NZIFF 2019 Animation NOW! 2019

Our longstanding animation programmer Malcolm Turner, also head honcho at the Melbourne International Animation Festival, offers a selection of the best and brightest from this year’s Animation NOW! Festival.

Highlights include Per Tutta La Vita and I’m OK, virtuoso examples of just how stunning hand-drawn animation can look; the Jacques Tati turned-up-to-11 Caterpillarplasty; Egg, one of the most talked about and awarded films on the circuit at the moment; and two outstanding – and completely different – Kiwi films, Winter’s Blight and Trumpet-Trompette.

If you’re looking to sample the international animation ecosystem in all its multi-coloured, variously shaped glories, there’s no better place to begin.

Per tutta la vita 2018
Dir. Roberto Catani
Quite simply, one of the most beautifully crafted films we have ever seen. A journey to the origins of memory.

I’m OK 2018
Dir. Elizabeth Hobbs
Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka enlists in WWI after the end of a love affair.

Fest 2018
Dir. Nikita Diakur
The latest from the master of ‘glitch’ animation revels in the fearless sub-culture of extreme urban exploration.

Where’s the Butter, Betty 2018
Dir. Will Anderson
The bloody butter is around here somewhere, Betty, it has to be.

The Juggler 2018
Dir. Skirmanta Jakaité
A delicately jagged reminder that each of our individual little worlds are strung together by an invisible, infinite thread.

Winter’s Blight 2019
Dir. Claire Campbell
A reclusive old man living alone in a forest is saved by the very cycle of life he nurtured as a young boy.

Herman Brown is Feeling Down 2018
Dir. Dan Castro
Herman Brown has every reason to be happy. Herman Brown has every reason to be unhappy. How to decide?

Trumpet-Trompette 2018
Dir. Max Woodward
A smooth, stylish meditation on preparing to do something you love.

Caterpillarplasty 2018
Dir. David Barlow-Krelina
A glossy and scabrous takedown of the cosmetic surgery industry.

Egg 2018
Dir. Martina Scarpelli
Have you considered food as a choice rather than a requirement? One of the most awarded animated films on the circuit this year.

Finity Calling 2018
Jasper Kuipers
An audacious stop-motion animation. When the fragile equilibrium of the group is broken, the results are explosive.

Rating: TBC