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Stop-motion animation of a small white doll: the figure grows from a ball of modelling clay, is cut and sewn shut, and then buried and ‘reborn’, among a nest of white granulated sugar and the dark stain of slut’s wool - the fluffy dust that collects under furniture and along skirting boards.
A short film by Walther Ruttmann.
A man enters a corner store trying to obtain ingredients for his dinner. On his way home, creatures follow him - even invading his food. They then invite him on a journey that takes him apart and reassembles him completely.
When Molly is enjoying her summer holidays, her grandmother decides to give her a kitten. The feline happens to be more intrusive than expected.
This is the story of an obsession. Mona Lisa keeps smiling quizzically while our poor hero is pursued by her representation in all its forms, in all places. She smiles at him in a museum, at a bookseller along the banks of the Seine, in the streets, at a café. Enough to drive him up the wall!
A short self-portrait introduces Pavlatova's interest in combining animation and documentary live-action work.
An extremely direct indictment of the ills of contemporary life, sparing little in its brutal satire. Simply, the film uses a human bottom as its synecdoche and central metaphor, beginning by suggesting that 'we have lost the instruction booklet for its use'.
Animated WWI-era comic highlights from the innovative cartoonist George Studdy, creator of Bonzo the dog.
A short film by Bärbel Neubauer.
Searching for the real in the world of the virtual, motivated by an urge to exteriorize the feeling of loss and grief. 3D reconstruction of the kitchen of the film author's grandparents, where they had dinner together every Sunday and talked about death.
The makers of this film have spent the past 3 years and traveled to 14 countries interviewing Politicians, Clinical Psychologists from the United Nations, Spiritual Missionaries and have spoken to ordinary people who have faced extreme adversity. And the questions is posed... Where do we obtain our strength and inner power in a time of crisis? Personal stories of ordinary people from Kenya (Post Election Violence), USA (9/11 Attacks), Israel / Palestine (Political Conflict) and UK (Political Assassination) have been projected in this film in an animated form. The final message that goes in the film is: 'No matter how critical the situation of the world may be, but still there is HOPE for Peace...
An episode from L'oeil du Cyclone, an alternative art program devoted to visual or sonorous curiosities, portraits of artists, artistic movements, but also various rarities, international archives, auteur and documentary films, musical montages, miscellaneous compilations, etc. to new images and taking the form of reports and psychedelic clips, fed images of the most diverse origins, sometimes in synthetic images.
How the LGBTQIA+ community has been reinventing funerary and remembrance rituals to better support and reflect the way people live in community.
The unicorn magically makes all animals colorful - and happy!
A woman who lives with her childhood.
It’s all me, me, me – this experimental animation on the Self wittily wraps up Jung and old philosophies in a Paul Klee-inspired design.
"#iorestoacasa" is a virtual artefact that visualises data relative to the COVID-19 pandemic in the form of a particle system. The most relevant data about the virus outbreak is mapped to variables that modify the shape and colour of the system. "#iorestoacasa" was conceived and developed during the ‘lockdown’that was introduced in Italy to combat the virus outbreak. At the beginning of hisconfinement, Spagnuolowatched the news to hear updates on the virus situation. However,like many others, hewas soonso overwhelmed by all the numbers, that they stopped making sense. That’s when hehad the idea to take the same data that made himfeel so uneasy and represent it in a more soothing way. The title of this work, which translates to ‘stay home’, is a tribute to the communal effort that permitted a haltto the spread of the virus and relieved pressure on the healthcare system.
Celebrating urban bird song, a blackbird finds its voice in the streets of Manchester.
This visually stunning short film delves into a vivid, microscopic world teeming with shimmering organisms, flowing shapes, and synchronized movements that seem alive. Through intricate visuals and audio-reactive design, the film immerses viewers in the rhythms of an imagined microcosmos. Yet, an ironic revelation emerges: this universe is not natural but the creation of artificial intelligence. With a mix of wonder and humor, this short film blurs the boundaries between reality and machine interpretation, offering a thought-provoking look at how computer algorithms reimagine the hidden beauty of life.
Two ex-lovers meet again after a few years being apart. Electrified by the encounter, they decide to spend the night together.
When teenager Felix, from a deadbeat Brooklyn home, is asked by Mr. H, the kindly corner store owner, to mind his dog while he's away, it's up to Felix to either reciprocate the benevolence Mr. H has always shown him, or perpetuate the neglect handed down as a family legacy.
Seraphina is lost in the strange Garden. She asks the plants for help. An animated read-along celebrating the prophetic wisdom of more-than-human world.
Dr. Lhomme, asleep in his bed, is dreaming himself as an explorer. He goes to the discovery of the jungle and discovers a fascinating and unknown world.
