Playground
A collage of colors and shapes intersect and flow - from Mirai Mizue,
This animated short is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited panorama of the sky, grouping, regrouping or colliding like the stylized burst of some atomic chain reaction. The dance is set to the musical cadences of Bach, played by pianist Glenn Gould.
A collage of colors and shapes intersect and flow - from Mirai Mizue,
Line drawn animation journeying from individual cell through multiplication, growth and formation. The cycle rises and falls twice.
A very lazy boy, whose mother can no longer stand watching him sleeping and eating all day long, decides to set to work, revealing unsuspected powers of imagination, invention, and perseverance.
A documentary on the work of experimental British animator David Anderson.
Over the course of a night out in a queer club, Raf struggles to find his place among the crowd until he stops trying to force the narrative and just lets himself go with the music.
Abstract experimental short film. A poorly rendered computer animated figure throws itself around.
Decoherence is an audiovisual composition made with sound waves, water, and granular and spectral processing. A 60 cycle drone from a speaker cone below creates subtle patterns on the liquid surface, which grows increasingly turbulent. This piece explores interference patterns, the interplay of macro and microscopic patterns, chaos and continuua.
A cat walks into the Office of the Ministry for Cat Affairs and requests for a passport. All goes pretty well until the female and male cat clerks demand to know the cat's sex.
It's the story of a double trip. A physical journey, the one in which the chemist Albert Hoffman really took his bicycle to go back home in the 1943's spring under the effects of an unknown substance he was testing (lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as Lsd). But it's also the symbolical journey, inside the scientist's mind, representing the feelings he may have felt. Our bet is to narrate this event researching new images, creating our own version of a '40s styled psychedelia.
Computer animation and footage from NASA space missions explain how our solar system evolved and the place Earth has within the system.
Having forgotten the exciting feelings of the early days of the relationship, a man drifts along petting his guinea pig. One day, he meets a flowering beauty who appreciates the pet.
The story of a young woman named Jane 57821, who is living in a totalitarian near-future society where citizens are referred to as 'computers.' 'Dirty Computer' explores humanity and what truly happens to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness when mind and machines merge, and when the government chooses fear over freedom.
Lalit, 28, decides to come-out to someone who is really special and close to him. In order reveal his sexuality and seek acceptance, he cooks a special dish, a Bengali style fish curry, Maacher Jhol (माछेर झोल). He prepares this dish by listening to a famous radio cooking show. Will the fish curry turn out to be delicious? Delicious enough to appeal to the heart of someone special?
Short surreal stop motion animation by Niba and Matteo Giacchella
Short animation by Saul Saguatti and Audrey Coïaniz
A look at the often mocked and misunderstood subculture of Juggalos, hardcore Insane Clown Posse fans, who meet once a year for 4 days at The Gathering of the Juggalos.
When you were born, what did you desire the most?
A young Japanese orphan, and her mystical friend, exact poetic justice on a malevolent samurai lord.
In short, it's a film about winter. And to create it, Jeff Scher composed approximately 2,250 watercolor paintings on paper. Each one is elegant and beautiful in itself, depicting classic snowy scenes, but when composited together, we see incredible movement and fluidity revealed as cold memories bleed into one another.
Judy Garland sings the title song, a tribute to Will Rogers.