The connection between the festival and the HSLU school isn’t something new. For many years, IndieLisboa screened several films which were made on the school’s animation course. On this 14th edition, IndieLisboa decided to dedicate a special program, focused on the stop motion techniques, one of the school’s main traits. The starting point for these special screenings is the film Signalis, by Adrian Flückiger.
Thursday, May 11th, on Cinema São Jorge’s screen: a lost astronaut (Yuri), patriotism and xenophobia (Heimatland), the dances of youth (La Vuelta), the light in the center of attention (Look), the fear of monsters (Me and My Monster),
a weasel living inside the street lights (Signalis), a lighthouse keeper fishing for meteorites (Fishing Meteorites), two sisters helping out a homeless person (Les soeurs de coeurs), two neighbours and a wall (Partition), one wolf, three pigs and laziness (AAA), sleepwalking (Not again!), a discovery in the forest (Maggoty), an automaton apple (Big Plans), a beatboxing canary (Canary Beat) and the music single by Tic Tac Toe (Ich wär so gern so blöd wie du).
IndieLisboa’s animation films are also present in the Silvestre section, on May 4th and 6th, at Cinema São Jorge. The special screening dedicated to the genre – Animation Spotlight – starts with Penelope living in the middle of chaos, where even the potato needs to shave its hair. After that, a couple adopts several animals without knowing them (Les Animaux Domestiques) and, of course, there are some strange family members showing up (Batfish Soup). In Anatomy, we sit through a PowerPoint presentation about the director’s problems and Books on Books revisits the design of books from the 1960s. Löss is an animation about the condition of women in rural China. And, finally, Peter Millard’s animation continues to be very unique: in Six God Alphabet Peter, spelling words out is a humiliation.
In the International Competition of short films, we have Amalimbo, where a child stands between life and death, in a mutant space, like the animation itself. Pattern Language explores monochromatic patterns, between the abstract and the videogame. And in Martin Cries, Grand Theft Auto V is used to show the story of a sentimental hooligan.
