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.
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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.
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.
The girl lives in an apartment with a creepy monster who constantly violates her personal boundaries and pesters her with her care. Even in the bathroom, the main character finds no escape from the monster. The girl’s patience ends, and she decides to run away from home.
The night is the place where characters move, and images rhythmically dissolve from faces to the night stars, in a smooth transition between images and words.
A short film inspired by a brief encounter between the director and an Icelandic whale lifts the veil on the ocean’s mysteries and portrays the dramatic life of a whale. I am Sorry Whale dives not only into the depths of international waters, but also into the deepest corners of our conscience.
Would it have occurred to you that an invitation to a beer could be related to philosophy? Get to know the method of the veil of ignorance of the American philosopher John Rawls and see how the problem of fair distribution of resources can be matured. The concise animated series connects the ordinary human world with philosophical ideas and philosophy.
This animated video clip is made using traditional animation using ordinary pens and cheap paper. Crumpled and forgotten. No one had taken it out of their backpack since the last summer vacation many years ago. Flipping through the pages, we find old confessions of love, leaflets warning against drugs and wild doodles.
Having just arrived in paradise, Jerome sets out to find his wife Maryline. In the course of his search, he sinks into a surreal and colourful world in which no one seems to be able to help him.
A tragicomic story of Vera, who suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder. She is bullied daily by her own brain, which still reminds her of potential catastrophic scenarios that could happen. However, one particularly hectic morning, something unexpected happens – an unknown criminal appears in the housing estate. Vera has to face bizarre circumstances and not lose her job. Will she succeed? Graduation film.
A rescue pup discovers its new home is haunted by the family’s deceased pets in this mind-bending horror.
Alice explores the influence of the chemical properties of spiders on the human psyche and gets on a trip where she has to face her essence.
A music video.
In a small town, a funeral is held after the death of a gardener. Three brothers find themselves lost in their imaginations on the day of the burial.