Tete is a cat fascinated by art, skateboarding, and her city, Rio de Janeiro. On a late summer afternoon, bored with the monotony of her room, she hits the streets for an adventure on wheels. Rolling past various tourist spots, dribbling around cars, and riding down hills, the kitten finds her peace. However, Tete didn't expect a mysterious portal right in the middle of the skatepark. Distracted while doing a trick, she falls into the hole and travels through different dimensions of animation. Confused and scared of losing the trace of her identity, a new adventure begins for Tete: finding her way back home.
Just when the evil Dr. Blakk has been defeated and Eli Shane's duties as protector of Slugterra become easier, a new danger emerges from beyond the 99 caverns.
A poetic journey of memory and fantasy told through the eyes of four versions of an artist as she creates her own self-identity.
The second part of the series Cypriot Collage Stories sketches out the history of this Mediterranean island as a conflict of its two mothers – Aphrodite and Virgin Mary. Animations and collages are intertwined with found footage of the 1974 Turkish invasion of the island, revealing the obvious fact that modern conflicts are rooted in history.
Sun Scream tells the comedic tale of a down-on-his-luck vampire named 'Pippin', and his last-ditch efforts to sell at least one bottle of sunscreen before facing the wrath of his ferocious boss 'Cy the Cyclops'. Luckily for Pippin, the truck of an extremely sunburned farmer breaks down in front of his stall on the hottest day of the year. However, 'Billy' ain't no bumblin' yokel, and Pippin will have to do everything in his power to prove his product will protect anyone, even a vampire, from the sun's deadly rays.
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Chlorophylle and Minimum are about to savor a well-deserved vacation. Surprised by a storm, they take refuge in a grove. However, this grove is peculiar. Unbeknownst to them, they have entered a haunted grove.
Hirayama Jirou has lost his mother in the Great Kanto Earthquake and now runs a soba stall with his father. He decides to join the crew of the famous ocean liner Hikawa Maru and finds work cooking in the ship's galley. Through his eyes, the film explores the ship's 85-year history.
An adaptation by V-Jump Festa of a one shot manga by Akira Toriyama.
In this experimental short film, Kristian Day collected artwork created by the public. He found the majority of the pieces at "Sharpie marker demonstration tables" and it took almost a year to collect the artwork. All pieces were created by chance with no prior thought. He originally intended on using the photos for a collage canvas piece, however after deciding that a short film would stand the test of time longer, he took individual shots of over 30 pieces. The drone music was created using a variety of simple sound generators & tapes that are being manipulated by delays, filters, and reverberation effects.
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After an exhausting day, Clarice, a young black woman, is robbed and then harassed by the police, mistakenly accusing her of doing graffiti. Dazed with a mix of feelings of anger, tiredness, and injustice, Clarice in fact starts tagging the walls and the impossible happens: all of the graffiti around her comes to life right beyond her eyes.
Jeff Twiller wants to give parkour a try. He thinks he might be pretty good at it.
Animated characters introduce a compilation of George Pal replacement animation Puppetoon short films from the 1930s and 1940s.
After a terrible breakup, Dante will have to face his grief through a mysterious letter, which tells the story of a broken heart among its letters.
Composed of over 300 hand-carved ceramic tiles, the animated music video for “dirt” by emory creates a sense of movement and emotional presence within material that is traditionally still.
A young girl's dreams of becoming a dancer are threatened. Her father searches for a way to help her continue dancing.
Taking a moment away from the noise of life, thoughts of THE decision creep into the quiet. As Woman slips into the murky bath waters of her own mind, she is forced to explore every imagined road of motherhood. Does she or doesn’t she? She emerges from her bath, none the wiser. Pruney but no epiphany. Contemplating Motherhood was awarded the Mister Tibbs, Phoebe Francis Brown Film Fund.
We hear a whole catalogue of technical, moral, and financial instructions, ranging from practical to absurd, each introduced by “It works . . . ,” as in “It works in the shops and in all of the malls; it works when you cut off your microscopic balls. . . . It works if you heat up the nickel, if you save up the dime, and on a blackballer I wasted my prime. . . However, a single glance at the homeless protagonist and his forlorn setting suffices to clarify that none of this advice has worked all that well for him.
Musicians are playing, and their music changes the world.