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
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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.
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.
7 000 photos, 30 min of video, 15 kg of electrical components from old TVs, phones and computers, 5 litres of blood. An “electrorganic” work: a mix of blood with electronic components.
The basic elements of the ancient Greek myth are well known: the labyrinth, the Minotaur, Theseus, and of course, the thread. Let the search begin!
Itsy bitsy spider went down the sounding board. Down came the hammer and struck the spider’s chord.
A short animated film about the weather – inspired and informed by chaos theory and Lorenz attractors, romantic landscape paintings and the minimalist polygonal look of early computer simulations.
A man in a room, in a film – it is the becoming of something and simultaneously becoming in itself. Nothing is as solid as we believe.
Ampersand is science visualisation meeting visual music. The film takes the audience on a playful musical journey from the subatomic to the galactic and touches on many core ideas of science like the wave particle duality, evolution, and pollination.
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?
Self-replicating entities that have evolved on different planets merge and proliferate exponentially. In search of more energy sources, they consume other stars.
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.
A girl attempts to reach red apples from a tree. Aliens land on Earth and the girl offers them the fruits.
I’m a baby in a 1950s backyard with my toys and my family. My dad has a Kodak box camera. I’m a sleepy child at the Darra picture theatre, waking up to a film noir.
By sourcing multiple digital images of the same place from different archives this experiment in film makes use of frame by frame montage to discover hidden forms, patterns and references thereby giving new meaning to the prevailing redundancy of these pictures.
When playing a mysterious vinyl single, Pia is suddenly able to travel through her life.
Belgian animated short film written and directed by Nicole Van Goethem about three lady statues holding on to the remains of an ancient building.
How happy would you be to live the end of the world? And also to be celebrating your birthday that very day, or paying a visit to your mother, or maybe going on a date with your crush? This is what A Forest Fairy Tale actually is – a tale of luck. The luck of a few animals depicted through short sketches portraying the last day of the world. And, naturally, a blazing asteroid rushing toward the Earth is the best reason for deep contemplations and self-analyses of one’s own life. If all this sounds depressing, fear not! After all, no one cries in this film (except maybe the author).
A day in the park” we are introduced to a monologue by a grandfather who explains to his grandkid how things used to be, or maybe; how they are now.
Fear is part of our identity, it is our everyday life and we experience it in different ways. We grow up with it, and over time we overcome or suppress it. However, it is always present, transforms itself into something else, follows our steps, and enters our dreams. It is said that fear has big eyes, they grow where we meet the unknown and then, to some aspects of reality, such as time, we give unrealistic proportions. Only when the fear is overcome, the eyes shrink and the picture becomes clearer.