animation nation 2008
This year's ANIMATION NATION 2008 [www] will be held from Oct 24-Nov 2 in Singapore - featuring animation feature films, shorts, seminars and workshops. Organized by the Singapore Film Society [www] - feature-length animated films include Nina Paley's SITA SINGS THE BLUES, Production I.G's TACHIGUI: THE AMAZING LIVES OF THE FAST FOOD GRIFTERS (makers of Mindgame) and Studio 4°C's GENIUS PARTY (a fab prelude to Anime Festival Asia's Genius Party Beyond - the sequel to Genius Party :p). CLICK THRU to peep some trailers I've rustled up online (for select films which I'll luv to catch :p) ... and perhaps if I ain't as broke as the previous years (*sigh*) I may yet find the opportunity to sate thy animation-'desires' :)
[26 Oct 08 / 7pm / Alliance Francaise de Singapour]
[Trailer]
STORY: A Hindu goddess, the leading lady of India’s epic The Ramayana and a dutiful wife who follows her husband Rama on a 14 year exile to a forest, only to be kidnapped by an evil king from Sri Lanka. Despite remaining faithful to her husband, Sita is put through many tests. Nina (the filmmaker Nina Paley herself) is an artist who finds parallels in Sita’s life when her husband – in India on a work project - decides to break up their marriage and dump her via email. Three hilarious Indonesian shadow puppets with Indian accents – linking the popularity of the Ramayana from India all the way to the Far East - narrate both the ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the epic.
[27 Oct 08 / 9pm / Alliance Francaise de Singapour]
[ 2 Nov 08 / 7pm / Gallery Theatre, National Museum of Singapore]
[Trailer]
STORY: "Tachigui" literally means "stand-and-eat." It’s a word that may find rough English equivalent in the expression "fast food." In vastly urbanized Japan, everybody has experienced tachigui or fast food in his/her life, in a broader meaning that includes not only global hamburger giants, but also cheap and popular soba stalls or gyudon (beef and rice bowl) restaurant chains.
[27 Oct 08 / 7pm / Alliance Francaise de Singapour]
[Trailer]
STORY: Dark city, dark faces, dark freakish characters with peculiar phobias and philias. A new feature length animated movie with touches of horror and plenty of black humour; Tales of human loneliness, weird events and strange people, that surrounds us all the time. It would be light years far from Disney and very far indeed from The Simpsons. It would actually be very far from anything you’ve ever seen.
[1 Nov 08 / 4.15pm / Genexis Theatre (Level 5), Fusionopolis]
[*Seminar: 1 Nov 08 / 2pm / Genexis Theatre (Level 5), Fusionopolis]
[Intro]
STORY: In 2041 C.E., the first space colony was made on the moon after a freak cataclysm devastated human civilisation on Earth. The republic of the Moon created a doomed megapolis known as Eden. 226 years later, in the year 2267 C.E., a boy named Takeru who was born on the Moon, spent his life engaging in hovercraft races against rival street gangs of the 23rd century. This leads him and two of his friends to discover a terrible secret on the fate of the Earth, and the origins of Eden.
[27 Oct 08 / 4.15pm / Gallery Theatre, Genexis Theatre (Level 5), Fusionopolis]
[29 Oct 08 / 9pm / Gallery Theatre, National Museum of Singapore]
STORY: An anthology of seven short animated films from Studio 4°C.
