In an ordinary building, life goes on like in a beehive. Suddenly the geometry is broken by a leap into the void.
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In an ordinary building, life goes on like in a beehive. Suddenly the geometry is broken by a leap into the void.
Being a poetic experience, the film unfolds a plant fresco at the edge of intimacy and fantasy, where the eye, like the one spread by the butterfly, wanders from specimen to specimen. In the garden of a dream, the living metamorphoses and beings unveil.
On the cruise that he was supposed to take his annual break from life, Jadran experienced a tragic shipwreck during which he lost consciousness. Wake up in the middle of the ocean, all alone.
What if the roles of kids and adults were switched? The story follows a day full of bizarrely reversed interactions, unravelling the dynamics of the relationship of grown-ups and children.
A story about an encounter between two individuals in an imaginary world – the Puppeteer and the Creature. The Puppeteer bides his time on his planet, longing for company. When a guest finally arrives, the Puppeteer expresses his happiness in many ways.
The music video for the song “I COULD NEVER LIVE WITHOUT YOU BY MY SIDE” by the Berlin based techno group FJAAK tells the story of one night in a Berlin techno club. Two lovers go on a drug induced trip with a fatal ending. During this trip they meander through different surreal spaces of their shared past and their distorted memories of those events.
The mother issues her decree: before you get back in the water, you have to take a break and sit quietly for five minutes. For the little girl, these five minutes are an ocean of boredom that stretches on forever and ever. She starts to watch the other bathers and how they spend their five minutes.
The music video for the song “Snow” by the Berlin based techno group FJAAK tells the story of a character following an inner calling. He meets his companion and she takes him on a spiritual journey of partnership, love, pain, destruction, growth and rebirth. Through this journey we experience a fragmented narrative shaped by surreal sceneries and anthropomorphic transformations.
This biblical-like story of human civilization needs to be judged as a theatrical and symbolic (even sometimes static) account of what can haunt our communal harmony.
The festival’s creative director Hämid Shajarian interviews the participants of the National Competition category of Animatricks 2021: Tove Johnson – Jumalolento by Juho Maurinen (2019), Left Behind by Minna Eriksson (2020), Rinse and Shine by Iiris Korjus ja Katariina Haukka (2021), The Things I Saw: Monday by David Graham (2020), Bad to the boner by Robert Lönnqvist (2021), Tiedänkö mitä etsin by Ylva-Lii Wahlström (2019)
Oil on glass, short animated film about changes in life, 2000.
Far from here lies a giant field of rape.
Official music video for ((SOURCE)) by Fever The Ghost.
Trailer for the 2022 edition of the Festival of Animation Berlin.
String puppets rave, eat, and fly.
Two friends, lovers, soulmates, a pair of two, searching and ultimately finding each other. This pair traveling between worlds and changing forms, expressed through 15 styles of animation, by 15 animators from across the world.
The film tells a story about dualism, about the man’s nature of destroying everything around him, as well as his desire for immortality. The puppet on a bike performs the theatre play Faustus in which a man sells his soul to the devil.
A woman, grieving for a future she’ll never know, travels into her dreams of science fiction and infinite cities. A new era, inspired by the past, takes place. A resilient and sustainable world, where the time goes slower and love lives longer.
According to an urban legend, fairies live in the hills of Buda in Hungary, although they have never been spotted so far.