A video collaboration by writer Fanny Howe and artist Maceo Senna.
This film visualizes humanity’s quest to relentlessly pursue goals. In the human fight for progress, the march forward cannot be stopped, even when individual people become weary and die. This animated short is based on a poem by the Chilean filmmaker and poet Juan Forch. Chilean painter Hernando León created the design.
Un spectacle interrompu
An animated poem about a dog, her human, and the consequences of a nasty habit.
A spring night is a poetic film which is based on the motives of the poem by V. Lugovsky. The film is devoted to the theme of fidelity to the battle traditions of revolutionary past, to the theme of human happiness the sense of it in the battle for high ideals.
Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.
La vita nuova
Loose impressionistic brushstrokes sketch a series of portraits of two faces, one male and one female, while the verse on the soundtrack tells the tale of both one and a thousand relationships.
Using simple, illuminative paper-cut puppetry, this enchanting video imagines the moment of witness that inspired Gwendolyn Brooks to write her landmark poem, “We Real Cool.”
Rose the rabbit seeks her way home in this poetic story of reclamation, recovery, and reconciliation.
Marcel, your mother is calling you
Poems by some of the greatest writers of all time are brought to life through lyrical animation and readings by some of today’s most respected performers.
A cellist attempts to rescue a woman swept out to sea, only to find he must battle a series of overly possesive sea creatures.
The third film of the biographical cycle based on Pushkin's drawings and texts.
相思(上)
The past returns faceless, awakening in Ananci the memory of a violence that transcends time. To the sound of drums, past and present blur together in pain and fury around a sacred fire. Upon wounded earth, resistance springs from the deepest roots of the forest.
Rubén tries to describe the color blue as "The color of dreams, of art, of the ocean and of the firmament", thereby unleashing half a century of poetry.
He stood, in pain, near the rope, in tears, while his creator hung.
Narrated as a letter to a mother, this short film traces the emotional undercurrents of leaving home and adjusting to a new environment, blending inner transformation with the changing landscape.
A short 1979 sand animation celebrating women's spirituality with 80-year-old lesbian poet Elsa Gidlow reading her work "What If."