Make a Wish

It is a parable about indifference

Tiare Peatra

Today, a butterfly can never be certain that flitting from flower to flower won’t cause major incidents…

Florence, 1631. The black plague rages, the streets are deserted, healthy citizens are confined. Alvise, a plague doctor, discreetly paces the city in search of infected bodies to conduct his experiments, in the hope of finding a cure. One day, during an autopsy, a strange creature springs from one of the corpses...

A short animated film about censorship.

Rainer Kohlberger’s abstract film was created entirely without a camera. Through digital algorithms, he precisely arranged a rhythm of light and shadow that pulsates off the screen into our physical space with blinding intensity. The presence of light is almost felt as we are sucked into the image to become its ghostly accomplice. As we leave the theatre, the optical vibrations continue to haunt us.

Utterly astounding, iridescent sand animation from Aleksandra Korejwo based around Bizet's Carmen.

A beautifully fluid sand animation inspired by Camille Saint-Saëns' piece, 'Danse Macabre.'

An alien decides to find out how much humans actually know about extra-terrestrials. The directorial debut of Mykhailo Titov, a master of chimerical animation of the 80s, is based on the story of the Ukrainian science fiction writer Volodymyr Zayets.

Set during the Meiji reformation era in a small village in Kyushu, Japan. The story revolves around a young boy named Izana and a blind woman named Takiri, the two encounter the large monster Nebula who since ancient times was feared as the god of lake Amenosagiri. Theme of the film focuses on the Japanese concept of light and darkness, as told by puppetry and model miniaturization of the films’ world with practical special effects by Keizo Murase.

An ant colony finds that the strange new food source they've discovered may be something more of a curse than a boon.

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, Season 1, Episode 2. Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their lives.

Rare, medium rare, medium, medium well and well done. Through intimate and personal stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the body, from childhood to old age.

A minstrel, barred from entering a castle, is given a magic flute that can manipulate movement.

A scarecrow is trying to protect two birds from a cunning cat.

Death as a global service provider? Unthinkable! So far Death has thought that too. But then his nephew Cedric had the crazy idea of founding the company AFTER LIFE while his uncle was away. This company takes over the craft of death with the latest technology and markets it worldwide.

Edgar Allan Poe’s ill-fated hero meets his double.

Painful events become memories over time. Still, we vomit and eat again. Life is Eco.

Short animated film by Tomoyasu Murata.

The moon comes down to Earth and asks animals help to light up the sky. A fox pursues her purpose in this tale of folklore. Graduation film from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee. Inspired by the Finnish folk tale of the aurora borealis.