Woven Threads is dedicated to telling stories through which our shared humanity compels us to recognize and, perhaps, identify with the universality of the refugee experience.
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Woven Threads is dedicated to telling stories through which our shared humanity compels us to recognize and, perhaps, identify with the universality of the refugee experience.
A quirky and surrealistic action/comedy where a brave heart takes a wild journey inside the body to try to sort out the problems of a hungover morning.
Inspired by the children, the mayor puts on a competition at the fete to pick the loveliest thing in the village.
Optical ruminations on an unpredictable region of Earth where raging storms and calm waters coexist. Seafarers are not only contained within this indeterminate state, but also within the film frame.
SCHISM follows Kevin, a man who has trouble being physical with his boyfriend publicly. Kevin is riddled with intimacy issues that propel him to a grotesque world where his alter ego is constantly attempting to free him. Straight or gay, SCHISM is the story about the fear of commitment in relationships.
This work depicts the creation of the Universe - beginning moments before the Big Bang, it shows the development of life and progresses into our modern world. A ballet choreographed by math, generating beautifully complex and organic structures, with each show different from the last.
Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2018 Creepy Christmas Film Festival, in which each short is inspired by a holiday-themed word. This film, the third in the series, is inspired by the word "candy cane."
A short stop motion film giving the background for Stefan Janoski's sculpture of the same name.
An unfinished housing complex has been abandoned. The imagined future from the past is taken over by foliage and wildlife.
The film is about the horrors of war. It tells the fate of the tailor John Bottom who during the war against the Germans lost an arm and died, but he was buried with the arm of a carpenter. John's earthly suffering continues after his death ... John's unfortunate ghost can not accept this error, indeed he is a tailor! and Mary, his beloved, can not recognize him with the arm of another ... The apostle Peter can not afford to change the order established in heaven and John will remain alone paradise.
As the sea waves crash on the beach, a group of women enjoy themselves while building a ship together and playing with dolphins. Meanwhile, above them, on the balcony of a nearby house, a sad girl sits on a cactus. The merriment below and the pastel coloured sea remind her of the freedom she is probably going to lose soon.
A random encounter between a lazy tourist and an annoying bee develops into a surreal situation that disintegrates the experienced reality and turns into a mad journey to our hero's depths of consciousness.
For these twin boys, a little sibling rivalry is an everyday occurrence. And no matter how minor the infraction, as far as they're concerned, each quibble is like an act of war. It's easy to imagine that for them, every single day is as thrilling as an action movie, playing out in their heads. They're fighting with all they've got... and even in dreams, the battle rages on. Our story peeks in on these two boys, and we have a chance to look on as they grow.
An animation film that explores what it means to experience loss, yet never lose the love given to you when it is shared, keeping the legacy of a loved one alive.
On the edge of a meadow, deep in the woods lived a Hungry wolf. He was hungry all the time because of his gentle heart. He ate herbs, honey and drank tea. Once in winter he was starving and finally decided to steal a lamb from old man and woman. He stole it but couldn’t eat. Instead he poured the lamb a cup of tea and they started to dance. Meanwhile the old man came to the wolf’s house with a gun and a dog to return his lamb and punish him...
An audition for a conditioner commercial becomes an otherworldly psychogenic experience. Bold colors and pure style take precedent in this animated journey through place and mind.
A story of a girl who is trying to deal with her illness. Imagining the illness as a Lion and herself as a Unicorn she goes through the different stages of acceptance.
Graduation work of Mayuko Miyashima at Tama Art University.
The great Turkic state, united by the Union of three tribes, is in danger of disintegration. The great Kagan Elteris, who preserved the unity of the Turks, dies at the hands of traitors who seek to become the rulers of a new state. The son of Elteris Kagan, heir to the throne, 12-year-old Kyul tegin flees. He is destined to go through many trials before returning to his native home.
The film is about a hero who is too big for the world around him...
"Cause right now I'm just in a dark coffin with nothing. Unkilled."
An aging aristocrat finds himself with unexpected, and unwanted, company when he vomits up his own doppelganger. Rebuffing the offer of friendship from his new companion, Dukeâs petty greed and selfishness will lead to his murder and the beginning of the cycle once again
From the "Bone Voyage" project. On Christmas eve, the fateful icicle does not hit the person intended for Death, but Santa himself! Time stops, the holiday lights go out, Santa departs for the afterlife, and Christmas seems to never come.
The line between life and death is deeply imprinted in my childhood, I remember a vivid memory of sunny days, a bucket of water almost full and a half-submerged new mouse in a cage wanting freedom, until it was exhausted and surrendered to inevitable death. The music used in this work is the German folk song Ach, wie ist’s möglich dann. In Taiwan folk culture the song was often performed at funerals, an interesting and absurd contrast to the song’s original use in the 1935 German literary film as the soundtrack for a love story. So Zhang choreographs a dance performed to this German folk song about death.
Oblique wanderings of emulsion lifted from reels of 35mm film capture fleeting cinematic impressions of a wayward woman.
