The awkward hero stumbles over a long forgotten piano. Music leads him from his rund down existence out into the city life. There he plays a last funeral march to all the deadbeat figures on the sidewalk.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
- Abstract
The awkward hero stumbles over a long forgotten piano. Music leads him from his rund down existence out into the city life. There he plays a last funeral march to all the deadbeat figures on the sidewalk.
In Never like the first time! four different people tell us, in their own words, what it was like to lose their virginity. The diverse experiences recounted in the four different animated stories, some tragic and some comic, are told by both the teenagers and the old people that appear in the stories and they all have one thing in common – it is ”never like the first time!” The people behind the voices remain anonymous and they explain sincerely how significant losing their virginity was to them.
A short film by Václav Blin.
Even though Sam’s father is hardly ever home because he is often away on business trips, he is able to connect with his son by teaching him how to pack a suitcase.
An ambitious owl physicist is determined to follow in the footsteps of his renowned scientific ancestors by solving a tough equation. But the owl’s endeavor gets disrupted when a woodpecker moves into the neighborhood.
Sometimes our life looks like the storm that throws us from wave to wave, while we are looking for safe harbor.
The director interview with Natasha Cetner.
Mark has just lost his job and his day is about to get a whole lot worse. A domestic tragedy exploring the surreal nature of losing someone you love.
Nas·cent : beginning to exist or develop. An unusual pair of twins has to learn to adapt to a strange new relationship, and must make a decision that will change their fates forever.
Philosophy is not dead, though the main character of this story almost is.
I was playing basketball until I entered college. During a basketball game, when I stole an opponent’s ball and attacked in haste, I felt my body started moving as fast as an army brain. I still get this feeling sometimes, even now that I no longer play basketball.
Short animated puppet probe into endless self-love, freely drawing on the ancient myth of Narcissus. Whoever wants to love others needs to (after) love each other
Follow a crow’s flight into the city of Johannesburg. A music video done with sand animation and silhouettes inspired by the Afrikaans poem ‘By alle skone dinge’ (To all things beautiful).
Somewhere in Eastern Europe due to an accident in a laboratory, the hero gains superpowers that he does not want. The hero does not want to be a superhero, to save the world from villains, he wants to live as before without changing anything. The situation is complicated by the fact that while he gains the awareness of his power, it causes problems in his everyday life. While he is stuck in the elevator, he meets a girl who likes him and wants to help him.
On her Masterclass “Unsung Women Heros of Animation”, the well known Animation Journalist, Nancy Denney-Phelps reflects why there is so few women in the animation industry, even though almost 65% of all animation students are female and why we all know the Fleisher Brothers and Walt Disney, but with a few exceptions, the women who blazed the animation trail are almost unknown to us. Denney-Phelps is a distinguished animation journalist and a well-known guest in many Animation Festivals. She writes an animation blog to the Animation World Network – AWN.
At night the forest creatures gather to gamble, putting their innermost at stake.
Naked Love Ea’s Garden is a sensual, hand-drawn animated art film that takes the viewer on a poetic, surreal exploration of Ea’s sexuality
Creatures from Greek mythology live their lives and solve problems in the present world.
Myosis is the constriction of the iris which decreases the diameter of the pupil. It is an unconscious phenomenon which can be triggered by an intense light, fear, or the effect of epiphany.
A series of cinematic miniatures about the essence of music and the process of its reception. Music is first excreted, and then received. Sausage or spherical. The resulting sound is not the actual sound of the instruments shown, but the perceived timbre of abstract music representation.