A surreal farewell to a blockhouse area.
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A surreal farewell to a blockhouse area.
Lake is liquid, inanimate, emotionless. Like blood flowing through a body, the water circulates and sustains, bringing life to its surroundings. In this video, life is continuously reborn through the raindrops, through the terrain and into the air. The beauty of this process is juxtaposed with the songwriter’s perspective, someone who is detached and yearning to feel the full breadth of human emotion.
Study no. 1 – early words and scribbles. “A boy conjures the stars out of yogurt.”
Beryl and her friends work in a Japanese factory in Wales. She is overweight and consequently ridiculed remorselessly by macho supervisor, Vince, who is the bane of her life. However the time comes for Beryl to get even.
In Blue Lips, Philippe Hamelin was interested in using CGI as a reconstructive tool – in this case to reconstruct a lover’s memory. The story comes from a collection of accounts told by strangers who the artist met on dating sites in 2008. The memory takes form through matter, objects, movement and the senses. In the animation, human mechanisms and machinery are placed in parallel while the apparatus of narrative mechanics is explored. There is a crossover between the human being’s interior movement (feelings) and their movement in space. The dramatic expectations too often linked to representations of love between two men are derailed.
A couple on the roads of Provence. Nils is driving Flora to his parents for the first time when they get ambushed. While she’s made prisoner, he flees. During a night in the pinewood, she has to face her doubts.
There is a very gloomy polar bear living in the cold north. One day a distant relative comes to visit him – a cheerful brown bear. What will this cohabitation of eternal joy and eternal sadness lead to?
a little something for worried souls
An animated children’s film about tolerance towards strangers. The proverbial “black sheep” is mobbed out of the herd, but only the courageous outsider can save the herd from great disaster.
A rhythmic animation of 3, 475 individual masks from all over the world.
A short animated documentary on immigrants who left their home and crossed borders for love.
Bad Seeds takes us to a bizarre world populated by carnivorous plants that can change shapes the way a chameleon changes colours. The veteran director of Carface deftly connects growth with rivalry and evolution with competition, crafting an increasingly shocking duel that’s peppered with allusions to the western, the Cold War, board games, and much more.
Rob takes a drag on a neighbor’s crack pipe, his bills start piling up and one day, a letter arrives: his house is going to be repossessed. He packs a tent, gets on his bike and starts cycling.
A day full of socially awkward moments.
Artistic beginnings repeat. One hand is the same hand, but the other becomes an ear. Unexpectedly, the Process is heard: it sounds clearer than the shapes that catch the eye.
On a beach at twilight’s dawn, a little girl meticulously builds up an ecosystem. She intends to make her little world perfect. But soon, the tide is coming in…
A grandiose transoceanic cruise ship sailing the seas.
An adolescent ant worker living in the outskirts of a dying human world who wants more from her life than accepting the given fate. However when she is cast out for accidentaly causing fire she is scared of the the outside and longs to be accepted back. She has to grow up to save the world.
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?
About abuse, cats and matchboxes.