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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.
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.
As the night comes, the journey begins. Running rushing, racing. Unbound from time and swept away by the night’s surreal cascade of lights, we leave day-life behind.
Confronted with doubt and feelings of emptiness, drunk with unhappiness and seeking to drown his sorrow, Barnabé experiences a curious metaphysical visitation; lightning strikes the spire of his church and a mysterious bird appears, forcing him to reconsider his life
A small community in the woods experiences a flooding. The people of the city recite a poem, admitting to their doubts. A meandering film about identity, uncertainty and the hope to escape it. Created for Adult Swim – Off The Air
A transhumanist romance in the near future. A young boy of modest origins, Marcus, an H-, falls madly in love with an H+
One day a letter takes a blood-sausage to his friend, liver-sausage. So, he went…
In 1450 a fully loaded ship departed from Tsalal harbour and continued westward in search of an island believed to be somewhere far off the coast, but to no avail. Two other ships sailing out the following year in search of the same island came to a similar destiny.
Sometimes saying ‘I love you’ is difficult.
The story follows the key dramatic moments of Miroslav Krlež’s “The Ballade of Petrica Kerempuh”, accompanied by Kajkavian verses. The grotesque character of Bourek’s drawing poprime u pokretu tražiće dimenzije krležijanskog sižentanja pastrišti, kao voracious visions of blood, fire and fog on Croatian territory during the war against the Turks. Panoramas, movements of the flesh, insistence on dramatic events, all this is a new and unique initiative in our cartoon film.
The night is the place where characters move, and images rhythmically dissolve from faces to the night stars, in a smooth transition between images and words.
One man gets up and makes his coffee. The morning routine perturbed by the explosion of the cup which he carries to his lips and after a fall he loses the use of his legs. The perception of the man is blocked but he is trying to get up from the ground at all cost.
He is a magician. She is a firefighter. Isolating themselves from the chaos of a world in turmoil, the two lovers live in a crane basket high in the sky, where they go about their daily business. Their challenge is to keep their heads, here up above it all, while everything is falling apart down below. But when reality calls – when fires need quenching and people need entertaining – how can they best make themselves useful in a world gone off the rails?
It is a simple and bitter-sweet story, a story that touches any age, that we want to keep to oneself as a secret, a story carrying many feelings, a story which, finally, we want to share with everybody: it is the story of life.
Exploring the lag between recording analogue drawings and projecting them onto a queer performer to create dense feedback loops to use AI to mediate these transformative re-presentations.
Communication is lacking. This can be felt, just like the things that can never be truly spoken. But lack does not mean a black hole, it is a space that fills itself.
Everything that is alive is hungry; seed is hungry for light, bird is hungry for flight, man is hungry for the touch of another. The seed of longing grows into what feeds us.