Blending fantasy and reality, this animated short is a bold inquiry into an as yet unresolved problem - the nature of human identity. When a scientist creates a machine that can make copies of physical objects, including humans, a number of ethical questions arise. Is the technique moral? What of its safety? A film by Oscar-winning filmmaker John Weldon (who also wrote the catchy banjo tune that punctuates the story's changing moods).
In one depot, two trams lived together. All day long, they traveled around the city, filling the streets with cheerful clatter, and they were happy. But in life, nothing lasts forever.
An impossible city is built up out of enormous rotating rings, steering the lives of its lonely inhabitants. New Babylon is a visual trip through an oppressive night in which contemporary, individualistic life is reflected in a circular metropole.
Trastos, un día normal na vida de Persoa Maceta Lámpada
When two brothers steal a valuable heirloom from an elderly Japanese woman, they unknowingly awaken her demigod son, Osaru, who does not take kindly to thieves.
A police officer has a fever dream after having too much sugar.
The events in the film take place in a remote place, far from the modern city and civilization, where the real and the unreal worlds meet. There, mysticism and reality are so intertwined that all kinds of miracles are expected. The people there live by their own unwritten laws. The punishments given to those who violate them are also completely different.
Paul Fierlinger's unique animation captures five individuals from diverse backgrounds as they describe their bouts with loneliness, its challenges and benefits.
An elderly man wanders through his memories after passing through a mysterious, dreamlike gate, where wind, snow, and fire awaken lost love, guilt, and missed chances. Confronted by the shadows of his past, he must face what he has been running from his entire life.
A short animated feature accompanying the song of the same name by Kishi Bashi.
The interconnected circuitry. The aggregated flora. Alternating currents of the visual field.
Camille's life is ruled by the ring of the alarm clock each morning. Her well-ordered life consists of preparing her cat's meals, and hearing the familiar sound of the automatic till in the store where she works as the cashier. But one day, a man enters her home without her knowing and starts living there during the day while she's at work. Little by little, he will free her from her chains.
Three archetypal woodland spirits explore the conflicting human drives of creativity, possessiveness and our desire for status.
Incapable of falling asleep, Mamadou starts to walk endlessly to tire himself and be able to have a final dream of where he was born.
Once up on a time, there was an ugly and violent monster. Because he was ugly, everybody disliked him. One day, the monster came to the small town to get some food and found a small girl. The monster tried to eat her, but something happened to him and changed him.
Arriving at their new house, Alfie's family have very different ideas about their new home. 'Ghostboy' teaches the very important lesson that some things aren't always what they seem.
In EIN TRAUM DER LIEBENDEN [A DREAM OF LOVERS], Monk meanders through a maze of Minoan bull-leaping, satyrs and revelatory rainbows.
Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this unfortunate conclusion by putting off the connubial event for a thousand and one nights, telling irresistible stories instead. In this one, she gets hold of a magic lamp.
Short cuts : L'Armée des 12 singes de Terry Gilliam
In a wild uninhabited desert, a team of rangers is in charge of rescuing people who got lost there. One of them, Jean-Mi, is going to draw apart from the group and meet an unexpected character.