Films

by Michaela Mihalyi, David Stumpf, Michaela Mihályi

An apartment building full of self centered inhabitants. Utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife. Widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol… While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard to solve triangle asking for absurd and irrational solutions. The consequences can easily become permanent, sometimes maybe too permanent. The film is a loose adaptation of a well-known biblical story while transforming it into an contemporary ironic narrative about how the world sometimes works.

• Comedy
• Tragicomedy
• Drama

by Xu Yuan

The expression of emotional desire called love. Every person is an individual whose spirit and soul cannot be bound.

• Drama
• Romance
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Robert Seidel

The experimental film “sfumato” is based on a multi-channel video installation by Berlin-based artist Robert Seidel, pushing the limits of abstract painting in the digital age. In a time of complete virtualization of knowledge, work and monetary flows, painting finally can be in the same state of flux beyond the constraints of a physical material. The title refers to one of the four canonical painting modes of Renaissance art, a technique that emphasizes soft transition between colours and tones. By taking this concept of blurring clear lines and borders the spectral “all-over” composition offers a myriad of subtle gradations and erratic shifts of focal planes. “sfumato” unleashes a sublime moment of pure abstraction expanding the ideas of painting into an asymmetrical orchestration of video painting sequences. The source material is based on a convolute of analogue painting and drawing sketches by the artist, which were dissolved with a self-developed video synthesizer and fused into a continuous visual stream of prismatic colour volumes. “sfumato” is part of his ongoing research in the field of experimental, process-based “moving paintings”, which create a coherent and personal utopia of Robert Seidel, pointing towards the universal possibilities of art in the flow of history and its friction with today.

• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Calleen Koh Yee Lin

Life on a conveyor belt seems great for Sushi and his Topping friends. But as he begins to contemplate his existence, Sushi wonders if there’s more to life than pimping himself out to savage consumers.

by Izabela Plucińska

How can the flames of desire be rekindled after 25 years of married life? An erotic comedy, made entirely through the use of modelling clay, delves into the private lives of Alice and Henry, a couple in their fifties numbed by routine.

by Hirad Sab

“remember your power”

• Experimental
• Non-narrative
• Music Videos

by Kamila Sosnowska, Mirek Sosnowski, Kamila Grzybowska-Sosnowska & others

A story about a very dangerous infatuation. An animated music video made for the band SAME SUKI. The song’s lyrics is an adaptation of the old Polish folk song On a Sunday at Dawn.

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Experimental

by Pussykrew

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Pavao Štalter

On a clearing in a large forest, grandfather Vjest and his three grandchildren live in harmony, constantly maintaining a fire on the home hearth where Svarožić, the protector of the house, lives. A new fire on the hearth brings back Svarožić, who destroys the Witch.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Max Hattler

This experimental animation by Max Hattler approaches Hong Kong’s built environment from the conceptual perspective of celluloid film, by applying the technique of film animation to the photographic image. The city’s signature architecture of horizon-eclipsing housing estates is reimagined as parallel rows of film strips: Serial Parallels.

• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Sarah Koppel

“Serious Deadly Silence” is a one minute moment of 60 endangered species.

• Documentary

by Simon Cartwright

First year workshop film about the external and internal journeys of a commuter who is forced to find a happy place when another man invades his space.

• Comedy
• Experimental

by Rosa Fisher

The film explores themes of masculinity, and also speculates how the cultural practice of sending children to boarding school has politically shaped the UK.

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age
• Experimental

by Yeon Sangho

The animated prequel to the box office record-breaker “Train to Busan” and the latest from director Yeon Sang-ho, “Seoul Station” follows a man sleeping in a train station who becomes a catalyst for the pandemonium in downtown Seoul: a zombie apocalypse. The rapidly-spreading infection propels an authentic family drama, drawing mordant parallels to real-world social horrors.

by Michal Struss, Veronika Obertová, Michaela Čopíková

Communication design for Film Seminar 4 Elements 2015.

• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Joke Duwaerts

In a world where water has special powers, a couple picks flowers which they deposit in a precious place.

by Claudius Gentinetta

In a veritable firework display of digital self-portraits, hundreds of quaint, embarrassing and dreadfully disturbing selfies were arranged in a unique short film composition. Single photos, artistically reworked, consolidate to form a ghastly grin that outshines the abyss of human existence.

• Drama
• Comedy
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Jan Kokolia

Everything started with the Big Bang, that was the seed. Everything was born, developed and died because of a repeating cycle. The matter will forever remain, energy is transmitted and time gives motion to everything.

by Noémi Barkóczi

Who wore these second-hand clothes before we discovered them? The mysterious and adventurous past lives of garments from the thrift store.

• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Natalia Brożyńska

Kwadrycy, a mechanical creature, discovers one day strange radio waves from outer space and decides to go on a journey to investigate what is the source of this weird melody. He arrives on underwater planet inhabited by nosy nosy animals. Music: Devo.

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Sci-Fi