Once in the Fields of Boredom is a story about a couple whose life together has come to an end – they struggle with boredom.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Once in the Fields of Boredom is a story about a couple whose life together has come to an end – they struggle with boredom.
Two octopuses help each other in their comical escape from the grasp of a stubborn restaurant cook. However, even after overcoming insurmountable odds, their fight to stay together is not over.
Mother and son are changing places and roles constantly: once, the mother is an adult, sometimes son matures and takes care of suddenly childish mother. The arrangement works fine, until the boy decides to escape from under the skirt of the overprotective mother and start an independent life.
Animated film called oh God is a picture presenting the world observed and created by the author. The reality presented in the film might be described using such terms like inertia, chaos. Animated characters are characterized by a lack of willingness to take any action, are passive and indifferent, unable to create their own reality. The author presents a world that loses its original shapes, loses its identity. Groaning “oh God” as a main theme combines it all, meaning the combination of grimace, sigh, and a quiet whisper of despair over our own impotence.
A real urban legend set in the famous baths of Budapest, but from a new perspective; Giacomo Casanova, a teenage fan girl, and a shy cactus.
A short film about two very different colleagues and the tense situation that builds up as the tidy rooster gets increasingly annoyed with the clumsy elephant.
Odd is an egg is the story of seven-year-old Odd who is so worried about crushing his head that his entire life has come to a standstill. Everyday life is coloured by fear of what might happen to him, on the way to school or in the schoolyard. To curb his worst anxiety, he upholsters his egghead for protection. One day he meets the bee girl Gunn. She is both fearless and happy in life. Through meeting Gunn, Odd’s life is turned upside down, and in a most unexpected way, he is freed from all worries.
It’s about Luna, a girl with super powers, but who’s not a superhero.
Akiko Takakura is one of the last survivors of the atomic bomb explosion of Hiroshima. During Obon, she receives the spirits of her parents and is haunted by memories. Her father is an authoritarian and traditional man. Akiko’s childhood consists of constant rejections and beatings. But the horrors of the atomic bomb and Japan’s subsequent capitulation change everything. Finally Akiko experiences fatherly love in the midst of Hiroshima’s ruins.
Loud music, hectic crowds, baby cries, car horns, rebuilding, sirens… Sometimes we want to run away… But where?
The nuns are living melted together in happy harmony. When one nun finds a man in the garden, the harmony breaks and she loses the rhythm with others. When her dreams do not come true, she finds out that everyone in the community has their own hidden universe.
A three-act epic about a seven-year-old boy who can’t sleep, thinking about his issues. There are sounds coming from his parents’ room, some loud and disturbing noises. What could that be? A story about childhood, sex and insomnia.
Broad variety of visual styles (stop motion with paper puppets, ink on paper, watercolor, and paint-on-glass) in a tribute to French and Japanese New Wave auteurs of the late ’60s.
It is bitterly cold in the inner city neighborhoods, and yet people come together. I watch them form a line on the horizon. We wait for something to happen. But nothing does. We have come together to witness an event. To participate in a spectacle. To see and be seen.
A music video.
Three diffferent stories about a relationship between a father and son, taking place in different social milieux.
Everyone goes home from the playhouse once. A child waits for her mother in vain, so he starts looking for her. Over varied locations we see two fates, two lives, which may never cross each other.
Film inspired by the theoretic work of George Berkeley and basics of synesthetic perception. It’s a game of imagination provoked by sound. Individual sounds penetrating into the apartment of the main character, relieved of their visual designates, evoke images distant from its origins.
What lovelife is like in a jungle nursery? You can find it out from the story of a bat girl, who tries to choose her boyfriend from her classmates in kindergarten, who are all in love with her, including the Blue Worm, the Hippo, the Snail and the Walrus…
The short animation Nighthawks exposes the multi-sidedness of human nature. The director raises doubts about the distinction between human and animal. To her, the borders between species are dubious. She believes people can transform themselves into other creatures, as circumstances require.