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Speak is an 11-minute animated film that was known for its intense flicker/strobe effect when shown in London area psychedelic clubs.

At first the mysterious black ship seem to be the rescue from the stormy sea. But soon the rescued castaway starts to realise what is the purpose of the expedition. And the ship follows irresistible its course to the south. Graduation film at the school of arts and design Kassel. Based loosely on the short story of the same titel by A.E. Poe.

Why do we have so many customs and rules to see our loved ones off in the afterlife? A child fascinated by the customs of a funeral in a Moldovan village forgets about the funeral. We follow the child’s imagination assimilating the folkloric traditions, trying to understand what is going on.

Isaree, a young bi-cultural woman starts a journey looking for herself and her place in the world. During her journey, she meets Suta, an old man who offers her shelter during the monsoon season. In a village filled with familiar traditions, her perception of her own differences will be challenged.

In her attempt to escape her past, Huiju relocated to the UK over 11 months ago. However, even after moving to a new country, she found that her nightmares from Korea continued to haunt her. Determined to move forward, she made the decision to confront her memories head-on in a very contemporary way, using dating apps to push the boundaries she had set due to her sexual trauma.

Ghazeleh, a young Iranian woman yearning for freedom and justice, is killed during a protest against Iran's patriarchal regime, among the women of the "Women, Life, Freedom" movement. She films her own death, becoming a posthumous narrator of the story.

Music Video for 'El Texu de Bermiego', song included in Montañas LP.

Throughout the kingdom a legend says that a huge beast will come to eat you when you least expect it.

A blind man awakes in what may be a forest. (What he touches or hears is in color; the rest of the world, when it is visible to us, is in black and white.) First he explores his surroundings. Then fear takes over, what he hears and touches and imagines, frightens him. He gathers his courage to assert himself, almost with bestial intensity. He realizes that people have gathered to watch him as a policeman tries to coax him out of danger.

Ozymandias recites Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem of the same name. Selected AI-generated images and text-to-speech narration - with their vutlure-like generative methods, and already rapidly-dating aesthetics - are placed in parallel to the poem's explorations of legacy, decay, futility, and the future.

As climate change threatens our future, how do we come to terms with the end of our existence?

A BAFTA award nominated animated fable in which the audience, while being entertained, may also learn eight Chinese characters.

A cloud of black dust, one of white dust, and the world.

This is a poetic and animated meditation inspired by two trips the director made to Japan. Images and sounds from daily life as well as recordings of his performances, most notably one with the dancer-choreographer Teita Iwabushi. There is no story as such, but a formal construction with sound and images. What can be seen in Japan when Mount Fuji is invisible, lost in the clouds?

A fable from La Fontaine.

A showman invites patrons to step up to his Kinetoscope-style magic box and glimpse the answers to their most burning questions.

Scientific research is a tortuous path made of discussion and sharing, although frequently solitary. It appears as an overwhelming experience: a splendid and cruel destiny like the illusion of grabbing what is perpetually escaping. “Trovare una via” is an animated short film about research activity: approaching reality through a systematic and creative method, observing the world we are immersed in to understand and learn about it.

Fashion advertisement by Hans Fischerkoesen.

What does a pink cat do in a remote island? Well, starve to death, get stalked by creatures from the depths of the ocean and ride a boat five meters above the water, of course! And best of all: He doesn't even know he's not alone!

Death as a global service provider? Unthinkable! So far Death has thought that too. But then his nephew Cedric had the crazy idea of founding the company AFTER LIFE while his uncle was away. This company takes over the craft of death with the latest technology and markets it worldwide.

If you are sitting comfortably then Archie the Ant will begin his bedtime story, although sadly Archie’s creator left it unfinished. Frank Percy Smith was a true pioneer of natural history filmmaking and a real lover of insects. “Marking time”, as he later put it, between working on educational films he spent two years making this “Bedtime Stories of Archie the Ant” series, which was seemingly never released. The film is left as it was when Smith abandoned work on it. It’s out of sequence, and has repeat alternate takes giving an insight into his working methods. The intertitles are bunched at the end, offering a tantalising glimpse of where the story was going.

A hilarious animated story about three strangers - a cat, a mouse and a sausage - and what transpires when they have to share a small flat in a large city. Based on a 19th century folk tale by the Brothers Grimm.

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

In a monstrous world, a simple pizza order descends into widespread chaos with disastrous consequences.

