Surreal short film by director Luigi Zanuso.
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Stop motion short film explaining what stop motion is, specially made for an exhibition about STOP MOTION which is presented by Art Brutal at Annecy for the International Animation Film Festival 2014.
What is Stop Motion?
Pivoting around a novelist's fascinating story of a magic mirror--the extra-dimensional gate to a haunting realm--a Literature student locates her house, intent on crossing over. Will he ever find out what lurks hidden on the other side?
To the Other Side
"The Breach" - Élise a young scout is brutalized and harassed by her companions, discovers through a door, another world that will allow her to quell revenge. A world where emotions have an impact on the real world.
La Brêche
The donni de fora are women with supernatural powers in Sicilian folklore, reimagined here as bike-riding teenagers that rock the city with mischievous enchantment.
U Scantu
English National Ballet has been performing a version of Nutcracker every year since 1950. In 2020, the tradition lives on. Join Clara and her enchanted Nutcracker on a hot air balloon ride to the Land of Snow, and enjoy iconic scenes featuring the Sugar Plum Fairy, Snowflakes, Flowers and more. As London moved into Tier 4 COVID-19 restrictions with the subsequent cancellation of all scheduled performances of Nutcracker Delights, the Company decided to film and share a recording of this specially-adapted production with its audience as a thank you at the close of its 70th Anniversary year. Nutcracker Delights was filmed on 18 and 19 December at the London Coliseum by Michael Nunn and William Trevitt.
Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet
Young bootblack Tupah embarks on a frantic quest to find his uncle, Jacinto, lost in the Averno. In a dangerous journey through the underworld, myth and reality get endlessly intertwined and the death-loaded night in La Paz unveils the darkest and most surreal face of the imaginary of the Andes.
Averno
The Tale of Sir Richard is a short film about the brave and gallant knight, Sir Richard, who is hell bent on slaying a dragon, if only it weren’t for a particularly embarrassing problem with his sword.
The Tale of Sir Richard
A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.
Orphea
A woman who cares for her disabled twin, diligent with each injection, sacrificing her entire life for someone else. But it seems her diligence isn't safety for her sister... but from her sister.
Chloe and Attie
Perfectly identical girls in military uniforms, work day and night. A matriarchal and oligarchic society. What would happen if we replaced bees with humans? Anna observes the universe of her hive. Not being able to consent to the violence that surrounds her, she will have to make a radical decision.
Brutalia, Days of Labour
When Muxe, a Two Spirit Indio, is invited to Europe to attend an ethnological exhibition he falls head over heels in love with Gonzo, a member of a provincial rock band. The two men become entangled in a turbulent adventure involving Cloud People and an ancient clay vase that is reputed to contain a secret message. But before they can overcome the barriers that their different cultures present and confess their love to each other they have a mystery to solve. A secret that once revealed has the power to change life on Earth forever.
Muxe
BRISÉE
Series of 32 10-minute episodes, in which each episode corresponds to the adaptation of an illustrated album from the editorial catalog of OQO editora. Aimed at a target from 4 to 9 years old, this series has the collaboration of prestigious animators from different countries, who make Never Ending Tales an original proposal, which brings us closer to stories from around the world through different plastic and musical manifestations.
Never Ending Tales
A story about a time traveler and the search for the first cell of one's existence. 'The Dead', played by Peter Murphy searches for and finds a 'Grid' which enables him to watch the beginning of his life -from the moment of conception.
The Grid
Anorak tells the story of Yàahl, a young girl from the Haida tribe in Alaska who is fascinated by birds. Her dream ? Being able to fly with them.
Anorak
Lonely Noreen daydreams of being whisked away by a square-jawed cowboy, but her reality is far more mundane. She lives virtually enslaved on the family farm in the North of England, with only her father's demeaning comments about her weight as company. So it's no wonder that she pays attention to the first thing that's ever shown her any kindness, even if it is an abandoned 60 year-old talking tractor. A friendship quickly develops, Noreen sets about restoring the tractor, and together they hatch a plan to turn the tables on her father.
Ghost in the Machine
"Altitude 3.200" asks the question and provides the premise of what would happen if a group of young people----poor, rich, discontented, bored--- were given an idyllic community in which to live. Call it a colony. Call it a village. Call it one-world. Mainly call it a futile exercise in changing human nature, mores, culture and attitudes at any altitude. For t'ain't no time before clashing personalities, petty jealousy, violence and---that old demon---love create havoc. And isn't much longer before they become re-united in the face of an avalanche that threatens to destroy them. They all return to whence they came, sadder and wiser.