In an uncertain future, a group of crazy and less than obedient squad, fight the great war. This league of misfits uses humor to get along the hard life of a soldier. In spite of the constant teasing, this fraternity look up to each other in hard time.
An accidental pocket dial conjures up distant memories of a sweet, summer love.
A mother and daughter wander through the forest. The mother flees from an invisible terror, choosing to remain alone with her daughter.
Get informed on the science behind post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, its symptoms and how the brain reacts to trauma.
A hungry dragon chases after an oblivious grandma that is too focused on making her favorite apple pie to notice the death and destruction going on around her...
Animated testimonies of people with different gender identities, that relate their life experiences and create a single voice with many voices.
Poetika Anima is a non-narrative animated film based on a lyrical poem created by the synthesis of director’s diary notes. Countless symbols and visual metaphors, along with the original atmospheric music create a story rich with interpretations about a woman who transforms her disheartenment within a fluid spacetime.
An animation short film about male-female relations through the gesture of giving flowers. A man steals flowers. His appetite grows as he steals more. We follow him as he picks the flowers of different women. From a thief who is sensitive to the gaze of passersby, the man's gaze becomes more intrusive, Penetrating homes and intimate spaces. Finally he collects flowers from the whole city and makes a bouquet as a gesture for a woman.
3D animation by Sabrina Ratté
Together with the characters, viewers will find out who is the strongest of Mi-Mi-Bears and whether it will be possible for the wizards to find the key of Air. Also in the new release of the new episodes of the animated series “Kati and Ef. Anywhere - the door "," Houses "and" Four in the cube.
A perfectly executed anijam of the 1980s Plympton classic “Your Face” brought to life by more than two dozen animators.
A life story of a bottle that can express emotions, feel and dream.
The fire salamander spots a leopard in the distance and thinks they are the same.
One cold morning, my girlfriend and I picked up a wounded stray dog and had to face with an unexpected decision.
The desire to find out what lies behind the mysterious giant wall leads the boy to a fantastic place where everything happens differently than in real life. Will he be able to communicate with the inhabitants of a world where everything happens in reverse?
Sloth wants to buy an ice cream cone. Unfortunately, he is way too slow and sleepy.
Lonely Tree is about to lose all hope in the war Man initiated against Nature.
When Polaris, a young boy sent to defeat an evil spirit and maintain peace in the ancient worlds prepares for the fight of his life he must train with the very best. With his new master Tiger he tirelessly practices kung fu. As his powers grow stronger, Polaris will need all of his strength to stop the evil powers mounting against him.
Rome, summer. One night, unexpectedly, a total blackout leaves the city without electricity. People feel paralyzed, their world is dipped in darkness. Matteo is a young electronic music producer big fan of Chemical Brothers and Daft Punk. He’s composing the songs of his new album. In a single moment, he loses all his work on his computer. Crushed by the lack of electricity and ensnared on his habits, Matteo finds an entirely different dimension of himself and everything around him thanks to the encounter with Greta, his neighbor from next door, who’s writing a novel inspired by this emergency.
Six Qataris pursue their goals by studying abroad to give back to their country which nurtured them.
My grandmother is 96 years old. She dreamed of becoming a ballerina, and became an engineer. I made this film because I wanted to understand who she really is, but instead I understood a little about myself.
Gravitational waves are passing through every existing dimension, even the almost undetectable ones. The scientific experiment, in its basic utilitarian nature, is aimed at the understanding of the multidimensional structure of things and has the potential for an uncanny experience. The device has successfully detected the unknown dimension at an infinitesimal scale and set up the parameters for magnification and tracking of all the activities in the ambient of non-place visible to us. By its typology, the universal architecture of non-place is optimised for documenting the unknowable and determining the topology of the unexpected. The film follows the course of the intense activities of the entities present in the N dimension that generate a sort of beyond-human experience.
Three perceptions of only one truth - hers, his and ours. This film has a trigger warning associated with it.
A basketball champion is fighting his worst enemy, himself. MVP is a short film about overcoming our weaknesses and fighting against the barriers we normally face.
This animated video is based on my analysis of the filmography of the Canadian director David Cronenberg, and how his philosophy of the correlation between the everyday and the taboo, and where he maintains that this invisible limit does not really exist; it can also disappear between the cinema as a monster, and the spectator as human. How we not only let ourselves be affected by the "forbidden", but where we find a space for ourselves, in what is not said out loud, but it exists.
A group of tired playground visitors meet at night for a last contest
A war pilot crash-lands through his apartment window. When his wife returns from work, she discovers that her husband’s face has been replaced by an airplane turbine. He’s also fallen in love with their kitchen ceiling fan. To save their faltering marriage, his wife decides she will no longer let her humanity get in the way of love.
Preschool Poets is a series of eight short animated films based on poems composed by four and five year olds. In this film, Delanie imagines a world locked in routine. Parents work two jobs. They can’t come home because they work a double. Even the pleasure of a hot tub has a time limit.