OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
After receiving over 1300 submissions we are pleased to announce the Official Competition Selections for the 2017 GLAS Animation Festival. Categories include Narrative, Non-Narrative, Graduate, Undergraduate, and Commissioned Shorts. We are also pleased the selections for Children’s Competition, US Competition, and International Showcase screenings.| Still | Title | Description | Category |
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 | Among The Black Waves by Anna Budanova Russia | "Story based on north ancient legend in which souls of drowned peoples turned on into sea animals. Hunter steals seal- girl skin and she can’t turn back into an animal. She became his wife, but more often glancing at the sea." | Narrative Competition |
 | THE EMPTY by Dahee Jeong Korea | "In the woman’s room, memories constantly accumulate and disappear like dust. The man spends his time in this room creating futile little games with woman’s memories." | Narrative Competition |
 | Love by Reka Bucsi Hungary | LOVE is a short film describing affection in 3 different chapters, through an impact on a distant solar system. | Narrative Competition |
 | Monkey Shen Jie China | One of the three monkeys died. | Narrative Competition |
 | Black Tomasz Popakul Poland | Pair of astronauts trapped on orbital space station. | Narrative Competition |
 | Endgame Phil Mulloy UK | After a tough week at the office, Richard and George like to play war games over the weekend to relax. The dispassionate atmosphere and minimalist style with which the growing brutality is handled slowly wipes the smile from your face, before making sure that it doesn’t return. | Narrative Competition |
 | The Future Greg Sharp Australia World Premiere | All men are desperate crabs. | Narrative Competition |
 | Jungle Taxi Hakhyun Kim Japan US Premiere | The taxi driver picks up an unwelcome fare in the jungle. He does as he's told and takes his customer to fetch the man close to death on the beach. | Narrative Competition |
 | Sore Eyes for Infinity Elli Vuorinen Finland | An optician grows tired of seeing the world too clearly and her inevitable involvement in its defects. | Narrative Competition |
 | Nighthawk Spela Cadez Slovenia | A badger lies motionless on a local road. A police patrol approaches the body in the dark. They soon realise that the animal is not dead; the badger is dead drunk! When the police attempt to drag the creature off the road, he wakes up and things take a strange turn. | Narrative Competition |
 | Impossible Figures Marta Pajek Poland US Premiere | The protagonist of the film is a woman who trips and falls, while rushing around the house. She gets up, only to discover, that her home has unusual features – it is built from paradoxes, filled with illusions and covered with patterns. | Narrative Competition |
 | Before Love Igor Kovalyov Russia | Questions solitude, misunderstanding and disunity in our life. The title suggests that everything happening to the characters is not a true love yet. Human shortcomings tie the dramatic knot of the story. Everybody finds his way to be unhappy. Everybody is looking for love. | Narrative Competition |
 | High Summer Josselin Facon France | A troubling moment in the balminess of a summer in the countryside. While gardening, a young man sees his mother as a women for the first time. | Narrative Competition |
 | Deer Flower Kangmin Kim Korea | "In the summer of 1992, Dujung, an elementary student, goes to a farm in the suburbs with his parents. While his parents believe the expensive and rare specialty from the farm will strengthen their son’s body, Dujung suffers side effects." | Narrative Competition |
 | The Bald Future Paul Cabon France | "Being a bald man sucks. Knowing you'll become one is worse." | Narrative Competition |
 | Et Ta Prostate, Ca Va? Cécile Rousset France | A discussion between 2 friends where one tells the other about the very strange time when, next to the swimming-pool, she learnt about her father’s prostate, the state of his erectile function, then, with no warning, his night-time fantasies. | Narrative Competition |
