Music Short Films Animation

1. The Waves, Canada, Julie Gauthier, Eric St-Gelais
(03:03)
With « Les vagues» (The waves), we invite you on a trip to the beach with Atchoum and her friends. She’ll meet a troop of dancing crabs and starfish enthusiasts of synchronized swimming. All presented in paper cut out stop motion animation, under a radiant sun, in an atmosphere reminiscent of a hot summer day!

2. Psycho, Greece, Thodoris Sarafis, (02:28)
Based on Dario Fo's "Steal a bit Less", this animated music video is a political satyre and it means no offence or disrespect to the actual mentally challenged people of the world.In an asylum for mentally challenged people, the loonies are singing about all the new behaviors they are being taught to be able to be reintegrated into society.

3. Pentastic(I, Sai), India,
Nilanjan Chowdhury, (05:20)
The music video is a part of Rahul Sridhar’s concept album - "I, Sai" which traverses the journey of a person with the question “Who am I?”. While reminiscing about his past, he starts looking for absolute truths that would transcend all transient happiness and misery, and eventually finds everything he needs in music. The protagonist’s story is linearly narrated via 6 tracks set in different genres catering to different emotions he experiences.

“Pentastic”, the 3rd song in the album storyline, is a quirky song split into three parts, signifying the three states - deep sleep, dream, and waking, and how the protagonist is searching in all three states for something he has lost. By the end of the song, he realizes that all three states are in essence one, which is highlighted visually and aurally by the main commonality in the states, which is the search itself. This is followed by an intense inward journey in the rest of the songs in the album.

 

4. ZÈN TAN, France, ETIENNE GUIGNARD, (3:54)
In a metaphorical world, a man finds his inner child, his joy and innoncence, but also his greatest fear : being separated from him again.

 

5. Pilgrim, Uruguay, Alejo Schettini, (3:29)
A little pigeon looks at the sky and begins to fly towards its most important journey.

 

6. Nomad, Iran, Islamic Republic of
,Amir Vafaei (1:27)
Dance animation

 

7. Streetlight People, Australia, Emily Pink Dwyer, (2:25)
Emily Pink is an animator and illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia, with big ideas and a love of all things spooky or cartoon. Streetlight People is their first solo film, made as their thesis film for their Bachelor of Animation, in collaboration with Sinner’s Heist, the musicians behind the titular song.

 

8.Blossoming in the mist, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Soroush Dianati, (4:03) 

 

9.Happy Birthday, Greece, Naya Filaou, (3:58)
A lullaby gently guides us to a stage of theater, where the tale of a puppet unfurls. Amidst life's pivotal moments, she confronts and conquers diverse trials. Life, akin to a theater's grand stage, lays bare our souls to the world's gaze. Navigating past the shackles it imposes, and the daunting specter of time, we venture forth into each ensuing chapter, embraced by all and everything we hold dear.

 

10. King of Sea, France, Stéphane Berla, (5:26)
On the coast of the Finistère department, a sailor bids farewell to his family. Soon he must go back to sea and this time he will not return... Years later, the boy who has become a sailor himself must also sail away. In the depths of the sea, a ghost from the past catches up with him...

 

11. Help Yourself, France, Mayrton Ouitusisa, Lucas Ponzio, Maé Almayrac, Margaux Latapie, Romane Dejardin, (4:46)
Mat, a fast-food waiter, discovers by chance that he is a fictional character, a simple secondary character in an action series, in which Hari, a flamboyant defender of Justice, plays the main role. But Mat, who can now see the future events of the script, knows that she is bound to die. He will try to warn her, to defy the odds of the script…

 

12. Coloratura, Canada, Mario Contreras, (2:25)
Coloratura is a cartoon based on the minimal style of the UPA animation, mixing art, animation and jazz to create a symphony as the main character, Artie, bumps into different musical instruments.

 

 

13. Dawn, Greece, Valasia Dodulu, (7:21)
"Dawn" is an animated music video created by Valasia Dodulu, for Manolis Christodoulou's new music album. It is about the need to look for hope in the dark times of war. A child's tears and a paper boat will travel until the dawn will come again.

 

14. Abubilla, Spain, Rafael Vidal Vidal Altabert, Julián Gómez Caballero, (2:44)
Abubilla is a bird that lives happily in the Maravilla forest with all the animals. But one day the hand of man endangers his environment and he talks to the moon so that together they can sow life into his world.

 

 

15. Among the flowers, Russian Federation, Valeriia Sobolevski, (2:44)
The film tells the story of a fly who flies into a greenhouse and meets there a Venus flytrap

16. Chronicity, Bosnia and Herzegovina,Aleta Rajic, (3:17)

17. As long as your legs last, Brazil, Alisson Thiago do Nascimento, (1:49)
"As Long as Your Legs Last" by Alisson Thiago do Nascimento, is an animation in sequential format - frame by frame. Where it narrates the daily life of the protagonist Alisson, waking up, drinking his coffee and going skateboarding through city.
The culture that surrounds the Skateboarding universe is an open field. Initially in its practice and for its use of the city's elements, whether for its value as an immaterial object, whether in the relationship of individual and collective competition, these enhance creativity and the identity process, in different areas and languages.The production of this animation is a reflection of my life, in which, there is already 15 years that I see, consume, practice and produce in the world of Skateboarding. As Long as Your Legs Last uses the fragile universe of art, which consisted of
creation of 1032 drawings for a sequential narrative, of everyday life life, presenting some maneuvers that took me years to learn and execute.
In this animation, Skateboard is mine life and I will practice as far as my legs last.

 

18. Zizanizzz, France, Nicolas Bianco-Levrin, (1:47)
A sheet of music was left on a composer's work desk. A music-loving fly comes to place its paw there.
She twirls and begins to sow discord. At the other end, a spider does not intend to miss such a great opportunity to feast.