The Starboard City RIOT5 roller derby team face off against their heated rivals in a decisive match, but something goes terribly wrong…
- Drama
- Coming-of-Age
- Action
- Musical
The Starboard City RIOT5 roller derby team face off against their heated rivals in a decisive match, but something goes terribly wrong…
In a side street hotel, on a night of searing neon and screaming sirens, two tender souls share old wounds.
If you HAD to kill your ex, how would you do it? “R.I.P.”, a digital show created and directed by Lena Greene and Lorraine Nicholson, asks real humans that question and they elicit some pretty creative responses. The interviews are then brought to life by Nicholson and Greene, who creatively illustrate the narration in any way they see fit.
Two thieves are escaping. They ride a giant camel in a magical desert. Through a flashback, we see the two girls stealing a birdcage full of flying mushrooms. The two thieves experiment a psychedelic trip, and after that they stop in the middle of the desert and open the cage. The thieves free the mushrooms, who fly far away across the universe.
In Riga’s public transport you can call the police, if someone smells bad and disturbs your ride. But would you call? Lizete, an amateur interviewer, tries to figure out – do we have the right to stink
Rick and Morty is Adult Swim’s most scientifically accurate animated comedy. Created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, it catalogues the bizarre misadventures of a bored scientific genius/drunkard and his socially awkward grandson, Morty. Their exploits tend to have unintended consequences for Morty’s dysfunctional family, especially his unfailingly mediocre father, Jerry. Watch Rick and Morty battle everything from interdimensional customs agents to Cronenberg monsters.
Boy starts to draw and falls into the paper himself. There is a monster and boy starts to fight with pencil as weapon.
Richie, a joyful drinker, talks about the 2014 new year’s eve he spent at the hospital. Between piping malfunctions and other scatophilic problems, he evokes his love for his daughter, his relationship to death and his desire for descent.
The experimental animated film Resting fog depicts the process of reliving a memory – and the disintegration that follows – through a series of associative images. The film takes place in a fictional, dreamlike sanatorium surrounded by the sea and the setting sun. Faceless shadows wander between the walls of a secluded, forgotten place, waiting to dissolve into their surroundings as darkness sets in, thus becoming permanently lost in a haze of oblivion.
A film about an unhappy man who catches his wife with a lover. He leaves to buy a gun, while plotting to kill the wife and the lover. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.
The sounds of women’s rights protests happening all around Poland turned into a dark revenge tale inspired by the slavic folk culture, a collaboration between director Mateusz Jarmulski and musician Resina.
Everything’s different but nothing has changed. A trip through a sunken maze of memories and dreams.
Three Renees go on a quest to find God, who is also Renee. As they traverse the mountains and valleys of Renee, they discover all the great joys, sorrows, and mysteries of being Renee.
Remote Life Drawings is an animated collage that visually explores the unique neighbourhood of Taipei Artist Village (TAV), situated at the heart of four distinct districts in central Taipei. Through morphing animation, I connect these districts, capturing the complex, ever-changing atmosphere surrounding the village. The abstract imagery reflects the harmony and fluidity between these areas, offering a glimpse into the dynamic and multifaceted environment of TAV.
A waitress in her job is routinely serving coffee and thinking about escaping her reality. A patron keeps recording and replaying the sounds at the café, completely obsessed with this action. Apathy is a state of mind leading to stagnation, but are any of them aware that they are themselves examples of this state?
The story is set in a graphic design world where fonts are the main characters. They have unique properties: Bold makes everything thicker, Italic tilts things, Monospace equalizes objects by width, etc. Fonts team up to build a garden, and the five boxing wizards jump in quickly to inspect their work. A negative space storm flushes everything away, but Regular comes and fixes the garden.
Austrian animation director and media-artist Reinhold Bidner is working in the fields of animation, media art and games. In his Masterclass Encounters & Inbetweens, Reinhold talks about and discuss his artistic animated experiments in between various disciplines, formats and techniques. He will also present images and video excerpts. The session was moderated by Animatricks Creative Director Hämid Shajarian.
A short movie about making the wrong decisions at the wrong time.
In the spring of 1999, the Family Learning Channel commissioned animator Don Hertzfeldt to produce promotional segments for their network. The cartoons were completed in five weeks. The Family Learning Channel rejected all of them upon review, and they were never aired…