Technique
What lovelife is like in a jungle nursery? You can find it out from the story of a bat girl, who tries to choose her boyfriend from her classmates in kindergarten, who are all in love with her, including the Blue Worm, the Hippo, the Snail and the Walrus…
The short animation Nighthawks exposes the multi-sidedness of human nature. The director raises doubts about the distinction between human and animal. To her, the borders between species are dubious. She believes people can transform themselves into other creatures, as circumstances require.
An alienated and lonely man goes to take a rest and dreams about the same torment and feeling of inability to bear the burdens of life that torment him even when he is awake. He dreams of his ups and downs, as well as fears which turned into symbols that also came from the rigid everyday reality.
A security guard’s nightly ritual – a Tetris game – is interrupted by unexpected technical issues. One of the surveillance cameras breaks down, and the game sets its own rules.
This film explores how neighbours sharing a courtyard are both shaped by, and indifferent to, domestic violence.
On a late-night commuter bus, a necklace was stolen. This was followed by a tragic and fatal road accident, and a series of intriguing turn of events which revealed love, hatred, and vengeance. The film climaxes as the bus goes up in flames, burning and glittering against the dark coastal sky.
Music video for Bulgarian band Kottarashky & the Rain Dogs, an abstract exploration on the theme of the return. Kaleidoscopic handmade animation in a 360° environment.
In 1999 a boy becomes obsessed with the Y2K bug; In the distant future a girl is learning to be a priest in a religion based upon the ‘artefacts’ left behind by the boy.
Sun and moon are colleagues and opposites. Between them a woman. New Moon is a story about the alternation of day and night, of conflict and desire.
A music video for Nevermen who consists of TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, Faith No More’s Mike Patton and Doseone.
The awkward hero stumbles over a long forgotten piano. Music leads him from his rund down existence out into the city life. There he plays a last funeral march to all the deadbeat figures on the sidewalk.
In Never like the first time! four different people tell us, in their own words, what it was like to lose their virginity. The diverse experiences recounted in the four different animated stories, some tragic and some comic, are told by both the teenagers and the old people that appear in the stories and they all have one thing in common – it is ”never like the first time!” The people behind the voices remain anonymous and they explain sincerely how significant losing their virginity was to them.
A short film by Václav Blin.
Sometimes our life looks like the storm that throws us from wave to wave, while we are looking for safe harbor.
The director interview with Natasha Cetner.
I was playing basketball until I entered college. During a basketball game, when I stole an opponent’s ball and attacked in haste, I felt my body started moving as fast as an army brain. I still get this feeling sometimes, even now that I no longer play basketball.
On her Masterclass “Unsung Women Heros of Animation”, the well known Animation Journalist, Nancy Denney-Phelps reflects why there is so few women in the animation industry, even though almost 65% of all animation students are female and why we all know the Fleisher Brothers and Walt Disney, but with a few exceptions, the women who blazed the animation trail are almost unknown to us. Denney-Phelps is a distinguished animation journalist and a well-known guest in many Animation Festivals. She writes an animation blog to the Animation World Network – AWN.
Naked Love Ea’s Garden is a sensual, hand-drawn animated art film that takes the viewer on a poetic, surreal exploration of Ea’s sexuality
Creatures from Greek mythology live their lives and solve problems in the present world.
A series of cinematic miniatures about the essence of music and the process of its reception. Music is first excreted, and then received. Sausage or spherical. The resulting sound is not the actual sound of the instruments shown, but the perceived timbre of abstract music representation.