Short Films ANIMATION
Swim | Animated Short Film
2017
Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC 2018), Breakthrough and Innovation - Finalist.
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Selected for screening for International Animation Day (IAD 2023) celebration by ASIFA chapters: ASIFA Central (USA), ASIFA Hellas (Greece), and ASIFA Korea (Nelson Shin Animation-Art Museum).
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Swim is an extraordinary journey. The fish swims from the depths of the ocean towards the surface. The little fish glimmers magically in the darkness. When the fish reaches the surface, it jumps with joy, unaware of what lies above.
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This film is made using the Traditional Method of animation, using straight-ahead animation. The medium of Soft Pastels over Black Chart Paper is used to add to the narrative. The erased drawings of the previous frames, gives the fish a beautiful trail.
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Direction & Story: Shweta Marathe
Editing: Ram
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The Book of the City of Ladies | Collaborative Seminar
2019
This is the result of an online seminar that simultaneously took place in several art schools and institutions around the world based on The Book of the City of Ladies written by Christine de Pizan in 1405.
The author confronts the misogyny that characterized not only the literature of her day in Europe but also the representation of women reaching back across the ages.
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Team: Shweta Marathe, Anagha Bhat, Kajol Deorukhkar, Ram, Saksham Singh, Shruti Jeyakumar & Tushaar Sonkar.
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Guided by: Isabel Herguera, Shekhar Mukherjee
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Screened at Chitrakatha'19, Design Olympics, NID AP
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Duration: Our Team (3:33 - 4:53 MIN)
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Collaborating Institutes
KHM, Germany
Central Academy of Fine Arts, China
Technical University of Kenya
Loyola Marymount University, USA
Universidad Nacional de, Colombia
National Institute of Design AP, India
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I sing in the now | Animated Short
2019
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This film is animated from the point of view of a Cuckoo bird in a wall clock. The clock doors open and close as the Cuckoo chimes in a café, through the drain of a suburban street, in a tunnel and so on. The Cuckoo sings through space and time, progressively landing up in unexpected places, almost intruding the privacy until it lands in a dark forest filled densely with fireflies.
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Direction and Animation: Shweta Marathe, Kajol Deorukhkar, Mansi Singh, Mihika Pramanik & Pratiksha Jha.
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Guided by: Kunal Kundu
Grapes are Sour | Animated Short
2020
A stop-motion animated short film, which combines many children's fables. I throws light on the increasingly capitalist world of today - unfairness, theft, exploitation, privatization of the planet and its resources.
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Our team: Shweta Marathe, Anushka Khalkho, Ayisha Shahul, Kajol Deorukhkar, Kiran Dhanpal, Gauri Abbattista, Parth Jhawar, Prachi Jogan, Pratiksha Jha, Ram, Rishikes Siva, Tejas Chahande, Vijaya Kant.
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Project Mentors: Shravan Arvind, Trisha Banerjee
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Super Colony | Animated Short
2020
Hunger is the consequence of the world's simplest problem - Food Wastage. We have enough to feed everyone but lose a lot because of wastage. The film tells the story of a super colony, which learns to line in oneness.
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Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts. You think you are a person, but you are a Colony.
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Direction & Animation: Shweta Marathe
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Super Colony Trailer
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ASIFA celebrates its 60th anniversary. As part of International Animation Day, asking each chapter and partners to create
a 2 minute animated story that gives insight about what makes them unique, what is significant to them as people of their region, culture, land, and language.
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Spiritus Mundi: Animating the World
Name of collective project by Asifa International (inspired by the poet William Butler Yeats)
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Participating Teams
ASIFA Australia, ASIFA BIH, ASIFA Egypt, ASIFA Finland, ASIFAFrance, ASIFA Hellas, ASIFA Iran, ASIFA India, ASIFA Lithuania, ASIFA USA Central, ASIFA USA East, ASIFA USA South, ASIFA Switzerland, ASIFA Poland.
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Creative Producer: Vani Saraswati Balgam
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Guided by: Sekhar Mukherjee
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Direction and Animation: Shweta Marathe, Ayan Choudhury, Arjun Patel, Anushree Agarwal, Bratadeep Sahoo, Disha Agarwal, Reetika Panigrahi, Rohan Anil, Shekhar Mukharjee, Tushaar Sonkar.
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Sound and Music: Kaushal Raghuraman
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Editing: Karthik Rao
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Duration: Asifa India (11:00 - 13:22 MIN) Cat Chase Sequence
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ASIFA INTERNATIONAL | Animation Promotion
2020
