Already three days into the New Zealand International Film Festival, with animated shorts galore. The Animation NOW! section of the festival rounds itself off with Dark Hearts, a series of films described as bleak, sexual, creepy, macabre. Check the website for scheduling details, but here is the run-down for the Dark Hearts programme.
The Inverted Peak (2016) Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod, Tom Angell
UK – 5 minutes
Hadarim (2016) Shlomi Yosef
Israel – 5 minutes
Dead Horses (2016) Marc Riba, Anna Solanas
Spain – 7 minutes
Call of Cuteness (2017) Brenda Lien
Germany – 4 minutes
Open Casket (2016) Noah Malone
USA – 3 minutes
The Pain (2016) Nadya Fedotova
Russia – 5 minutes
How Are You Today? (2016) Sophie Markatatos
UK – 7 minutes
Fruitbat (2015) Jesse Simpson
USA – 5 minutes
Flies in May (2016) Caroline Jiang
Australia – 5 minutes
Roommates (2016) Jamie Wolfe
USA – 3 minutes
Candide “Home, Sweet Home” (2015) Zsuzsanna Kreif, Olivér Hegyi
Hungary – 7 minutes
Reflecting Black (2016) Jan Utecht
Germany – 7 minutes
Johnno’s Dead (2016) Chris Shepherd
UK – 8 minutes
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