Synopsis:
“Zip up and let’s dance to the sound of breaking glass.” A band of sleepy spirits in an ambulance runs out of road.
- Director:
- Rosto
- Year:
- 2014
- Country:
- France, Belgium, Netherlands
- Running time:
- 11 min.
- Technique:
- 3D Animation, Puppet Animation, Mixed media
- Production type:
- Professional
- Productions:
- Studio Rosto A.D., AUTOUR DE MINUIT
- Distribution:
- Autour de Minuit Productions
- Genres:
- Drama, Experimental, Abstract
- Tags:
- Surreal, Festival Darlings, Mental health, Trauma, Identity, Death, Time, Sad, Transformation, Dreams, Shame
- Audience:
- Adults
- Festival selections:
- Animafest Zagreb – World Festival of Animated Film
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The Monster of Nix
2011 16+ 30 min
by Rosto
Life is good in the idyllic fairytale village of Nix… until an all-devouring monster appears. Young Willy has to fight it. Alone.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Peripheria
2015 16+ 12 min
by David Coquard Dassault
A journey into the heart of a large and abandoned council estate. Peripheria portrays an urban environment becoming wild: a modern Pompeii where the wind blows and dogs roam, tailing the remains of human life.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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No Place Like Home
2008 Adults 6 min
by Rosto
A one-eyed has-been TV presenter hides away in a hotel room with his dead sidekick to watch reruns from their better days. “Let’s revive some of our moments now” he says to the corpse in his arms. “It’s OK, I’m just glad you are here.”
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Tragedy
- Experimental
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Nothing happens
2017 16+ 12 min
by Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot
It is bitterly cold in the inner city neighborhoods, and yet people come together. I watch them form a line on the horizon. We wait for something to happen. But nothing does. We have come together to witness an event. To participate in a spectacle. To see and be seen.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Jona/Tomberry
2005 Adults 12 min
by Rosto
Borges meets Murnau in a spinning nightmare. And the baby sings: “No, not be scared old bird, to awake and see I am dreaming you.”
- Drama
- Experimental
- Abstract
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Do Not Feed the Pigeons
2021 16+ 9 min
by Antonin Niclass
In Antonin Niclass’s short film “Do Not Feed the Pigeons, ” a flock becomes a source of unexpected wonder for a group of weary travellers.
- Drama
- Tragicomedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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MATCHES
2019 16+ 11 min
by Géza M. Tóth
While playing with his colorful matchsticks, a little boy is talking about his dreams, fears and hopes..
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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Past is Growing
2018 16+ 8 min
by Dea Jagić
The past, the present, a change of perception. What is it that keeps us from going forward and why does the past keep pulling us back? When do we realize that our perception of things has shifted? Everyone goes through that process. What differs is how we experience and deal with it.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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T-Rextasy: Gap Yr Boiz
2016 16+ 4 min
by Christian Larrave
Music video.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Coming-of-Age
- Tragedy
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Romance
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
- Musical
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Now It’s Over
2015 16+ 5 min
by Dave Merson Hess
Broad variety of visual styles (stop motion with paper puppets, ink on paper, watercolor, and paint-on-glass) in a tribute to French and Japanese New Wave auteurs of the late ’60s.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Tragedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Three Melodies
2013 16+ 18 min
by Garri Bardin
Elegy, Exodus and Rondo. Three classic music pieces accompany different stories of simultaneously contemporary and universal character, always ironic and visually astonishing.
- Drama
- Tragicomedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Note
2008 16+ 12 min
by Marko Meštrović
Three diffferent stories about a relationship between a father and son, taking place in different social milieux.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Fantasy
- Romance
- Abstract
- Experimental