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A looping experimental stop motion animation featuring a real plant dancing to music.

“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.

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.

An animated tribute to the text of "If I Must Die," the final poem written by Palestinian writer, scholar, activist, and martyr Dr. Refaat Al-Areer.

A saxophone, bandits, a plane and ...

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.

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

A lensless exploration of hair on 35mm film.

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.

Experimental animation film by José Castillo.

Experimental animation film by José Castillo.

All she knows comes from the screens. All she has known is the screens. A screen breaks and everything changes.

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

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

A factory worker in a dark, gray world assembles devices that promise happiness. In his spare time he tinkers to create something better, and finally succeeds in perfecting his invention, which allows people to see life through rose-colored glasses, but he has to pay a price for his success.

A feminine machine, stuffed with modern nano-technology and useless operations is depicted in this mixed-media 2D animation short, highlighting the consequences of consumerism and the downfall of civilized society. The machine reminiscent of a two-dimensional video game, leads to a destructive chain reaction after a strange malfunction, with people turning into clones and robots.

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

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

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