AnimationWorld Magazine — September 21, 2017
OIAF Day 2: ‘Torrey Pines,’ ‘Lu Over the Wall,’ Sweden’s ‘The Burden,’ and More!
It’s unseasonably warm this week here in Ottawa, but we managed to stay cool in between meetings on Day 2 of OIAF, hiding from the sun inside the ByTowne Cinema through four gala screenings.
First up was Seattle, WA-based director Clyde Petersen’s stop-motion feature Torrey Pines, which combines a poignant coming-of age story with a cinematic tour of America backed by a killer soundtrack.
Next, we lined up for the second short film competition screening, which managed to deliver even more of a wallop than the stellar opening night. Eleven shorts were screened in all, beginning with Canadian animator Steven Woloshen’s dazzling Casino, a non-narrative ode to his father and his love of gambling. Other highlights included the hand-drawn and rotoscoped Lotus Lantern from RISD student Xingpei Shen, The Full Story from the Oscar-nominated duo Daisy Jacobs & Chris Wilder, the 2D and 3D animated Sog by Jonatan Schwenk from the Offenbach Academy of Arts and Design, and Swedish director Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s stop-motion animated apocalyptic musical The Burden.