In "A Splash of Colour", colour takes the leading role! Embark on an exciting journey through animation and experimental film that will even take you way back to the earliest days of film, and discover the different aesthetic possibilities and effects of colour with five unique short films. Thanks to the Cinemini Activity Cards that accompany the program, after each film you will have the opportunity to solve exciting tasks together or be inspired by the films and get creative yourself – with a proper splash of colour, of course!

A Colour Box by Len Lye | United Kingdom | 1935 | 3 min.

Images become notes, sequences become tunes, colours become moods, the movement of a graphical element becomes the change of pitch, film becomes visual music.

The Little Cousteau  by Jakub Kouřil | Czech Republic | 2014 | 8 min.

Come along on an underwater adventure in a snow-covered town in this pastel tribute to French filmmaker and ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau.

Things by Femke Schaap | Netherlands | 2005 | 2 min.

Can you still recognize the things in this pile of everyday objects even when they lose their colour and structure and become mere shapes?

The strange behavior of a wheel  by unknown | Italy | 1908 | 3 min.

While trying to repair a horse-drawn carriage, a boy grabs the carriage wheel and pushes it down a hill heading for town.

The six sisters Dainef by unknown | France | 1902 | 3 min.

Six sisters perform several breath-taking acrobatic tricks on a stage that resembles the chamber of a palace with a garden in the background. The film was originally shot in black and white but was hand coloured afterwards.