A short film by Václav Blin.
- Experimental
- Abstract
- Non-narrative
Audience
A short film by Václav Blin.
Even though Sam’s father is hardly ever home because he is often away on business trips, he is able to connect with his son by teaching him how to pack a suitcase.
I was playing basketball until I entered college. During a basketball game, when I stole an opponent’s ball and attacked in haste, I felt my body started moving as fast as an army brain. I still get this feeling sometimes, even now that I no longer play basketball.
Follow a crow’s flight into the city of Johannesburg. A music video done with sand animation and silhouettes inspired by the Afrikaans poem ‘By alle skone dinge’ (To all things beautiful).
Creatures from Greek mythology live their lives and solve problems in the present world.
Based on a real conversation we had with Juan Molinet before leaving Japan. Mixed up memories about our visit to Tokyo, Hiroshima, Miyoshi, Naoshima and Kyoto.
Little Sofía loves her grumpy granny: even though she is always hungry and eats what little food they can buy. Her pension is the only thing keeping her and her father alive. To what extremes will they go to once granny is no more? Based on a story by Nina Kouletakis.
Spot for My Sme Les.
An unoccupied house, a treasure trove of memories for the director, is captured at a major point of change.
A group of factory workers become obsessed with a hill. They let loose on the marshy earth, succumbing to their strange desires.
Musical Traumas came to fruition as the result of the director’s obsession with music schools. It is a rhythmic compilation of traumatic, but amusing confessions of former students, as well as an attempt to visualise music with scrumptious, hand-drawn animation. The experiences may be documentary, but the image comes straight from the world of musical impressions.
There is one goal, many ways to reach it, the choice is up to us.
Visual trip through the distorting perception of the protagonist. Obsessive physicist in a world full of backpackers, observes a distant Nucleus emitting impulses. Rubbed up by the constant noise of the his neighbor’s cat, which keeps him from his work, he glides slowly to madness. In a surreal desert, he is confronted with the connections between his the neighbors, the cat and the nucleus.
This animation thematizes a dream that you can’t wake up from. Mubi (夢寐) means dreams you have whilst you are asleep in Japanese. Shakuya mubi (夙夜夢寐) is a four character idiom. It means dreams you have even if you are awake. A young man endures conflict, rapture and anguish. And he will find out why he cannot leave his dream.
Life can arise anywhere, nature behave strangely and days can last for minutes. Although everything is familiar to us, nothing is what it seems in this place.
Two figures on advertisement posters come to life and begin to flirt heavily. The game of seduction ends with the realization that not all the glances were interpreted correctly.
A woman takes charge of her sexuality and gets lost in a sensual fantasy.
A girl journeys through a vibrant, pulsing, macrocosmic landscape but a precipitous incident compels her to venture up a mountain in an attempt to save herself.
A day in life of a young woman living a silent, lonely life with her friend the fish. The silence is broken when a new tenant comes to live in the apartment next door. Despite the constant sounds and noise penetrating from the other side of the wall and perhaps because of them, she finds herself falling in love with her neighbor.
A man moves into a new town together with his mouse. The next day he goes for a walk and confronts his animal with the animals which belong to the inhabitants of that town. “Mouse” tells a story of how difficult it is to stay true to oneself amongst the people who seem to have a stronger personality.