Oska Bright Film Festival 2024: Animation
Our animation screening is back and better than ever with a huge range of styles and themes. Watch out for a paper cut-out that comes to life, bubble baths and miniature model wonderlands.
In this screening:
Rob D Punarinta
Shea Sandbach, UK • 1 minute 10 secs
Originally a comic strip, this animation develops the characters further with the opening sequence for a hypothetical TV series.
Cloud Boy: An Autistic Journey
Kieran Firth-Bernard, UK • 3 mins 40 secs
Cloud Boy journeys through his insecurities growing up. As college approaches, he decides to become more independent.
Paper
Reuben Gayle, UK • 1 minute 57 secs
A paper cut-out made by a child comes to life overnight. The cut-out takes the boy on an adventure to find his passion.
Dominic’s Tales
George Radojčič, Magdalena Hejzlarová, Czech Republic • 4 mins 21 secs
Dominic loses his beloved wife, sails the sea, goes through prison and escapes from the plots of his enemies.
Joie
Hing Ang, Veronica Wain, Australia • 6 mins 35 secs
Monsieur Noir’s classroom at Jacaranda High is far from his beloved homeland. He longs for just one fluent conversation.
Everyday
James Murphy, Ireland • 1 minute 59 secs
Monochrome video meditations of simple human movement against static objects.
Mr. Copycat | Mr Men 50th Anniversary Tribute
Kieran Firth-Bernard, UK • 9 mins 20 secs
Mr Copycat travels to Paris to meet new people and taste food, but nobody can understand his manner of copying people.
Sensory Chaos
Oliver Mariager, UK • 5 mins
Oliver navigates distruptive sensory stimuli and his own inner demon in his biggest challenge yet.
Unscarfed
Anita Bruneburg, Germany • 9 mins 2 secs
Three humans serve a giantess in a giant-ruled land. They try to hide their true feelings.
Soap Opera
Cameron Carr, UK • 1 minute 12 secs
Based on childhood memories of bubble baths and imagination, every frame is animated with grains of sand.
Willow’s Tale
Linda Malik, USA • 4 mins
A creative black cat lives a life indoors. Her daydreams take her around the world!
Butch
Adam Cox, UK • 3 mins 8 secs
A man with a secret - on the full moon, all is revealed...
Sugar
Cameron Carr, UK • 3 mins 48 secs
On Christmas Eve, two completely different neighbours want the same thing.
Concrete Sky
Cameron Carr, UK • 1 minute 36 secs
A man is shackled to his apartment, and he wishes to be free.
The Gift
Gemma Rigg, UK • 45 secs
A stop motion story about friendship, based on real events.
The Holiday Maker
Harry Mead, UK • 7 mins 4 secs
After she can’t afford to go on her dream holiday, Emily builds a miniature model wonderland of her desired destinations.