Consuming Spirits
Synopsis:
Consuming Spirits is an Independent feature animation, chronicling the lives of three characters who live in a rust belt town called Magguson, and work at its local newspaper The Daily Suggester.
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A secret Foundation is financing the work of a parapsychological phenomena and mental film research institute. Correspondence between the Foundation and the institute runs through a chosen reporter. In order to be informed objectively and confidentially, the Foundation uses agents with induced synthetic identity. This process temporarily curbs the agents’ true personality. Reporter Isidor Dukas arrives to the institute. Facing one of the test subjects, something which was supposed to be routine control turns into an infinite labyrinth…
- Drama
- Experimental
- Sci-Fi
- Non-narrative
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In a fantasy world, life-size cardboard animations interact with children clad in clown wigs, monkey masks, and princess costumes. Together, they host a carnival of surreal goings-on.
- Abstract
- Fantasy
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A woman enjoys an erotic interlude with her very well endowed lover, while various amusing objects are tossed out a window above them.
- Drama
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A father and daughter maintain their bond despite living in different countries through an imaginative nightly ritual where she suggests a title and he creates short animated films starring her as the hero.
- Family
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he vulgar, adults-only satire peppered with social critiques and references to prevailing politics, made in the same outspoken, provocative tone as South Park and Beavis and Butt-Head, is a humorous and authentic report card of the backward, post-millennium political and social apparatus of Eastern Europe as seen from the point of view of straight-talking children, that is, from the grassroots.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
- Crimi
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On a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.
- Sci-Fi
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FANTASTIC PLANET was not the first collaboration between writer-director René Laloux and illustrator Roland Topor. Presented here is a short film they made together in the mid-1960s: LES ESCARGOTS.
- Drama
- Comedy
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Prince Achmed goes for a ride on a flying horse.
- Fantasy
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Michael Stone, a man living a dull life, is tired of his monotonous routine. However, things change when he meets a stranger on a business trip.
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Signe Baumane and five women in her family battle with depression and madness.
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Pillow talk takes a surreal turn in a shape-shifting blend of live action and animation.
- Drama
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A cinematic visualisation of George Antheil's 1952 revision of "Ballet Mecanique", painted and animated by Suzan Pitt.
- Music video
