The Age of the Monster

A short film that reinterprets the silent film masterpiece "Cabiria" from 1914, directed by Giovanni Pastrone and enriched with literary captions by Gabriele D'Annunzio, thanks to the integration of digital technologies such as virtual reality, Artificial Intelligence, and the powerful 3D graphics engine Unreal Engine.

'THE QUEST: Everest VR' is a one-of-a-kind "real-life" Virtual Reality documentary to climb and reveal the most legendary mountain on earth, Mt. Everest, in stunning 360 degree video! It is the only real-life Virtual Reality experience that puts you directly in the boots with filmmaker and explorer, Alex Harz, on an epic 52 day quest to the Top of the World (29,032 feet / 8849 meters), and the closest thing to climbing Everest without all the rigorous training, planning and high risk needed to physically step foot on the mountain! 'THE QUEST: Everest VR' can be experienced worldwide in Virtual Reality headsets, and on computers, phones, tablets, etc...

Gus spends every waking hour in Virtual Reality, ignoring the Gigworkers who tend to his physiological needs.

The sci-fi film "Virtual Lies" is about a story related to VR world. Xu Ze is a programmer. He developed a VR world to help the people who lost their beloved. Su Tiantian came close to him for his invaluable virtual coins. But they fell into love. Shui Sheng, a colleague of Xu, disclosed Su Tiantian's secret. Then Xu's virtual coins are all gone. At last, Xu fould the truth and saved his lover.

College student MERİÇ sees his crush SUDE in anxiety. They must complete a questionnaire to learn their grades for this semester. This questionnaire is a VR game designed for students to have fun while completing their questions. The game shapes itself depending on the player and their individual experience. When MERİÇ enters the game, he meets with his fun guide 1STQUESTION (A robot that helps him complete his questionnaire). Throughout his journey, we meet with several characters in the game that we also see in real-life sequences. SPARKS PIRATE and her APPRENTICE are the villains who try to capture 1STQUESTION and make MERİÇ trapped in the game. He must complete all questions, fight for what he loves the most, and fulfill his destiny.

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Oneroom-Babel

Three shorts and three supplements tackle the central theme of 'compliance'. A wanna-be actress findsherself trapped between her traditional loyalty to her parents and her strong-willed director; a police officer and his robot sidekick resort to unorthodox methods to fight crime; a structuring of a PSA to promote social sensitivity is taken to absurd extremes.

All shots are created with game engine Unity. In the short, a little girl wants to give a gift to her parents. She's then sucked into a fantasy-like world (via her imagination) where her stuffed animal helps her on her journey.

A hidden memory sends David across the far reaches of time and space to solve a deadly mystery involving his time-traveling future selves.

An inquisitive little frog with a large appetite goes off to discover the river bank in search of new things to eat. On her way, she meets some of the animals that live in the neighbourhood: a mole, a rabbit, a deer, a mouse... and asks them what they eat. Well... what do you think herons, foxes and snakes eat?

At the museum they suddenly realise that one of the poison arrow frogs has escaped from its cage. Panic! Everyone is terrified, because the poison arrow frog is one of the world's most poisonous creatures. But fortunately there's a hero at the museum that day! We're not going to give away how he saves everyone, but let's just say that frogs and people aren't that different after all.

The story of Small and Large Rabbit. Made after a 1925 lithograph by Nils von Dardel.

Three days before Christmas and grumpy old Cyrus Grape forbids children to play and skate on the ice over the local cranberry bog near his home. Young Maggie, along with her grandmother and their friend Mr. Whiskers, work together to save Christmas Day for the children by reclaiming their favorite ice skating spot and discovering the land's rightful owner. When Mr. Whiskers learns his sister is coming to visit, it's a scramble to get his house in order and Maggie and her grandmother pitch in to help clean the old house. While working, they uncover a hidden box that holds a surprise for everyone... Maggie and her grandmother make delicious cookies to serve at their Christmas feast.

Hallmark presents a short story where the children get lost and with a wish they find their way home in the storm.

A hauntingly beautiful film about the world's flight into chaos. Rimmer has taken McLaren's camera-less technique to new heights. He paints directly on clear 35mm leader, using odd materials such as household cleaners, varnish, inks and sometimes fish scales and ferns. He feeds the loops through a film editing machine, overlays them with music and records the result with a mini DV camera. A production of the National Film Board of Canada.

This World War II propaganda short encourages British people to "dig for victory," by planting vegetable gardens.

1194D is originally a tweak of 115C8, one of the “Algorithmic Creature” series based on recursive triangle subdivision. The idea and complexity of the work started to go beyond the initial expectation after it was decided to experiment with multiple “creatures” co-existing within the environment.

A visual interpretation accompanying a reading of William Shakespeare's titular sonnet.

Created for MTV to be shown a year after the events of September 11, 2001, based on a still image Dave McKean created for an artist’s book of responses to the same events.