 | Datum Point Ryo Orikasa Japan | "Yoshiro Ishihara (1915–1977), who burst upon the scene of Japanese modern poetry in the mid-1950s, is now remembered as a “poet of silence.” He said “A poem is an impulse to resist writing.” This film is an attempt to seek out the landscape from his poem." | Non-Narrative Competition |
 | Any Road Boris Labbé France/Spain US Premiere | """- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,"" Alice added as an explanation. (Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)" | Non-Narrative Competition |
 | Orogenesis Boris Labbé France/Spain North American Premiere | A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed. | Non-Narrative Competition |
 | Lo Ted Wiggin US | We must protect this house. | Non-Narrative Competition |
 | Manhole Cover While Walking Ryoya Usuha Japan | Open a manhole cover while walking | Non-Narrative Competition |
 | The Reflection of Power Mihai Grecu US Premiere France | In the most secret capital of the world a crowd attends a show while a disaster threatens the whole city... | Non-Narrative Competition |
 | Six God Alphabet Peter Peter Millard UK | "please wake up peter.please wake up.you need to learn your alphabet now peter. " | Non-Narrative Competition |
 | Slow Wave Andy Kennedy US | Sleep disturbances from outside and within. | Non-Narrative Competition |
 | Jeu de Paume Joshua Mosley US | Jeu de Paume depicts a court tennis match at the Château de Fontainebleau, France, set in 1907. The stop-motion animation, filmed with a robotic hand-held camera, reflects the asymmetrical court and the irregular rhythm of the game. | Non-Narrative Competetion |
| The Estate Ronny Trocker France | "On a sunny Mediterranean beach, time seems to be frozen. An utterly exhausted black man crawls painfully off the sand while around him the holiday-makers seem not to notice him. Freely inspired by a photo taken by Juan Medina on the Spanish beach of Gran Tarajal in 2006." | Non-Narrative Competition | |
 | saVer Simon Gerbaud France/ Mexico | This animation explores everyday objects using the deconstruction. The title combines two verbs in spanish: to know (saber) and to see (ver). | Non-Narrative Competition |
 | Unsatisfying Parallel Studio France | Unsatisfying | Non-Narrative Competition |
 | Red of the Yew Tree Marie-Hélène Turcotte Canada US Premiere | Red of the Yew Tree is the crossing of a feminine and universal imagination, an odyssey inked in fine point. A pheasant hunt is the occasion of a voyage that is at once delicate and mightily evocative, under the breath of maternal love and the transmission of a shared feminine condition. It is a vast intimate adventure unfolds, as equivocal as it is precise, through an intuitive hunt and a recovered collective memory. | Non-Narrative Competition |
 | The Mess Peter Burr US | A journey to the threshold of a utopian labyrinth. We follow the perspective of a solitary woman who descends into an abandoned subterranean arcology. She is tasked with cleaning up the mess that has spawned from this feral structure, becoming lost in the process. | Non-Narrative Competition |
 | Rituals Isabelle Aspin US CalArts | A radio journalist investigates the water shortage in Tulare County, California. | Undergraduate Competition |
 | Tough Jennifer Zheng UK Kingston | "Some things can only be understood with maturity. New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time." | Undergraduate Competition |
 | Auto Conner Griffith US RISD | Cars dance on highways, crowds of people wash across a sidewalk shore. | Undergraduate Competition |
 | Pile Raffaele Gans-Pfister US RISD North American Premiere | in out in | Undergraduate Competition |
 | Big Surf Brian Smee US CalArts World Premiere | March 12, 1928: Granny's prayers go to San Francisquito Valley. | Undergraduate Competition |
 | Talking Cure Felipe Di Poi US RISD North American Premiere | Undergraduate Competition | |
| Hotaru William Laboury France | They told me : "You have a gift, Martha. Down here, your gift is useless. So we're gonna show you the most beautiful things. You're gonna have more memories than everyone else. And then, you will sleep. You won't wake up. But you will carry the most precious memories from Earth." | Graduate Competition | |
 | Service Josh Shaffner US World Premiere | A portrayal of the Los Angeles service industry. | Graduate Competition |
 | How are you today? Sophie Marka UK | In a fucked up world, two opposite characters meet. | Graduate Competition |
