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The cold night hangs over the old Frankenstein's castle. Victor, the scientist willing to challenge science, sets out to carry out his most ambitious plan: bring his admired Franceska back to life. With the collaboration, or not, of Igor, his invaluable and loving assistant to him; Victor will face the greatest challenge of his career.
This is about the origins of the slave trade in America, and the elaborate false narrative put in place to enable the enslavement and continued oppression of Black people.
Enya's journey trying to make it as a dancer is hindered as her behaviors drag her downhill.
A representation through colour reflecting weather and mood, depicted over the course of 365 days.
The pandemic in a nutshell.
Like the water we swim in, The Water Holds Me/The Water Binds Us animates, holds and binds together our experiences of wild swimming.
The mostly true story of Charles Darwin’s historic voyage to the Galapagos Islands, and the culinary delights that followed aboard the HMS Beagle.
A boy called Walter becomes a saint character to his neighbourhood after being despected.
An astronaut goes for sausage hunting on a magical planet.
One snowy night two friends who were “troublemakers”, get close to trouble as they end up looking for food at Barba Kostas’ house. On this cold and lonely winter, Barba Kostas is really unhappy and completely devoid of Christmas mood…
A landscaper takes a nap at work
A descent into the worlds of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung and the analysis of dreams.
A boy is fishing at a lake with his father. He tosses a fish over to a bear cub struggling to catch its own, then it keeps coming back for more...
In any war, there is always a soldier who has lost and the women who are waiting for him to return. The dreams these women weave carry them to the farthest seas. Knowing there is no return, they weave and weave to treat the wounds of war.
A young girl named Sonny is learning how to make potions from her mentor, Theo, a talking cat. Being overconfident, Sonny makes a grave mistake which causes there 3 Dimensional world to become flat.
Shot at Bate Island in Ottawa, "landing" is made from hand-processed B&W 16mm film hand-coloured with organic and photochemical tones, video and found sound. "landing" examines moments of respite in between flight and movement, where landing becomes refuge.
An indigenous child and a magic leaf are the only hope to save the Tree of Life and the forest from destruction. She takes lessons from her tribe's shaman and carries the jaguar's strength with her. With her little friend, an ocelot, she must cross a burning forest and face terrible machines to succeed. A little adventure of courage and hope.
In the old soviet building a dog and his owner got separated by the shaky elevator and the dog ended up in the dangerous situation, it is now for the owner to stay calm and save his friend... or is it all the way around?
The polar bear got into the habit of dragging fish from the boy, but he can't stop him, since the bear is not visible on the white snow.
A story about how quickly you can improve your skills thanks to the support of loved ones. More about entrances without an elevator and timely replacement of light bulbs in such entrances.
Good Placement Of Seeds is a stop motion style 3D animation made by Xi Chen. A person places scattered seeds in an orderly manner, the scattered seeds are neatly arranged by this person. Arranging the seeds and applauding the Frogs will be followed by physical and narrative results. The shape of horror comes from the form in which the seeds were laid out. In this film, viewers can literally watch someone plant the "seeds" to create a situation in which the Placement Of The Seeds is certain to happen.
A sleeping young man remains trapped in a raging subway car heading for an unknown surrealistic location, after crossing the terminus.
Tommy and his friends get Angelica to confess that she broke a lamp.
One city bus, three passengers and a back seat scenario they fail to address.
A schizophrenic boy witnesses the killing of a deer in the forest and runs back home. A myriad of strange occurrences along the way worsen his condition.
A dancer as filmmaker refrains from superfluous movement in a villa in Brittany, giving way to an individual as well as social state described by the French philosopher Paul Virilio as "polar inertia".
Twenty years after Russia decriminalized homosexuality, on June 30th in 2013, President Vladimir Putin signed Article 6.21 "for the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating for a Denial of Traditional Family Values", also known as the "Gay Propaganda Law". Its broad and ambiguous wording allows the government significant leeway in deciding what kind of public queerness is punishable.
The robot as a dancer does not interfere with anything – even wrenches instead of legs.
Chaos ensues when Red has a mishap at a coffee shop.
Conversations explores the colors of the landscape through the palette of digital color, and is a reconnection with my past narrative films. A mix of home videos, captured sounds, and unpublished films are assembled here to make a digital mural. As the date suggests, I have no plan yet to end the work.
When I was a kid, my big brother became obsessed with the 90s Japanese subculture of teenage guys who were known as "Gyaru-o." His odd appearance totally mystified me so I started to sneak into his room to look for his secrets.
The story of a transgender youth Herman growing up, who decides to become who he really feels. Herman’s mother believes that only real men’s shoes will help her son complete the transition.
