Erik Mondrian
For the Light of Other Shores is a series of eleven short art films—obliquely interconnected and running 30 minutes in total—in which I combined vocal recordings I made of my writing with footage I shot of various virtual places in the online world of Second Life, exploring themes ...
Henrike Lendowski
Diminuendo visualizes the detrimental effects plastic waste has on marine life and the environment from an emotional point of view. Through visual metaphors, the viewer is guided through sceneries that get more and more covered by plastic. To emphasize the contrast between the ...
Arnaud LAFFOND
stay home is a graphic logbook, which I try to keep by putting my feelings into it during this quarantine. How I perceive it and there feel from day to day. By putting my own experiences and the feelings of people around me that I have on the phone or other social networks.
It is...
Wednesday Kim
Isolation is been a part of my life.
Since I moved out from big city, my isolation began.
And I became more awkward in social life.
Yes, awkwardness in social life.
Relay on online. Feels more real in online.
Hey, I rather be online.
The gap between social media and real life...
Kim Hokwon
Prime Minister Abe goes into KFC(Kennedy Fried Chicken) stores to buy chicken, but chicken is already sold out. At the next table, presidents from various countries start playing cards to win the last chicken basket.
Franz Impler
The character of a tennis video game is drifting out of his own game into an out-of-bounds world. Searching for his lost tennis-racket he finds himself in a trip trough a surreal video game world. The short film discovers the arbitrariness of boundaries and rules and deals with the ...
Joo Young Lee
In Lee’s computer-generated animation Body Keeps the Score (2019), street pigeons become a center of the narrative. The pigeons are not abject and despised birds anymore, but a symbol for resilience and witnesses to normalized deaths. With reference to both Calvino’s Invisible Citi...
Tizzy Canucci
Video art combining visual and sound, a machinima made within Second Life that brings together the work of several artists. The location is the installation 'Isolation' by CapCat Ragu at Ribong Gallery Artspace 1789, which represents the minimalising containment of lockdown and iso...
Dagmar Schürrer
Dagmar Schürrer's two-part video work VIRTUALIZED captivates through its materiality without being material. It seduces through its haptic without being tangible. She disturbs with organic forms and sounds that are largely artificial. The artist's focus is on the virtual, which, ...
Nick Flaherty
Supernova Competition 2020 Honorable Mention
What was once familiar is now unrecognizable. All previous desires are overshadowed by the need to disappear completely.
Geoff Hecht
Supernova Competition 2020 Honorable Mention
Today is an important day for Zak, but everything is going horribly wrong. (When his car won’t start), he has no choice but to use public transportation. During his 8-minute bus ride, Zak goes through a deeply personal metamorphosis and co...
Yibo Xu
Honorable Mention in Supernova Student Shorts program
In order to make a living, a red panda who comes to Tanuki City decides to change his identity. Even though he turns into a tanuki, there are still unforgettable memories deep down in his heart.
Artist Bio:
Yibo Xu, a 2020-graduate ...
Tim Ross
Supernova Competition 2020 Honorable Mention
The film is a period piece which shows the sunny side of the 60s through the eyes of a local Sunshine Pop band who have songs on the radio, but have never broken out of the local scene. This starts out as a "day in the life" view of the band ...
Wyatt Hall and Kaz Fantone
Honorable Mention in Supernova Student Shorts program
NEARSIDERS features Max and Alan, treasure hunters in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, caught in a breakneck chase for earth's most delicious devourable.
Directors' Statement:
"It’s been a fantastic experience to cre...
Kimberly Burleigh
Director's Choice Award of Distinction 2020
Jealousy is an experimental 3D animation. It features an elemental digital construction of the plantation house meticulously described in the seminal 1957 novel La Jalousie by French writer Robbe-Grillet. No characters are depicted in...
Molly Murphy
Honorable Mention World on Fire Program 2020
The world is about to be swallowed by a black hole. Meteorites fall from the sky, ocean waves take on enormous new heights, and chaos abounds in city streets as people confront their looming demise. The world turns to wealthy entrepreneur...
Gustavo Carreiro / Favo Studio
Honorable Mention World on Fire Program 2020
Puberty is a peculiar time, characterised by enormous changes, insecurities and questionable choices. Now imagine if you add a global virus to the mix.
Nat Nichols
Grand Prize award winner Student Shorts Competition 2020
A cyborg named Scott is looking for the perfect gift for a loved one, but not all is well in this futuristic city when he finds his own picture on a wanted poster...
Artist Bio:
"Hi! My name is Natalie Nichols, but you may kno...
Sine Özbilge is the winner of Supernova 2020's coveted Grand Prize Award in the Competition program, for her delirious animation #21xoxo
Festival Founder and Creative Director Ivar Zeile caught up with Sine shortly following the announcement of the award.
Sean Capone
Honorable Mention World on Fire Program 2020
A cartoon virus delivers an upbeat philosophic monologue from deep inside the microbiological realm.
A discussion with Sarah Banks, Director of "I think god is a cloud," one of the Silent Screen compositions for Supernova 2020, as well as "Tunnel of Love" from the program Space Dust curated by Snow Yunxue Fu.
Raquel Meyers
2nd Place Award winner World on Fire Program 2020
‘Inattention’ is a #Teletext based animation made at the Residency Irudika 2020 and, it was finished in confinement on May 3, 2020, in Angoulême.
This project has been possible thanks to the collaboration of Acción Cultural Española...
Ted Wiggin
3rd Place Award Winner Supernova Competition 2020
Animals encounter a ball that gives magical powers and sows conflict between them.
Artist Bio:
Ted makes short films and software for animation. He strives to create new techniques through custom software and to explore their express...
