BATON ROUGE – The Red Stick International Animation Festival announces the finalists for its 2008 Best of the Fest Awards. The winners will be announced on the last day of the festival, Saturday, April 19, at 10 a.m. in the Manship Theatre.
Red Stick, which will take place April 16-19 in downtown Baton Rouge’s Arts District, received 207 films from 27 countries for this year’s animation competition. The festival accepted entries from Aug. 1 through Dec. 17. The festival will award work in the following categories:
• Animated Short Film – Student
• Animated Short Film – Professional
• Music Video
• Scientific Visualization
• Animation for Young Audiences
• Experimental Animation/Visual Music – Student
• Experimental Animation/Visual Music – Professional
The finalists for these categories are listed below. Please keep in mind the categories Scientific Visualization, Animation for Young Audiences and Experimental Animation/Visual Music-Student have only one finalist. These categories are not included in this list so as not to reveal the winner.
• Animated Short Film – Student
Tong
Directed by: David Cellier, Florent Limouzin, Arnaud Real (FRANCE)
Ecole Supérieure des métiers Artistiques (ESMA)
Synopsis: A small Chinese scientist fortuitously invents a machine that disintegrates. This invention will be used to save the humanity of a planetary threat. Unfortunately the machine will not function as envisioned …
Replay
Directed by: Anthony Voisin, Zakaria Boumediane, Fabien Felicite-Zulma, Camille Delmeule (FRANCE)
Ecole Supérieure des métiers Artistiques (ESMA)
Synopsis: In a dry world where oxygen is missing and human being have to live underground, Lana, a young woman, lives alone with her little brother, Theo. She takes care of him. Everyday she brings him things from the surface of the earth to buy them. One day, she brings a lot of things and Theo is attracted by one of them. Disobedient, Theo takes the object and goes to look for the mysterious place where his sister found it. He will do a special meeting.
Simulacra
Directed by: Tatchapon Lertwirojkul (USA)
School of Visual Arts
Synopsis: In the vast galaxy, there is one robot planet where every natural life was extinct, where only machine and robot live in that planet. One day, a robot found a piece of organic life existing in his world. He's very excited about his discovery and wants to safeguard that organic piece. Unfortunately, that piece is in the dangerous and restricted area on his planet. Finally, he decides to risk and save that piece. Then his adventure begins.
Home
Directed by: Matt Faust (USA)
Louisiana State University
Synopsis: This film is a bittersweet portrayal of a house in Chalmette, Louisiana that was flooded by Katrina and then mistakenly torn down a year later. The central theme of this video is the essence of home and the feeling of loss that occurs when home becomes a memory. This loss may occur in extreme and abrupt forms as a result of a disaster like Katrina, but more often it is experienced in a subtler manner a result of the inevitable change that comes with time. And while time and place may meet again in such a special way as to form a new home for some, that first experience of home must come to an end and the life that happened there can only exist as memories. The universality of this theme is conveyed in a way that detached observers of Katrina can relate to so that they may see beyond the forensic analysis of Katrina’s aftermath and gain a deeper understanding of what has been lost by so many.
• Animated Short Film – Professional
Insight
Directed by: Louise Bergholt Sorensen (DENMARK)
The Animation Workshop
Synopsis: A homeless woman who lives in an alley meets a girl that looks at her differently than other people.
Une petite histoire de l'image animée
Directed by: Joris Clerté (FRANCE)
Doncvoilà & Mikros Image
Synopsis: Discover finally the real story of the animated image! From Plato's cavern to Harry Potter passing by King Kong, magical special effects to digital VFX, we explain EVERYTHING...in 3 minutes.
Raccoon & Crawfish
Directed by: Cal Waller, Karabo Legwaila, Peter Hale, Shaun Foster, Heather Carpini,
Mark Edwards (USA)
Synopsis: 'Raccoon & Crawfish'' uses modern technology to tell an ancient Oneida Indian legend that has been passed down through countless generations of storytellers. Like many Oneida legends, this story uses characters from the animal kingdom to point a moral - in the case, the dangers of boasting and deception. A hungry raccoon searches for food and finds a crawfish on a quest for glory. Their battle will decide the fate between an ego full of pride or a belly full of food.
• Music Video
Whatcha Got?
Directed by: Rogier Wieland (NETHERLANDS)
Synopsis: The music video for the song "Whatcha got" by Dutch rockabilly band Trenchcoat is a stop-motion animation entirely cut out of paper and cardboard.
Niege
Directed by: Stéphane Berla (FRANCE)
LN Production
Synopsis: The last Dionysos video mixing animation, real shots and images of archives. The song is a tribute to the disappeared mom of the singer Mathias. The video tells the story of a puppet which tries to escape from a snowball into which the marionette’s been imprisoned for years.