"Lightmare" was inspired by a group of youths who used to race motorcycles by my house. They would sometimes ride when I was trying to get my young daughter to sleep and caused great aggravation for me. The neighbors became quite worried as well and eventually the police were engaged to stop the racing, unsuccessfully. Stories began to spread about who the youths were and what poor conditions their parents were raising them in. The film attempts to capture the anxiety of the neighborhood, using negative space as a mask to subvert the audience's expectations of horizon and depth. In contrast, much of the content underscores the triviality of the perceived threat.
Single-channel colour animation.
A little guy named Jumbo needs to get back to work.
Chikara is an animated short produced by Nebula Artium.
It's about kids hangin out on the first day of summer!
An interstellar detective to defend the Earth's story. Some arrogant interstellar detective Xiao Bei in the pursuit of cosmic bandits black hole in the course of the fierce battle, accidentally crashed into the Earth. On Earth, Xiao Bei meets human girl Xiao Yi and interstellar bounty hunter Aurora. At the same time, the intergalactic fugitive organization, led by the black hole, is preparing to open an intergalactic tunnel to destroy the Earth. With the help of Yi and Aurora, Xiao Bei gradually overcomes his shortcomings and grows up to be a real interstellar detective. Just when the black hole is about to open the interstellar tunnel to destroy the Earth, Xiao Bei and his buddies and the black hole launched a battle of life and death to defend the Earth ......
A pair of twin brothers cooperate to hunt magical animals to gain power. By chasing after desire, the younger one collapses into an unhuman creature, the elder one has no choice but to kill him.
We chose the life subway to show kinds of life choices that we have to face in our lives. Like the Buridan’s ass, the heroine couldn’t make any choices. She passed all the stations then reached the terminal of her life journey: her grave. Sometimes we have to take that step even we are not ready yet.
In Lucien's family, one rule cannot be broken: use the computer before the age of 12.
In a future world where the earth is almost destroyed, a robot, Elijah2070, roams a ghost town. They were among the last models that humans had built before they themselves disappeared. As Elijah2070 wanders from place to place looking for even a trace of life to share the wealth of information he has stored, he comes across a house that will bring back some memories. The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.
When human beings value the life of nature, where they respect and learn from it, then it can strengthen the loving relationship between nature and human. ‘The Pillar of Strength’ is a wonderful story that touches on topics about family, natural relations and human identity as well as the patterns and culture of life in the Borneo archipelago.
Deep in the woods a small creature tries to plant his acorn but is interrupted by his nagging little sister. Out of frustration, he sends her to the top of an oak tree to find her own acorn and take accountability. What she’ll find and learn on her way there will change her forever.
Isaiah is about the Christianisation of folklore and how it connects the Mari Lwyd legend to the Virgin Mary.
Roots explores themes of home, displacement and cultural identity through the process of interweaving personal memory and animation. The film coalesces fragments of different conversations I’ve recorded with my mother as an attempt to understand more about my parent's culture and address questions I have increasingly become intrigued by as I have got older.
An unexpected encounter causes two girls to fall in love between the beeps of the arcade machines and the rhythm of the music from the skating rink.
He is even bad at doing evil.
A short story about a music-loving mouse.
The raw story of a dog that doesn't love his owner.
A woman’s boyfriend is missing but he returns as a vampire and then things get weird.
Mankind is longing for freedom, even Cyborgs. In a closed mechanical underworld, E-28, the protagonist, is a cyborg imprisoned by the underground governor, the General. After a reunion with the mechanical dog, his partner in the old days, E-28 is brought back to its hidden mind. In facing the challenge, E-28, embarrassing the humanity, gradually begins a story of pursuing freedom.
adventures in calebville
Typical situation on the subway. Plasticine grotesque. Social satire.
“Ha! That tickles! Well… uh, welcome… to my brain.” In 2028, Health Canada launches an anonymous online platform where anyone can stream their brain activity to get a brain massage. In this short animation film, you are one of the masseurs, evoking a stream of emotions and memories in a stranger.
Marius is a meticulous barista. One day, following his meeting with Valentine, strange symptoms start to manifest, preventing him from doing his work. It’s hard to serve coffee when you see everything in pink and when butterflies are coming out your mouth.
"Dreaming in Aspect Ratio" is a hand-made diary film and experiment in disrupted stereoscopy; an adopted "found" home movie. A playful queer self-portrait in found dream memories. An experimental documentary and Surrealist détournement. Bright colours collaged with black and white imagery of the joy of female friendships evoke dreaming and reverie; a lost queer childhood regained through the magic of cinema, disrupting typical self-portraiture and auto-ethnography.
Contemporary Japanese painting animation using painting materials such as mineral pigments, mud pigments and metallic foil. It sensuously depicts joy and anxiety, daily elusive emotions and the subtleties of interacting with people.