FOX AND THE WHALE

An independently produced and self-financed animated short Film by Robin Joseph. Released in 2016, the film was short listed for the 90th Oscars and is a nominee for the 2018 Canadian Screen Awards. It is a tale of longing and discovery about a curious fox who goes in search of an elusive whale.

THE ICEBERG

Filmed from the perspective of the Seagull, this live-footage made by CRAC, in collaboration with the French film studio, 11h45, unveils the spatial dimension of the “Iceberg” housing complex in Aarhus (Denmark) and its relationship with the surrounding docklands development area, a former industrial port transformed into a lively new city district.

THE PROPHET

Penguins slide and somersault down the sloping rooftops of the “Iceberg” housing complex in another animated film created by studio 11h45.

THE TREE OF LIFE

A film by Yu Hsuan Chen who graduated this year from ECA in Animation. This short story is about the sincere internal struggle of a young man who notices some physical changes every time he visits his ageing father. His father adopts a new hobby by gardening and builds his own glass house in the backyard, making him happy and relaxed in his old age.

GROWTH

A film by Calum Main who also graduated this year from ECA in Animation. The film follows a lonely inventor on a floating island searching for a purpose to his life which has become mundane and repetitive. Breaking the inventors cycle, a mysterious character appears on the island leading to the inventor digging up the past in order to break the monotonous cycle he finds himself in.

UP

Carl Fredricksen as a boy wanted to explore South America and find the forbidden Paradise Falls. About 64 years later he gets to begin his journey along with a Boy Scout named Russel by lifting his house with thousands of balloons. On their journey they make many new friends including a talking dog and figure out that someone has evil plans. Carl soon realizes that this evildoer is his childhood idol. Will they be able to defeat him and find Paradise Falls?

In 2010, this film won two Oscars for Best Animated Feature Film of the Year and Best Original Music Score. Along with the Golden Globe, Academy Awards and a BAFTA for the Best Animated Feature Film.