Mundos Digitales 2006 Awards

Curiously I´ll start with the last event of the Festival, shortfilms awards. I´ve got to say I didn´t expect so much cuality, I´ve been surprised very much. All the shorts seems to me very good. Jury spokesman, Jordi Bares, has declared the serious difficulties that members have had to find the winner of this year.

The winner of the Best National Animation Short category was Daniel Cánovas Juárez´s "Caballos de Tiza" ("Chalk Hourses"). A beautiful enterteinment of course in which the carefulness for composition and color brights with great narrative efficacy. You can see the teaser, some images and other curiosities in his website.


Other shorts to take into account this category in my opinion are Daniel Martinez Lara´s "Changes", and Marco Besas´ "Leyenda de los Espantapájaros" ("the Legend of the Scarecrow". You can find more information, trailers and images in their respective sites.


The Best Animation Short Film Award was for a real show of great skill, 458mn by the Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg. I´ve ever seen how Giger´s biomechanic, Chris Cunningham´s sensitive machinery and Nature´s subtlety would be able to melt in such astonishing images as they´re seen in this short. The lighting, the mechanics life models of the snails and the realistic animation make this short to be a visual joy. Don´t stop visiting its web site in order to see some images and the teaser.


The Especial Prize of the Jury was for Supinfocom´s 90º, experimental short of large sensibility in which a cubic character is becoming into other shapes, try to find his head in a geometric world.


The Especial Public Prize, was conceded by anonymous vote from every single attendant at the Festival for a crazy short which it didn´t stop producing burst of laughters during its projection. More precisely, "Supermoine" of SupamonkS.



Don´t you remind Kevin Smith as Silent Bob the invader with the bonnet which puts "Chef" on it ?

To finish I´d loke to make stand a short out that it wasn´t rewarded but it worths to mention it for its fulfilment, although the story has a lot of black comedy that most people don´t like it too much. It is a question of "Fallen Art" by Tomek Baginski, acclaimed author in 2002 for "The Cathedral". The shortfilm is about how a high military man throws others soldiers away from a spring-broad so that they smash against the floor, depending on that gruesome pose of the corpse, other character takes a picture of it and gives the result to a big fat guy that will put in order hundreds of images in order to see an animation of those corpses dancing.