Tag

Poetic

1–20 of 1,311 films

  • by Vojtěch Kočí, Mikuláš Suchý

    Gorgeous Sleeper Cell is a fan music video for Seattle-based abstract rap duo Shabazz Palaces. It narrates an abstract story based on the duo’s poetic, almost symbolistic lyrics. We watch some sort of a genie who got into our reality from his animated world.

    • Music video
  • Lana Del Rey – Happy

    2020 Adults 2 min

    by Clare Gillen

    A poetic animated journey exploring themes of love, longing, and the fleeting nature of happiness through dreamlike imagery. Poem and narration by Lana del Rey.

    • Experimental
  • Jefferson Circus Songs

    1973 All audiences 19 min

    by Suzan Pitt

    In a fantasy world, life-size cardboard animations interact with children clad in clown wigs, monkey masks, and princess costumes. Together, they host a carnival of surreal goings-on.

    • Abstract
    • Fantasy
  • Parmelia

    2024 Adults 2 min

    by Tereza Burianová

    Were we equals, or were some of us just using others? This non-narrative film explores the possibilities of textile materials and techniques in conjunction with the moving image. A musical composition by the artistic duo Nadváha is stitched by the repetitive sound of a sewing machine.

    • Non-narrative
  • White

    2015 Adults 4 min

    by Elodie Ponçon

    Souls of a white world create light until one of them becomes faulty

    • Drama
  • A Story for 2 Trumpets

    2021 Adults 5 min

    by Amandine Meyer

    An initiatory and intimate story in which the author tells, in the form of a tale, the key stages of her construction as a woman and artist

    • Coming-of-Age
  • Part Blue

    2010 All audiences 4 min

    by YungSung Song

    The blue evolves. The blue rises toward the upper world. The blue becomes green and then yellow, which makes things unstable. So red circle appears to bring into balance between blue and yellow. These three colors unite into one, which rises until the summit, over the boundary line, and becomes a white circle to a full stop. And then it returns to the first state.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • QQQ

    2012 All audiences 8 min

    by YungSung Song

    hree Qs and more make QQQ. QQQ spin and roll. And QQQ transform themselves, spinning. QQQ transform, spinning, rolling, swinging, turning and traveling.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Misérable Miracle

    2023 All audiences 8 min

    by Ryo Orikasa

    Inspired by Henri Michaux's poems and drawings about his experience with mescaline, "Miserable Miracle" explores the limits of language and perception, creating connections between sound, meaning, line and movement.

    • Drama
  • On the way home

    2018 Late Adolescence (16-20 yrs) 2 min

    by Mizuki Kiyama

    The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.

    • Non-narrative
  • Eyes and Horns

    2021 Adults 6 min

    by Chaerin Im

    The exploration of masculinity begins with the Minotaur, a mythical creature the artist Picasso used to portray himself in his etching print series. The Minotaur goes through a violent struggle between being male and female. Finally, the lines blur, and the boundaries of sexes disappear.

    • Experimental
  • Zzzen

    2016 7+ 7 min

    by Eliot Tisserand, Célia Barillaux, Clarisse Rubini & others

    Comic interpretation of a meditative pilgrimage of a monk, a mosquito and a hen.

    • Fantasy
    • Non-narrative
  • Zing

    2012 16+ 8 min

    by o5uKdPtY8TU

    Day in, day out, Mr. Grimm is busy with his job as the Reaper, harvesting people’s lives. One day, his monotonous existence is interrupted by the doorbell. It’s a little girl. She wants her cat back. Little does she know that she’s the next life on Mr Grimm’s list.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
  • Září: Tajný vzkaz

    2021 16+ 4 min

    by Martin Kukal

    The second official video clip of the Zlín-based band ZÁŘÍ to the song Tajný vzkaz.

    • Drama
    • Music Videos
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Zapomělsem: Kdesi

    2021 16+ 4 min

    by Dita Stuchlíková

    I forgot where you are, under Havel’s painting

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Yùl and the Snake

    2015 Adults 13 min

    by Gabriel Harel

    Yùl, 13 years old, goes with his big brother Dino to conclude a deal with Mike, a thug escorted by his Argentinian mastiff. When things go wrong, a mysterious snake appears.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • Youlï: Szeretni kell

    2021 16+ 3 min

    by Tímea Laura Varga

    Music video to “SZERETNI KELL” by Youlï

    • Drama
    • Music Videos
    • Experimental
  • by Hargaux Cazal, Jeanne Hammel, Louis Holmes & others

    Treachery! Lou’s mum sold his beloved roller skates at the garage sale. A series of strange and revealing encounters begin when he inevitably goes looking for them in the buzzing crowd.

    • Drama
    • Coming-of-Age
    • Fantasy