Youth in Revolt
Charlie, a little boy with ridiculous big teeth, always hides behind his scarf to avoid his bully classmates. But one day, his scarf flies away into the forest, and pushes him to start on a magical journey!
Charlie’s Buck Teeth
A couple descends through a forest in the surroundings of Valparaíso. Suddenly, old ghosts begin to appear between them: the trees and the water begin to sing provoking the emergence of a dreadful element.
The intruder
Jeannot, a young boy living in the countryside with his mother and grandfather, ventures into the forest at night to pick a fern flower before the cock crows.
The Fern Flower
In a hidden place, beyond a door no one dares to open, a dark plan is about to unfold. When the Great Wizard unleashes his power, you will be swept into a vortex of pure madness and begin a journey you will never forget. You will soar over dizzying mountains, face colossal dragons ready to unleash their fury, dive into digital worlds where gigantic fruits rain down like meteors, rush through torrential forests, unstoppable rapids, and deep space ruled by an insatiable black hole. But there is one thing the Great Wizard did not foresee. A force greater than any spell; a force that knows no fear; an energy no magic can extinguish: the fun of Prezzemolo!!!
Prezzemolo e l'Enigma Svelato
Sad Diva Lands on the Moon follows the escapism of May, a young girl caught up in the turmoil of her country. While she stays at home, doing laundry or surfing the internet, her emotions take an imaginative run in absurd scenarios to forget the reality she leaves behind. Her journey takes her to the moon, while she tries to save a brainwashed, sad diva stuck in an old propaganda TV show.
Sad Diva Lands On The Moon
An unseen presence traverses a snowy landscape and enters a series of winter homes, in which slumbering occupants go eerily undisturbed.
May We Sleep Soundly
Mischievous Irish boy's encounter with a leprechaun.
Shamus
Kaspar is a young filmmaker willing to develop his projects in cinema. He passes his time drawing, writing and making up his own imaginary world, that day by day seems to be getting more and more real. He shares his thoughts with Helix, a young photographer interested in death and the capture of images, with Schulz, a doll maker who is obsessed by the theories about creation and dummies, and with Bertolt, a fellow filmmaker that never got over the failure of his first movie, destroyed by a short-sighted production team.
Krokodyle
The story is about Donald McGlone, the boy with chocolate fingers (his fingers are made of chocolate). Because he is different, Donald has no friends and other children shun him. He grows up isolated and alone. Later he keeps a low profile working as an elevator operator, wearing gloves to conceal his secret. One day Molly, the girl he secretly adores, is trapped by a huge bear in the office. Donald gets a chance to make his difference become his greatest asset, if he is brave enough to save her. The moral of the story: If you are different, don't worry about what others may think, say or do, just be yourself and your dreams may come true.
The Boy with Chocolate Fingers
A Martian is sentenced to visit earth to cure a selfish man.
A Message from Mars
Daniel is a man who wants to escape from a reality that overwhelms him. That is why he imagines, invents and lies for pleasure. Such invention will lead him to live strange and unusual adventures, giving rise to a magical comedy about everyday life seen through his eyes.
El extranger-oh! de la calle Cruz del Sur
The relationship between beautiful Emilia (Elizabeth Cervantes) and her imaginative young daughter, Alicia, is tested in this understated Mexican drama. Disoriented after moving to a new apartment and left to herself when her mother starts bringing men home, Alicia takes refuge in dreams that soon become nightmares, especially after she begins to fear that her mom has become possessed by the vampirish man next door. With a keen eye for the rhythms and struggles of contemporary Mexican family life, this film illuminates the secret worlds of lonely children while never straying from its true subject: the uncommon love between a single mother and her child.
More Than Anything in the World
On a bleak Christmas Eve, a lonely young girl who lives in an oppressive orphanage embarks upon a colorful, fantastical journey of self discovery and love.
Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker!
Kate wants to create content for her youtube channel «The Kate Horror Stories» on the famous Untersberg near Munich, where many paranormal activities take place. She takes her brother Kevin with her and quickly discovers something is wrong.
Untersberg
Pourquoi les arbres perdent leurs feuilles à l'automne?
Mary, a recent graduate, travels from U.S.A to Spain for an internship at a mental hospital. In addition to facing the difficulties of living in a foreign country, she will meet the first patient she must treat. This will affect her in a way she hadn't expected.
