Toronto Animation Film Festival 2021

The Oddball Collection (Shorts 6)

Expired April 17, 2021 1:00 AM
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13 films + livestream in package
#hAPPy
The title “ #hAPPy” means two words “ Happy” and “APP”.
Speed
First impressions are so important.
7B
Little Artist has a block. When her trusty pencil let’s her down all seems hopeless but her amazing future self comes to the rescue!
THE MYSTERY OF LEONARDO
It's a 15 minutes short film about this genius from the 15th century whose number 5, like the 5 centuries of his dead, is the guideline of the film.
Incognito
A young girl sees the world around her as brittle, depraved and ugly.
Waste Away
Waste Away is a surreal stop motion short about a homeless woman who becomes pregnant with a fish.
CMBR
CMBR project is based on the data from the Planck space telescope of the European Space Agency.
Sexy Sushi
Life on a conveyor belt seems great for Sushi and his Topping friends.
Rise Up
The music video for the newest jazzy trip-hop track
Walks Alone
Video clip for 'Walks Alone' by Cows (from the album Cunning Stunts,1992).
The Organized Life
The Organized Life is a 3D animated short film, presenting the relationship between mother and son.
Mad in Xpain
In a post-apocalyptic Spain, different tribes survive, struggling to gain control of the only livelihood that exists, a very low quality red wine.
Blanket
Blanket is an exploration of feelings, moods and fears of a time in my (Inger Bierma's) life where i wasn't in the best place mentally. Trying to show this in an abstracted and subdued way, open for interpretation of the viewer.I wanted to make this film which discusses mental wellbeing, but in an abstracted way of storytelling which can still contribute to the conversation around mental health in an artistic way.
Q & A with Directors from The Oddball Collection (Shorts 6)
Stay tooned after Shorts 6 for an up close and personal Q & A Session with the Directors.
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Step right up! Step right up! Come see this collection of shorts that are sure to give you nightmares for days. We've got a side order of Sexy Sushi, one that's kafkaesque, plus evil nuns. Oh yes, what is an oddball collection without evil nuns. This program is not for the faint of heart. (14+)



Films Include:


#hAPPy| Hui-ching Tseng | Taiwan | 0:02:46 | Eureka Arts


Speed | Ben Mitchell | United Kingdom | 0:01:30 | Shy Guys Studios


7B | Eva MÃnnich |United Kingdom | United Kingdom | 0:00:31 | Studiocool.cool


THE MYSTERY OF LEONARDO | Manu Gomez | Belgium | 0:15:00 | mgv prod


Incognito | Júlia Lantos| Hungary| 0:07:35 | Budapest Metropolitan University


Waste Away | Elly Stern | United States | 0:04:49 | Independent film (Elly Stern)


CMBR | Martina Testen | 0:11:03 | Silent Records


Sexy Sushi | Calleen Koh Yee Lin | Singapore | 0:03:07 |


Rise Up | Marcel Borsboom | Netherlands | 0:05:15 | Marcel Borsboom


Walks Alone | Lior Shkedi | Israel | 0:03:01 | Lior Shkedi Design


The Organized Life | Yu Wang | United States | 0:02:29 | Patrick


Mad in Xpain | Ismael Martin | Spain | 0:13:00 | Los animantes


BLANKET| Inger Bierma | Germany | 0:04:30 | Inger Bierma

CMBR project is based on the data from the Planck space telescope of the European Space Agency. The Planck satellite has recorded the measurements of the coldest objects in the Universe, and has given the insight into the creation of the first major structures in which galaxies evolved later on. The beginnings of these structures can be seen in the cosmic microwave background radiation or the CMBR, the first image of the universe. By using the ESA measurements, we used a method of sonification and digital processing of data from the Planck satellite (the mapping of fluctuations in the CMBR) to convert the measurements into an ambient sound mass intertwined with randomized sequences of cosmological parameters. When listening to the results of sonification, we really listen to the data. The result of the conversion to the audio waveform with such a large amount of data opens a contemplative space for the time dimension of the past-future. CMBR is the “noise” signal and fills the entire universe. It is the oldest light, which can still be detected and that came into existence about 13.7 billion years ago. According to the standard cosmological model, the Universe was in a hot, dense state at the beginning, and for the first 380,000 years of existence, it was mostly filled with closely coupled plasma baryons and photons permeated with gravity driven pressure oscillations - sound waves. The imprint of these primordial sound waves remains as an echo of light in the CMBR, which is measured as small misalignment of the red and blue amplitude in the radiation of the universe black body, with a typical angle of one degree. The blue shades show for about ten millionths of a degree lower temperature, which corresponds to the lower energy density of radiation, while the red shades show elevated temperature corresponding to higher density. Basic and higher frequencies in the CMBR are controlled by cosmological parameters that shaped the universe, such as total density, relative proportions of the baryonic matter, dark matter, dark energy and expansion history. In recent years, the Planck satellite mapped the CMBR with an angular resolution with a precision of up to 5 minutes and temperature sensitivity of a few microkelvins in nine frequency bands. Sonification is used to convert the datasets of CMBR public release into an ambient sound mass intertwined with randomized sequences of cosmological parameters. Values for power as a function of wavelength are transformed into values for frequency as a function of time. The sound is generated by an algorithm which uses inverse FFT synthesis for converting the spectra of the CMBR fluctuations. The spectra is also sonified by remapping the values in a data stream for angular wave number, polarization and temperature anomalies to sonic parameters. With higher dimensionality to the rendering, there is also an increased probability for spontaneous and unexpected formation of auditory gestalts, wherein unrealized patterns in the data can emerge. Finally, the raw audio output from the sonificator is post-processed in an application which turns the extreme abstract patterns through the manipulation of frequency, intensity and time into a multi-layered sonorous structure.

  • Runtime
    11 minutes
  • Director
    Simon Šerc
  • Producer
    Silent Records