This experimental animated film was formed from original visual art work, poetry and live action combined using digital techniques.The film reflects the journeys of a number of artists with disabilities from childhood to adulthood. The rich and varied animation explores the themes of kindness and spite, ignorance and understanding, "A journey that varies wherever we go... different people with different attitudes, some can greet you, others turn their heads away."
This experimental animated film was formed from original visual art work, poetry and live action combined using digital techniques.The film reflects the journeys of a number of artists with disabilities from childhood to adulthood. The rich and varied animation explores the themes of kindness and spite, ignorance and understanding, "A journey that varies wherever we go... different people with different attitudes, some can greet you, others turn their heads away."
Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.
A non-verbal, autistic girl and a chatty boy are partnered on a canoeing trip. To complete their journey across an urban lake, they must both learn how the other experiences the world.
A nameless drifter navigates a barren landscape punctuated by satellite dishes, radio towers and droning airplanes. Stopping periodically in anonymous hotel rooms, she makes attempts to connect to an unidentified second party.
A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nutcase of a Jewish mother, he's ridiculed and looked down upon by his friends, hypocrites who run with violent gangs and the Italian Mafia, and a shallow Black girl who makes her living downtown with the pimps and pushers. The cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, depleted by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God.
A group of dated appliances, finding themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to seek out their eight year old 'master'.
The short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.
A late-night encounter on a New York City street leads to a profound connection between a teen-in-need and a DeafBlind man.
A lonely typographer with a cruel speech impediment but an eloquent inner voice must face his greatest fear.
Mater finds a small UFO called Mator and they have a night out. Later, when Mator is captured by military forces, Mater sneaks up and saves him with the help of Lightning McQueen and the UFO's mother.
Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.