Turn, turn, turn. Can there be rhythms without patterns? Can it be said one thing leads to another when the links defy (our) logic?
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Turn, turn, turn. Can there be rhythms without patterns? Can it be said one thing leads to another when the links defy (our) logic?
Two young city-dwellers travel to rural Ontario seeking a deeper connection to their roots. A hand-painted animated documentary about life, love & the growing season.
The residents of a flat building are completely self-absorbed and never look out their window to see a chicken frequently fluttering by. The chicken has a nest on the roof where she hatches her eggs. One day the eggs get stolen.
Impossible architecture, an ancient burial ground and a lure for psychotic janitors were the building blocks of Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. In this story vignette, chaos animators Pink Twins add zero gravity and a rupture in space-time continuum to the mix and serve a taster of subtle cosmic horror.
They say it's your birthday ... and there's no one better than the Beat Bugs to serenade you with a festive Beatles tune!
When the siblings Theodor and Vilja run from the scary bully Bremer, they have to seek refuge with the strange cartoonist Tusj. Theodor finds a magic brush that makes drawings come alive.
First animation of Moisés Pantolfi da Silva. The animation was based on the observation drawings he makes on the bus (mostly in the city of Guarulhos) 14 years ago. The passengers were all based on these book drawings.
An odd, lonely outpost appears to be the transit point for some very curious goods.
Sue and Kath are on a road trip with Sue's mom to visit her grandma. On their way, they'll encounter a hitchhiker, two first-time cops, some salty bikers, and they'll try to grow from the experience into cool & liberated teens.
The folk hero and skilled archer Saban and his faithful dog Elga go hunting in the forest. Suddenly, Elga runs into trouble, and to save his friend, his master engages in a duel with the evil spirits that dwell in the forest. Displaying courage, tenacity, and resourcefulness, Saban defeats the monster in an unequal battle, frees his friend from captivity, and returns home safely. "Saban" is a story about the finest Mordvin qualities and the eternal values of humanity: friendship, loyalty, and the triumph of good over evil.
How can a person suffering from Alzheimer’s still tell their own life? In the common room of an Alzheimer’s clinic, music from the radio mixes with the low volume clatter of plates, the steps, the door movements or the quiet click of a light switch. The acoustic landscape triggers the dancing of an old lady in a wheelchair. She “remembers”.
The past that goes round and round. The beginning of a repeating day. Short Animation from Haruka Suzuki
A film about fear and dreams in a time where things are rapidly changing.
Colonialization has sneaked upon the Saami people. It is time to wake up and rebuild, and connect to the nature and traditions.
The endless, frustrating quest to find just the right moment.
After a day of saving her Grandmother from a plethora of potentially fatal mishaps, a young girl accidentally unleashes a powerful force.
An explosion of grace and aerial symmetry at 70 beats a second.
Red and The Kingdom Of Sound visualises the symphony orchestra as a fantastical realm comprising fifteen different architectural districts deriving from the different musical instruments of the orchestra.
In an old barn slated for teardown, a vintage doll, a mysterious barn spirit and some mischievous farm critters come together in a story about motherhood, creativity and letting go.
After a daring jailbreak puts the city on edge, the police go to work, searching high and low for the crooks responsible.
The murder of hundreds of Croatian POWs on the Ovčara farm near Vukovar is treated as a war crime and a haunting memory by both Croats and Serbs. But what really happened that night? And how was the event planned weeks before of actually being put in motion?
A short animated story about the traces left in the snow.
Experimental short film by Rainer Kohlberger
Scholastic Classics, a value line of Children’s DVDs, continues with a NATURE STORIES release packed with 20 tales perfect for kids and families who love to watch classic storybooks come to life!
It will help to unlock the path to the past and to the future. This is the key to our happiness, and if time stopped for you, have a smile, this is the key to your happiness.
In prehistoric times, a little alligator with a big attitude gets his kicks skateboarding and being a cool dude. But will Allisk8r be able to catch a break once the dino-law gets on his case??
