GINDIE SHORTS SESSION 6
Animation, Music Video | 1h 22m
GINDIE21 Official Selection | 4x World Premiere 8x Australian Premiere 1x Victorian Premiere
Screening from 16-23 July 2021
This is a collection of animation and music video clips from around the world.
BALLOONS
Director: Jeannie Tse | 4m | Animation | World Premiere | 2020
Country: Hong Kong | Language: No Dialogue
In a world where everyone's head is made of a balloon, Balloon man goes to work and passes through different balloons where some float and some do not. He goes into his office and starts to work. But what kind of job does a balloon has?
YAN
Director: Vesper Guo | 11m 50s | Animation, Experimental | World Premiere | 2020
Country: USA | Language: English
YAN is a video essay inspired by my personal experience of quitting smoking. Within the duration of smoking a cigarette, the process of dealing with my addiction is paralleled to an attempt to reconcile with myself from my memory with a disconnected friend a relationship that is sustained via pixels.
MAGIC MATCHES
Director: Yunkyung Yang | 5m 11s | Animation | Australian Premiere | 2020
Country: Korea | Language: Korean
These matches allow humans to breath anywhere the light reaches, including underwater. There are characters living underwater who become friends with humans. Actually, they are hired by the company as tour guides. The main character decides to purchase the magic matches after seeing an advertisement. They suffer from their painful memories, while the tour guide who lives underwater listens and teaches them how to “organise” their wounded mind.
FALSE MEMORY
Director: Shuyu Li , Wenyu Liu | 18m 10s | Animation | Australian Premiere | 2020
Country: China | Language: Chinese
Unwilling to accept the fact of his friend Shi Yan’s passing away, the hero materialises Shi Yan in his memory in the form of a Bug Man, who continues to play with him to escape the depressing reality. Bug Man Shi Yan is monitored by the Memory Administration Bureau, and the memory collectors Fang Tang and Bai Zhong are assigned to retrieve him.
GOOD VIBES ONLY
Director: Renat Ibragimov | 3m 38s | Animation, Music Video | Australian Premiere | 2020
Country: Russian Federation | Language: English
Night journey through the night city. No plot movie, just Good Vibes Only
I DON’T KNOW
Director: Jackson Hayat | 3m 46s | Music Video | World Premiere | 2020
Country: Australia | Language: English
Whilst mundanely binging television programs, James becomes engrossed in a vibrant karaoke show, though things start to get all too real when the the performers succeed the limits of the screen.
DREAMS
Director: Lachlan Bembrick | 5m 51s | Music Video | Victoria Premiere | 2020
Country: Australia | Language: English
Official Music Video for the song "Dreams" by electronic artist Romain Quessaud JSZ.
BEIJING BABY
Director: Lauren Bessey | 5m | Music Video | 2020
Country: Australia | Language: English
Teen girl, Adeline, is stuck in an unsatisfying life, caught up in being prim, perfect, and proper. After years of being caved in by the claustrophobic belief that appearances and money are everything in society and her world, Adeline urges herself to escape.
OLODE
Director: Ricardo Sêco | 2m 55s | Music Video | Australian Premiere | 2020
Country: Brazil | Language: English
Music video for the music "Olodé“, performed by brazilian musician Kiko Dinucci. Stop motion made by photos taken during the pandemic time in the streets of São Paulo.
HELP
Director: Erica Schreiner | 3m | Music Video | Australian Premiere | 2020
Country: USA | Language: English
Psychedelic art rock band The Grasping Straws will be releasing a music video for the song “Help” from their upcoming EP, Signs of Life. The video is produced by Bushwick video and performance artist Erica Schreiner.
GYM JUNKIE
Director: Sam Osborn Rassaby, Bryce Padovan | 5m 23s | Music Video | 2020
Country: Australia | Language: English
Stood up one too many times by her GYM JUNKIE boyfriend, our hellbent heroine decides it's time for revenge! With the help of some hired muscle and plenty of lyrca, she's about to show Johnny the true meaning of getting shredded. Gym Junkie is equal parts sassy, funky and a little bit scary.
ALGO_1
Director: Diego Martins | 5m 58s | Music Video | Australian Premiere | 2020
Country: Brazil | Language: No Dialogue
In an apartment at the Copan Building, in São Paulo, Jesuíta Barbosa embarks on a poetic journey of discoveries and desires in a space and time scrambled by architecture and light. The character sets out on a journey of connection, exploring his body in a solitary dance at Niemeyer's building.
LA QUE ES
Director: Joy Castañeda | 3m 18s | Music Video | Australian Premiere | 2021
Country: USA | Language: Spanish
A woman ¨La que es¨ to the sound of the music that tells her to move her body, appears tied and her mission is to be able to free herself, and thus connect with the most primitive, dance and painting, ancestral manifestations of the human being to express herself . It is a fight between the futuristic and our past.
BLACK SHEEP
Director: Gianvincenzo Pugliese | 3m 3s | Music Video | World Premiere | 2020
Country: Italy | Language: Italian
As I was building “Pecore Nere” s videoclip, I found myself unwrapping the emotional story of my family, juxtaposing the images that instinct suggested to me with dreamlike connections, never fully narrative. Since it’s an independent / no budget project, I was paradoxically free to shape those images with care.
QUANTUM CLOUDS
Director: Dimitris Giouzepas | 3m 46s | Music Video | Australian Premiere | 2020
Country: Greece | Language: No Dialogue
Unsettling visuals for an unsettling tune, an ever-evolving Rorschach inkblot, an ungrasped idea