GLAS 2022 Award Winners
We would like to thank Lou Bones, Cristóbal León, and Tomek Popakul for sharing their work with us and for participating on the jury for the 7th edition of the GLAS Animation Festival. We would also like to thank all the filmmakers for sharing their films with us and our audience.
To keep the spirit of the in-person festival, we wanted to announce the award winning films as a complete surprise, for everyone at the same time.
Without further ado, we are pleased to announce the award winners for GLAS 2022.
Grand Prix
Pests by Juliette Laboria
Jury Statement: Juicy ,atmospheric, sensual movie. You feel the heat, the garden, stickyness of the fruits. Precise observation focused on depiction of everyones universal experience brings interspecie micro-drama . Tale of innocence,cruealty and revenge, all during kids garden party. Are there always somewhere worlds burning in flames ?
Special Mention
Noir Soleil by Marie Larrivé
Jury Statement: This is a short film that looks like a feature film. You could also say it’s an animation that could be live-action. But the truth is that it is a film that defines its own rules and invents a genre of its own. When a corpse floats to the surface, it is we who dive into a world of ambiguous and subtle sensations. The almost impressionistic quality of the images is perfect to describe a world of truths and feelings that remain out of focus.
High Risk Award
Ghost Dogs by Joe Cappa
Jury Statement: Immediately intriguing (helped by some fantastic music+sound design), this off-kilter film straddles the cute, known lives of man’s best friend and the very surreal. The colour palette, character design of the Ghostdogs along with the edit adds to a certain uneasiness but you cant tear your eyes away! Gradually building in pace as the trip intensifies and dimensions blur to a sick little twist at the end.
New Talent Award
Goodbye Jerome by Gabrielle Selnet, Adam Sillard, Chloé Farr
Jury Statement: You want to put every shot into picture frame and hang it on your wall. Visionary and and done with highest craftmanship, with quirky and balanced narration, movie using all animation magic tricks to tell surrealistic breakup story, with no answer , no relief. The only thing you are sure – you are completely lost.
Audience Award
Sierra by Sander Joon
Family Competition Award
Luce and the Rock by Britt Raes
Jury Statement: A lot of thought has gone into the production of this wonderful film. The fun and inventive use of shape, light and colour throughout is thoroughly engaging. The relationships and emotions the story covers are dealt with subtlety while excellent sound design, music/song and voice acting keep the story moving along as the hugely endearing Luce and her village encounter an unexpected visitor.
Family Special Mention
Homebird by Ewa Smyk
Jury Statement: Elegant , modest movie with tasteful “claire-ligne” visuals about finding peace within yourself on the transition transition from rural to urban life, the past and the present ,full of romantic eastern european nostalgia.
US Competition Award
Tennis Ball on His Day Off by Julian Glander
Jury Statement: The juxtaposition of the tennis ball character facing the reality of our modern lives as the world ticks by is both unsettling and deeply relatable… Use of a voice machine message to tell the story creates further separation and helps to encapsulate the dissociative states we find ourselves in more and more these days. Great use of surreal low poly CG design and colour. The tertiary characters are annoyingly clever and to the point while the vacant scenes build the mood and heightened sense of time passing… or wasted.
US Competition Special Mention
Menagerie by Jack Gray
Jury Statement: What is this short film about? It is difficult to say. More than a story, this short film is a landscape-film, a world that we can contemplate in detail. Like dreams, Menagerie is made of contemporary everyday life, transformed and metabolized to create a universe with a particular engineering. It is a short film that seems to flow with the naturalness and ease of a sketchbook, as if someone had animated it while talking on the phone, which is extremely difficult to achieve in animation.
