Synopsis:
The bird in its cage dreams about clouds. This unique film made by the japanese director Hajime Kimura is composed of 2400 images created one by one with Photoshop only using the penbrush tool that gives a blurry hand-painted aesthetic.
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In a huge shut down factory we encounter the ghost-like girl Jila. When her treasured musical clock misses a figurine, she sets out on her quest to find its whereabouts. There she discovers a scratch in a wall. At the turning point she needs to decide if she will make a step into the unknown, deal with the difficulties that may occur or if she will just turn back and stay in her familiar universe.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Broad variety of visual styles (stop motion with paper puppets, ink on paper, watercolor, and paint-on-glass) in a tribute to French and Japanese New Wave auteurs of the late ’60s.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Tragedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Lake is liquid, inanimate, emotionless. Like blood flowing through a body, the water circulates and sustains, bringing life to its surroundings. In this video, life is continuously reborn through the raindrops, through the terrain and into the air. The beauty of this process is juxtaposed with the songwriter’s perspective, someone who is detached and yearning to feel the full breadth of human emotion.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Something we keep avoiding in life might be waiting for us on the other side.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A story of an old fisherman and his dog about life, death and transition to another existence.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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People should be happy. Even this Egyptian goose, who tries to cast a spell on us with a seductive dance. Its gracious and clumsy movements captivate us. But it’s not the only one to master the dance.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A troubling moment in the balminess of a summer in the countryside. While gardening, a young man sees his mother as a woman for the first time.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Numbers stations were prominently used during the Cold War. A boy was tuning the radio in the snow mountain and happened to tune the shortwave of codes.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A journey into the heart of a large and abandoned council estate. Peripheria portrays an urban environment becoming wild: a modern Pompeii where the wind blows and dogs roam, tailing the remains of human life.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Henry meanders through Wyrmlands, the remains of England consumed by the giant worm of capitalism. Amidst his despair, he recalls an act of kindness. As a child, innocent and loving, he saved an injured worm. Perhaps salvation is possible if he can reconnect with his inner child.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Tragedy
- Fantasy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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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.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A music video - White Lies.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Tragedy
- Comedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
- Non-narrative