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A celebration of queer figures in both historical and contemporary times who have helped push forward arts, politics or science.

May 1970. In Yungay, a town in the mountains of Peru, the quiet life of Mateo, an eleven-year-old boy, and that of his inseparable dog, Lepanto, is altered when they begin to perceive strange things around them. Shortly after, a huge 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits the region, causing an avalanche that buries the entire town.

As the vampire Ray Von Rabenstein looks out from his balcony at the luminescent moon. He reminisces about the incident that turned him to what he is. And after, with determination, accepts his role as the moon prince.

Animated film by Raúl García Sanz.

From a young age, Faisal has been marked by his indecisiveness. Each birthday, his mother would lovingly knit him a sweater in a different color, symbolizing the various paths he could take in life. These colorful threads tell a story of a boy growing up under the warm and watchful eye of a mother who wishes only the best for her son.

In late 19th century Scotland the Walnut man, a performer in a travelling circus, has become frustrated with his tired act. Instead he wants to perform his poems and songs to the crowds. What follows is a dark tale about entertainment, violence and greed. All made in Stop Motion animation

Megamix of tunes and FX from VR1 and VR2 - hardcore style.

An award winning animation about endangered species.

It is about a dancer in love expressed through colour, sound and movement. The dancer is a hand drawn line animation that appears and disappears in and around different colours and feelings, sometimes in the music sometimes behind it.

This is a video collage created using mash-up and split-screen techniques. It is linked to the idea of dance that allows the body to change shape and content in a grunge and punk surrealistic manner.

Nina is a rat-girl who lives with her kind in an underground village, which is ruled by a harsh tyranny. But she will discover that a big world exists outside, and she will escape there to improve her understanding of reality.

Experimental animation by Igor Imhoff

A loving portrait of Uganda, Duncan Senkumba’s Mother Tongue leads the viewer on an animated journey through city streets and wild landscapes to explore the fine balance between urban life and the natural world, from the bustle of Kampala’s markets to the rolling hills of the country’s national parks.

After Vivian’s grand-mother’s passing, her children are trying to empty her house. During a break, they stop to look at family pictures all together. Reminiscing about the past, they remember Krinkrin, the plush they all used to share. To avoid conflict, Vivian proposes a deal: finders, keepers. The hunt is on: who will get it?

The collation and reflection of past experiences of love, the exploration of perceptions of love, and the comparison of the process of identity to the flowering process of a plant are employed to exemplify the moment when the LGBTQ community flourishes amidst the challenges posed by modern society.

Animation based on the painting by Hieronymus Bosch.

Artist Video Collection

A sympathetic Mexican bandit and his donkey confront a charismatic American bandit and his stallion during a train robbery. They want to steal the gold carried by the train, but the donkey is a fan of the stallion, so all may not go according to plan.

A cosmic entity talks to humankind. Meanwhile, three dinosaurs cross the desert guided by a shooting star.

On the Internet, "iPad kid" is a term used to refer to people who were raised with iPads or technology at an early age, that ends up making them socially awkward, full of trauma and issues. You are probably an iPad kid, I am an iPad kid. The presence of an iPad doesn't matter; it's the context of growing up on the Internet that is important.

Mrs Christie accepts another bottle of whiskey.

In Varanasi prison in India, a prisoner shares his experiences and the story of an unlikely encounter with his cellmates.

An anthology that delves into the activity inherent to audio-visual processing and their video-exhibition history

A housewife feels like a prisoner in her own home. She would like to escape but she can't make it on her own.

Director Gernot Wieland worked for twelve years with an animal trainer who taught birds to fly in circles or squares. The film examines how aesthetic norms influence Western views of the world and why these norms end in failure.

A desperate man undergoes an experimental trial with a new technology called CORTEX, embarking on a journey through his mindscape to reconstruct his memories and modify his past trauma.

A documentary essay about life in a totalitarian state through the prism of childhood memories.

An animated short about those simple childhood memories that ensured you had the BEST DAY EVER.

