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Snorting, coughing, humming, clicking, … Ever present horrorful orchestra of the surrounding world drives a young lady mad. Noises coming from neighbouring flats take shape of their creators and break into the flat of the young lady, where they cause unthinkable torture. There is no hiding for our heroine and so she has to learn how to live with it.
The malevolent AI called The Source threatens survival of all life on a prospering planet. Is there any hiding place from this unstoppable new threat?
Polish filmmaker Marta Pajek discusses the creative process for her award-winning trilogy, Impossible Figures and other stories, following the online release of the final film, a mysterious and haunting portrait of personal and societal self-destruction.
The history of the Cultural Revolution in the 60s in China…from the perspective of a mango…from a factory.
The multiple award-winning Daniel Gray will present his newest short animation, HIDE which started its festival circuit at Ottawa and continued at Montreal, Clermont-Ferrand, Zagreb and Krakow. Now, Daniel, the writer and director and Bella Szederkényi, his producer will reveal what’s behind the door and will share the story of creating HIDE from its conception, development, finding partners, pitching failing, pitching succeeding, residencies, pre-production, production, post-production, sound recording challenges, life complications and its afterlife at the festivals.
A man plays and wins. He is euphoric, but… A different game, a different winning player. Nature shows its presence. In the end, the praise of slowness.
Animated music video created for French-Polish band Loa Frida. The song talks about those moments when we’re not entirely sure which way is up. Since the clip had a small budget, we decided to create it as a series of looping vignettes, which add up to create one large, detailed image. Each vignette is meant to evoke some strange sensation that the song is talking about, without being too literal.
An ambitious but somewhat lazy photographer tries to survive in a big and expensive city. Hanging out at a posh party, she decides to radically change her life. Can she make it without killing anyone in the process?
A young man is imprisoned in an abandoned lighthouse full of books. Haunted by his own conscience, he soon discovers that there is only one way out off the desert island.
A robot with an old-fashioned incandescent lamp head is hiding in a city ruled by led lamp heads. When his secret is descovered he must run away. But where?
A group of forest animals set out on the adventure of learning to write. A squirrel, a tiger, a hedgehog and an elephant will write many wrong letters and scrambled words, and in the end, learn the importance of togetherness, perseverance and knowledge. Along the way, they will, of course, make some new friends who will teach them a few more secrets the alphabet has to offer.
A Holocaust survivor reads a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life. A young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class and sinks into a twisted dream where she confronts questions of identity, collective trauma, and the extremes of human nature.
As summer ends, Ren’s bandmates and childhood friends are leaving for college. He struggles to write the lyrics of their final song.
In a quiet suburban neighborhood lives Mr. Badú, an octogenarian taxidermist with questionable skills. He’s madly in love with his neighbor, Mrs. Aurelia, who wants nothing to do with him. One day, Mr. Badú comes up with a great idea of how to win over the object of his affection.
Olive is relaxing on a sun lounger by an outdoor pool, talking on the phone with her friend Sarah and eating a cheeseburger. Suddenly, she witnesses two young children tearing a frog apart before running away.
This animated video clip by Johuš Matuš gently transports us into his world of rural pop full of nature, horses, dogs and sick people. During the train journey, we witness how through song one can find a brief moment that may or may not last forever. Right now, forever.
Joanna Quinn, whose acclaimed body of work includes the Oscar-nominated shorts Famous Fred, The Wife of Bath and her most recent film Affairs of the Art, speaks with Ben Mitchell of Skwigly Online Animation Magazine in an exclusive talk as part of the Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival. Having achieved major success at the very beginning of her career with her multi-award-winning debut film Girls Night Out, Joanna has since become an inspirational figurehead to many in the animation world through the work of her studio Beryl Productions. In this talk Joanna will offer unique insight into the highs and lows of industry success and how she has navigated the emotional pitfalls that come with it, from grappling with feelings of failure against high expectations, balancing personal projects and professional commissions, to dealing with imposter syndrome, burnout, staying motivated when life gets in the way and the challenges the younger generation face in the current social media climate and the pressures to succeed that come with it.
It’s Nice in Here paints a fragmented portrait of a moment, a person, and a place, seen through the subjective memories of a young Black girl, Imani, and a rookie police officer, David, who both have wildly different recollections of the same fateful moment in a corner store that will leave their lives altered forever.
The figure against the space. The human figure's attempt to rest is disrupted by the surrounding space, which constantly oppresses it. With each attempt to escape, it finds itself in a fight with it again. Is it even possible for it to break this cycle?
Incomprehensible Labour by Specific Means deals with the theme of labour in the contemporary. It critically points out the relationship between the abstraction of advanced automation and the concreteness of human labour. Work that is not always conscious and visible, but often unconscious and invisible. At the same time, this video highlights the fetishization of technology and performance, the result is not only invisible but also unimportant.