After the local MP/Mayor of a british town goes missing, 7 teens are invited to Lawton Estate, the location where, 162 years earlier, author Cooper Lawton died in a housefire after killing his cowriter, James Logan. However, as the night progresses, the guests are roped into a new story with the same man, back from the dead.
During a scorching summer in the village, an old woman tries to bring back her late husband by means of twisted rituals.
But what can they see through this hole? Crowds of people, individuals, individuals in a crowd, partition walls, buildings, bugs, an intruder, the battle... The beginning or the end of a non-systematic system.
Dedicated to Pasolini's death and his commemoration in the years following his passing.
Two tribes go to war. Nobody wins.
The film deals with the removal of metal fences in front of houses for metal collection and the associated abolition of front gardens. The promotional film at Epoche-Gasparcolor is based on a script by Hans Thyssen for the German Film Production and Exploitation Company (DFG) of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), Berlin.
Inspired by an event from Hamburg's history, this animated film tells the wondrous adventures of two cabbage roots that are picked up by the mysterious Lohengrin swan and taken to the treasure chambers of the old German emperors.
A short experimental film.
F*ck is not as important as getting emotional and being sweet, because laughing in bed is also making love.
Mordechai, Yaël's beloved grandfather, has just died. The young woman, who left to study film in France, must return to Israel for the funeral, but she has distanced herself from the national narrative and feels that she no longer belongs there.
Using archival sound from the 1960s to 1980s and collaged photos, Start with a Place reveals how decades of gentrification has transformed areas of south London beyond recognition exposing the deep roots of a crisis that is continuing to price local people out of the capital.
'When' discusses the filmmaker's experience with mental illness and how it has impacted her perception of the world around her. It mainly focuses on Anorexia Nervosa, Anxiety, and Depression. It aims to represent these ideas in an abstract but honest way - using CGI as a medium to create an impactful experience that will make the audience think about mental illness in a way they might not have before.
A visual poem magnifying the Amazigh culture, a historical tale about the seismology of the city of Agadir and a story about our planet earth itself and its own life, created for the Museum of the Reconstruction of Agadir.
A theatrical love story created by ants.
Sarcastic inversion of the ‘beautiful couple in love’ archetype. The ’40. Two people isolated from the rest for their physical appearance, meet in a cinema. A dark solidarity born between them leads to a relationship based on the denial of their ugliness.
Detective Mortelli, a friend of gambling and alcohol, is not dealing well with his retirement. The same day his wife leaves him, he receives a call from Commissioner Rowley who assigns him one last case, perhaps the strangest and most exciting of his career.
Pravda is a loner, but Pravda acts.
Computer animated short from the perspective of a dolphin.
After a lifetime of feeling fat, a young man realises that maybe his issues with his body aren’t actually about his body at all. This short, biographical mini-documentary is a tiny story about the big problem of not opening up, the pressure we put ourselves under, and learning to be kind to ourselves.
A sordid allegory of paedophile acts within the church.
March 2018: I am in the Blue Mountains. March 2021: I am in lockdown in London.
A futuristic flood epic which depicts the destruction of a future world by a momentous flood.
A short experimental film about the sensations of pregnancy. Mainly scratched directly onto 35mm. Screened at Hamburg Short Film Festival, Bradford Animation Festival. Also screened throughout England as part of Vox Pop Puella, a touring show about the seven ages of women.
After a failed experiment, a scientist finds himself sharing his body with a hundred people and seeks to regain his individuality.
LOOPER is a video clip made by Eve Deroeck and Melanie Tourneur based on a song by Témé Tan.
A gut reaction to the Coronavirus apocalypse, made in the first weeks of isolation and confusion in March-April 2020, echoing the shocking, eerie and surreal experience of the pandemic. Reworking the classic Zombie public-domain film from 1968 'Night of the Living Dead' by a mix of deep-learning AI coloring technology, datamosh techniques, re-cutting and sound work. Visions of the invisible found in the horror film images get broken apart and reassembled to become a haunting kaleidoscopic experience.
‘Films to Break Projectors’ glues, scrapes and splices 35mm, 16mm and 8mm film to create unprojectable celluloid collages. Reanimating the material reveals the colour music within and traces of ambiguous narratives that emerge from the complex loops.
There are small people wearing hats who cannot avoid ridiculous situations happening in society
All of the Dead is a 2000 zombie horror brickfilm by Tim Drage and Tony Mines of Spite Your Face Productions. It is about the dead rising after the tomb of Anubis is disturbed. Though it is often stated as having being released in 1999, a making-of written by Tim Drage mentions finishing the film in August 2000, and the copyright in the film is dated 2000. It was among the first brickfilms available on the internet and was originally released under the duo's original production name, Underpendent Films.