The Pride of Strathmoor
The Pride of Strathmoor
Pilots on the Way Home
Pilots on the Way Home
The Master
The Master

Screened as part of NZIFF 2015

Dark Hearts 

World

Sex, violence and scabrous visions of human infamy rule in this international panorama of R-rated animated shorts, including acclaimed new work from several masters of the art.

Jul 27

Paramount Bergman

Jul 28

Paramount Bergman

Jul 29

Paramount Bergman

Paramount Bergman

90 minutes

If Uncle Walt wound up creating the happiest place on earth, the dark legion of anti-Walts down through the decades have mined the psychic depths and brought forth visions of mayhem and woe – some of them with exacting precision, others in splurges of sheer violence. This programme is the realm too of scabrous satire, where lynch mobs and lunching lawyers get what’s coming. There are no happy endings here and much that has the potential to shock and offend.

The Pride of Strathmoor 2014

Director

USA
9 minutes

WARNING: Contains strobing effects
Georgia, USA in the summer of 1927; pastor John Deitman descends into madness.

Pilots on the Way Home 2014

Directors

16 minutes

A dark meditation on male-female relations from two living masters of the art form.

The Master 2015

Director

18 minutes

Things don’t necessarily get better once the victimised assume control.

Splintertime 2014

Director

11 minutes

The latest monstrous masterpiece from the Baron of Bizarro. His crew ‘Thee Wreckers’ winds up in a nightmarish ambulance ride to freedom or oblivion.

Hipopotamy 2015

Director

13 minutes

A canvas of velvet cruelty plays out in a tranquil paradise, bringing to the surface impulses that are as old as life itself.

Trusts and Estates 2013

Director

USA
5 minutes

Four lawyers engage in a bantering lunch conversation, disgorging their empathy-free world views.

House of Unconsciousness 2015

Director

11 minutes

A man must navigate a bizarre hell of his own making if he is to save everything that matters to him.