 | Feed Eri Okazaki Japan North American Premiere | Two enormous creatures count down the end of a day, food is served as it was the day before. Children feed their goat as usual, feeling uneasy about their own daily life. | Graduate Competition |
 | What They Believe Shoko Hara Japan/Germany | collected anecdotes of ambiguous love and hope | Graduate Competition |
 | Hot Dog Hands Matt Reynolds US World Premiere | This woman can't stop growing fingers. | Graduate Competition |
 | Garden Party Florian Babikian France | "In a deserted rich house, a couple of amphibians explore their surroundings and follow their primal instincts. | Graduate Competition |
 | Last Job on Earth Moth Collective | Meet Alice, holder of the last recognisable job on Earth, trying to make sense of her role in an automated world. | Commissioned Competition |
 | Spectacle of the Real Buck | David Blaine approached us to make an animated intro to his upcoming special, a palette cleanser to get people ready for a bumpy night. Inspired by David’s mind-bending magic and Paul Auster penned script, we crafted a hero’s journey of sorts, a psychedelic trip into the spectacle of the real. | Commissioned Competition |
 | Scavangers Charles Huettner & Joe Bennett | Two survivors of a botched mission to establish a human settlement on a new planet go through great lengths just to get a taste of what they left behind. | Commissioned Competition |
 | Sisters David Chontos | Part exercise of passion, and part love letter, ‘Sisters’ is a fragment of some lost, tragic opera. Trapped in the ruins of their former glory, a pair of performers bound together and abandoned by time rise up to sing once more. Conjured up by the song to which it’s set, the film represents a sincere vision of inspiration derived from the music of Karin Dreijer Andersson (Fever Ray). It is the confluence of a variety of abstract concepts, from the fragility of modern technology, to the cruelty of the passage of time. The movement of the characters references legendary contemporary choreographer, Martha Graham; transposing an exercise in human restraint and lamentation onto mechanical beings. | Commissioned Competition |
 | Flight Attendant Mattis Dovier | "Official music video for ""Flight Attendant"" by XXX " | Commissioned Competition |
 | Johnny Bubble Alan Resnick | Johnny Bubble is a fictional creature who has lived a long and happy life with a beautiful family and strong ties to the community. | Commissioned Competition |
 | Charles X - Can You Do It Parallel | This clip is a beautiful merge of the typically highbrow sport of horse racing with the commonly misrepresented “mean streets” of Pacoima, the proud birthplace of Charles X. It challenges any stereotypes or preconceptions of race and social class which may exist in modern day society. | Commissioned Competition |
 | Another Love Najeeb Tarazi & Michael Langan | Shot on 3D scanners in the comfort of a living room, "Another Love" transports sixteen dancers, a fertility goddess, and a host of sock puppets to a virtual ocean paradise inspired by 64-bit video games of the mid 90s. Filmed on software written by the directors, "Another Love" is a foray into the emerging field of holography. | Commissioned Competition |
 | Run The Jewels - Meowpurddy Cyriak | "Official music video for ""Meowpurrdy"" from the Meow The Jewels album by Run The Jewels. Featuring Lil Bub, Maceo, and Delonte. " | Commissioned Competition |
 | Jill Lili Carré | Jill explores the idea of the rebellious cartoon body. | US Competition |
 | Batfish Soup Amanda Bonaiuto | Wacky relatives give way to mounting tensions with broken dolls, boiling stew and a bang. | US Competition |
 | The Itching Dianne Bellino | In this handmade collaboration, a shy wolf tries to connect with a group of hip, party-loving bunnies, but finds her body in revolt. | US Competition |
 | Video 69 Ingo Raschka North American Premiere | A young man watches a movie, alone. | US Competition |
 | Ship of Fools Josh Shaffner | A cry for help. | US Competition |
 | Glucose Jeron Braxton World Premiere | A dream within an unconscious boxer in a video game who’s subconscious is a surreal reflection of our modern world. | US Competition |
 | The Sparrow's Flight Tom Schroeder | A last collaboration with my dead friend Dave Herr. | US Competition |