Olivia, a young woman living abroad, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of reconnecting with her past. But the violence she witnessed as a child has not abated, and the journey rekindles memories that are impossible to reconcile with.

Stripped-back wooden dolls put on the greatest show on Earth via the marvel of stop motion.

Even Pricks is sort of an homage to the repeating loss and gain of an erection—metaphorical or not—as mediated through all the stimuli we humans sort through and judge and despair of throughout the course of any quotidian day. The erection here is the (now nearly as familiar) thumbs up/thumbs down—sliding in and out of frame as a pale, disembodied man’s arm. It pokes up into a floating eye and nostril, and down into a human navel. It’s doused with fluids and submerged. The thumb inflates and deflates, over various backdrops of crumbling structures and hazy rooms. At one point, a very real-looking chimp delivers a string of spoken words in a crisp English accent. His assertive thumbs-up makes an appearance as well. The artist is interested in the potential to express emotion through cold and flawless digital means and plays with the convention of aggressive advertising slogans and film trailers, urging the viewer to “this summer destroy their lives.

A salami wreaks havoc in a kitchen.

James wakes up in the middle of night after a nightmare regarding war and deaths.

‘There’s a Big Bad Wolf’ was based on the wonderful poem by Blue Peter Amazing Authors competition winner Phoebe.

Jean-Pierre Melville's "The Red Circle" is summarised in a one-minute animation.

This mixed-media comedy animation follows Rodger, a young man heading into what should be a routine job interview. When a scheduling mistake made by his original interviewer throws everything off, the fumbling receptionist, Iris, scrambles to rearrange things. Unfortunately, Rodger ends up with Joei, a well-meaning but utterly clueless intern turning the already stressful situation into a chaotic and unpredictable experience.

Short animation representing how death is processed in a small sardinian village.

Nature documentary meets Disney-style cute in this Animaland animated short.

As the years go by / our friendship will never die / you’re gonna see it’s our destiny / you’ve got a friend in me

It's the golden age of piracy. A lone sailor enters an occupied harbour in the heart of the Caribbean. Can he rescue his friends?

Three children and their families have fled from crisis areas and found a new home in Germany. What are their wishes for the future, their dreams? The conversations with the three were turned into animated children’s drawings. We see a schoolkid’s life from their perspective.

Pedro has found a job. A rare occurrence in this period of crisis. That's good news for him and his family. It's true that the job is rather strange. But the important thing is to have a job. Isn't it?

Pomona, a cautious but curious woman, discovers giant Greek statues of Mars, the god of war. Her initial awe turns to playful subversion, but when her increasingly daring acrobatic attempts take an unexpected turn, Pomona must confront the question of what these ancient symbols truly mean for her identity and future.

The Fifth Minute' is the second episode of eight in the series 'Other Realms' by writer, director, animator Jon Coley. Coley was just 17 years old when he made this episode. These 'Other Realms' episodes are tales of strange happenings where the bizarre becomes commonplace, melding atmostpheric soundtracks, stop-motion animation, and sophisticated editing techniques.

Explanation of the genesis of the Universe and live on Earth as well as the developement of human culture.

uffering from consumer’s fever, a young man starts a journey to the end of the world. Paint on glass and collage.

An animated-comic visualisation accompanying the titular 1974 Genesis album, bringing the viewer/listener on a surreal, metaphysical odyssey. It tells the story of Rael, a young New-Yorker, who - along with his brother John - is taken on a bizarre journey of self-discovery, liberation and lethal danger.

A boy and his dog go hunting.

Family of mice help an angel in need retrieve a magic wand from the snow, a hungry owl tries to eat them and later Santa appears.

A man wakes up in a blue room. He's stuck and he can't escape. A window is his only connection to the outer world. It filters the reality in a very mysterious way.

The short film 8BITS shows the struggle between retro 8-bit games and high tech CG games.

A Hungarian girl enjoys a last day with her family before leaving.

Stop-motion animation based on the 2000 AD comic series.

Algren and no De Beauvoir makes Nelson a sad boy in these letters from America. An affair to remember, with distance – initially – no object (plane mailing in fact) in these continental correspondences, monochrome messages that style the times and texts of greats.

“This film, based on the Grimm fairy tale, is a trifle later than Munchausen and The Flying Coffer but more elementary than Cinderella. It completes the number of silhouette films made by the Institut für Kulturforschung.” - The [London] Film Society, December 1928.