This stunning and immersive programme takes us on an animated journey inside the rich mental states of unique characters.
![Solar Walk](/assets/resized/sm/upload/kw/89/f5/6m/Solar%20Walk%20-%20Reka%20Bucsi-0-800-0-450-crop.jpg?k=fcc0c25258)
![Roundabout](/assets/resized/sm/upload/vs/vr/cf/4c/Roundabout%20-%20Noah%20Gavrich-0-960-0-450-crop.jpg?k=f61b860efd)
![Pedestrian Pastry](/assets/resized/sm/upload/64/ej/sp/jn/Pedestrian%20Pastry%20-%20Jorn%20Leeuwerink-0-960-0-450-crop.jpg?k=89dafdcc48)
Screened as part of NZIFF 2019
Animation NOW! Invert – Characters
Aug 11 | |
The power of animation is at its peak when deployed in the name of bizarre characters and uncommon souls. Animation can physicalise inner lives in a way that mere words or story arcs have no hope of emulating. To take what is inside a character’s mind and mould it into form, colour and motion brings a unique dimension to whatever a film has to say.
This programme begins with Reruns, the last film made by Rosto, one of the true masters of the medium, who passed away earlier this year after a brief battle with cancer. His passing deprives the world of a true animation maestro. Rosto had a feature in development with his producers, Autour de Minuit, and we can only wonder what would have been.
The fourth in a quartet of films which traverse the immersive, mental cartography of a world that formed in Rosto’s dreams over a period of years, Reruns was the original spark for Invert – Characters.
Other highlights include Herman Brown Is Feeling Down, a vivid and immersive study of anxiety, animated using ink on film; the very strange Turbine, a showcase of intricate line work and surreal imagery; and Roundabout, a darkly comic exploration of the birth–death cycle.
Reruns 2018
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A visceral trip through a sunken maze of memories, dreams and constructed visions.
Bless You! 2017
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The protocols of sneezing and nose-blowing in public – in glorious technicolour.
Where’s the Butter, Betty 2018
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The bloody butter is around here somewhere, Betty, it has to be.
Herman Brown is Feeling Down 2018
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Herman Brown has every reason to be happy. Herman Brown has every reason to be unhappy. How to decide?
Turbine 2018
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Arriving home, a wife discovers that her husband’s face has been replaced by an airplane turbine and he’s fallen in love with their kitchen.
Roundabout 2018
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A darkly comic reminder that life is really just driving around in circles until your particular record comes to a stop.
Long Meg and Her Daughters 2018
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In a strange, faraway land, Long Meg contemplates nature and all its wondrous mutations and oddities.
Bavure 2018
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The evolution of a human being, from his creation to his awareness of the mysteries of the universe, portrayed in thick oil paint
Pedestrian Pastry 2017
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They are pedestrians and they should not – they must not – lose their hats.
Solar Walk 2018
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A post-imagination tour de force following a journey through a landscape of softly unfolding hallucinogenic change.