The 7th China Independent Animation Film Forum is holding in Yushe Entertaiment Space this Thursday to Sunday.

Opening Program - Metaphor of Metamorphoses

Nowadays, independent animation film has gradually taken off its role of an entertaining show, marched forward to spread its branch in the fields of philosophical thinking and psychoanalysis. In this gradual evolution, modern humanities, for example, Franz Kafka's absurdist fiction, Sigmond Freud and his psycoanalysis theory, Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy, were cited into the expression of independent animation. Proof of fact, animation have expressive power in these fields, with its natural character of abstraction and subjective tendency. She easily gets rid of the restriction from the the surface, strikes straight to the everchanging conciousness. If absurdity is the nature of the world, then the art of animation was born with the gift of expressing absurdity. Taking this program, we walk out of the mundane, dive into the unknown where only observed by the animators.

Theme Statement

Metamorphoses is the most unique language animation owns. Apart from the stillness taking from the film shooting and canvas painting, animation practices freedom in the dimensions of time and space. Through metamorphoses, the artist recreate their subjective world, often closer to the reality, to complete a metaphor for life.

Peeling off the missionary purpose in the morderndays that people applied to animation, even peeling off the restriction of cinema language, what's the actual core of animation? What kind of animation represent beauty, in other word, what kind of animation held up the aesthetic persuit? With the help of this year's event, we would like to discuss those questions in depth.

'Metaphor of Metamorphoses' the 7th CIAFF

Program:

Metaphor of Metamorphoses

11 representative films that are mostly related to the theme, including animators from Japan, France, Russia, Canada, China，especially the new masterpiece of the Japanese animation master Yamamura Koji—Notes on Monstropedia. Let the audience have the opportunity to go out of their daily lives and walk into the unknown world observed by the animators.

Competition

Finalized 45 works from 454 outstanding short films submitted from around the world and were selected for the CIAFF. They will be divided into four sessions.

Special Screenings

Austria Tricky Women International Women's Animation Film Festival

In animation industry today, women directors' works are becoming more and more important. Their focus is more on individuals, emotions, sensitivities, and details. Putting together women's works can bring a very special experience. The Tricky Women International Women's Animation Film Festival in Austria is giving the audience such an great opportunity.

Croatian Animation Films

The Sagreb Animation Festival, the window of the Eastern and Western cultures that was born under the US-Soviet Cold War. Today's Croatia is no longer the front line of the two camps, but the creativity of the animators continues here.

La Poudriere Animation Film School

Launched in 1999, La Poudriere Animation School, an important animation education institution in France, helps young animators to develop their artistic talents. In the past 20 years, it has delivered more than 100 graduates who are determined to work as an animation director for the animation industry. CIAFF featured 17 classic graduation animations this time.

Focus: Tian Xiaolei

Tian Xiaolei, an independent artist who uses 3D animation as a medium, is involved in animation, installation art, games, etc. His works use the deformation characteristics of 3D animation, virtual and realistic stitching techniques to complete his technology. The ridicule and metaphor of the domesticated human society are highly compatible with the theme "Metaphor of Metamorphoses".

Forum

This section screens 16 works from 454 submitted works. Although they are not included in the competition unit, the jury believes that they are still worthy of attention.

About CIAFF

China Independent Animation Film Forum is the first Chinese non-official, non-for profit animation festival art project curates and held by private organizations and individuals. CIAFF aims to shine public spotlight on individual creatives who make animated films across different fields and industries. We wish to elicit the spirit of artistic expression and creativity among any and everything animated, acknowledging and aggregating a broader sense of independent animation in the form of audio visual production, and promoting the original power of animation production in China.

Initiated by Pi San in 2011, CIAFF as an annual event has been successfully held for six years.
Since 2015, CIAFF has introduced the collaborative curation scheme, inviting different independent animators, scholars, and curators each year to jointly organize and plan an event.

Screening Schedule: Please see the picture below.

Languages: Various

Subtitle: Chinese and English

Location: Yushe Entertaiment Space

Ticket: Buy at the door

Price: 45 per screening

Contact: Annie Song 18811336253