This animation thematizes a dream that you can’t wake up from. Mubi (夢寐) means dreams you have whilst you are asleep in Japanese. Shakuya mubi (夙夜夢寐) is a four character idiom. It means dreams you have even if you are awake. A young man endures conflict, rapture and anguish. And he will find out why he cannot leave his dream.
Life can arise anywhere, nature behave strangely and days can last for minutes. Although everything is familiar to us, nothing is what it seems in this place.
A homeless guy gets off the train and accidentally leaves one of his bags behind. The rest of the passengers then realize that there is a human baby inside the bag. The baby cries and the passengers don’t like it, neither does the lady who makes the announcements.
Disturbed by loud music from one of his neighbors, Mr. Schwartz calls the police. But initially, the officer cannot ascertain anything. Then the film starts again from the view of every tenant and allows the spectator to see what really happened in each apartment: The history of a butterfly effect.
A dreamy animated documentary about the dangers of early cinema. The atmosphere of old film theatres is recalled through a mixture of handmade techniques.
Why is the night changing the day? When you don’t like something, you change it.
Two figures on advertisement posters come to life and begin to flirt heavily. The game of seduction ends with the realization that not all the glances were interpreted correctly.
Old Mr. Pascal dreams of his youth as he sits beside a crucifix. He then decides to liberate the tortured figure of Christ and the world about him is transformed.
Looking at an X-ray image a young handsome man is horrified to learn that the weird, tumor-like lump on his chest is the top of a tiny plump man’s head. Nested in his body, he is waiting to be born…
The story is narrated in an unknown time, in a ruined modern subway. People in this society have animal faces, they have forgotten humanity and ethics and they do not avoid sins. There is someone with a deer face who is trying to reform society.
A carefree millennial helps his friend to move to the suburbs.
A woman takes charge of her sexuality and gets lost in a sensual fantasy.
A girl journeys through a vibrant, pulsing, macrocosmic landscape but a precipitous incident compels her to venture up a mountain in an attempt to save herself.
A day in life of a young woman living a silent, lonely life with her friend the fish. The silence is broken when a new tenant comes to live in the apartment next door. Despite the constant sounds and noise penetrating from the other side of the wall and perhaps because of them, she finds herself falling in love with her neighbor.
A mouse gets trapped in a big truckle of cheese. Busy munching its soft core, he forgets about his famished friend outside. Meanwhile, the cat is waiting…
A man moves into a new town together with his mouse. The next day he goes for a walk and confronts his animal with the animals which belong to the inhabitants of that town. “Mouse” tells a story of how difficult it is to stay true to oneself amongst the people who seem to have a stronger personality.
In a mountain village in southwest China, Nan returns home with his wife and children to visit his relatives. However, his son Xiaowen suddenly finds a strange ‘monster’ while playing in the village. When Nan is unaware of what is happening, Nan’s father reveals a story about Nan’s childhood. It turns out that Nan, who grew up in the mountains as a child, had a predestined relationship with the ‘monster’ in the mountains, so Nan began to tell this part of his childhood story…
Two spirits on a mountaintop. While one of them is bored beyond belief the other one seems to have reached Zen.
Lines make mountains.
Small pieces of information can be stored separately within a shared container. The most efficient containers can house multiple pieces of information in the same location, intersecting from different angles.