Afterimages

The third film of the biographical cycle based on Pushkin's drawings and texts.

As of his early childhood Robinson Crusoe has wanted to become a sailor. And when he does become one bad luck has it that the vessel he sails on gets shipwrecked. Being the only survivor of the catastrophe, he manages to take refuge on a desert island where he will spend several years, learning how to survive...

An evocative animated film on the life and works of the great Kyrgyz poet Alykul Osmonov.

Based on abstract images by Kamler, Andre Voisin and Francois Bayle imagined the story of a messenger charged to bring to our planet the key to a forgotten wisdom.

Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.

Tocirea

Groter dan je bent

Pourvu qu'ils me laissent le temps

An unlikely encounter between a strange bird who lives in deep water and Lena, a little urban girl.

A kinetic typography animation set to a reading of the poem "The Wings" by Sebastian Fox.

Ybyra Aú: Spirit of The Forest

A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.

The experimental animated film Song of the Flies (El Canto de las Moscas), translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed conflict through the poetic voice of Maria Mercedes Carranza (1945–2003) and the audiovisual dialogue between 9 Colombian women. In 24 places, as a transit over the course of a day (Morning, Day, Night) a map of terror is drawn where massacres took place in Colombia in the 1990s. Archival images, the artists’ personal memories and the use of loops and analogue materials bring to life the landscapes ravaged by violence and build a polyphony of memory and mourning, a universal song of pain.

An experimental animated short film that traces a quiet longing to fly, connect, and belong.

Yoshiro Ishihara (1915–1977), who burst upon the scene of Japanese modern poetry in the mid-1950s, is now remembered as a “poet of silence.” He said, “A poem is an impulse to resist writing.” This film is an attempt to seek out the landscape from his poem.

A short film animation by Julian Gray with former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins reading his own poetry.

Letter to Celestial is a re-animation and re-imagination of archival documents found in the search for Asian sex workers in Montréal's Chinatown and historic Red Light District.

Rupert, a ten year old boy, falls hopelessly in love for the first time. When it all goes terribly wrong, he wishes never to experience heartache again. Turning to a book of magic, he invokes a spell to shield him from emotion forever.

A cellist attempts to rescue a woman swept out to sea, only to find he must battle a series of overly possesive sea creatures.

A poetic journey through the life of a woman going through an arranged marriage, animated on traditional Tongan Cloth called Ngatu.