David O'Reilly creates animated short films using digital tools. He allows the natural voice of the digital image to speak through hastily rendered polygons, compressions artifacts, and trace elements of the interface.
His short film, Please Say Something, was awarded the Golden Bear at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival, Best Narrative Short at the 2009 Ottawa International Animation Festival and several other awards.
The Irishman makes animations; simple, coarse short films employing a naïve aesthetic – sometimes reminding of children’s drawings, sometimes of the pre-After Effects times of pixelated computer animations. Their narrative thread is short, revealing brief moments of the characters' lives. Like in fables and comics, these characters are usually animals acting in a human way.
The 2008-animation “Octocat adventure” is about a cat with octopus-legs searching for its parents. The series was released under the pseudonym Randy Peters in five parts on Youtube, taking advantage of the viral effects of the medium. The videos featured crude MS Paint animation and a loud, highpitched, child-like voice narrating. When the fifth, final episode was released, it featured an unexpected twist - about 20 seconds into it, the crude sketchy animation switched to intricately crafted 3D with an orchestral soundtrack; and so Randy Peters was revealed to be David O´Reilly.
Biography
*June 1985, Kilkenny, Ireland
/ Education: None
/ Currently lives and works as a filmmaker in Berlin.
Awards
Festivals
/2010 Golden Zagreb Award – Zagreb Animafest
/2010 Best Art Direction – Animage Festival
/2010 Best Animated Film – RiverRun Film Festival
/2010 Best Short Film (obliqua) – Barcelona Intl Short FF
/2010 Best Animated Film – Ann Arbor Film Festival
/2010 Special Mention – Monstra
/2009 Golden Bear for Best Short film – Berlinale
/2009 The Cartoon D’or
/2009 German Film Award (Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis)
/2009 Best Narrative Film – Ottawa Animation Festival
/2009 Grand Prize – Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
/2009 First Prize for Best Short Film – Animadrid
/2009 Best German Film – Oberhausen
/2009 Special Distinction – Annecy
/2009 Silver Dove – DOK Leipzig
/2009 Special Jury Commendation – Encounters
/2009 Special Mention – Animated Dreams Tallinn
/2009 Special Jury Commendation – Filminute
/2009 High Risk Award – Fantoche
/2009 Best Animation – Darklight film festival
/2008 Best Animation – Curtas Vila do Conde
/2008 Special Mention – Berlinale
/2008 Special Mention – Prix Ars Electronica
Other
/2010 Prädikat Besonderes
/2009 Wertvoll Animation Magazine – Rising Star of Animation
/2008 Best Online Animation – Cartoon Brew
/2008 Boards Magazine “Director to Watch”
/2008 Creative Review – “Creative Future Award”
/2008 Creative Review – “One to Watch”
/2006 RES Magazine – Student 10 selection
/2006 Scholarship to Fabrica
Black Lake (Loop 2.12min)
Please say something (10.10min)
????? (0.57min)
RGBXYZ (12.00min)
Wofl2106 (4.00min)
Ident (0.33min)
Dreams (3.00min)
