Technique
It’s the start of the hunting season. The animals of the forest board a small bus and flee to safety. When hunters stop the bus in the middle of the night, its passengers reveal their true natures in fear for their lives.
Summer is coming to the end, the fruit is growing ripe on the trees. Grandpa gives his grandson a kite. As the boy is tossed around in the air, Grandpa catches him. Then the leaves fall and Grandpa has grown weak. A strong autumn wind carries him off into the cloudy sky. Winter comes, then springtime. A warm breeze brings them together again. Told with enchanting, richly-textured images, this tale is about remembering those who are no longer with us.
When Doctor Stein’s best friend dies during his last experiment, the grieving scientist is ready to do everything it takes to get his dog back. Building a dead-reviving machine is not a rocket science for him but this time the experiment goes monstrously wrong. A short stop-motion film about a creator and its monster he despises.
A man is hunting his dinner in a forest, but things don’t go as planned.
A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds.
The war is always made from the table, even a simple card fight can turn into a big war in the minds of fuzzy players. The Game is a cartoon of a model of government. Film combines action of actors with pastel-drawn animation.
A woman is stuck in a pile of garbage which is her dress. Her relationships with the items are complex, it’s hard to say who is in control.
A story about fisherman, who pulled a skeleton out of the frozen lake. He tries to escape from the skeleton, so he hides in the dark, where he looks for comfort in cheap entertaintment. Yet the reality scratches on the window and fisherman´s hiding place quickly becomes a place full of nightmares. Manipulation, humanity, puppetry – the main themes of this film.
The animated drama Entangled is an intriguing love story. The relationship of two lovers from the realm of plants is constantly prevented or endangered. The exciting film does not use words to tell the story, but rather uses a dramatic soundtrack. It is an excellent example of wire stop motion animation.
A toy Chiva bus sets off on a journey across Colombia – a mini magical realism travelogue.
The Devil chills from a hard work day in his favorite hellish arcade in expense of some poor tortured souls. A fresh take on the classic stop motion/ heavy metal marriage, loaded with demons, explosions, candy and teddy bears.
A short film by PES that reimagines vintage metallic objects as fantastical deep-sea creatures.
The Death’ son doesn’t want to take back the family business.
Rulkopp and Ingrun’s marriage has reached an unhealthy stasis. The dynamics of power seems unalterable. And the fridge is humming incessantly and without mercy…
The Concrete Jungle is a short animated film inspired by the limitless imagination of children. When a neighbour drills into a wall, who knows what a child thinks of a sound he doesn’t know and can’t identify. Maybe a herd of bisons is trampling through the neighbour‘s flat, or a savage cannibalistic tribe lives there. Thrilling tales of a small boy in a housing estate where even the most exciting adventures in the world can take place.
A drug-muddled mind tries to think back to its origins and is helped along the way by a mysterious lighthouse and childhood icons. Morphing beasts, junkies, and Davy Crockett tourists take the screen among other puzzling characters in this twisting pencil line animation.
In Chinese New Year holidays, finding a coin inside dumplings means having a blessed year ahead. On her journey to a new country, a young woman loses a jar containing the lucky coins she has been collecting growing up. Her new life begins with a search to find the coins.
A music video that will take you on a mystical journey through brush strokes and black ink.
A dark musical enacted in a market place, situated next to a freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.
There’s nothing easy about mending a bungled child.