An animated interpretation of Dr. Oliver Sacks’ case study found in his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. It uses photographs to visualize the rare memory condition of the patient Jimmie G.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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An animated interpretation of Dr. Oliver Sacks’ case study found in his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. It uses photographs to visualize the rare memory condition of the patient Jimmie G.
A dead body became stuck by a river bank. Its decaying insides still hide a human soul – a miniature of the deceased. Rotting organs part and a tiny creature gets out. Standing on the river bank, it says goodbye to the corpse and sets off on a journey through the post-mortem land.
Lorraine, a drug addict, throws a “lingerie show” to seduce her boyfriend Cesar away from his sugar daddy Wade. Wade buys Cesar toilet paper and grape soda and Lorraine can’t compete with that. A drug-fuelled orgy evolves into mayhem. A portrait of characters on the fringes of society.
Raw and life-a-like stories which are turning into absurd scenes. The Eastern-Europian mentality and relations exposed through Attila Hazai’s pen.
The Armageddon starts with falafel patties. The last Jew who is left in the diaspora finally arrives in Israel and enjoys everything the country has to offer. By doing so he is unaware that his arrival to the Holy Land starts the Apocalypse as described in the Evangelical interpretation of the New Testament.
An old woman’s walk.
It’s the start of the hunting season. The animals of the forest board a small bus and flee to safety. When hunters stop the bus in the middle of the night, its passengers reveal their true natures in fear for their lives.
On its quest of death and terror, plague approaches a small village. The village knows nothing and lives its normal life…
A film about the relationship between a man and a fly in which the aggravating persistence of the fly grows into an obsession with the man and becomes a veritable monster.
A story about fisherman, who pulled a skeleton out of the frozen lake. He tries to escape from the skeleton, so he hides in the dark, where he looks for comfort in cheap entertaintment. Yet the reality scratches on the window and fisherman´s hiding place quickly becomes a place full of nightmares. Manipulation, humanity, puppetry – the main themes of this film.
A girl stands on top of a building looking down at the city. She jumps. She falls with her eyes closed and eventually finds herself in a pond surrounded by bizarre faces. The falling continues…
A room retains one’s traces of life. I want to question on humans’ being and loss as time flows, by reflecting on the traces left in a room and its elements ranging from space, walls, door, windows, stuffs and so on.
The friendship between two children raised together in the Po Valley countryside is lost when one has to move with his family. They will meet again as adults, thanks to the eel, a call from the dephts of the earth. The film is dedicated to the land and the people of the Emilia region, shaken by the earthquake in 2012.
The Death’ son doesn’t want to take back the family business.
One day a boy encounters a street vendor who sells chicks. Even the boy knows these birds will die very soon. To his eyes, the man is selling none other than death itself.
A short animation from Flóra Anna Buda.
Two people living alone on an isolated island. He does fishing and brings the catch to the house, and She does household chores. Finili su Mare bali illustrates mechanical and rooted reactions to life events – everyday and miraculous.
In Chinese New Year holidays, finding a coin inside dumplings means having a blessed year ahead. On her journey to a new country, a young woman loses a jar containing the lucky coins she has been collecting growing up. Her new life begins with a search to find the coins.
A British chimney sweeper describes his everyday routine of forcing young kids to become workers. While we observe a kid cleaning a chimney, the master’s statement gets more personal with every sentence until we understand, that he is speaking about his own past. Being locked in a vicious circle, there seems to be no exit.
A child has to leave its cozy hut to collect wood for the fire that went out. Growing into a teenager, he encounters a singular tree that he wants to turn into fire wood.