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A young girl sees the world around her as brittle, depraved and ugly. She lives in a cold war where the weapon is not the gun or the bomb, but the alienation, aimlessness, selfishness, depreciation of the people.
A young woman is being followed by a crocodile who represents her shyness. As he makes her life a living helle, she tries byevery means to get rid of him.
An animated short documentary about a difficult father-daughter relationship. Drawing on childhood memories, Anne Koizumi, the filmmaker, explores her upbringing with her Japanese immigrant dad, who was also the janitor at the elementary school she attended.
The body of a man is forever marked by the horrors of war.
A brief meeting after many years undermines a father’s world and renders his words meaningless.
Three characters share a common traumatic experience when they were born.
In a Good Wayis a 2D animation about a typical Asian salaryman who has decided to leave his job and returned to his hometown. En route, he encounters a pine tree blocking his path. He takes the tree home and tries to plant it in his garden, but finds that the tree has a will of its own – just like the salaryman.
A naked woman sits in an empty room in front of the mirror and brings gum bubbles to burst. What is content and what is the form?
Currents of electricity were analysed and introduced into a human host via electrodes. The visual material was then animated and mixed with M. Bense’s text Technical Existence (1949).
In a city at night, a human-shaped deer tries to steal a man’s identity by taking his head off.
Imbued Life is a film about a young woman’s connection with the life force of nature. She uses her talent for taxidermy to “restore” the animals to their natural habitat. However, the true search for the answers begins when she starts finding a roll of undeveloped film in each of the animals she treats. Her obsession drives her to seek the explanation of the connection she feels, haunting her dreams, as well as her waking moments.
An indoor pool seems fun at on the outside, but things get complicated when one has undressed. Tommy finds his peace as soon as he accepts his condition and immerses in it. He is gliding through the sweaty water. Contrasting colours, sophisticated split screens and geometric plays of forms.
Music video by Imagine Dragons performing Birds (Animated Video).
Following the end of a stormy love affair, Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka enlists in the First World War. After suffering serious injuries in battle, he experiences a series of memories and visions as medics transport him through the forests of the Russian front. Playful and imaginative, I’m OK explores the wounds of heartbreak and trauma.
Singing skeletons dream about breaking free from their geometric formation, and taking a swim in the great, big, blue sea.
I’m Not There is a debut project of Zagreb-based designer and animator Mirta Filipović. Only a few months after her first encounter with 3D animation, she embarked on a mad attempt of making an animation video for the Zagreb-based band Paul The Walrus.I’m Not There is a result of a year and a half of sleepless nights, existential ponderings and questioning why would anyone ever try and make an animated video with only three months’ experience in animation. This animation is a story about power, who has it, who doesn’t and how those who seem to have it nevertheless account to someone greater than them. Hands, eyes and mouth are used as symbols of power and submission. Hands hold power and can shape the world as they please, while eyes and mouth are sensual organs that can only observe and receive impulses.
The girl lives in an apartment with a creepy monster who constantly violates her personal boundaries and pesters her with her care. Even in the bathroom, the main character finds no escape from the monster. The girl’s patience ends, and she decides to run away from home.
Jonathan lives with his sister, his mother and also some men. They all have the same face and nest in closets, drawers, TV set…
A lonely man, a cigarette, a hotel hallway – this is the setting for an ironic take on Sinatra lore. In I’m a Star! two related worlds come together: the comic strip Frankieboy by Stefan Stratil and Peter Friedrich, and the music of Louie Austen.
When a woman finds her partner infatuated with their kettle, she is thrown into a desperate journey of self-transformation to try and keep the relationship going.