Emergence Collapse, the collaborative project of Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Rainer Kohlberger and Viennese electronic music producer Jung An Tagen is nearly beyond description (and perception): An assault on the senses that is at once euphoric and harrowing, at once completely alien and uncannily evocative, their work is perhaps the perfect artistic manifestation of existential angst. Jung An Tagens frighteningly frenetic and earsplitting dissonance is complimented perfectly by Rainer Kohlbergers constantly evolving, neon-tinged visual freak-out. The result is relentless and painfully overwhelming, but like a horror movie, Emergence Collapse demands – and ultimately rewards – your attention.
Baba Yaga is a witch in the enchanted Forest. When the viewer's mother, the Chief, falls ill, it is up to them and their sister Magda to enter the forbidden rainforest, uncover its hidden mysteries and get the cure from Baba Yaga.
In his dressing room, a young actor is making up as an old man. But behind the young man’s mask, what is his real face like ?
A lovely fairytale for all tells the story of a doll that is lost, and with the help of other toys is looking for a way to her friend
Prezhde my byli ptitsami
Follow up to Junk Head.
An American Marine returns home to his dying father bringing not only the hope to mend their broken relationship but his memories of the war.
Jules Engel's Accident (1973) is a two-fold work of lithography and experimental animation to equally assert this awareness in the history of art, cinema, and experimental animation. Aside from a surface language of animal locomotion, the primacy of the frame as a principle of timing acceleration, deceleration and variation is fulfilled in the collective Muybridge, Engel and Deleuze. (stephenherbert.co.uk)
Run Wrake's iconic meathead character - first established in 1994's "Jukebox" bobs his head to PIL through the streets of NYC.
Study No. 1
Directed and animated by Run Wrake, a one minute illustration of Paul Merton's words on Sudoku commissioned by the BBC for the Radio 4 website.
Irina Evteeva’s debut quickly became a kind of manifesto for the one-room experimental studio: it defines classification by interweaving animation, appropriated footage, feature and documentary to form a unique whole, a film that rushes backwards into the future, thereby re-inventing Futurism. Mayakovskiy is the star; his occasional presence holds together a film driven by the sound, the beat, of his poetry. Evteeva develops a dramatic structure of flaring, fading, being from light: violin strings become rays, quivering dull yellow spots, pictures. The plot assails the material from which it derives energy from material. History, growling and roaring, finds its form.
The sixth and last animation by Stefan Schabenbeck before emigrating to Germany in the early seventies. Alien life form seen from the other side of the telescope. A robot arrives on an unknown planet, whose task is to get to know and try to colonize a new world.
Benjamin is distracted by women around him thanks to his libido.
The story is a celebration of the cleverness and wit of the simple peasant Čupera, who triumphs not only over the demon of alcohol, but also over the bureaucratically persistent and thorough devil. The hell that the farmer goes through during the withdrawal process is stylized as a shantytown, a galley with a prison and a dehumanized night club.
The harvest season recalls past time, gives rise to reflections, memories. The logic of the aftermath of events is replaced here by the logic of memory.
An adventurous letter that wandered around the world instead of rushing to a summer camp to see its little recipient.
A stranger enters a town that has been evacuated because of an unexploded bomb. Meanwhile the inhabitants are watching through telescopes and are getting restless at the stranger’s antics.
A snowman comes to life in this charming and playful stop motion short. In danger of melting once spring rolls around, the snowman eventually departs for an icier climate, perhaps to return next winter.
A small creature travels through a well, hanging on a bubble and encountering various other strange life-forms.