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Soccer Bounce by James Thatcher
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Special Programs
Cyriac Retrospective
Competition Programs
Synergy by Hellavision Television
How to Get the Gig
How to Pitch Your Film
Interface
La Casa Lobo + Q&A
Cristobal Leon & Joaquin Cociña Retrospective
Lucrece Andreae Talk + Q&A
Takeshi Murata Retrospective + Q&A
Tomek Popakul Retrospective + Q&A
Official Competition
A Bite of Bone / Honami Yano / Japan
Above the Brain 2 / Nonowe Akhito / Japan
Anxious Body / Yoriko Mizushiri / Japan
Bear Hug / Margrethe Danielsen / France + Norway
Bestia / Hugo Covarrubias / Chile
Butterfly Jam / Shih-Yen HUANG / Taiwan
Ding / Malte Stein / Germany
Fledge / Hani Dombe , Tom Kouris / Israel
Flowing Home / Sandra Desmazieres / France + Canada
Fragments / Carl Burton / United States
Freedom Swimmer / Olivia Martin-McGuire / United Kingdom
Ghost Dogs / Joe Cappa / Unites States
Goodbye Jérôme! / Gabrielle Selnet, Adam Sillard, Chloé Farr / France
Hold Me Tight / Leoluna Robert-Tourneur / Belgium
Hotel Kalura / Sophie Koko Gate / United Kingdom
Impossible figures and other stories I / Marta Pajek / Poland + Canada
Krasue / Ryo Hirano / Japan
Letter To a Pig / Tal Kantor / France
Louise / Constance Bertoux, Camille Bozec, Pauline Guitton, Pauline Mauviere, Mila Monagahn / France
Love, Dad / Diana Cam Van Nguyen / Czech Republic
MOM / Kajika Aki Ferrazzini / France
My Exercise / Atsushi Wada / Japan
Night Bus / Joe Hsieh / Taiwan
Noir-Soleil / Marie Larrivé / France
O / Paul Wenninger / Austria
Pests / Juliette Laboria / France
Precious / Paul Mas / France
Selection Process / Carla Pereira / Spain
Sierra / Sander Joon / Estonia
Steakhouse / Špela Čadež / Slovenia
The Train Driver / Christian Wittmoser, Zuniel Kim / Germany
The Wellspring and the Tower / Melinda Kádár / Hungary
International Showcase
Affairs of the Art / Joanna Quinn / United Kingdom
Fall of the Ibis King / Mikai Geronimo, Josh O’Caoimh / Ireland
Night / Ahmad Saleh / Palestine
Password to the * * * * * / Adél Szegedi / Hungary + United Kingdom
Resting Fog / Nikolett Fábián / Hungary
Something in the Garden / Marcos Sánchez / Chile
The Pattern / Péter Bogyó / Hungary
The Uncertain Snow / Marion Broisrond, Marie-Liesse Coumau, Gwendoline Legendre, Ada Hernaez, Romane Tisseau / France
Tunable Mimoid / Vladimir Todorovic / Australia + Serbia
Unanswered Telephone / Seunn Lee / Korea
We Were a Sterile Bomb / Dotan Moreno / Israel
What Resonates in Silences / Marine Blin / France
Yugo / Carlos Gómez Salamanca / Colombia + France
Zoon / Jonatan Schwenk / Germany
Family Competition
A Stone in the Shoe / Eric Montchaud / France
Benztown / Gottfried Mentor / Germany
Big and Small / Natalia Grofpel / Russian Federation
Homebird / Ewa Smyk / United Kingdom
Kiki the feather / Julie Rembauville / France
LOOP / Pablo Polledri / Argentina + Spain
Luce and the Rock / Britt Raes / Belgium
Polar Bear Bears Boredom / Koji Yamamura / Japan
Where do they come from? And where do they go? / Christen Bach / Denmark Germany
US Competition
Cinnamon, Thunderstorm / Jennifer Levonian / United States + Spain
Eyes and Horns / Chaerin Im / United States + Korea + Germany
Incomplete / Dalena Tran / United States
Lizardians / Young Joo Lee / United States + Korea
March of the Ding Dings / Christopher Rutledge / United States
Menagerie / Jack Gray / United States
Still Life / Conner Griffith / United States
Ten Degrees of Strange / Lynn Tomlinson / United States
Tennis Ball on His Day Off / Julian Glander / United States
The Hork / Nicole Stafford / United States
TR4NSM/SS/VE / Christopher Rutledge / United States