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"Wake is the result of an experimental project. The resulting animation is a playful voyage through the vibrant dreamscapes of the imagination, imbued with spontaneity, nostalgia, and the love of light. Entirely hand-painted, it’s a celebration of the ever-transforming nature of our vision and the joy of creation."—Mark Boston
Busses work very bad in Kherson. There is only one reason for it.
The plague and the bombs invented yet another distance that can't be traced in the map.
An incident of an inconvenient attack at a parking lot. A physical representation of internal experience of an unexpected panic attack in the most mundane event of the day: getting to your car.
In a fabric society, a young figure diverges from rigid gender binaries to explore where their identity lies.
“Fish Out Of Water” is a short experimental animated movie. When the norms, traditions, customs and culture of the society are taken as the basis, there are individuals outside of them, they cannot adapt to the existing order and are labeled “misfit”. This is exactly the subject of this animation. “Fish Out Of Water”, whose main character is Osto, presents the society that caused the character's internal and external conflicts and the lost individual himself.
Bored toddler Kyle is determined to stop the newly discovered mouth on his hand from gobbling up his crisps – but at what cost?
A humorous stop motion thriller following one woman's fight with urban fly-tipping. If Hitchcock made “The Birds” with mattresses instead of crows, it would look something like this.
There is snow and ice fragments outside the window. The winter bird sings, the northern deer sings, the wind sings, the high, high edges of the sky sing. The girl sings, but so carefully that the breath does not accidentally scare off the fire at the end of the stick
The butler Austin, the hero of the popular mobile game Homescapes, usually busy with everyday household worries in the game, falls into the viscous fluid space of sleep, into a world falling apart, in which he tries to find at least something permanent.
A sad girl wants to order candy at home, but instead receives an invitation to a mysterious party.
What happens when you are left alone with nothing to be remembered for? A man tries to keep his sanity in tact by writing a letter to get help, but keeps getting memories of his fears and what was lost, will he manage to get out alive or he is left to rot with what remains inside with him?
In her search for a connection through shared experiences, director Kenzie Sutton delivers an impressive stop-motion animation, with stunning puppets that capture the loneliness and sadness of the current times. As the world spins out of control, the monotonous cycle desperately asks to be broken.
The incredibly true and not made up story of Eva - the reincarnated gay Jesus.
An eye trying to balance itself on a thin rope gets distracted by a shining light and falls into a vast realm of thoughts.
A girl takes a walk
An intimate portrayal of grief after the loss of a friend.
A girl who only wants to be alone. One day, a Cat knocks on her door. Since then everything has changed...
The story of two ocean drops living their wave of life.
How to deal with a tricky puzzle? What if one of the solutions brings new problems?
Sometimes, no words are needed for people to understand each other. The two protagonists meet at a railroad crossing and spend a few fragile moments together in unbroken silence.
The ideas of the first Czech president come to life in a student film by an author originally from Magnitogorsk, Russia, who, after studying animation in Yekaterinburg, went on to earn a master's degree at UTB in Zlín. Václav Havel's inspiring ideas are underscored by a clear, straightforward artistic style.
From his shabby apartment in Montreal’s Centre-Sud borough, a writer finds inspiration in observing his neighbour Piton, who navigates poverty with some incredible ingenuity. Through this wildly funny pseudo-scientific allegory, graphic novelist turned filmmaker Richard Suicide draws us into the surreal, chaotic world of his book Chroniques du Centre-Sud, delivering a powerful portrait of a neighbourhood in the midst of a full-blown transformation. Produced by the NFB, this film is part of the Comic Strip Chronicles collection.
Two women find each other time and time again, loving each other through all their life times. Made entirely during lockdown by student artists, this animated film is a collective piece of art, dedicated to one of the most famous lyrical fragments that remain from the lesbian poet Sappho: fragment 147.
A woman wanders through an unusual landscape and blissfully enjoys touching plants. But that stops when this dreamland is ravaged by a strange infection destroying everything that brought pleasure.
Angelica kicks Tommy's new ball over the fence.
PP Daddy is a hardworking office clerk who, pressured by family duties and overtime, never had a chance to fulfill his dreams. One day, during a lunch break nap, a dream takes him back to a childhood drawing competition…
The story of those who made possible the first human flight into space, but remained behind the scenes. The heroes of the film are Semyon Kosberg and other engineers who worked in the Voronezh design bureau on the third stage of the rocket engine, without which the Gagarin spacecraft would not have entered orbit on April 12, 1961. Memories of Viktor Skachilov, the only surviving member of Kosberg's team, and archive photos are intertwined with animation and an inspired soundtrack created specifically for the film. "Kosberg worked" is about hard work for the sake of a great dream, about scientific breakthroughs and people who do the incredible.
