METAL AF!!!
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METAL AF!!!
A starving prehistoric man trapped in a mysterious cave tries to escape as his body mutates.
Animation for Mert Otsamo’s collection ‘Army of Generation’.
Eight-year-old Matilda’s memories of her family take the form of surreal visions. They feature her grandmother – a circus member and ex-mermaid, her erotically overheated mother, and her missing father whose broken heart, anger, and jealousy manifest as a rhino. Present and past actions are in a constant state of metamorphosis.
A millennial is relying on her magic 8-ball to make sense of a chaotic life. Her non stopping questions cause her to fall through the sofa into her unconsciousness. When realising her 8-ball disappeared, she sets out on a journey to find it, encountering different aspects of herself. A satire about a never ending quest towards self realisation, self improvement, and life’s answers.
Mercurio is a kid who loves cycling. One day he is stopped by members of the Fascist regime and incarcerated in a transit camp, ready to be sent to a concentration camp.
A baby panda finds a bird, befriends it and takes it home.
In this love letter to artists, their art, and their audience, a filmmaker is confronted with rejection after rejection until, at last, a beautiful fig tree bears sweet fruits. ‘Conversations with a Whale’ was created directly under the camera lens, using various analog animation techniques
Metallic components like hardware, foil, nails manifest visceral painful feelings of the depressed people. Liquidity of ink serves as an organic, flowing and invisible brain process from the amygdala and hippocampus.
A young woman picks up a dead dragonfly and looks into its eyes. For a short instance she’s transported back to her memory of her childhood and her grandmother.
Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics dives deeply into the innate contrast between the Seven Deadly Sins (Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Pride and Envy) and the Seven Sacred Teachings (Love, Respect, Wisdom, Courage, Truth, Honesty and Humility), as embodied in the life of a precocious Métis baby. Brought to life by Terril Calder’s darkly beautiful stop-motion animation, her inner turmoil of abuse is laid bare with unflinching honesty. Convinced she’s soiled and destined for Hell, Baby Girl receives teachings that fill her with strength and pride, and affirm a path towards healing. Calder’s tour-de-force unearths a hauntingly familiar yet hopeful world that illuminates the bias of colonial systems
Theatrical stage takes place in a foreign space and reveals a feast of different forms of memories.
Louis, an artist, and his wife Michelle have been experiencing strange events for a little while now. The world around them seems to be changing. Slowly, furniture, objects, and people become less real. They deconstruct, disintegrate.
Shun regretted this. He still can’t understand why he was playing with these four who are not really friends, nor actually people he likes. The unbearable heat and the heavy atmosphere at the shrine deepen Shun’s depression.
Communism left its mark not only on those who lived in it, but also on the subsequent generations as well. After more than twenty-five years, we still face the remnants of socialist era around every corner. However, people’s memories and the way they perceive the fall of communism and life during and after this period tend to be different. ‘Memento’ is an experimental animation short-film which presents the fragments of these memories through the lens of subjectivity.
Polish filmmaker Marta Pajek discusses the creative process for her award-winning trilogy, Impossible Figures and other stories, following the online release of the final film, a mysterious and haunting portrait of personal and societal self-destruction.
In a world of escalators, figures pursue their desire to consume in a given rhythm. One of the figures is sucked in at the end of an escalator and finds itself in a quiet, weightless room, where it joins the playing figures. Meanwhile, the escalator world is thrown into confusion by a chips-mad dog. When the dog is also sucked in by an escalator, a power struggle between the two worlds begins.
This is going to make you feel uncomfortable.
This movie by Jonathan Gales of architectural animation studio Factory Fifteen imagines the whole of London as a construction site, caught in a state of change that could mean dramatic decay or intensive development.
Daniel Beňovič is a 3D Animator & Technical Artist based in Slovakia, with background in motion graphics and animation, having created ads for major brands and television. His experience in animation has transitioned into the gaming industry, where he now focuses on enhancing rigging and animation at Nine Rocks Games. Utilizing skills in Autodesk Maya and scripting, Daniel contributes to the game Way of the Hunter.