While two uniformed cave guards expose themselves as spineless, monosyllabic creatures, the animals reveal themselves here as the true spiritual beings.
- Drama
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
Technique
While two uniformed cave guards expose themselves as spineless, monosyllabic creatures, the animals reveal themselves here as the true spiritual beings.
About plastic bags, beer bottles and cigarette butts.
Seven people living with aphasia through hand-drawn rotoscope and digital animation.
This short film about life after the loss of a loved one deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both live-action and animated film. Real experiences of the narrators are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations, looking into the thoughts of three young people untimely exposed to death.
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.
The ants are working together perfectly. But there is one ant who is doing everything differently.
About abuse, cats and matchboxes.
The lecture covers animation in the context of new media and how it changes under the influence of other types of contemporary art, such as games, performance, installation. What kind of new animation tools emerged? How to use bugs and mistakes in search of innovation? How to use AI in contemporary animation?
An interview with the jury member and animator Robert Morgan.
Trailer for ANIMA festival 2025 in Brussels.
The film’s action takes place over a large lake, one of it’s banks is inhabited by frogs. They tell stories about the ancient God – huge Catfish, living on the other side of the waters.
This work is inspired by the realisation that someone you thought you knew has changed in frightening ways. Our understanding of people is mediated by our own experience, limited, and the indirect ritualism of relationships is like dance or sport.
This story is based on an ancient northern legend according to which the souls of the drowned people turn into sea animals. The Hunter steals a seal-girl’s skin, so she can’t turn back into an animal. She becomes his wife, but often she glances at the sea.
The head does it all. While other body-parts have their separate functions as instruments, the head is an all-purpose tool. The head’s universality: object-oriented media magician Anna Vasof celebrates it, and at the same time questions its primacy. In 24 ten-second-shots, her video Amazon Woman demonstrates what a head – always Vasof’s – can do.
What if it there was a place where we could revisit the memories of a relationship? In this archive of remembrances we are guided through the story of Amélia and Duarte, two people that felt out of love and are trying to cope with the feelings that come after a relationship has ended.
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?
As a young boy I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. We spent many decades together. First, she offered me protection from the cold. As a teenager, she introduced me to the secrets of love. But as an adult, this love became flawed. I began to see behind my beloved’s facade. And I discovered her horrifying side.
Amalimbo is the story of Tipuana, a five-year-old girl who experiences the limbo when she tries to pass to “the other side” in her desperate urge to meet again with her recently deceased father. It is a short story that happens in an undefined place in an also undefined future.
Music video for Alpha-ray´s “Paper trails”
In a constant search for closeness, C experiences emotions in all their highs and lows. Even if a familiar phase of togetherness is followed by a rejection of the other person and, accordingly, a sad loneliness, C does not give up. Again and again, new ways are found to find the longed-for closeness and tenderness. And to lose.