In his dream, a teenage boy visits the Stone Age, which he imagines to be quite similar to the present day.
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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In his dream, a teenage boy visits the Stone Age, which he imagines to be quite similar to the present day.
Ampersand is science visualisation meeting visual music. The film takes the audience on a playful musical journey from the subatomic to the galactic and touches on many core ideas of science like the wave particle duality, evolution, and pollination.
This story is based on an ancient northern legend according to which the souls of the drowned people turn into sea animals. The Hunter steals a seal-girl’s skin, so she can’t turn back into an animal. She becomes his wife, but often she glances at the sea.
As a young boy I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. We spent many decades together. First, she offered me protection from the cold. As a teenager, she introduced me to the secrets of love. But as an adult, this love became flawed. I began to see behind my beloved’s facade. And I discovered her horrifying side.
Amalimbo is the story of Tipuana, a five-year-old girl who experiences the limbo when she tries to pass to “the other side” in her desperate urge to meet again with her recently deceased father. It is a short story that happens in an undefined place in an also undefined future.
A walk in the park that defies rules.
Harassed by the day, he runs away in the evening from people and town. He crawls into his little room to sleep. The dream is bringing him the limitless and quiet spaces of solitude. At last, he is alone and free. But the solitude engenders the fear.
The boy and the girl are suddenly separated from the picture book by a hand, which tears off a page from the book and makes a paper airplane in which the boy remains trapped. In her attempt to help the friend, she couldn’t achieve anything if all the children’s drawings in the city did not help her.
A zapping channel. A mix of interviews with philosophers, researchers, patients, lovers and ordinary citizens. Each in his or her own way, they evoke their perception of life.
The film is inspired by Borges’ short story Aleph. The protagonist is involved in a world of simultaneous events. Passing through the gates of Aleph he experiences fears, hopes and sufferings of humankind.
Self-replicating entities that have evolved on different planets merge and proliferate exponentially. In search of more energy sources, they consume other stars.
Aeolian shows the life cycle of a mysterious creature as it explores the natural world around it. As it grows bigger, so too does its understanding of life and its inevitable conclusion.
A tale of an old shaman, a spiritual leader of a primitive tribe on her deathbed. She will bid farewell to her tribe in a mystical ritual and will be buried in a ceremonial burial preceded by a feast in her honour.
Abyssus Abyssum Invocat is a short film that utilizes stop-motion animation and live-action puppetry to create a darkly comic meditation on capital punishment and religion.
The ever-shifting shape of analogue futurism.
What is the titular game? Who cheers for it? Why is this happening? Will these questions receive clear answers?
A girl attempts to reach red apples from a tree. Aliens land on Earth and the girl offers them the fruits.
Two characters, cocooned in their love, who go on a heartbreaking journey of self-discovery in this experimental, BAFTA-winning short film.
A parting reminder and a fading memory in a 1970s drive-in theatre takes on different tones in the present day.
Belgian animated short film written and directed by Nicole Van Goethem about three lady statues holding on to the remains of an ancient building.