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A rescue mission to free chickens from a factory farm goes radically wrong, and a group of four activists is forced to escape into the inhospitable wilderness to experience a series of borderline situations and ethical dilemmas that lead to new insights, such as that nature is not a safe place for animals.
A short film.
In Wishbone Zoe’s hand-drawn animated music video for heavy avant-jazz Western MA shredders Fred Cracklin, exploited mine workers make an effort to boar-ganize.
The clip was created for François Poitou’s new album called Le Sec et la Lune. It captures the bleakness of giant housing estates, feelings of loneliness, alienation and anonymity in overcrowded cities, as well as the desire to return to nature, harmony and simplicity. And this with the use of a black-and-white drawing that underlines the pensive atmosphere
A 10 year old boy, Imad, lives in a war zone. When he finds a bird with a broken wing, he brings it home and carefully nurses it back to health. This new friendship brings Imad joy, dreams, and strength. Imad learns to listen to his heart and finds the courage to choose a (new) future.
Animated short film exploring the process of how spontaneously occurring events synchronize with each other due to timing and nostalgia.
In an anonymous police station, F.K. asks the Law for help in the attempt to report the abuses he has been through: his birth, his formation, his forced work.
Set in the present day, Native American protesters confront the crew of an oil pipeline project, just down the hill from the land of their ancestors. The grandfather evokes the ancient tale of their Creation myth, reminding all of us that the challenges facing humanity are universal, and that we need to find our place in the great circle of creatures.
A hypnotic journey into the darkest of forests. Within an atmosphere of ambiguity, the phantasmagoric suggestion of figures, faces and ominous sound, in interaction with the landscape, invokes a space for immersive personal interpretation. An unforgettable nightmare.
Forest 500 is the world’s first ratings agency for rainforests. It tracks how key companies, investors and governments are performing in the race to remove deforestation from global supply chains. ‘Forest 500’ was produced for the COP 21 Climate Conference in Paris, 2015. It is the third film Moth has made for the Global Canopy Programme, a tropical forest think tank working to demonstrate the scientific, political and business case for safeguarding tropical forests as natural capital.
Two characters meet and confront each other in a merciless battle. The story is revealed through a profusion of black and white drawings, evoking an etching in perpetual movement. Brief gestures are repeated in loops, to the point of exhaustion. Obsessive and hypnotic.
In a world where people’s hearts are on the outside and exhibit the qualities of a pet, Mary loses her lovable Skip only to rediscover herself and learn what it truly means to “follow your heart.”
The young violinist is about to play his big solo with the Philharmonic of Fongopolis city. The path to success is unexpectedly stopped on a train station. In the chaos of signs, advertisements, lights and crowds in a rush, he can not find the way to the right platform. To catch his train he must stop.
Three frogs are fighting over a tasty fly. But there is something the fly can teach them.
An essay about the constant flows of life, a self-portrait of its own process, an improvise on Bach, an investigation on plasticine.
Q&A with Gints Zilbalodis, director of FLOW, at Toronto International Film Festival.
“It’s time!” Time for villagers to embark the seas for the funeral procession. They cross extents of water, as vast as dangerous, to escort their loved ones to their final destination – where the sea and the sky meet. When do we leave the world of the living?
The Arcadian atmosphere of a hazy underworld hosts unusual characters: an Illusionist, a Civil Entity, a Wooden Puppet and a silent, but dangerous Swordsmen. Their mysterious experiences are an allegory of the relationship between the now extinct tradition of European combat swordsmanship and the doctrine of pragmatic political action. Is the end of the allegory also a beginning of an instructive misunderstanding? The film is inspired by the motifs from the books Flower of Battle (1410) by Fiore dei Liberi and A Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu (1864) by Maurice Joly.
A lonely white flower grows surrounded by other plants and struggls every day to survive.