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On his way to work, Ruben is haunted by obsessive-compulsive thoughts; is the front door locked? Is the stove really turned off? As Ruben’s creative mind is invaded by increasingly absurd scenarios, reality and imagination begin to merge…
In a small atelier weird machines come to life inspired by passion and a peculiar atmosphere. Figures that reflect the unconscious states and conscious actions of the artist.
Three friends embark on a new adventure in a strange town, but when a manipulative new member joins their gang, their loyalty is torn apart with terrifying consequences.
Herbert arrives in the seaside city on a long working trip. Accidentally he falls in love with a very strange beautiful saleswoman in a flower shop. He suffers from insomnia, which he treats by watching billiards on TV. But now it doesn’t help anymore. His obsessive passion keeps him awake…
Roommates is the chronicle of four city dwellers pushed to the breaking point. On a day hot enough to liquidise an orange twinsicle, the inhabitants of apartment 6B bash their heads on the kitchen table and tie their necks in knots, driven psychotic by the heat.
While on an airplane, a traveller’s spirit plunges into a dream world. Here, under the influence of the unknown, the logic of his desires prevails, and a romantic saga takes shape. This animated film by Georges Schwizgebel masterfully transports us into a swirling world. Set to the twists and turns of a Rachmaninoff scherzo, Romance exuberantly marries music and movement, erasing the boundary between dreams and reality.
Signe Baumane and five women in her family battle with depression and madness.
Thought to be Inspired by Joni Mitchell’s relationship with Graham Nash, ‘River’ describes a relationship breakup during Christmas time.
The Starboard City RIOT5 roller derby team face off against their heated rivals in a decisive match, but something goes terribly wrong…
Two thieves are escaping. They ride a giant camel in a magical desert. Through a flashback, we see the two girls stealing a birdcage full of flying mushrooms. The two thieves experiment a psychedelic trip, and after that they stop in the middle of the desert and open the cage. The thieves free the mushrooms, who fly far away across the universe.
Boy starts to draw and falls into the paper himself. There is a monster and boy starts to fight with pencil as weapon.
Richie, a joyful drinker, talks about the 2014 new year’s eve he spent at the hospital. Between piping malfunctions and other scatophilic problems, he evokes his love for his daughter, his relationship to death and his desire for descent.
A film about an unhappy man who catches his wife with a lover. He leaves to buy a gun, while plotting to kill the wife and the lover. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.
Three Renees go on a quest to find God, who is also Renee. As they traverse the mountains and valleys of Renee, they discover all the great joys, sorrows, and mysteries of being Renee.
Remote Life Drawings is an animated collage that visually explores the unique neighbourhood of Taipei Artist Village (TAV), situated at the heart of four distinct districts in central Taipei. Through morphing animation, I connect these districts, capturing the complex, ever-changing atmosphere surrounding the village. The abstract imagery reflects the harmony and fluidity between these areas, offering a glimpse into the dynamic and multifaceted environment of TAV.
The story is set in a graphic design world where fonts are the main characters. They have unique properties: Bold makes everything thicker, Italic tilts things, Monospace equalizes objects by width, etc. Fonts team up to build a garden, and the five boxing wizards jump in quickly to inspect their work. A negative space storm flushes everything away, but Regular comes and fixes the garden.
Austrian animation director and media-artist Reinhold Bidner is working in the fields of animation, media art and games. In his Masterclass Encounters & Inbetweens, Reinhold talks about and discuss his artistic animated experiments in between various disciplines, formats and techniques. He will also present images and video excerpts. The session was moderated by Animatricks Creative Director Hämid Shajarian.
In the spring of 1999, the Family Learning Channel commissioned animator Don Hertzfeldt to produce promotional segments for their network. The cartoons were completed in five weeks. The Family Learning Channel rejected all of them upon review, and they were never aired…
Red of the Yew Tree is the crossing of a feminine and universal imagination, an odyssey inked in fine point. A pheasant hunt is the occasion of a voyage that is at once delicate and mightily evocative, under the breath of maternal love and the transmission of a shared feminine condition. It is a vast intimate adventure unfolds, as equivocal as it is precise, through an intuitive hunt and a recovered collective memory.
It’s safer inside – less crazy, too. But when you do have to go out, go in a crowd and go in a rush. It’s the only way.