A choreographed vision of the future.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
Year
A choreographed vision of the future.
An official music video for Lao Ra - Suena Taz.
Join LALIFF and LatinX in Animation as we host LatinX short animation filmmakers from LALIFF Connect 2020. Moderated by Simón Wilches-Castro (Creative Director, Titmouse) and José Iñesta (CEO, Pixelatl), we will discuss the inspiration and structure behind the experimental animated shorts and explore the themes touched upon these shorts.
A young mexican smuggler and a little girl travel illegally on top of a cargo train, called La Bestia, to get to the USA. An injury transforms his perception of the journey.
Melanie Fyfe is convinced she is an owl trapped in a human body. As she embarks on a journey of self-discovery, pandemonium erupts throughout the world around her.
Kiki the canary only knows his cage and the old lady who feeds him. He dreams of flying with the free birds from outside. When at last the door of the cage stays open, he escapes and discovers the big outside where it’s necessary to know how to fly. Finally, being a free bird, it’s scary.
Literal and figurative worlds collide but only one can survive… Do your idioms live or die?
Long ago, four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirit brought the healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii. The name of their leader was Kapaemahu. Beloved by the people for their gentle ways and miraculous cures, they imbued four giant boulders with their powers. The stones still stand on what is now Waikiki Beach, but the true story behind them has been hidden – until now
JUST A GUY is an animated documentary short film about love. Three women share glimpses of their affection, attraction and relationship with Richard Ramirez: A serial killer and rapist they contacted after he was convicted in the 80s. Through their perspective, we revisit exchanged letters and emotions that are as obsessive as they are hauntingly familiar.
Music video for Josh Kimbrough’s song “Glowing Treetops” from his latest album “Slither, Soar & Disappear”. Inspired by Wendell Berry’s poem “Elegy”.
ASIFA-Hollywood presents, “A conversation with John Musker and Ron Clements (Masterclass)” at the Annecy Film Festival.
On the borderless map of a magical planet, little beings pick, brush, weave, fish and collect elements from their natural environment to sustain their life as a group. This essential balance turns to chaos once they misuse their findings to polish their individual appearance.
Music video by James Blake- Do You Ever.
Music video by James Blake performing You’re Too Precious.
Daniel Bruson created this very still world where two characters try to understand loneliness, loss and healing. The basis for the animation was created digitally and then painted frame by frame on paper.
Follows an amusing tale about anorexia and butts.
Iris is a girl who fell in love with her own reflection and one day disappeared in the bathtub. Inspired by the Narcissus myth. This Greek hero has become the first person in the world to comprehend art and the first person to fall in love with an image rather than the reality. His is hence a story about vanity, as well as about the perception of art. The motivation of this film is to refocus on the female character, Iris, and to retell the old story from her point of view in the social media era.
How does it feel not to understand your own body and its needs? To perceive everything but food blurry and meaningless? The animated documentary film INSIDE shows a day in life of a person suffering a mental illness called Anorexia Nervosa. It is an intimate insight into the mind of an anorexic, who just must somehow interact with the raw reality.
A young girl sees the world around her as brittle, depraved and ugly. She lives in a cold war where the weapon is not the gun or the bomb, but the alienation, aimlessness, selfishness, depreciation of the people.