Let It Be a Tale

Atop a hill, under a full moon sky, Violeta and Rosa are about to embark on an astral travel.

Needles are used to repair the damage. Stay is a 5-minute animated film made using hand embroidery on tracing paper, depicting the relationship between a daughter and her absent father. Don’t forget to spend more time with the people you love even though you are busy.

“Sweet Spot” is an experimental animated short film that uninhibitedly explores the dialog between the work and its authors, Jorge Ribeiro and Paulo Patrício, whose points of view and creative approaches, both in terms of cinematographic language and ways of being, are quite different. Through this duality, and starting from a shared but at the same time individual process, the directors seek to understand at what point the short film they are making together reaches its “sweet spot”. In other words, the ideal point at which the work is considered finished.

A mad clock takes the viewer on a trip to a random planet. Which happens to work in a different conception of time than we know. Made in relay process, the results are unexpected and mind tripping.

Experimental animation film by José Castillo.

An exploration of Japanese culture by experimental animation artist José Castillo.

Experimental animation film by José Castillo.

Threnody emphasises some of the madness and instability of a year filled with fires, infections and general disarray.

My Body Is Not My Home is a 3D animated short film following the journey of an uncanny simulacrum who undergoes the process of becoming the ‘Other’.

Jack O’ Lantern folktale about the origin of the Will-o’-the-Wisp retold through a haunted doll’s mind’s eye.

A short mathematical romance about two flat beings who bond over their shared fascination of the hypothetical third-dimension.

Hasan Everywhere is an animation which broaches the subtlety of a relationship between a man and a woman who bear the passports of enemies, to sympathetically deal with the subjects of death, grief, lost opportunity; but mostly it seeks to demonstrate the possibility of friendship triumphing over the deepest of rifts between two people. In that regard it is most unusual among the standard fare of animated shorts.

Seraphim Cloud and his life size doppelgänger enter the netherworld of Calico Ghost Town deep within the Mojave Desert.

An experimental hand-stitched short film, exploring the feelings of gender dysphoria experienced by transgender people.

A saxophone, bandits, a plane and ...

Le cerceau

Abstracto

Klora and Minky work together to solve a very.. very.. very important equation.

14-year-old Zain, a Palestinian swimming champion, faces war and man-made famine. He becomes the sole caregiver to his little brother. When aid drops into the sea, desperate for food, Zain is forced to swim - not for passion, but for survival.

A child is attacked and turned into a chimera and must learn to navigate his strange world as an entirely new kind of being.