This film was made mining the Thomas Jefferson's Grid in Google Earth. By superimposing a rectangular grid on the earth surface, a grid built from exact square miles, the spherical deviations have to be fixed. After all, the grid has only two dimensions. The north-south boundaries in the grid are on the lines of longitude, which converge to the north. The roads that follow these boundaries must dogleg every twenty-four miles to counter the diminishing distances: Grid Corrections.
In the 17th century Jan Velten made a book of amateurish drawings of animals, plants and circus artists which he had in his personal 'zoo' in his backyard in Amsterdam. The book is in the collection of Artis Zoo in Amsterdam. For this film Martha Colburn animated these drawings and married it with music by McCloud ZICMUSE on a re-make of an early harpsichord.
A simple afternoon turns into a horrible nightmare for a lonely brontosaurus once it runs into a dangerous predator.
Welcome To McStuffinsville", "Baby McStuffins and Selfless Snowman", "Runaway Love and Tour De McStuffins", "Bringing Home Baby", "Baby Names and Night Night, Lala!
Individual grains of sand take on new life as they dance to a joyful percussion interlude.
A year’s worth of to-do lists confronts the unavoidable numbers that are part and parcel of an annual visit to the doctor. The quotidian and the corporeal mingle and mix. Family commitments, errands and artistic effusions trade places with the daunting reality of sugar, cholesterol, and bone.
A tale told in three intertwined stories focused on a writer driven by glory. He struggles to complete a masterpiece, with inspiration from a life-long muse, about love, betrayal and horror based on childhood memories. After an encounter with an unnatural force, the writer realizes his true prize.
There is a thread that connects us all, even some of us don’t want it.
A hilarious bouncy rubber ball of heads. Don’t try this at home – even if you can.
In this playful hand-drawn animation from director Jessica Tai, a dejected student witch summons the courage to face a particularly difficult challenge and cast her spells - with unexpected results.
A short film spelling Tokyo in hiragana.
A skinny, young girl spends her time alone feeding pigeons in the park. But even they fly away from her. Suddenly, she gets company. But the beanpole feels uneasy about the new companionship, so she sets about going to a specialist for parasites.
If the banjo don’t get ya, the bugs or the student debt will.
Usually it’s not a good sign when a film opens with death walking in the door; however, in this wry short, the appearance of the Grim Reaper (who exits again as quickly as he arrived) is just one of several intersecting stories that unfold within the hive-like confines of the film’s tranquil universe. Deftly playing with narrative structure – while challenging the viewer to keep up – “Les Abeilles domestiques” is a masterful exercise in “deconstruction” that’s both extremely clever and highly entertaining.
A film beyond the eyelids. In one word: a trip.
A little girl is playing house by herself. She makes food out of toys and sets the table. Then a little boy comes in, and she greets him with joy. But things are getting darker while they pretending...
A beautiful, touching Christmas short animation film. Follow these animals journey to the manger! Featuring the songs: There Is A Star Silent Night, Joy To The World
The rising sun reveals a gruesome crime. In the orange-red dawn, between the dunes and the rippling sea, a young woman is strangled to death. The victim’s neck is marked by the deep imprints of her murderer’s hands. The mother’s moving dirge – based on a poem by Percy Shelley – accompanies us as her daughter Ginevra is laid out and resurrects.
A queer contemporary re-imagining of the Odyssey. Odysseus wracked with guilt for the loss of his crew returns home in search of a lost love. An experimental narrative told through still photographs, collage, video, found footage and animation.
A Bee gets more than it Beeargained for.
short experimental animation with light by young artist from Kyoto
Estela is a stop motion short film about a little girl who finds a star and the adventures and adversities she faces as a consequence.
A Line Rider Feature Film
An experimental film that combines abstract visuals with electronic and acoustic sounds.
Sleeping Myllymäki: “Movie art is free visual art and free audial art together. And the script of my movie is more important than my face and more important than my studio.”
Based on an old Iranian folktale. A man makes a devil’s bargain with some angry owls which saves his life but at what cost.
We all want to be complete, some of us just have to work harder than others to get there.
It’s Mother’s Day - what to do? Breakfast in bed sounds like the perfect plan. What could possibly go wrong!
A story of a young man who has lost his words, his thoughts, and his gender identity. Those eyes are always sharp as knives, yet the secret inside him is no longer hidden, waiting to be free by himself.