Felix Leffrank deals with the ups and downs of an artist’s life in colourful, computer-animated images. During his ordeal between depression, writer’s block, anger and urban loneliness, a story-teller is accompanied by three weird birds who sometimes appear as annoying neighbours, sometimes as inner demons. Jung, Freud and the psychologist Dr. Breuer in the shape of a grey cat promote self-reflection, but the most helpful thing is probably a beer with friends.

The first ever successful astronaut to reach Mars arrives in Pussy Willow for the press conference.

2030. After years of chaos, a ruined Paris is plunged into the Long Night. Life has returned to normal, but since ME came to power, the demons within the people have never been more ferocious. They hunt down FAUNA, a huge luminescent creature that tries to preserve the fragile life of this world. The destinies of RED, a rebellious teenager, PAUL, a former star singer, but also of YASS, MAGDA and GEORGE will gather them around the same objective on the evening of the solstice of the Long Night. Will they be able to find the resources to save the FAUNA, the spirit of life, while ME is preparing to announce the dawn of a new era that could well lead humanity to its doom?

Bongo joins the army and discovers that it's all meaningless bureaucracy, when he is asked to assemble a gun.

A love story between two fingers, presented in five scenes: digitisation, excitement, convulsions, complications, and outcome.

A visit to a very strange pub indeed. Inside, strange creatures belittle those weaker than them for their sick amusement. Dark fantasy puppet horror.

One minute to tell Clouzot's "Diabolique", by Léa Krawczyk.

Veteran British animator Bob Godfrey (1921-2013) answers the question "What Is Animation?" His answer is by turns witty, iconoclastic and insightful and all the while is acted out by a tiny man in a bowler hat.

This film describes a feeling of longing, longing for sun, longing for salt, and longing for the sea.

A man steals a painting from a museum.

At the dawn of the Datacosm, data is planted, harvested, transported, stored and processed as data-feed for consumption by the data eaters. The infiltration of the data storage facility by a hacker leads to contamination by a thought virus which alters the Datacosm forever. Set in apuppet theatre, data scientists (as puppeteers) control puppets, objects and analogue data to create the narrative on the stage above. Code scrolls between the ‘real’ world of the puppeteers and the micro dramas enacted by the puppets. The film was derived from an original collaborative version of "Datacosm" which combined artificial intelligence and animation and was presented as a live performance.

A cosmic meditation on mental health as expressed by the battle between positive and negative forces.

In graffiti style and with rap rhythms, characters from marginalized groups in our neighborhood are introduced: alcoholics act macho in front of their families, young people who have run away from home take their first steps on their own, children are afraid of aggressive family atmospheres.

There's been a robbery at the cheese store and mouse police agent Chester is on the case. With Friends Max and Sophie at his side the clues begin to mount and everything points to the Rocky Roquefort gang!

Two parallel but different life paths are shown in this creative animated short that examines the dualities of identity, chance, fate and existence.

An animated documentary that fuses stories of a house, a garden and a stream, and also beehives and huts in the forest.

Winter bound, a snow queen dreams of love and the blooming of spring. Through frosted rococo cartouches she sings about the virtues of true love accompanied by miniature animated sequences.

Produced in the mock-serious tone of an intra-governmental presentation Butler’s Ethical Governor uses black humor to skewer the ethical problems of autonomous drone strikes. In narrating the “advanced” capabilities of a computerized killing machine, Butler highlights how the language of Neoliberalism makes broad, cold-blooded equivalences amongst economic, humanitarian, and legal concerns in light of overriding geopolitical goals.

This is Snospis Eht: The Epic Adventure. Andy basically wanted to make sense of all the other snospis eht videos by re-editing them into one long video and adding extra scenes. And after literally hours of work.... It still doesn't make any sense!

Marie Antoinette enjoys her last meal as the queen of France before her execution.

Sadomasocat is a mouselover and has just found true love on the internet... A parody of webdating and its surprises.