In an underwater robotics test pool a machine infected by an unknown biological conglomerate conducts a fatal manoeuvre. The new compounds create their own forms, self-sustainable, self-forming and adaptable. An Anthropocene, a human product, has opened a possibility for the extension of the body without organs to host other forms of life, inhumanly wondrous and unpredictable.
A vulture hacks the feet of the main character who, resigned to his punishment, passively accepts this inevitable destiny. Animated short film based on the homonymous story, by Franz Kafka.
Meeting an old friend in a coffee shop, we follow Nezumi's internal and external battle of emotions and feelings and how she get consumed by them as she’s being triggered by the words of her interlocutor.
A ritual for creating new worlds and situations for fragmented bodies, signals pass through the joints of animated and genderless bodies and body parts entangling the body-signal-actions both materially and conceptually as these control mechanisms interfere with pre-animated content. Perpetually shifting surfaces and skins serve as sites of projection and interference, contributing to the further "queering" of the state of these bodies and fragments that are stretched and submerged into and outside of the environment they inhabit, as they encounter desire, distress, and ritualized oscillations. Signals generate both sounds and compel movement, the making of the images, and the body further challenges the stability and integrity of the space in its otherworldliness and the spatial relationships it establishes with the audience. At the edge between crisis and satisfaction, the work adopts the role of Millet's own "gleaners," making-do on the boundary between sustenance and the devoid.
"Longing for a Shadow" was inspired by my mother's struggle with social distancing; she can't hug her children, or see her grandchildren, or her friends. The video is dedicated to all who are coping with isolation, aloneness, in this time of COVID-19.
Made using films gathered from Perini's own 2018 Basement Films residency.
Motion, maneuvers and breath. Never still, there is underneath a pulse. Above, sightings, cities and fire.
A short film inspired by a Polish folk dirge.
A crisp-loving couch potato finds himself on a journey of accidental enlightenment when his favourite flavour of salty crisps runs out.
"Sun Plant Hands" is a found footage film that explores the interactions between land and people in an agricultural framework. Through imagery of vegetable growing and footage of the United Farm Workers movement, the film calls into focus the dichotomies between land, plants and people. Made possible through the Basement Films Artist in Residency program in Albuquerque, New Mexico. All the footage in this film is 16mm educational films that are part of the Basement Films archive.
The Equilibrists of the film are patient and surprising exemplars of the lessons to be learnt from scrutinizing the elementary principles of physics. Here familiar feats of balance and curious games combine with the didactic serving as a reminder of the patience, delicacy and balance essential for stability.
This stop-motion animation depicts a personal journey through loss, rejection, abuse, and religious dogma that ultimately leads to reclamation and healing.
Structured as a series of vignettes drawn in stark black and white, and to a soundtrack of mournful jazz, the film is a set of confessions anchored in fear, confusion, numbness, and anxiety.
Deep-sea organisms living in such a specific environment have developed unusual forms and properties. This is an interpretation of the underwater world and an invitation to relax.
A mother and her three children live in a place where the only food there is apart from the mother's milk are figs from the fig tree.
Short animation by Holly Lo
In our life, we are afraid of death and want to catch the most important person or the best time of our life, however, we can’t control that, but we need to face that bravely. The story emphasises the message about the cycle of life, relationship, and connection between family and generation and the concept of Chinese death. The thesis of the story is about growing and finding the meaning of death.
Never meet your heroes. An Elvis fan goes to new lengths to meet her idol, with unfortunate consequences.
"In Vivo" is an assemblage of found footage. Doing doesn't provide much in the way of conventional context as to how these varied sources interrelate or how they should be read. But in editing them together at all, he asserts a radical subjectivity, an authorial presence that is autobiographical even when the images themselves are clearly borrowed from another vault. Doing positions himself, and the histories through which he has lived, within a much vaster narrative, implied through the other-realm textures of analogue footage as much as the actual content of his archival excerpts.
Sensory is an animated short about sensory memories. It is about how your body remembers what your mind can’t, what your mind doesn’t want to, and in ways your mind can’t.
What is a dog? Loyal, obedient, submissive, owned. Or violent, instinctual, vigilant and wild. Whatever it is, it’s waiting.