Animated Eruptions, Exultations and Ordinary Madness

Film Synopsis

Animated Eruptions, Exultations and Ordinary Madness
Revelations essential celebration of animation showcases a variety of recent works ranging from hi-tech digital abstractions through to classic stop-motion wildness, surrealist experimental works and Merry Melodies inspired cartoon capers.

Gluteus Maximus: The Man Behind Mankind’s Behind
Directors: Mick Elliott & Brendan Cook
Country: Australia
Year: 2009
Duration: 3.56 minutes
A comic exploration of bottoms, one for fans of Terry Gilliam’s Python era animation.
 
Reach
Director: Luke Randall
Year: 2008
Duration: 3.30 minutes
A beautifully realised animation about ambition and the desire to see just a little more.
 
The Cascade And Its Dust
Director: Stefan Pautze
Country: Germany
Year: 2008
Duration: 4.35 minutes
An abstract experiment of colour, motion and sound.
Australian Premiere
 
The Not So Great Eugene Green
Director: Michael Hill
Country: Australia
Year: 2009
Duration: 13.10 minutes
A man who dreams of entertaining people with his unique talent meets a woman with a strange laugh.
 
Lash
Director: Elka Kerkhofs
Country: Australia
Year: 2009
Duration: 5.30 minutes
A tale of a love both eternal and forbidden, drawing on the dream logic of the symbolists and surrealists. 
Australian Premiere
 
The Funk
Director: Cris Jones
Country: Australia
Year: 2008
Duration: 7 minutes
A story about a man who wakes up in a weird mood, and whose day doesn’t improve.
 
Life’s A Witch
Director: Cam Rossiter
Country: Australia
Year: 2009
Duration: 27 minutes
A unique, biographical study of Latrina, the lonely, green witch with a secret past.
 
Ink
Director: Justine Wallace
Country: Australia
Year: 2009
Duration: 11 minutes
A lost toy, a lost childhood, and a girl marking the streets with graffiti in a search for both.
World premiere