As part of the collaboration with the University College of Volda the festival will include Symposium: Animation and Sciences to highlight how animation can help visualisation of advanced science. The Symposium is followed by a film programme with a wide selection of animated films that try to explain different processes of research and science. The programme consists of 11 films from the USA, Croatia, Norway, and the UK, which are often a result of in-depth collaborations between scientists and animators. The films are surprisingly entertaining and are good examples of how different animation artist solve their task to communicated advanced sciences. Age limit: 12

The Diabetes films are four animated films made for the Norwegian Diabetes Association. They are produced in co-production with the I Like Healthy Food films. The advantage of animation is that you can simplify and explain concepts more effectively. Here the challenge was to explain the differences between types 1 and 2 diabetes, and communicate how to best prevent and / or live with diabetes.
The visual language is simple, but worked through to be able to be shown to people from different cultures without creating confusion or misunderstandings. Stian Sydsæter is an illustrator, animator, and storyboard artist at Animaskin.

Nutrition and Diabetes

On August 6, 1945, there were two suns over Hiroshima. One was the dawn of a new day. The second was the nuclear bomb code-named "Little Boy". Filmmaker and designer Kristian Pedersen graduated with an M.A. in visual communication from Bergen Academy of Art and Design. Kristian has developed a distinct visual signature and narrative style, and his films have been featured at festivals for film, animation, literature, and poetry film. He was awarded Goethe Institute's Film Prize at Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin in 2014. In 2016, he made the acclaimed short film Bøygen ("The Boyg"), that premiered in Annecy and was selected for The Animation Show of Shows.

Little Boy

Through using strong design to portray a difficult subject and telling the story using animated metaphors, the filmmakers have created both a beautiful work of art as well as an effective carrier of an important message. This film was unanimously decided upon as the winner Winner of Golden Gunnar for best-commissioned film at Fredrikstad Animation Festival 2015. Hanne Berkaak is an acclaimed illustrator and director based in Oslo, Norway. Berkaak holds a M.A. in communication, art and design from Royal College of Art, London, and a B.A. in animation from Parson's School of Design, New York.

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Sexy yetis, scientists and neon colours collide in Better Humans. A kaleidoscopic romp through the possibilities of gene editing and body augmentation. One of a 7-part series commissioned by Massive Science on the lasting impact of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Moth Studio is an award-winning animation studio based in London. Working in 2D and 3D animation they create work that has a vivid and distinct voice whether it’s for commercials, short films, music videos, or branded content.

Better Humans

More than three thousand insects appear in this film each for a single frame. As the colours glow and change across their bodies and wings it is as if the genetic programme of millions of years is taking place in a few minutes. It is a rampant creation that seems to defy the explanations of evolutionists and fundamentalists. It is like a mescalin dream of Charles Darwin’s. Paul Bush is a filmmaker most well-known for experimental stop-frame animation. He has won many awards and his films have been shown in festivals, cinemas, galleries, and on television all around the world.

While Darwin sleeps

The remarkable secret life of invisible interplanetary magnetic fields revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries in man’s visible environment. All action takes place around the NASA Space Sciences Laboratories, set to recordings of space scientists excitedly describing their visualisation techniques. Semiconductor is UK artist duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Over twenty years they have become known for an innovative body of work, which explores the material nature of our world and how we experience it through the lenses of science and technology. They occupy a unique position in the art world, blending, in philosophically compelling ways, experimental moving image techniques, scientific research and digital technologies.

Magnetic Movie

Sleep. Do we get enough? The latest developments in circadian biology research are uncovering the detrimental effects that a lack of sleep can have on our well-being. 
Artist Ellie Land and scientist Professor Peter Oliver embarked on a two-year conversation about the links now being discovered between sleep and mental health. This film is the result. Ellie Land is an experienced animation director and producer. With a passion for using animation to communicate complex or difficult subjects, Ellie designs and directs award-winning short films, segments for feature films and commercial projects. Her work is renowned for using emotive storytelling with compelling design.

Sleepless

This short animated film is based on the work done in Dr. Serge Mostowy’s lab on septin assembly in cells, using a zebrafish model. Lab members describe the intricate sub-cellular septin dynamics and structure. Their explanatory drawings, and discussion between scientists and filmmaker about how they see the research, are incorporated into the animation. Sam Moore is a UK-based, international award-winning animation director. She loves the joyfulness and eclectic nature of animation. No one ever finds animation intimidating, and yet it can convey complex ideas to a wide audience in an engaging way.

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