S - El legado Maldito
Short film about the ninth circle of hell as described in Dante's Inferno
Der 9. Kreis der Hölle
An elderly fisherman dedicates his life to capturing a monster in the river, under the illusion that - once captured - his father may finally forgive him or even love him.
The Day After
In turn, the statues come to life, dancers like dolls, perform on a table, the women metamorphose from butterflies, and babies are born from giant flowers. These scenes are a series of tableaux which are beautifully incoherent, changing and diverse as in real life, where it is necessary to have a certain belief in metaphysics for the soul to be transported into a perpetual motion, migrating from one another and into the stars.
Métempsycose
Guinart, el Asesino del Pincel
Action ou Esquive 2 : Partie Finale
The back garden of an insomniac night worker's house is mysteriously in darkness during the blaring sun of summer. The exhausted woman is drawn to the peaceful night of this mystery.
The Darkness Without
Lilith's biggest sexual fantasy is to turn into a monster and devour her sex partner. Her one night stand Leopold is not very sympathetic towards this idea, so she needs to take the matters into her own hands to fulfill her fantasies. So she decides to buy a hundredweight of minced meat and build herself a mince prince. But how to bring him to life?
The Mince Prince
Le jour où un zèbre devint tigre
A young witch tries to right the fatal wrong of killing her brother.
One heart for one heart
Jacob & Wilhelm - Weltenwandler
Robert spends his nights hunting people for execution with his anarchic gang. But when he falls in love with one of his victims, he sees a new life open up. Can he escape from his life as a trained killer in time to save her?
The Dying Eye
Mr. Blackwell discovers a relic that informs him about Blythe (as Ayesha, or "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed"), who loved his father and others in the ancestral line. Blackwell accompanies pal Heinrich George and handyman Tom Reynolds to Arabia.
She
Plumero
Shoppers flock to a supermarket during the summer holidays to take advantage of the summers sales. But one shopper, a shy and quiet transsexual, is about to experience something beyond her her wildest imagination.
Today's Specials
Awakened from his resting place, a forgotten Celtic deity sets in motion a dreamlike odyssey through an otherworld of literary obsession and secret knowledge. A maddened philatelist seeks to destroy a stamp's second copy, an Enlightenment-era salon becomes lodged between two séances, a librarian laments an unreadable book, and Saint-Exupéry washes ashore in Spanish Florida.
Cherrylawn
A telephone conversation between two lovers who discuss the passing of time.
L'indifférence du temps
Aladin Il Musical
An old merchant gets lost in the forest and arrives at a magnificent garden where he sits and picks some magnificent roses. Suddenly, the hideous Beast emerges from the ground in a burst of flames and condemns him to death unless one of his three daughters agrees to marry him.
Beauty and the Beast
Anouk, a little orphan, meets the Grim reaper and becomes a fan. A love that the servant of Death will have to cope with.
To Life
Jealous, racist, greedy, vengeful and desperate, the villagers of Reunion Island place their fate in the hands of a sorcerer, Monsieur Caron, whose son suffers from a mysterious curse and whose only remedy is a very special offering.
After 6 O'Clock
The ultimate manual when it comes to the proper handling of the living dead. Recommended behavioural patterns in case of imminent Zombie epidemics are explained in comprehensible steps and vividly executed.
Zombiefication
Living in total isolation, a young couple have allowed their lives to become totally governed by their physical needs and urges. Everything they feel is expressed physically, rather than through talking, and no emotion is left repressed. However, upon discovering that the woman is pregnant, their feelings of shock and fear manifest themselves in ways neither of them can control.
Storm House
“From the Life of a Peddler” is a collection of tales located in the hills of the Lausitz. The movie is made by the last active director of real silouhette animation movies from the DEFA. His new movie stands in the tradition of Lotte Reiniger.
From the Life of a Peddler
Unfolds the intertwined fates of a young girl, a blacksmith and a malevolent water sprite.
Who's Afraid of the Water Sprite?
Three goddesses, Venus, Juno and Minerva each of whom claims to be the most beautiful, call a shepherd "Paris" and ask him to decide the question and to give an apple which he holds in his hand on the one whom he considers to be the prettiest.
The Judgment of Paris
A particularly vicious Father Time with a hit-list in his Book of Doom seeks to wipe out characters brought to life from fabric patterns. This neat concept for a cartoon washing powder commercial can be credited to Alexander Mackendrick, who worked at the J Walter Thompson advertising agency before making films at Ealing and then Hollywood.