For people Father’s Day is a celebration, but for one small bird – an ordinary working day. And concerns are the same old – to get food for his family.
- Comedy
For people Father’s Day is a celebration, but for one small bird – an ordinary working day. And concerns are the same old – to get food for his family.
Interview with Andrej Goričar at Animateka 2011.
The figure against the space. The human figure's attempt to rest is disrupted by the surrounding space, which constantly oppresses it. With each attempt to escape, it finds itself in a fight with it again. Is it even possible for it to break this cycle?
How does it feel not to understand your own body and its needs? To perceive everything but food blurry and meaningless? The animated documentary film INSIDE shows a day in life of a person suffering a mental illness called Anorexia Nervosa. It is an intimate insight into the mind of an anorexic, who just must somehow interact with the raw reality.
A man constructs wooden wings enabling him to fly, but he is bounded by the giant wire cage encircling both the fliers and non-fliers.
In this ultrashort animated film, we follow an octopus who is a clean-up neat-freak. But sometimes, even though you have so many arms, you still cannot reach what you are aiming for. Ink was originally created for the theater, as a stereoscopic 3D film.
A girl hears mysterious noises and investigates, but the source isn’t an easy answer.
A film about staging a theater performance 70 years after the events of 1948, as well as the real theater production that the whole communist coup was. Puppets seemingly without puppeteers, puppets moving about of their own free will – this is how communist comrades were and this is exactly how they’re presented in this film.
A weird-acting girl draws a young man’s attention at an inn.
Incomprehensible Labour by Specific Means deals with the theme of labour in the contemporary. It critically points out the relationship between the abstraction of advanced automation and the concreteness of human labour. Work that is not always conscious and visible, but often unconscious and invisible. At the same time, this video highlights the fetishization of technology and performance, the result is not only invisible but also unimportant.
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.
A family arrives on a crowded beach to spend their holidays, however a mosquito will transform their wonderful day into hell …
It is believed that art can touch upon things that are invisible or unspoken, engage a wide range of people in dialogue by analysing different experiences. One of such perspectives is represented by the artists with Down Syndrome, such as the Atelier Normalno community members. For some of them, video became a tool of emancipation. They use the aesthetics of advertising, television and cinema to create moving images art that is a sharp reaction to everyday topics. During the discussion, artist and co-curator of the Atelier Normalno Stanislav Turina and cinema historian and director Stanislav Menzelevskyi will reflect on how artists with disabilities convey modernity, what characters and issues they choose to convey their feelings, how inclusion can be present in culture and the role that video as an artistic instrument plays in it.
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.
The fight between the squirrel and the big poster placed in front of her house that blocks the sun.
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.