 | Lullaby Optic Steve Wood | An abstract work generated by moving lights through multiple video feedback loops, resulting in a catalog of transient electronic forms. A discovery of ordered patterns within chaotic systems. An exploration of what could be captured in-camera, with no additional graphics or color enhancement. Scored with sounds from the NASA archives, and also with recordings of circuit-bent toys. Strobe and flicker warning for sensitive viewers. | US Competition |
 | (Otto) Job, Joris & Marieke The Netherlands | A woman who can’t have children steals the imaginary friend of a little girl and keeps this a secret from her husband. While the woman enjoys life with her imaginary child the gap between her and her husband grows bigger. When the little girl comes to claim back her imaginary friend, it’s the power of imagination that brings everyone together. | Family Competition |
 | First Snow by Lenka Ivančíková Czech Republic | First snow is a fairy tale about the curious little Hedgehog who gets lost in snowy woods and so he heads out for a dangerous adventure to find his den. | Family Competition |
 | Summer Camp Island by Julia Pott USA | Oscar has to accept that his totally normal sleepover with Hedgehog isn’t going to be totally normal. | Family Competition |
 | Very Lonely Cock by Leonid Shmelkov Russia | A hard day in the chicken yard. When the farmer falls asleep on the job, the egg-laying production line goes completely haywire. The chicken takes control and then proceeds to lose it again moments later. Perhaps everything will be better tomorrow. | Family Competition |
 | Au Revoir Balthazar by Rafael Sommerhalder Switzerland | A scarecrow, a storm, a broken leg. The resonant sound of a sea shell. Leaving forever. | Family Competition |
 | Benches by Ivan Maximov Russia US Premiere | Strange shapes run amok in a city car park. They interfere in each other’s business in the most absurd ways, sit together on a bench and generally get on each other’s nerves. | Family Competition |
 | In a Cage By Loic Bruyere France | It’s the story of an encounter: a caged bear who can’t sing meets a little bird who can’t fly but who can sing beautifully. Their friendship will be mutually beneficial and together they will overcome their disabilities. | Family Competition |
 | Miriam's Stray Dog by Andres Tenusaar Estonia US Premiere | Miriam and her family are building a snowman. There is a stray dog watching them to do it and who definitely likes the snowman very much. The dog won't leave, though it is very cold. The children bring him inside and construct a nice place from paper-boxes. Hen is the only one who does not share the joy of all others. And the Hen is the one who faces the most anxious moments. The dog's owner shows up in the morning and we shall find out the reason the dog loved the snowman so much. Finally even the Hen relents. | Family Competition |
 | Bloop's Birthday by Julian Glander USA World Premiere | Bloop, an odd little pink creature, is eager to celebrate her birthday. She bounces through a mysterious and dazzling 3D acid-pastel landscape to meet her friends, but a hole in the ground gets in the way. | Family Competition |
 | Je ne sens plus Rien by Carl Roosens and Noémie Marsily Canada US Premiere | This twisting tale with occasional flights of absurdist fantasy is accompanied by a rich soundtrack that captures the confusion of modern life, blending odd sounds, music, and even the voice of Quebec soprano Natalie Choquette. | International Showcase |
 | Mom's on Fire by Joanna Rytel Sweden | You’ve barely dealt with the arrival of your first child when you become pregnant again by your boring boyfriend. Quite aside from the fact that masturbating when heavily pregnant isn’t really an option, you’re desperate to have sex and enjoy a few drinks. After all, who would opt for no sleep and breastfeeding instead? Luckily, there’s a magic pill that can change everything… | International Showcase |
 | The Wild Boar by Bella Szederkényi Germany, France, Hungary | "A homeless orphan, an animalistic little kid escapes the big city into the darkness of the woods. It is there that the kid meets a creature mightier than ever imagined. " | International Showcase |
