A portrait of a father, whose adult children live their own lives far away from him. Director follows his every daily routine at the swimming pool, at work, at home and – first of all – he explores his emotions.
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A portrait of a father, whose adult children live their own lives far away from him. Director follows his every daily routine at the swimming pool, at work, at home and – first of all – he explores his emotions.
Through a feminist lens, the authors are paying tribute to their teacher, one of the most important Croatian sculptors, Marija Ujević Galetović. In a combination of images and animation, Marija’s revitalised female sculptures convey their author’s life story and views.
A bored cow tries to find some means of self-expression. Some visiting clowns offer a tempting glimpse of chaos.
Two burglars discover a mysterious treasure in the pocket of a woman’s fuchsia coat. Anybody who wears the coat is given access to an infinite source of wealth. The only drawback is that they are not allowed to show the coat to anybody else. This is why the more cunning of the two crooks forces his assistant to wear the coat in disguise, so that he can spend the riches.
Structured as a series of vignettes drawn in stark black and white, and to a soundtrack of mournful jazz, the film is a set of confessions anchored in fear, confusion, numbness, and anxiety.
A family is about to spend the afternoon on the beach to watch the fireworks of August 15th. But everything gets complicated when Bruno goes to grab the beach chair that his wife Sandrine has forgotten in the car: holidays don’t erase your little daily problems.
Nine short and unexpected stories that tell us how a person can be depicted. By mixing abstraction, collage and drawing animation, the author invites us into a spontaneous and unsystematic research of the potential of animation and leads us into the world of irrepressible imagination.
A man whose physique forces him to look down tries to find love.
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.
Separate projections combine, unifying, becoming whole. Twelve animated projections combine to develop a rhythmic dialogue exploring the intrinsic relationship between sound and image using 16mm film, paint and a projector. Responding to a hand-drawn soundtrack, each projection is individually created by painting and scratching directly on 16mm film stock.
How does one grow up between an absent Iraqi father and a pervasive Jewish mother? Tossed around by the great upheavals of the modern times, Tim tries as hard as he can to find his place in the world.
Thirty-three internships in thirty-three years and still no job! Kicked out of his place, Jean-Claude finds himself in the street with only five euros in his pocket. Will he know how to use them well?
39 Weeks, 6 Days is an artistic experiment, animated diary and personal documentary showing animated self-portraits of woman and man, married couple and co-authors during 40 weeks of the gravidity.
This animation was created in April 2007 using a program called Abrosoft Fantamorph. The cost at the time was 30 US dollars. My thought at the time was rather than creating simple humorous morphs, that were common at the time, why not instead create an artistic film that loops multiple animations together and tells the story of art over time.
The Global Animation Community unites in solidarity with Gaza to form AC4PAL. AC4Pal was created to support the work of Haneen Koraz, an animator based in Gaza who has been running animation workshops with displaced children and women across the region. The project “To Gaza with Love: A Global Anijam” brings together 329 short films from over 50 countries, created by animators, students, and studios in a collective act of solidarity with the people of Gaza.
Butterflies, frogs, and flies celebrate love in all its colors in the trailer of 14th Anibar Animation Festival in Kosovo.
The animated documentary by Jitka Skálová and David Daenemark focuses not only on the Munich Agreement, but also on the wider context. Thanks to the commentary of historian Eduard Stehlik, it provides an insider’s view of the Europe that awaited the most tragic years of the last century.
The conversation races through themes of Czechoslovakia’s birth, the relationship between the nations and contemporary social and generational problems, arriving to a reflection on the importance of the year 1918. The visual is framed by an image of characters talking and changes into various absurd or lyrical animated illustrations.
A new animated micro-short film by Sara Koppel. An explicit rush adventure into a gender fluid-persons zone of desires where lust & responsibility is constantly dividing & demanding needs.
A faded memory of a book that was once very close to me.