With every aircraft flight, the living space of the polar bear is shrinking. The climate is becoming warmer and ice floes are melting. Hopeless, the bear swims to the only island within its sight. Will it turn out to be a paradise?
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With every aircraft flight, the living space of the polar bear is shrinking. The climate is becoming warmer and ice floes are melting. Hopeless, the bear swims to the only island within its sight. Will it turn out to be a paradise?
A curious traveler is looking for companionship. Along the way, it meets three strangers who are also searching for connections in their own different ways.
A story of a tree, a tree like any other. One day, it jumps into a pair of boots and goes off for a walk inviting everyone it meets to follow. Boring everyday life fades as they all skip and dance along happily.
Two burglars release dozens of cats into a neighbourhood and start the dogs barking. They use the din to their advantage and dig up a bag of loot. However, the situation snowballs and turns into the worst night the burglars ever spent.
Broad variety of visual styles (stop motion with paper puppets, ink on paper, watercolor, and paint-on-glass) in a tribute to French and Japanese New Wave auteurs of the late ’60s.
Communication design for Film Seminar 4 Elements 2015.
An art museum security guard is on his night patrol when he realizes that a mysterious intruder is censoring all the nude artwork.
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.
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.
Sometimes our life looks like the storm that throws us from wave to wave, while we are looking for safe harbor.
Follow a crow’s flight into the city of Johannesburg. A music video done with sand animation and silhouettes inspired by the Afrikaans poem ‘By alle skone dinge’ (To all things beautiful).
An unoccupied house, a treasure trove of memories for the director, is captured at a major point of change.
An adaptation of the poem ‘My mamma is bossies’ written by Jeanne Goosen. A melancholic poetry film in black and white with sand and silhouettes. About the loss of a mother and a flawed relationship between daughter and child. Inspired by Jeanne Goosen’s eponymous poem, recited by the well-known South-African actress Elize Cawood, to the aria O mia babbino caro from Puccini’s opera Gianni Schicci, in a legendary performance by Maria Callas (1955).
A homeless guy gets off the train and accidentally leaves one of his bags behind. The rest of the passengers then realize that there is a human baby inside the bag. The baby cries and the passengers don’t like it, neither does the lady who makes the announcements.
One of the three monkeys died.
During a majong game a bad situation occurs. The three have no choice but to wait and sit there silently in tears. They do believe that the fourth player will come.
For some reason, little sparrow Chunko has her head always shaking. She doesn’t know why, and can’t stop it either. Except for that, she can move like other sparrows, and she wants to dance with them.
I feel emptiness around me. The night is cold and dark. I am looking for light, wherever it may be.
Playing around with a new macro lens. A film, made entirely on a tablet.