• Experimental Animation/Visual Music – Professional
Day Dream
Directed by: Bo Wang (CHINA)
Beijing HUTOON Animation LTD.Company
Synopsis: An idea comes from the author's idea of a documentary that cannot be realized: a person in the street shooting at will, tracking his/her life trajectory until he/she encounters another person, which leads to another shooting.
Mercurius
Directed by:Brett Battey (USA)
DeMontfort University (UK)
Synopsis: Both the audio and visual components of the work have no cuts or edits. What we hear is a continual transformation of a one-synthesis process, just as what we see is the continuous animation of nearly 12,000 individual points. Spirals can symbolize unity and transcendence, but they can also suggest a spider’s web or a destructive vortex. Mercurius’ ambiguity combines multiple sensibilities of the spiral. If there is a unity here, it doesn’t express itself in a balanced mandala form, but through the underlying process that exhibits a multitude of seemingly-conflicting states. Hence the title: Mercurius (Latin for Mercury) is the swift messenger, a symbol of the volatile and unstable.
For more information on the festival, please visit www.redstickfestival.org .
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The fourth annual Red Stick International Animation Festival will take place April 16-19, and will feature two film premieres. Santa vs. Claus, a holiday-themed movie, will have its world premiere at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 19 at the Manship Theatre.
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Upcoming Lectures:
• The 2008 Red Stick International Animation Festival will feature many guest lectures and workshops April 16-19 in downtown Baton Rouge. For a schedule of events and information on the speakers, please visit the Red Stick Web site, http://redstickfestival.org/.
• Digital Media Speakers Series: Keith N. Hampton, Assistant Professor, Annenberg School For Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, will deliver a speech on the topic, “New Media And Social Networks In The Parochial And Public Realms: Building Community In Place” on Wednesday, April 16 at 10 a.m. in the Manship School Holliday Forum in the Journalism Building.
• CCT Colloquium Series: Tim Warburton, from Rice University, will speak on the topic, “Advances In Wave Propagation With The Discontinuous Galerkin Method” on Friday, April 18 at 11:30 a.m. in Johnston Hall room 338.
• IT Eminent Lecture Series: Anita K. Jones, professor at the University Of Virginia will deliver a speech titled, “CyberSecurity - Serving Society Badly” on Friday, April 18 at 1 p.m. in Coats Hall room 143. The event is co-sponsored by CCT and the Department of Computer Science.
• Special Guest Lecture: Yong Gan, Candidate for the LONI Computational Scientist position from the University Of Missouri-Columbia, will present a lecture titled, “Model-based Simulation Of The Piercing Process In Piezo-driven Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection” on Monday, April 21 at 10:30 a.m. in Johnston Hall, room 338.
• IMPORTANT: Anyone organizing a lecture OR EVENT should first check with Karen Jones for available dates to avoid having multiple lectures/events on the same day. Also, coordinate with your Focus Area lead so that CCT can get the best attendance possible. There may be open slots in a standard lecture series that needs to be filled.
Please Note:
• All CCT faculty, staff and students are invited to attend a special performance of "Spontaneous Fantasia" during the Red Stick Festival on Friday evening, April 18, at 7 p.m. in the Louisiana Art and Science Museum. "Spontaneous Fantasia" represents a brand new art form where the one-hour animated program won't exist until the artist creates it live in front of the audience. J. Walt will create original animation, set to music, and project it onto the Irene W. Pennington Planetarium's dome-shaped screen. A wine and cheese reception will follow the show. Please R.S.V.P. kjones@cct.lsu.edu if you wish to attend.
• The next ALL CCT meeting is Wednesday, April 23 at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338. ALL CCT Meetings for the spring and summer are scheduled as follows: May 21, June 18 and July 16. All meetings are held at 3 p.m. in 338 Johnston Hall. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend.
• CCT will host an end-of-the-year crawfish boil for faculty, staff and students on Monday, May 12 at 4:30 p.m. in the Johnston Hall courtyard. If you wish to attend, you MUST RSVP to Karen Jones at kjones@cct.lsu.edu by THURSDAY, MAY 8 and confirm whether you want crawfish, a hot dog or a vegetarian burger. One guest per person, please.
• If you have any news for the CCT Weekly, please e-mail PR Manager Kristen Sunde directly at ksunde@cct.lsu.edu.
Upcoming Grant Deadlines:
Note: Please see the CCT deadline Web site, as many NSF deadlines are listed here: http://www.cct.lsu.edu/about/grants/deadlines/events.php
Management and Operation of the Virtual Astronomical Observatory
April 22, 2008 10:00 a.m.
At Most $5,500,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08537/nsf08537.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
Computer Systems Research (CSR)
April 23, 2008 10:00 a.m.
At Least $450,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08538/nsf08538.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT)
April 24 2008 10:15 am
A Portion Of $12,600,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08540/nsf08540.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
Publish Date:
04-15-2008
