Animated Genesis

In this short animation film the triangle achieves the distinction of principal dancer in a geometric ballet. The triangle is shown splitting into some three hundred transformations, dividing and sub-dividing with grace and symmetry to the music of a waltz. The film's artist and animator is René Jodoin, whose credits include Dance Squared and several collaborations with Norman McLaren.

The first film directed by influential German-born silhouette animator Lotte Reiniger is delightfully reminiscent of a Valentine’s Day card come to life. Two lovers interact with an ornate background that shifts and changes in tandem with their own balletic movements as they express their feelings for each other.

A surreal story of a flexible, deforming ball wandering around a world full of contradictions.

Short stop motion for the German TV youth magazine Dr. Mag. Studio Film Bilder produced 18 different shorts, each time with a different director who interpreted a given subject in his personal style. This time Jürgen Haas dealt with spring, puberty and first love.

Short stop motion for the German TV youth magazine Dr. Mag. Studio Film Bilder produced 18 different shorts, each time with a different director who interpreted a given subject in his personal style. This time Jürgen Haas dealt with spring, puberty and first love.

Short stop motion for the German TV youth magazine Dr. Mag. Studio Film Bilder produced 18 different shorts, each time with a different director who interpreted a given subject in his personal style. This time Jürgen Haas dealt with spring, puberty and first love.

This is about how drugs alter our perception and take the place of normal sensory input.

Stuck in the Middle

A girl who was floating freely in the water accidentally gets her skin cut by a sailboat passing by. The story is derived from personal experience, recreating the senses of women in love and the unique inner sense of time through creation.

Short animation movie, based on Nathan's Jurevicius award winning graphic novel. For generations the Face Changers have made the clay tokens that alter the winds and faces of their kin. This month the youngest is tasked to take the ten thousand footsteps to the top of the east mountain and engulf the town in the winds of change. Innovative, colorful animation invites to travel into magical world.

The librarian of the town of New Penzance introduces six animated segments illustrating Suzy's favorite books.

This is the story about a boy not like the others that dreams about finding his place in the world.

It’s an underground world. Up on the ground there are many people coming and going. There lives a garbage bag. . . underground. He has no work, no home and no family. This is a story in which a dirty black garbage bag gains a new life through. . . various experiences.

It is the day of Grandpa’s wake. Grandma is a alone in her room looking at the album full of memories of him. ‘Are you sad, Grandma?’ asks the boy. She answers her grandson merrily with jokes. . . she falls asleep and in her dream she meets a man and makes him a promise. . .

The protagonist is with friends but bored with the conversation. His mind often slips away to his own imaginary world and comes back to them. . .

The blue evolves. The blue rises toward the upper world. The blue becomes green and then yellow, which makes things unstable. So red circle appears to bring into balance between blue and yellow. These three colours unite into one, [rising] until the summit, over the boundary line, and becomes a white circle to a full stop. And then it returns to the first state.

After losing a job at the company a man starts working part-time handing out balloons in a rabbit costume. He finds it comfortable to disguise himself in the costume, as nobody would recognize him. Finally, he decides to wear the costume all the time in his daily life. Then the costume becomes a part of his body and confines him inside. . .

An old man is trying to create a girl out of his memories. Little by little the doll is being made and given a physical body of machinery parts. The old man makes her as a pure creature, but she denies her identification. The doll demolishes herself, saying ‘This is not Me!

As dusk closed in, a streetlight in a park was turned on. Moths flew towards the light. Suddenly they stop the motion. Under the streetlight. . . playground equipment appears. . . A child strayed among them. . .

There was a man with a hole in his belly. The reason was not certain but he just kept eating the food that grew on the tables as if to fill his hole. All of a sudden the food disappeared, something came up from the table and ran away. He was at a loss but killed it to fill the hole with the dead body. The hole was filled half by the dead body