Bielefeld Lichtwerk

Surrealism, avant-garde sound montage, and irreverent wit might be the last thing you'd expect from a government-sponsored film about wartime cookery. But director, artist, animator and all-round firework of a man Len Lye specialised in the unexpected. A simple tale of a mother cheering up her daughter with a pie from her rationing-stricken pantry (interestingly the war is never directly referred to) is skilfully crafted into a work of real artistic depth, while retaining an unpretentious charm.

In the dark of night, a mother searches for her son after finding his bed empty.

Parallel Chords (overture) is the true story of a young violinist struggling to assert her individuality amidst the intense pressure of her pianist father and the formidable weight of her own musical ability.

Carls the eldest of three brothers and is expected to be a role model for the family. He wants to show his family that he made the right choice to move away. However, youngest brother Adam's unexpected hostility reveals the problems with Carls choices.

In a world where everything is forbidden except what is obligatory, a man recalls what led him to work in a very strange fast food restaurant.

A piano player is able to perform a Chopin piece backwards and Galeta will film it backwards and forwards creating four different variations of a movement bound to time.

A nostalgic piece involving a classic horror character, commencing with an intense build up and concluding with a sudden twist of humor.

TRY AGAIN brings us into the mind of Walt Eichner, a middle-aged failure on the verge of ending it all. However, it turns out Walt isn’t any better at ending his life than he is at living it. Each attempt to formulate his grand demise is stymied by circumstance and bad planning, leading Walt to consider that suicide isn’t the neat solution he thought it would be.

A dark and bizarre short film about a down on his luck courier whose delivery starts going sideways as murderous clowns enter the picture.

When Sitcom caracters must fight horror movies monsters 80's. Like every Saturday evening, Lisa and Friends want to get out. But something behind the door wants to get in...

Raven, a vampire hunter who poses as a prostitute, joins a rogue priest and his team in a mission to save the world and exact revenge on the man who killed her father.

Tom and Meg wake up tied by ropes, in a strange room. Each rope has a bell. If the bell rings... They die. Where are they? Who would do that to them? But the most important question is: What is that creature lurking around in the shadows?

A young lady is about to hang her new antique mirror to the wall when someone mysteriously leaves a box on her doorstep. As she gets ready to open it, knocks start to spread around in her apartment. Who is it? Or should we say what is it?

A secret support group meets to take back something stolen from them in childhood.

A microscopic tale of epic tragedy. One pea-sized pirate quests to slay his golden nemesis in this surrealistic, stop-motion animated retelling of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. A fully realized animation, full of conflict and tension, that makes perfect narrative sense while defying all common sense.

Short animated film by Mihaya Tanaka

Monster mayhem from Sticky Monster Lab with freedom brigades and secret spaceships.

Short animated film by Mihaya Tanaka

Short animated film by Kenjo Tada

A 3D character run through the streets with waffle shoes