Short animation by Alina Maliszewska about two lovers trying to kill themselves
What happens when you are left alone with nothing to be remembered for? A man tries to keep his sanity in tact by writing a letter to get help, but keeps getting memories of his fears and what was lost, will he manage to get out alive or he is left to rot with what remains inside with him?
The Searcher and The Spark meet.
Living in solitude after the fall of mankind, the Lone Man finds himself running for his life from an unseen force. As he is hunted down, he must face a hard truth that can change his entire perspective on life itself
Terra Incognita follows life on a mysterious island, inhabited by immortal beings. These beings lead a pre-civilized life forgotten by time, spending their endless days in hedonistic lethargy.
In the North African desert at the height of WWII, an SAS raiding squad led by Lt. David Walker and Sgt. Daniel Thomas capture an Afrika Korps soldier, Cpl. Ulf Steiner, whose unit was taken out by an unseen enemy.
Each verse, as they get repeated and recited, they fulfil their destiny and later crystallise to become LILITA.AL. It is somewhat similar to how human decompose after death, but it’s more about the spirit -spirit of the syllables- that sublime and skeletonize… A verse may forfeit its life, but the spirit returns home with the wind, and wait for destined rebirth.
Stop motion characters stumble and fumble their way through a clearing in the woods.
Unique animation using plain noodles bought at the store. Based on the name 'noodlefish,' this movie delivers the story of a small, naive noodlefish trying to get out of the water by making fish with noodles.
Mon Copain?
Le vœu
Alberto wakes up feeling a little strange. He gets ready as usual, but as he crosses the exit door of his apartment, he is automatically drawn back inside. No matter how hard he tries to leave, he always ends up back in the same place.
A city rat pursues a nearly empty bag of cheese snacks that's drifting in the breeze. His journey takes him through a vent into a highly mechanized rat lab, where one particular white female gets his attention.
In the midst of the frenzy night a man finds himself lost in the crevasse of time. It was not the grotesque beings nor the monsters, but it was he who “was here, but wasn't here”. He was the phantom. Buried under memories full of inhibition and promises that never kept – words washed up on the shore – time keeps him at a distance from the “place”. And he hears poems coming on the waves from the other side rhyming and lapping against the shore. A 360° scope video Installation commissioned by Nagano Art Museum.
This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the music of jazz great Chico Hamilton. At the end, in footage probably shot by Jerry Juhl, Jim demonstrates his working method.
A little girl tricks a nasty boy into thinking that the "rocketship" she built has taken him to the moon.
A small film based on a poem by Osip Mandelstam. What the poet is thinking about, sitting in his apartment.
ALEXANDER THE GRAPE, an unfinished cut-paper animated short from Jim Henson from 1965, relates the fable of a young grape with big ambitions who learns that it is better to accept yourself than to try to be something you are not. The short was reconstructed from film and audio elements; images from Jim’s storyboard fill in missing segments of the animation.
An animated adaptation of Poe's famous short story.
A figure wanders through a world of endless stairs, seeking purpose to his monotonous existence.