About abuse, cats and matchboxes.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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About abuse, cats and matchboxes.
An interview with the jury member and animator Robert Morgan.
Dealing with what comes naturally isn’t easy, especially for animals. In Animal Behaviour, the latest animated short from the Oscar-winning team of Alison Snowden and David Fine (Bob’s Birthday), five animals meet regularly to discuss their inner angst in a group therapy session led by dr. Clement, a canine psychotherapist.
An Island is an immersive short film portraying the physical and emotional journey undertaken by a lone explorer as he attempts to reach the summit of a remote island.
Anton’s head is bursting with thoughts. The gardener is angry: who has trampled her flower beds? In the park Anton is looking for a new chess partner. For someone who plays better than his dog. The gardener is looking for a mysterious serial vandal who has lost a yellow boot. Are they looking for the same thing?
After breaking up with my ex-boyfriend, I was heartbroken but I had to think about the theme for my next animation film. Just then I had a dream of this ex-boyfriend. This animation film is based on that dream.
The film’s action takes place over a large lake, one of it’s banks is inhabited by frogs. They tell stories about the ancient God – huge Catfish, living on the other side of the waters.
The Near Life Experience might seem to be an odd, extraordinary occurence, but in fact it happens to anyone. Why to be the self-stigma on your fixed, unchanging identity, as if we were never to act, never to desire, never to experience anything new?
Harassed by the day, he runs away in the evening from people and town. He crawls into his little room to sleep. The dream is bringing him the limitless and quiet spaces of solitude. At last, he is alone and free. But the solitude engenders the fear.
While transitioning from male to female gender, Matia struggles with finding a genuine intimate relationship with a heterosexual man.
An animated comedy about a tiny man who lives inside a cat and the mess he finds himself in when he falls in love with the cat’s new owner. When he finds a woman his own size, he realises how stupid he’s been.
A zapping channel. A mix of interviews with philosophers, researchers, patients, lovers and ordinary citizens. Each in his or her own way, they evoke their perception of life.
The film is inspired by Borges’ short story Aleph. The protagonist is involved in a world of simultaneous events. Passing through the gates of Aleph he experiences fears, hopes and sufferings of humankind.
In the old Jewish cemetery in the city of Safed, people come from afar to pray on the graves of rabbis from the golden age of Kabbalah in the 16th century, sometimes with hope to find redemption to their life problems.
For Rene Fustercluck, life was bad, the Apocalypse was awful and then Gordon arrived. ‘After the End’ explores the possibility that the only thing worse than being the last man on earth, is being the second to last man on earth.
At the beginning of them She created us.
A tale of an old shaman, a spiritual leader of a primitive tribe on her deathbed. She will bid farewell to her tribe in a mystical ritual and will be buried in a ceremonial burial preceded by a feast in her honour.
Abyssus Abyssum Invocat is a short film that utilizes stop-motion animation and live-action puppetry to create a darkly comic meditation on capital punishment and religion.
Short movie about love, but mostly about socks.
Aamuhämärä is my animation for the Rhythmanalysis elective at Royal College of Art. Aamuhämärä is the Finnish word for dawn, but directly translated it means morning-dusk/-darkness/-gloom, which captures the feeling I wanted to visualize in my animation.