Tag

Technology and society

301–320 of 337 films

  • Books on books

    2017 16+ 7 min

    by Lei Lei

    he cut-out patterns are from my father’s book Book cover collection in the West, which was published in 1988, when China’s leaders launched their great reform and opening up to embrace the world. Many leading concepts of book cover design were introduced in the book and this book had an eye-opening influence on the younger generation of Chinese designers since then.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
    • Making of
  • Bolognese

    2021 Adults 6 min

    by Achille Thiébaux, Achille THIEBAUX

    In a dystopian world where we no longer eat to live but where we only live to eat, meat has become the one and only food available. We follow the daily life of one of the citizens of this world who works as a cashier in a supermarket. Like everyone else, he eats meat… but ends up biting his fingers. He then goes to the nearest hospital…

    • Drama
    • Horror
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Blue Hands

    2018 16+ 3 min

    by Diyala Muir

    In an abstract journey about grief and denial a woman tries to escape the ghosts of her past, but they catch up to her on a night-bus to Nowhere.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Black Out

    2015 16+ 9 min

    by Bori Mészáros, Zsuzsanna Rádóczy

    Exhausted by urban office life, the protagonist faces obstacles on his way out – until a daring decision changes everything.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Black Holes

    2017 Adults 12 min

    by David Nicolas, Laurent Nicolas, Kevos van der Meiren

    Dave is about to lead the first mission to Mars when he’s teamed up with a sentient melon, who claims to be the reincarnation of a fashion designer, upstaging his big moment and driving him to the brink of madness.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Sci-Fi
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Black

    2016 16+ 14 min

    by Tomasz Popakul

    Black (黒) tells a story about a pair of astronauts trapped on an orbital space station because of a nuclear war that erupted unexpectedly on Earth. They lost contact with Earth and all attempts to communicate with their base or anybody else have failed.

    • Drama
    • Sci-Fi
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Big Booom

    2016 10+ 4 min

    by Marat Narimanov

    The history of humanity and of our planet in four minutes. An eco-friendly statement developed in a single shot that has it all: humor, action and tragedy.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Betti

    2018 16+ 5 min

    by Zsuzsanna Ács

    Since the 1980s, Betti Forgó has made her living as a taxi driver. Sitting in her car, she recalls 25–30 years of stories from the world of taxis: from negative stereotypes and the taxi blockade of the ’90s, to the protests against Uber — and how she herself was present in all these moments.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • Best Friend

    2018 16+ 6 min

    by David Feliu, Varun Nair, Juliana de Lucca & others

    In a near future, a lonely man is addicted to a product called ‘’Best Friend” which offers him perfect virtual friends.

    • Drama
    • Sci-Fi
    • Tragicomedy
  • Besides Oneself

    2016 16+ 5 min

    by Karolina Specht

    One day, She notices, that something strange is going on with Him. A short film about the confrontation of ideas and the real world. Do we live with real people, or only with the imagination of them?

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Bankiet

    2016 Adults 4 min

    by Julia Orlik

    A man attends a banquet but he can’t fit to the company. He starts repeating activities performed by other guests.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Backflip

    2022 16+ 12 min

    by Nikita Diakur

    Attempting a backflip is not exactly safe. You can break your neck, or land on your head, or land badly on your wrists. So, I let my avatar learn the trick. He practices on a 6-core processor with the help of Machine Learning.

    • Experimental
    • Making of
  • Average Happiness

    2019 Adults 7 min

    by Maja Gehrig

    During a PowerPoint presentation, statistical diagrams are breaking free from the strait-jacket of their coordinates. A trip into the sensual world of statistics begins. Pie charts are melting, arrow diagrams twisting, scatter plots, bar graphs and stock market curves join in a collective climax.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Automatic Fitness

    2015 Adults 21 min

    by Alejandra Tomei, Alberto Couceiro

    A labyrinthine poetry on the human automatism. A reflection about our daily relationship with money and time. It’s an animated tragicomedy, which plays with the concept of an all-permeating acceleration.

    • Comedy
    • Sci-Fi
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • by Lise Rémon

    He tries to talk to her again. As usual, she seems very distant. But how can that be? She’s only at the other end of the table.

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Experimental
  • Astronaut of Featherweight

    2017 16+ 27 min

    by Dalibor Barić

    Astronaut of Featherweight is a dark vision of the hypercapitalist transhuman society in which a body is a commodity and money means immortality. From out-of-space spa-colonies to labour plantations, everyone is trying hard to preserve their bodies.

    • Sci-Fi
    • Experimental
    • Abstract
    • Drama
  • Ashnikko – Worms

    2023 Adults 3 min

    by Raman Djafari

    Ashnikko in a monstertruck and a squad of develish beasts ride towards the sunset to battle the angelic overlord robots.

    • Music Videos
    • Fantasy
    • Sci-Fi
    • Experimental