Technique
Why bother dragging around one’s shadow? A man agrees to a pact with a magician and swaps his shadow for riches. He soon discovers that the absence of a shadow can be a humiliating handicap. After fleeing to the far corners of the earth, he ends up in Bali, in a theatre of shadow puppets, where he discovers the true worth of shadows.
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.
Where ‘Paris is Burning’ meets Hieronymous Bosch. A dip, a shablam, a death drop is when a dancer strikes a pose and dramatically falls on their back. The higher the fall, the spicier the dip. The story follows Shesa Quinn dipping from the top of a skyscraper. Gagged by her stunt, the townsfolk bellow spiral into chaos. Will Shesa land a perfect dip?
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.
A movement within a painting, which begins with the savagery of a battle and comes to a halt in a rendition of a masterpiece of the 15th Century; The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello.
A ship sets sail on an epic voyage through malignant natural and supernatural elements from which one man alone survives.
Clemence and her parents take part in a large country picnic. They arrive late, and Clemence joins the other children who are already playing away from adults, but everything does not happen in the good mood expected.
A robot works at a factory repeating the same operation every day. One day an unexpected visitor arrives and changes his routine.
This short but impressive experimental animation was made by students of the Studio of Animation at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia during a traditional school plein-air. It was inspired by the endlessly elaborate structures of the bark on trees near the Wallenstein Loggia. The students fittingly used the technique of non-phased animation – animation of real photographs.
Based on the research and records of the three conditions of Congenital Insensitivity to Pain, Chondropathy, Marfan syndrome, I made these three personal documentary animations.
Living in the forest, little spider Temi dreams of catching the Moon. For that, she will do anything.
Sunday. At lunch, James observes his family. They ask him questions and don’t listen to his answers, they give advice but don’t follow it, they stroke him and slap him, but it’s ok, it is the Sunday lunch
SUNNY AFTERNOON is the confrontation of “kind of” an avantgardefilm with “kind of” a musicvideo, and consequently puts questions about the standard taboos and clichés of different film-“genres”. Both avantgardefilm and musicvideo use musicsound “typical for their genre”.
A photograph is a window into the past, but sometimes, the border between past and present is not entirely clear. This stop-motion animation invites us to think about our relationship to time, by portraying one woman caught in the middle.
The video for Pamphlets is a meditation on the feeling of being unfit, unlovable, not compatible and the manic anxiety and stress that this results in. Also, it is about the emergence from that state of mind through the embrace of uncertainty, insecurity and difference.
An old man says goodbye to this world on a sunny day in the springtime.
Created in 1982, “Son of Dada” is my first piece of direct cinema made with paste-on letters on 16mm film strips.
Animated essay about global situation of our society living in neoliberalism which tends to constant need of growth and increases inequality. Film is pointing out problems most of the people face in their everyday life without noticing it, and encourages us for seeking brighter prospects for the future and break through.
Pig, in the countryside, gets slaughtered by two butchers. After he wakes up in his room, in his bed, he realizes that it was just a dream. On his way to work, Pig notices the butcher from his dream, who starts haunting him
This experimental animation by Max Hattler approaches Hong Kong’s built environment from the conceptual perspective of celluloid film, by applying the technique of film animation to the photographic image. The city’s signature architecture of horizon-eclipsing housing estates is reimagined as parallel rows of film strips: Serial Parallels.