director: | Len Lye |
screenplay: | Len Lye |
animation: | Len Lye |
music: | Don Baretto and his Cuban Orchestra |
producer: | Len Lye |
production: | General Post Office Film Unit |
source of print: | British Film Institute |
language: | silent |
Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.
director: | Len Lye |
screenplay: | Len Lye |
animation: | Len Lye |
music: | Sonny Terry (Fox Chase) |
producer: | Ann Zeiss |
production: | Direct Film Co |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Archive |
language: | silent |
A new type of "direct" film, made by the rayogram or "shadow cast" process. Strips of film were exposed without the use of a camera. Patterns were created by placing stencils and coloured gels over the film. Lye synchronised this to a piece of blues music.
Print courtesy of the New Zealand Film Archive Nga Kaitiaki of Nga Taonga Whitiahua with kind permission of the Len Lye Foundation.
director: | Greg Page |
screenplay: | Greg Page |
cinematography: | Bret Nichols |
animation: | Greg Page |
producer: | James Wallace, David Reid |
production: | James Wallace Productions |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
language: | English |
The Film Festival has a bug. Decaff is short, he lives in a cinema world and is not user-friendly. He is the bad-tempered little knot we all have inside us - he does what you wish you could.
director: | Greg Page |
screenplay: | Greg Page |
cinematography: | Bret Nichols |
animation: | Greg Page |
producer: | John Holdsworth, Gary Hannam |
production: | Motion Control Ltd |
language: | English |
Decaff is a very bad-tempered character who drinks too much coffee and loses his temper easily. Five new animated Decaff episodes.
director: | Fred O'Neill |
screenplay: | Fred O'Neill |
animation: | Fred O'Neill |
producer: | Fred O'Neill |
production: | Plasti - Line |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Archive |
An animated anti-nuclear film during which an earth man flies a rocket to Venus. The survivors of an atomic war explain the demise of their once great civilization.
Print courtesy of the New Zealand Film Archive Nga Kaitiaki of Nga Taonga Whitiahua with kind permission of the Fred O'Neill Estate.
director: | Shona McCullagh |
screenplay: | Shona McCullagh |
cinematography: | Aaron Morton |
music: | David Long |
cast: | Richard Cesan, John Callen |
producer: | Margaret Slater |
production: | Slater Films, Screen Innovation Production Fund, New Zealand Film Commission |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
language: | English |
A father struggles between his instinct to protect and the need to set his deaf boy free. Loosely based on the ancient story of Daedelus and Icarus
director: | Simon Otto |
screenplay: | Simon Otto |
animation: | Simon Otto |
music: | Andrew McDowall |
producer: | Susan Chambers, Brent Chaambers |
production: | Flux Animation Studios Ltd, New Zealand Film Commission |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
language: | English |
One man's attempt to fit in with the world around him and gain the acceptance of his neighbours. A black comedy about the perils of conformity.
director: | Shona McCullagh |
screenplay: | Shona McCullagh |
cinematography: | JB Armstrong |
music: | David Long |
cast: | Tanna Mete, Kelly Nash, J. B. Armstrong, Caroline Binden |
producer: | Margaret Slater |
production: | Slater Films |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
language: | English |
Two nuns embark on an adventure to find an illusive available toilet.
director: | James Cunningham |
screenplay: | James Cunningham |
animation: | James Cunningham |
music: | Joost Langeveld |
producer: | Paul Swadel |
production: | Supercollider |
awards: | Aspen Shortfest 2001 - Animated Eye Award |
language: | English |
A 'DELF' (digitally engineered life form) is deployed to infect a corporate computer system - it's mission: to destroy the 'student loan' of it's hacker-creator. How will the little three-fingered hero get into the bank's records vault?
director: | Peter Wells |
screenplay: | Peter Wells |
cinematography: | Kevin Hayward |
music: | Wayne Laird |
cast: | Brendon Wells, Norman Brocas, Eirlys Shand, Donogh Rees, Ian McMillan |
producer: | Stewart Main |
production: | QEII Arts Council Short Film Fund |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
language: | English |
Reinvents a moment in New Zealand's past, the 1953 Royal Visit.
The boy in the film is fascinated by a picture of the Queen on the lid of a cake-tin. She remains magical even when he sees her in her limousine...
director: | Len Lye |
screenplay: | Len Lye |
animation: | Len Lye |
music: | Jack Ellitt |
producer: | Robert Graves |
production: | The Film Society |
source of print: | British Film Institute |
language: | silent |
Len Lye began work on this animated film about organic life in a primary stage in 1927: I doodled to assuage my hunger for some hypnotic image I'd never seen before, drawing upon Maori, Aboriginal and Samoan traditions.
director: | William Toefper |
screenplay: | Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair |
cast: | Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair |
producer: | Gregory Rood |
production: | Front Lawn Films |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
language: | English |
In a busy Auckland Street a series of chance encounters connects the lives of a random cross section of the public. This acclaimed short film is recognized as a classic.