The head does it all. While other body-parts have their separate functions as instruments, the head is an all-purpose tool. The head’s universality: object-oriented media magician Anna Vasof celebrates it, and at the same time questions its primacy. In 24 ten-second-shots, her video Amazon Woman demonstrates what a head – always Vasof’s – can do.
What if it there was a place where we could revisit the memories of a relationship? In this archive of remembrances we are guided through the story of Amélia and Duarte, two people that felt out of love and are trying to cope with the feelings that come after a relationship has ended.
The Near Life Experience might seem to be an odd, extraordinary occurence, but in fact it happens to anyone. Why to be the self-stigma on your fixed, unchanging identity, as if we were never to act, never to desire, never to experience anything new?
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.
Music video for Alpha-ray´s “Paper trails”
A walk in the park that defies rules.
Opening animation for the cycle of documentaries “Iné Ženy”. (Alternative Women)
A woman heads down to Vera Lassoo’s hair salon with a set of unrealistic expectation and ends up with an unrealistic hair-do!
In a constant search for closeness, C experiences emotions in all their highs and lows. Even if a familiar phase of togetherness is followed by a rejection of the other person and, accordingly, a sad loneliness, C does not give up. Again and again, new ways are found to find the longed-for closeness and tenderness. And to lose.
On an everyday train journey quite unlike any other, a not-so-casual observer goes to extreme lengths to avoid other passengers, a giant baby runs away from his parents, a romantic woman starts an ill-fated relationship with a cuckoo, and a naïve boy discovers that some problems can’t be fixed by pictures of unicorns.
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.
While transitioning from male to female gender, Matia struggles with finding a genuine intimate relationship with a heterosexual man.
A group of creatures are abducted from their natural habitat.
Three dragon’s heads, three princess and one big allergy.
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.
In these times of uncertainty and anxiety the film follows a day in the life of a young teenage boy as he faces his fears and concerns. Will he be able to confide in his school mates? Are they going to help him or ignore him?
A nurse, a Nazi, and a fish: this is the incredible tale of a young Czech woman who, in the face of Nazi occupation, trumps the invaders with her unique form of resistance. Her story is given an animated retelling that explores the collision of history, truth, and myth-making.
An animated comedy about a tiny man who lives inside a cat and the mess he finds himself in when he falls in love with the cat’s new owner. When he finds a woman his own size, he realises how stupid he’s been.
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.