 | Three Fitted Flies by María Álvarez and Elisa Morais Spain | Summer in a small village in a plain and arid region of central Spain. Prying neighbours, mourning rituals, tediousness, extreme heat and undertones of guilt make a perfect soil for madness. The old woman will try to bring her late husband back by means of twisted rituals. | International Showcase |
 | Blind Vaysha by Theodore Ushev Canada | This short film tells the story of Vaysha, a young girl born with one green eye and one brown eye. But colour isn’t the only thing that’s different about Vaysha’s gaze. While her left eye sees only the past; her right sees only the future. Like a terrible curse, Vaysha’s split vision prevents her from inhabiting the present. Blinded by what was and tormented by what will be, she remains trapped between two irreconcilable temporalities. “Blind Vaysha,” they called her. | International Showcase |
 | Perfect Town by Anaïs Voirol Switzerland World Premiere | "This movie draws an image of a society obsessed with perfection. A city searches for the impossible state of perfection. Therefore the behavior of its inhabitants gets constantly evaluated until they are eventually dropped out. In an endless cycle the dropouts return to the city too feel the sweet life of belonging to a place where they’re the chosen ones even if its only temporarily. " | International Showcase |
 | Uncanny Valley by Paul Wenninger France | In UNCANNY VALLEY, we are at once bombarded by the psychological and physical intensity of a battle fought between desperate soldiers during the first world war. Each frame of this animated live action piece reveals its own painful yet detailed history. | International Showcase |
 | Little Girl by Steven Subotnick USA | a little girl rides her bike. | International Showcase |
 | 9, Chemin des Gauchoirs by lyonel Charmette France North American Premiere | Cable cars converted into houses, how fascinating... The shepherd makes sure that nobody’s there, ties his goat to the quay and gets into a luxurious « bathroom cabin ». Vacillating between this unexpected comfort and the ground, he starts feeling at ease, until he meets the place’s real occupants. | International Showcase |
 | Planemo by Veljko Popovic Croatia | "Planemo is a solitary wanderer, a sentinel of the galaxy. It is an orphaned world, a celestial body booted from its solar system by the chaos of planetary migration. In a society where everyone mindlessly orbits around their daily routines, what happens when a person gets ejected from the system?" | International Showcase |
 | Decorado by Alberto Vázquez Spain | The world is a wonderful stage, but its characters are disgraceful. | International Showcase |
 | Parade de Saite by Koji Yamamura Japan | A Parade for 3 managers & 4 performers. Mixing quotes from French composer Erik Satie’s essays with the music Parade, this is an animated re-creation of realist ballet images going beyond reality. | International Showcase |
 | Absence of Eddy Table by Rune Spaans Norway | Eddy is lost in a dark foreboding forest. There he meets an alluring girl infected by a mysterious parasite. The two grow very fond of each other, Eddy all the while turning a blind eye to the horror of their circumstances. Ultimately she leads him to a horrifying crossroad. | International Showcase |
 | Danny Boy by Simon Lynen Belgium | This is a documentary about Dannyboy. A portrait about failure and disappointment. He's an artist but also an idiot. | International Showcase |
 | Squame by Nicolas Brault Canada | Squame explores the body’s sensitive envelope, the skin. The ephemeral animated desquamations, created with the help of sugar casts, evoke fragile landscapes in a world at the edge of abstraction. Somewhere between archeological artifacts and macroscopic observations, the friable frontiers of these human bodies elude our gaze. | International Showcase |
 | J'aime le Filles by Diane Obomsawin France US Premiere | First love is an intoxicating experience, but with it can come excruciating awkwardness, unrequited emotions, and confusing issues of identity. In her trademark playful style, Quebec cartoonist and animator Diane Obomsawin, a.k.a. Obom, adapts her latest graphic novel for the screen, using endearing anthropomorphic figures to tell poignant real-life stories of love. | International Showcase |