Step into the newly decorated cinema space at Hidden Door, find a space and settle down and you’ll experience some of our best animated short films from last year’s Edinburgh Short Film Festival. There’s some outstanding international (and local) animation and possibly a visiting film-maker or two to interrogate!

Edinburgh Short Film Festival Animation at Hidden Door 2017

We’re excited to screen fantasy animation from Greece in the shape of AURELIA by Christos Bourantas & Kreon Krionas, an enigmatic fantasy mystery that takes a journey to reveal some secrets of the city at night in the shape of a silent jelly-fish invasion.Another favourite from last year was the surrealist and William Blake influenced HOUR OF DREAMS, some amazing Mexican Claymation and stunningly realised bizarre, dream-like otherworldy fantasy.

Graeme Cassell’s witty and charming web series short BRUAR is also screening, although less than 2 minutes long, it packs a lot of offbeat humour into its 90 seconds, the eponymous hero is a frog-shaped, loquacious doorstop with a fixation on good manners!

The SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS features the voice of Liam Cunningham and describes a Yeats poem, influenced by Gaelic folkloric legend in elegiac style. It’s puppetry is delicate and wondrous and the mythic world is beautifully rendered.

Edinburgh Short Film Festival Animation at Hidden Door 2017

Federico Kempe’s  self-referential THIS IS NOT AN ANIMATION follows a group of hyper Canadian animators on a joint project and hilariously captures the tensions and angst of artists unable to work together due to personality clashes.  THREE TALES OF ALEXANDRA is a starkly illustrated and occasionally grisly re-imagining of Aesop’s Fables by Natasza Cetner. It’s dark narratives are matched by the film’s intense, black and white artwork.

LOCKBOX by Edinburgh-based animators Pete Cotter and Glen Johnston supplies a sentimental and stylish CGI coda to the evening, its short and heart-rendering story is both touching and beautifully-realised.

Edinburgh Short Film Festival Animation at Hidden Door 2017

 

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