own story.

Mondo Nuovo
6?41”
Dir: Shona McCullagh
Fleshy shadow puppet hands unfold to become new bodies that merge and emerge with one another creating creatures that appear to be either reproducing, or eating themselves.

Departure
3?29”
Dir: S.J. Ramir
Using visual distortion as a tool, and accompanied by uneasy soundtracks, Ramir creates a world where emptiness and mystery permeate from each frame.