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Pedro, a young, athletic man, share his life with his ironing board. Faithful, Pedro sleeps on his ironing board, carefully sets it when he wants to eat, uses it to iron his favorite jogging outfit, and even takes it under his arm when he goes jogging. In the village, everyone admires him and follow his example. One night, however, everything is turned upside down.
Identity, language, sexual orientation, opinion – factors that generate invisible walls between people. Four different characters share their stories about confidence and insecurity.
A batch of mushy sourdough. Two radioactive lizards. Three cans of Campbell’s tomato soup. When COVID-19 lockdowns began in 2020, people around the world began reporting more vivid dreams.
Interview with Tomek Popakul who took both the Grand Prix and the ;DSAF Audience Award with Acid Rain at 16th Animateka.
A girl hears mysterious noises and investigates, but the source isn’t an easy answer.
A weird-acting girl draws a young man’s attention at an inn.
A young girl sees the world around her as brittle, depraved and ugly. She lives in a cold war where the weapon is not the gun or the bomb, but the alienation, aimlessness, selfishness, depreciation of the people.
The world is in perpetual motion, like an infinite dance which accelerates, slows down, alone or in company. In Your Hands depicts how difficult it can be to follow this dance by portraying a couple confronted with depression.
A young woman is being followed by a crocodile who represents her shyness. As he makes her life a living helle, she tries byevery means to get rid of him.
An animated short documentary about a difficult father-daughter relationship. Drawing on childhood memories, Anne Koizumi, the filmmaker, explores her upbringing with her Japanese immigrant dad, who was also the janitor at the elementary school she attended.
The body of a man is forever marked by the horrors of war.
Love, passion, poetry, abuse and everyday survival connected two young people who came from the sea and who will return there. The have spent their whole lives across the bay, across the city they have never stepped foot in, but they became its metaphor. Their lost experience of life transposed into the dim lantern light showing the way in the endless darkness of the open sea to new nameless roamers…
It’s calm and peaceful above the clouds. But chaos lurks in the distance and each night, it draws closer.
A brief meeting after many years undermines a father’s world and renders his words meaningless.
A large threat is menacing the village. The mythical demon Garmah – part squid, part bird – has awoken and brings utmost darkness... The tribe shaman, disturbed by the vision of the mythical monster’s coming, chooses a young warrior who needs to go to the end of the world and find the White Girl, the only one who can help him conquer the demon and defeat eternal darkness. The journey is uncertain, time is scarce and the village shaman is talkative.
Three characters share a common traumatic experience when they were born.
In a Good Wayis a 2D animation about a typical Asian salaryman who has decided to leave his job and returned to his hometown. En route, he encounters a pine tree blocking his path. He takes the tree home and tries to plant it in his garden, but finds that the tree has a will of its own – just like the salaryman.
A naked woman sits in an empty room in front of the mirror and brings gum bubbles to burst. What is content and what is the form?
In Chains consists of a couple of non-related episodes. Among other things we see two monsters insulting each other, auctions of royal weapons, and passive participants in their own misery.
Currents of electricity were analysed and introduced into a human host via electrodes. The visual material was then animated and mixed with M. Bense’s text Technical Existence (1949).