Suzdal-2018: 20 new discoveries

The Suzdal open animation festival traditionally shows almost all of the cash of Russian cartoons, shot over the past year. At first-in the 90s-the competition included literally everything that was shot, and now, by the 23rd festival, there are so many animations that only part of the competition falls into the competition. But the other part is controversial, but of interest - you can see on a large screen in out -of -competition mode, and everything else is to see in the festival media. So, if you want, in four days in Suzdal you can get a complete idea of ​​what is happening in animation, well, to understand where the matter is moving.

This year, the main and obvious result of the festival was the feeling that a new generation had come, and some qualitatively different level. The programs of debut and student films were shocking, a professional rating, which in Suzdal is valued higher than the choice of the jury, for the most part consisted of films of young and very young directors (among the winners there were even freshmen of Scream S Chool , who made screensavers for last year's Icarus). There were authors whose films are free from following the canons of narrative Soviet animation and are clearly inspired by what is happening today in the world mediaart and illustrations, with tradition, young authors also work in a new way. If we add to this that the festival hall was crowded with the young public, mostly specially arrived to watch a new movie and incredibly violently and joyfully reacted to films, it is clear why these days there was a feeling that we were all in the happy world of the future.

In addition to the author’s cinema at the open festival, more and more commercial - full meters are shown every year (this time there were six), series and advertising. At full meters, it is clear that in the animation industry there is an active increase in volumes and skills, which is still impossible to say about quality (though this time was one completely special author’s full meter, which should be said separately). And the series find that the directors, both well-known and once gave hopes for their debuts, completely lose their face in production projects (and they have nowhere to go-this is the only way to earn money). But the program of custom animation - advertising, clips, educational films, etc. - was very strong and also completely young; Apparently, on a super -short meter, customers are not afraid to take a chance and let the authors offer original solutions.