STUDENT SHORTS SPOTLIGHTS
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This year’s Student Shorts Spotlights, an adjunct to our annual Student Shorts Competition, shares the impressive work coming from three distinct schools of training related to digital motion art creation, as taught by world class artists. Relentless Melt 23, Digital Dialect and Land of Post Photo are programs curated by Max Hattler (Hong Kong), Faiyaz Jafri (NYC) and Snow Yunxue Fu (NYC) representing coursework created in 2021 from three major institutions that offer distinct training in digital witchery. This year’s program raises the bar even higher, proving that the pandemic has released a ton of pent-up creativity.
Supernova will host a live discussion with our three distinguished instructors directly following the program launch on the 11th. This is an exceptional opportunity for everyone to understand why the field of digital media is expanding and so very explosive. Advance registration is required, sign up now with link below.
Student Shorts Spotlight No. 1
Digital Dialect - Parsons New School Student Animations
This program is a collection of films created for the course Digital Dialect at Parsons School of Design in New York, taught by Faiyaz Jafri. Students created computer-generated animations with digital readymades and procedural principles instead of following the traditional educational route constrained by the conventional production pipeline. It is an investigation of digital aesthetics and an embrace of CGI materiality, using the digital realm as an autonomous tool.
Untitled #7 by Yufei Wang
One eye on the exit sign by Anjali Nair @navel_grazr
Tamgaly by Ardak Mukanova @ardakmukanova
Exist by Nishra Ranpura
I’ll Tell You I’m Fine by Becky Greubel @beckyg.design
Acab by Tee Topor @bozobill
Pyon by My Linh Le
Gone 2 Buy Cigs by Maya Filmeridis
The Revolutionary is a Doomed Man by Weijing Xiao @weijingxiaony
Student Shorts Spotlight No. 2
Land of the Post Photo - Animations from NYU Tisch School of the Arts
A showcase featuring selected 3D moving image artworks by students of Professor Snow Yunxue Fu in the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University Tisch School of the Art. The paradigm of the indexical photographic image has come into a new era – a computer generated one. Maya 3D software, typically used to create commercial games and industry animations, are used by the students for making experimental computer imaging as a visual art form. Moving from the 2-dimensional to 3-dimensional imaging, and ultimately to the four-dimensional or time-based, students evolve their abilities to utilize aspects of light and dark, form, rhythm, color, proportion and volume but in terms of a post photographic discourse. In the screening program, students examine the broad cultural, philosophical, and theoretical implications of CG imaging for making work in this medium.
Ad Astra by Ming Shiu
Euphoria Surrealism Brutalism in Digital Spaces by Melody Ball
Casa de la Vida by Aldi Jaramillo
Dream house by Audrey Cibel
01001001 00100000 01000100 01001111 by Jiaqi Liu
The Flesh Remembers by Liz Speiser
Solaris by Tonia Zhang
Pas de Deux by Fiona Beswick
Log on. by Isabelle Beauchamp
Anachronism by Jean Zamora
Metamorphosis by Tony Wang
Planet Dust by Andres Guerrero
The Journey by Cydney Blitzer
Machine Breathing by Devan Marz
Nuclear by Grace Redman
Wild Rift by Yvette Fu
Student Shorts Spotlight No. 1
Relentless Melt 23 - Animations from School of Creative Media, City University of HK
Relentless Melt presents a program of fresh abstract and experimental animations from Hong Kong. The films were directed and animated by undergraduate students from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong in the class of German abstract animation artist Max Hattler. Relentless Melt is a Hong Kong-based society for abstract and experimental moving image. It holds regular screenings in Hong Kong and internationally, most recently at Iso Film Fest, FILMASIA Festival and Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS). Relentless Melt is also the production company behind Max Hattler’s Annecy-award winning architectural animation Serial Parallels.
Feed Me to the Squares
By Ngai Tsz Kwan Tracey, Lam Ho Hin Alan, Tsang Tsz Wai Sunnie, Weingarten Sean Wilhelm Foster
Following a morphing blob of flesh through an artificial landscape of urban textures we take part in a process of creation and adaption. From a simple square to increasingly complex moving patterns, the organic seems to get lost in the artificial which begins to dominate rhythm and structure of the world.
Shuttle
By Chan Wai Cheuk Rachel, Yang Jen, Kim Ja Young, Tsang Chun Leung
By developing and reconstructing the city with our vision and imagination, the shuttling effect was being executed to elaborate the city of Hong Kong from day to night in a new perspective. Motions are established by photography and still images, aiming to let the audience to experience Hong Kong as a fast and over-developing way.
Order
By Thomas Leung Yu Ho, Cathy Fung Po Yi, Parco Wong Lok Hang
It is as if a child’s random drawings sprang to life one day and started challenging the world with pure curiosity. Still the chaos within was eventually forced to conform, to categorize and structure itself in a certain way, in a certain order. The child? Long gone.
Survivor
By Huang Qianhui, Feng Jiawen, Rong Hua, Zhang Haitao
Survivor is an experimental animation that explores the meaning of life and death between video games and space exploration. Reality and the virtuality merge with each other and become inseparable.
CATCATCATCATCATCATCAT
By Thomas Leung Yu Ho, Cathy Fung Po Yi, Parco Wong Lok Hang
The fabric of reality is as thin as the invisible layer of cat fur that lies on top of every cat owner's house's floor. When it is inevitably disturbed, reality breaks in response. The supremacy of cats reigns us all, across space and time. Praise be to the cats.
Rubbish Street
By Zhao XinXiang, Chen Jialei, Qin Yue
Rubbish Street is an experimental animation set to Isan’s song ‘From a Hundred’. It takes everyday trash from Hong Kong’s streets as its source material, and deconstructs and reshapes it into new kinetic configurations.
Jamais Vu
By ChiuMan Yui Serena, Tse Jasmine Elizabeth, Law Ho Yi Woody, Yuen Ka Hei Hannah
In light of our dull daily life routines in this concrete jungle where everything always seems boring and familiar, our collage animation strives to explore creativity, funkiness and craziness from daily objects and characters. Jamais Vu, our title, aims to depict the strangeness and alienation of everyday objects and environments.
Carreaux
By Lai Yik Sum, Law Wai Lam, Wu Pui Kwong
Carreaux is a 1-minute abstract film created using abstract drawings on paper as the source material. Animated with minimal digital effects and a focus on hand-drawn marks, Carreaux explores the beauty of analog texture and feel. It shows different patterns made up of tiles, squares and lines.
Sleepwalk
By Yang Hao, Xing Tong, Jiang Xinyue
Sleepwalk is a mixed-media animation based on the urban scenery of of Hong Kong and the dancer Yang Hao who navigates the city.
Good Nightmare
By Deng Wen Xue, Cheng Ka Man, Lee Yorki, Yeung Tsz Wai
The story begins as the sun goes down and the night monsters wake up. The night lights have breathed new life into our world, converting power into energy, and waking the dead city. The monsters wake up and dance along to the music, just as we thought we finally have time to close our eyes. It is like flipping a switch and brightening up the darkest day. No more living in the shadows, come alive and ride the light.
Annemmoneme
By Lam Mau Sum, Wong Ho Yi
Annemmoneme is a minimalist attempt at reimagining the ocean and its creatures through the use of brushstrokes, dots and dashes on a watercolor canvas. Falling and merging with the ocean is the core concept of this film. Shapes dancing along to Isan's music, from lively to quiet, bright to dark.