Tag

Poetic

601–620 of 1,309 films

  • by Svetoslav Tomov, Theodre Ushev

    Music video for Bulgarian band Kottarashky & the Rain Dogs, an abstract exploration on the theme of the return. Kaleidoscopic handmade animation in a 360° environment.

    • Music Videos
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • New Year

    2019 16+ 9 min

    by Diana Gradinaru, Rory WT, Rory Waudby Tolley

    In 1999 a boy becomes obsessed with the Y2K bug; In the distant future a girl is learning to be a priest in a religion based upon the ‘artefacts’ left behind by the boy.

    • Comedy
    • Sci-Fi
    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • New Moon

    2015 16+ 10 min

    by Gerd de Kinderen

    Sun and moon are colleagues and opposites. Between them a woman. New Moon is a story about the alternation of day and night, of conflict and desire.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • NEVERMEN: Mr Mistake

    2016 16+ 3 min

    by Tom Brown, Daniel Gray, Sarina Nihei

    A music video for Nevermen who consists of TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, Faith No More’s Mike Patton and Doseone.

    • Music Videos
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Never Stop Cycling

    2014 16+ 4 min

    by Colin Lepper

    In order to maintain his ordinary, routine life, a creature must make the journey in to a strange living world.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Never like the first time!

    2006 Adults 15 min

    by Jonas Odell

    In Never like the first time! four different people tell us, in their own words, what it was like to lose their virginity. The diverse experiences recounted in the four different animated stories, some tragic and some comic, are told by both the teenagers and the old people that appear in the stories and they all have one thing in common – it is ”never like the first time!” The people behind the voices remain anonymous and they explain sincerely how significant losing their virginity was to them.

    • Drama
    • Documentary
    • Coming-of-Age
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • Negative Space

    2017 16+ 5 min

    by Ru KUWAHATA, Max PORTER

    Even though Sam’s father is hardly ever home because he is often away on business trips, he is able to connect with his son by teaching him how to pack a suitcase.

    • Drama
    • Coming-of-Age
  • Natural Disaster

    2014 Adults 5 min

    by Joseph Wallace

    Mark has just lost his job and his day is about to get a whole lot worse. A domestic tragedy exploring the surreal nature of losing someone you love.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Nanzoya

    2019 16+ 5 min

    by Izumi Tanaka

    I was playing basketball until I entered college. During a basketball game, when I stole an opponent’s ball and attacked in haste, I felt my body started moving as fast as an army brain. I still get this feeling sometimes, even now that I no longer play basketball.

    • Experimental
    • Abstract
    • Non-narrative
  • by Naomi van Niekerk

    Follow a crow’s flight into the city of Johannesburg. A music video done with sand animation and silhouettes inspired by the Afrikaans poem ‘By alle skone dinge’ (To all things beautiful).

    • Experimental
    • Drama
    • Non-narrative
  • Naked

    2023 Adults 14 min

    by Kirill Khachaturov

    Somewhere in Eastern Europe due to an accident in a laboratory, the hero gains superpowers that he does not want. The hero does not want to be a superhero, to save the world from villains, he wants to live as before without changing anything. The situation is complicated by the fact that while he gains the awareness of his power, it causes problems in his everyday life. While he is stuck in the elevator, he meets a girl who likes him and wants to help him.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • On her Masterclass “Unsung Women Heros of Animation”, the well known Animation Journalist, Nancy Denney-Phelps reflects why there is so few women in the animation industry, even though almost 65% of all animation students are female and why we all know the Fleisher Brothers and Walt Disney, but with a few exceptions, the women who blazed the animation trail are almost unknown to us. Denney-Phelps is a distinguished animation journalist and a well-known guest in many Animation Festivals. She writes an animation blog to the Animation World Network – AWN.

    • Documentary
    • Making of
    • Non-narrative
  • Mystery Music

    2009 7+ 5 min

    by Thomas Renoldner, Nicolas Mahler

    A series of cinematic miniatures about the essence of music and the process of its reception. Music is first excreted, and then received. Sausage or spherical. The resulting sound is not the actual sound of the instruments shown, but the perceived timbre of abstract music representation.

    • Comedy
    • Music Videos
    • Non-narrative
  • My Stuffed Granny

    2014 16+ 10 min

    by Effie Pappa

    Little Sofía loves her grumpy granny: even though she is always hungry and eats what little food they can buy. Her pension is the only thing keeping her and her father alive. To what extremes will they go to once granny is no more? Based on a story by Nina Kouletakis.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Tragicomedy
  • My Strange Grandfather

    2011 10+ 9 min

    by Dina Velikovskaya

    A creative person often seems weird, funny and a little bit crazy. Even his friends and family do not always understand him and often feel ashamed of him. But sometimes he can create a real miracle – merely from garbage.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Fantasy
  • My Queen

    2015 16+ 8 min

    by Tim Verhaegen

    An unoccupied house, a treasure trove of memories for the director, is captured at a major point of change.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • My Mum’s Bonkers

    2015 Adults 3 min

    by Naomi van Niekerk, Naomi Van Niekerk

    An adaptation of the poem ‘My mamma is bossies’ written by Jeanne Goosen. A melancholic poetry film in black and white with sand and silhouettes. About the loss of a mother and a flawed relationship between daughter and child. Inspired by Jeanne Goosen’s eponymous poem, recited by the well-known South-African actress Elize Cawood, to the aria O mia babbino caro from Puccini’s opera Gianni Schicci, in a legendary performance by Maria Callas (1955).

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • My Galactic Twin Galaction

    2020 Adults 7 min

    by Sasha Svirsky

    Good and evil, utopia and dystopia, narrative and post-narrative collide in a mortal battle to entertain the audience.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • by Grégoire de Bernouis, Jawed Boudaoud, Simon Cadilhac & others

    A ghost loses their memory after being struck by lightning. They meet Arthur, who tries to help them.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • My Favourite Hill!

    2020 16+ 4 min

    by Christopher Childs

    A group of factory workers become obsessed with a hill. They let loose on the marshy earth, succumbing to their strange desires.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental