What would it be like? You know, like to be a pacific salmon. The life cycle of a pacific salmon is a tragic, but inspiring one. Filled with strength, perseverance, and acceptance of the inevitable, it is a life worth discussing.
To celebrate Jack London’s 100th death anniversary, director Fx Goby adapted his famous novel, “To Build a Fire”, tragic tale of a trapper and his dog in the freezing Yukon, into an animated short film.
A still, blank sheet of paper. A silhouette appears delineated beneath its surface. Here is our hero, Tis. He struggles and manages to free himself from the sheet of paper, but his feet remain attached to it. In the distance, he sees a crowd of beings similar to him.
To promote their book BOSNIAN FLAT DOG, Swedish comics creators Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson tour the countries of former Yugoslavia with a mummyfied Marshal Tito in a refrigerator. Watching border controls turn into improvised snapshot sessions, admiring mutant iron-curtain Disney toys, buying souvenir grenade shell handicrafts and discovering sniper art in blown-out apartments, they find that truth may indeed be stranger than fiction.
An old man is torn between the lingering presence of his dead wife, a fish in a jar and the reality of his lonely existence.
Keep your Dream ON, it will make a happier tomorrow
Every dreamer has their own magic door
UK music artist Ben Dalby collaborates with writer Mojo Billington and animation director and illustrator Liam Callebout to present the music video Tin Man.
A group of logs is about to freeze to death in a cold, icy desert. When they realize that the only fuel for a warming fire is their own body, things start heating up.
A happy little tiger is imprinted on a food plate. But if you leave him alone, and he doesn’t find anything to eat on his plate, he will leave it and travel the lunch table to satiate his appetite.
There is a strong connection between parents and their child. A young woman leaves the parental home to see the world. But the world of her parents is so tightly connected with her that by leaving, she puts it at risk. It turns out that this connection can be also destructive.
Sidsel and her friend Olav are leading a seemingly quiet and peaceful life in a little town by the beach, but under the surface things are not so quiet and peaceful after all. When Sidsel picks up a mysterious cube on the beach one day she unwittingly sets in motion an unfortunate chain of events involving a charming duck, a tiger and a rogue carnivorous houseplant that turn out to have catastrophic consequences for her and Olav’s friendship.
Under a gloomy sun, two characters look for adaptation.
Whirlwind of emotions. The first sensations. An animation film which tries to demystify issues that, to this day, persist in society’s imagination about the virus.
Watchmaker controls the time, but the mouse living in the watchmaker’s workshop controls the clocks. This is a film about time and its ephemeral nature.
Music video by Tic Toc.
A little story about the backyard critters you might see in Tasmania, and the things they might be doing.
A reclusive ogre lives alone in a large garden where he spends his days eating and gardening. One day, he meets a tiny woman who has fallen from the back of a swallow. An unusual friendship is born but their nature takes over again: TommeLise wants to leave while the ogre’s appetite wakes up.
Elegy, Exodus and Rondo. Three classic music pieces accompany different stories of simultaneously contemporary and universal character, always ironic and visually astonishing.
The film consists of three stories inspired by Pablo Picasso’s print “Contemplation”, which Šimon Koudela interprets in different ways. On this occasion, he shows off the visually impressive animation of the scenes.