The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Original Poem

Focusing on developing relationships with the computer as a nonhuman entity, Listener is an iterative, site-specific performance artwork which speculates a future through Lakota ontology, narratively and physically manifesting a relationship with metals in electronics, performed via an electronic interface woven into hair (hair is sacred to the Lakota). The sonic landscape includes live police scanners, synthesizers played by the hair, and algorithmically re-arranging poetry with a voice speaking of a future landscape, prophecies, dreams, and the possibilities in listening.

A brief visualisation of NASA’s historic spacecrafts Mariner, Pioneer, Voyager, and Dawn, exploring the solar system, culminating in the New Horizons mission.

The Girl with the Mechanical Maiden

A soldier served a long time service. He took as a reward an old drum and went where his eyes were looking. He walked for a long time, and went to the hut, and in it the small girl was crying, because the fierce witch has destroyed her parents.

The cartoon based on the works of Alexander Pushkin was created on the basis of drawings from the exhibition "Pushkin through the eyes of children".

An animated film about how a giraffe broke her glasses, went to the pharmacy to buy new ones, but on the way she spent money on a hat, scarf, stockings and it turned out that there was nothing to buy glasses for.

A woman is forced by her husband to be shut-up for ever. But when she listens to nature's song, she refinds her own song and the hope of a different life.

Street artist Blu animates large-scale creatures as they crawl across an abandoned Argentine cityscape.

The story about the wild creatures of the wild forest and one impudent Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.

Curtis Calhoun just isn't in the mood for Christmas and wishes it would all go away. It appears he gets his wish, at least until he finds a strange little man in a red suit stuck in his chimney on Christmas Eve. Is it a cat burglar in disguise, or is it really Santa Claus with a very special Christmas gift for the discouraged Curtis Calhoun?

If you follow a double yellow line far enough you will reach the traffic control HQ, a hellish place where all yellow lines are created. Greta, a not-so-wicked witch, gets a job as a traffic warden to try and uphold her old fashioned evil values. “These days it seems turning milk sour is just not enough for a witch to make a living!”

Abstract video art by John Sanborn and Dean Winkler. Dedicated to Ed Emshwiller.

Sarcastic inversion of the ‘beautiful couple in love’ archetype. The ’40. Two people isolated from the rest for their physical appearance, meet in a cinema. A dark solidarity born between them leads to a relationship based on the denial of their ugliness.

The peacock is a big star onstage. His feathers, however, want a fair share of the fame.

Sloth wants to buy an ice cream cone. Unfortunately, he is way too slow and sleepy.

Living in a strict and very regulated world, a man has to hide his homosexuality and dance, dance, until the moment he finds the strength to face these rules and reveal who he really is.

Jokey Smurf's birthday is on Halloween and so is Gargamel's. Papa Smurf sends Lazy Smurf out to gather red leaves for Jokey's birthday party. Of course, Lazy falls asleep in the woods and Mother Nature turns him red while she is coloring leaves.

Cinema Veritas

Matter of Habit

Imaginary Mirror