Astronaut of Featherweight is a dark vision of the hypercapitalist transhuman society in which a body is a commodity and money means immortality. From out-of-space spa-colonies to labour plantations, everyone is trying hard to preserve their bodies.
Under a scorching sun, Charlie is bored out of her mind and dreams of going to the seaside. But she’s forced to guard a seedy motel with her cousin Jess, who’s slumped in her deckchair. The two teenagers don’t get along and bicker at every opportunity. On the radio, the monotone voice of a collapsology researcher predicts the imminent end of the world.
The breath of a jogger, a demolished anthill, a puddle, a sandwich left on a bench, a squirrel… fragments of lives that take us for a walk around the lake, with the words and music of Carl et les hommes-boîtes.
A grandiose transoceanic cruise ship sailing the seas.
The basic elements of the ancient Greek myth are well known: the labyrinth, the Minotaur, Theseus, and of course, the thread. Let the search begin!
Arcadian Fever is a short film portraying the life cycle of an alien parasite species. The film follows the parasites’ last day on the planet they occupied, their migration and the invasion of another planet. There is also a love story.
Itsy bitsy spider went down the sounding board. Down came the hammer and struck the spider’s chord.
While two uniformed cave guards expose themselves as spineless, monosyllabic creatures, the animals reveal themselves here as the true spiritual beings.
A short animated film about the weather – inspired and informed by chaos theory and Lorenz attractors, romantic landscape paintings and the minimalist polygonal look of early computer simulations.
Seven people living with aphasia through hand-drawn rotoscope and digital animation.
This short film about life after the loss of a loved one deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both live-action and animated film. Real experiences of the narrators are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations, looking into the thoughts of three young people untimely exposed to death.
Two brothers run away from home, and this affects their relationship.
A man in a room, in a film – it is the becoming of something and simultaneously becoming in itself. Nothing is as solid as we believe.
Dealing with what comes naturally isn’t easy, especially for animals. In Animal Behaviour, the latest animated short from the Oscar-winning team of Alison Snowden and David Fine (Bob’s Birthday), five animals meet regularly to discuss their inner angst in a group therapy session led by dr. Clement, a canine psychotherapist.
Film centers on two women, a mother and a daughter, with two different personalities and how being stuck together at home further strains their relationship.
An Island is an immersive short film portraying the physical and emotional journey undertaken by a lone explorer as he attempts to reach the summit of a remote island.
Anton’s head is bursting with thoughts. The gardener is angry: who has trampled her flower beds? In the park Anton is looking for a new chess partner. For someone who plays better than his dog. The gardener is looking for a mysterious serial vandal who has lost a yellow boot. Are they looking for the same thing?
Ampersand is science visualisation meeting visual music. The film takes the audience on a playful musical journey from the subatomic to the galactic and touches on many core ideas of science like the wave particle duality, evolution, and pollination.
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.