An Alien Called Harmony: After The Dance
Synopsis:
This work is inspired by the realisation that someone you thought you knew has changed in frightening ways. Our understanding of people is mediated by our own experience, limited, and the indirect ritualism of relationships is like dance or sport.
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Jay rushes to get ready for another frantic day. Armoured against the sights and sounds of the City, he races against time until a chance encounter propels him into a strange watercolour world. Here, three Nudes reveal their truth and an enigmatic Professor directs time. But will Jay dare to expose himself in order to find the clarity and connection he seeks?
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Separate projections combine, unifying, becoming whole. Twelve animated projections combine to develop a rhythmic dialogue exploring the intrinsic relationship between sound and image using 16mm film, paint and a projector. Responding to a hand-drawn soundtrack, each projection is individually created by painting and scratching directly on 16mm film stock.
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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On an everyday train journey quite unlike any other, a not-so-casual observer goes to extreme lengths to avoid other passengers, a giant baby runs away from his parents, a romantic woman starts an ill-fated relationship with a cuckoo, and a naïve boy discovers that some problems can’t be fixed by pictures of unicorns.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Experimental
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This is going to make you feel uncomfortable.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Soldiers in a war wait for information via a fax machine.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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A visual reinterpretation of dance and animated found footage.
- Abstract
- Experimental
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A photograph is a window into the past, but sometimes, the border between past and present is not entirely clear. This stop-motion animation invites us to think about our relationship to time, by portraying one woman caught in the middle.
- Drama
- Experimental
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When the observed and the observer switch places, at what point do we take responsibility? You Had to Be There is the first video from the band’s upcoming album “Tulipomania” “Dreaming of Sleep”. In this clip, the authors use, among other things, photo and newspaper clippings for animation.
- Music Videos
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Music video to “Sakurajima” by Under the Reefs Orchestra
- Music Videos
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Music video for Alpha-ray´s “Paper trails”
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The head does it all. While other body-parts have their separate functions as instruments, the head is an all-purpose tool. The head’s universality: object-oriented media magician Anna Vasof celebrates it, and at the same time questions its primacy. In 24 ten-second-shots, her video Amazon Woman demonstrates what a head – always Vasof’s – can do.
- Comedy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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When a woman finds her partner infatuated with their kettle, she is thrown into a desperate journey of self-transformation to try and keep the relationship going.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy