2020

It is believed that art can touch upon things that are invisible or unspoken, engage a wide range of people in dialogue by analysing different experiences. One of such perspectives is represented by the artists with Down Syndrome, such as the Atelier Normalno community members. For some of them, video became a tool of emancipation. They use the aesthetics of advertising, television and cinema to create moving images art that is a sharp reaction to everyday topics. During the discussion, artist and co-curator of the Atelier Normalno Stanislav Turina and cinema historian and director Stanislav Menzelevskyi will reflect on how artists with disabilities convey modernity, what characters and issues they choose to convey their feelings, how inclusion can be present in culture and the role that video as an artistic instrument plays in it.

• Making of

by Anne Koizumi

An animated short documentary about a difficult father-daughter relationship. Drawing on childhood memories, Anne Koizumi, the filmmaker, explores her upbringing with her Japanese immigrant dad, who was also the janitor at the elementary school she attended.

• Documentary
• Drama
• Bio-pic
• Making of

by Mykyta Lyskov

Sometimes abstract spots and lines form a landscape.

• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Julia Orlik

An elderly man is looking after his paralyzed wife. Despite his old age and health problems he’s doing his best to relieve her suffering, which is getting worse day by day. His daughter helps him, trying to balance care with her work in the hospital and family life. Everyone has a different view on how to properly care for the sick, which often causes arguments.

• Drama

by Jean-François Lévesques

Confronted with doubt and feelings of emptiness, drunk with unhappiness and seeking to drown his sorrow, Barnabé experiences a curious metaphysical visitation; lightning strikes the spire of his church and a mysterious bird appears, forcing him to reconsider his life

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Petr Mischinger

This short puppet etude tells the story of an unusual way to get home after a night at the pub.

by Nina Winiger

The bourgeoisie is having a celebration in a round room where eating, sipping, and dancing is followed by dancing, sipping and eating. This could go round and round forever.

by Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf

“How to Disappear” is an anti-war movie in the true sense of the word, searching for possibilities for peace in the most unlikely place of an online war game. It’s a tribute to disobedience and desertion – in both digital and physical-real warfare.

by Nicolas Fattouh

A Grandmother loses her five senses one after the other until she transforms into a wooden chair.

• Drama
• Fantasy

by Caroline Cherrier

Guillaume kills his friend Horacio with a rake because he was shouting too loudly. The story follows Guillaume’s indifference during his 10-year prison sentence and his subsequent release.

• Comedy

by Veronika Obertová, Michaela Čopíková

Short animated concept film for HONDA. Shown at the Tokyo Motor show 2019.

• Music Videos
• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Sci-Fi

by Jenny Jokela

Homecoming Queen celebrates the legend of Califia, goddess of Califronia.

• Music Videos
• Fantasy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Alberto Vázquez

No one can escape their roots, however rotten they may be.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Fantasy
• Experimental

by Kinga Rofusz

Home is more than a place where we live. It is also a feeling of trust, being within your family. This feeling is transferred from generation to generation. This film follows a little boy losing his home through mourning and relocation.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Dávid Štumpf

I made this short video for Czech Television, reflecting weird stuff people are doing at home in these even weirder times of Coronavirus.

by Janek Koza

The video clip of an experienced Polish creator, the author of many animations, is based on the myth of a girl who starred in a famous porn film. The author’s style of simple, uncomplicated drawings and hand-drawn animations on recycled paper perfectly fit the theme of the bleak story.

• Drama
• Comedy
• Experimental

by Daniel Gray

Two brothers entertain themselves with a game of hide and seek. As one counts, the other hides in a small cabinet. Seconds pass… then minutes… years… and decades. HIDE is a heartrending and prescient story about family and disconnect, in a world that is increasingly fragmented and unrecognizable.

• Drama
• Family
• Horror

by Ondřej Tešnar

A horrifying sight awaits a curious villager who stops by a watering hole one day. The water has an unusual red color. The graduate of the Ostrava University of Applied Sciences was inspired by the culture of old Japan, which is also reflected in the very title of the film. The herumetto protective helmet will play a vital role in this action story.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Anna Smékalová, Denisa Kalinová

Neo is a wild visual ride from two young animators and percussive poets Hello Marcel. The authors of the clip were inspired by their own surroundings and used a combination of visual techniques and psychedelic colors to emphasize the main leitmotif. Their work blurs the lines between impertinence and cool stuff.

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Maciek Stępniewski

Voiceless is an animated videoclip for the first Hearsh song. An attempt on seeking fresh esthetical paths in 3D computer graphics, based on atmosphere and gaining subjective meanings through visual associations. The objects shown in the movie represent different concepts that hold meaning in our lives and to which we commit our attention. Those meanings and that attentions are verified when with time said concepts fade away and dissolve.

• Abstract
• Non-narrative