An improvised stop-motion film about a woman exploring her own psyche through its manifestation as a sequence of identical yet progressively smaller rooms, inhabited by multiple selves.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
Technique
An improvised stop-motion film about a woman exploring her own psyche through its manifestation as a sequence of identical yet progressively smaller rooms, inhabited by multiple selves.
First year workshop film about the external and internal journeys of a commuter who is forced to find a happy place when another man invades his space.
Everything started with the Big Bang, that was the seed. Everything was born, developed and died because of a repeating cycle. The matter will forever remain, energy is transmitted and time gives motion to everything.
Kwadrycy, a mechanical creature, discovers one day strange radio waves from outer space and decides to go on a journey to investigate what is the source of this weird melody. He arrives on underwater planet inhabited by nosy nosy animals. Music: Devo.
Melancholic and minimalistic narration in the form of animation about the transience of being and the levity of the time, about the illusion of freedom and the loneliness of a little man in the sea of life.
On the verge of becoming a woman Sora is woken by a nightmare and decides to follow a group of men into the city in the hope of finding her mom.
Gaspard is still very much in love with Leïla. They meet in a crowded bar a month after she left him. The conversation turns awry and Gaspard seeks refuge under the tablecloth, away from prying eyes and closer to his memories.
A little girl plagued by her fears and imagination is developing techniques in order to manage her daily life: magical thinking, avoidance. Could reaching out to the others be the solution?
A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a Priest and a refugee but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to fray.
“They Came for Our Minerals”. Denny must choose his side as key witness in the biggest court case in Cape Town History. Final episode.
It’s a normal day in a communal apartment. Someone is reading, someone else is ironing. A child runs down the corridor. Then suddenly the room quakes; everything changes and life is turned upside down.
Three garbage bags ran away with the city dump.
Once upon a starry night, a small boy with the head full of fantasies witnesses dreamlike circus performances. Dazed by endless chain of glittering attractions he realizes that the price for a ticket to the fantastic circus tent is too high and gate between reality and dream is closing.
During the morning roll call at school, Wataya gets more and more nervous as her turn approaches. The tension causes her to lose the ability to control her own body.
A visual interpretation of Emily Dickinson’s poem. The video sets in a fragile organic world in which flowers and creatures wobble between life and death, between blooming and wuthering.
The stone-people Hew and Kew have seen a lot in their everlasting lives on top of their mountain. Therefore they’re only mildly amazed by the ongoings in the valley below, they’ve got their own little problems to deal with. But all of a sudden, Mankind is discovering and inventing, instead of just woozeling, and this new behaviour starts to threaten Hew’s and Kew’s stoic peacefulness…
In a side street hotel, on a night of searing neon and screaming sirens, two tender souls share old wounds.
A waitress in her job is routinely serving coffee and thinking about escaping her reality. A patron keeps recording and replaying the sounds at the café, completely obsessed with this action. Apathy is a state of mind leading to stagnation, but are any of them aware that they are themselves examples of this state?
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.
Raymonde is really fed up with peas, aphids, dirty panties and her kitchen garden to dig. After all, she would prefer sex, and love, and the immensity of the sky…