Angel of the Hills I

A Blue Soldier and a Yellow Soldier play a board game trying to outwit each other, struggling for control over a piece of land. The Farmer who belongs to the land is not allowed to play and must pick a side. As the fighting escalates, what side does she choose?

An animation short featuring various art styles about the loss of identity.

Inspired by the energetic German film, Run Lola Run, City Shocks delves into the chaos of urban life through a series of interconnected vignettes, while following a character navigating the bustling streets of a sprawling metropolis.

After a first date, two women find themselves in a magical hairy situation.

An experimental avant-garde film where the character battles with herself, struggling to understand and embrace her true identity. Blending dream-like and reality sequences together, the film connotes inside the character’s mind. Escaping to different parts of her subconscious, she is met with confrontation, fear & desire. This piece of work highlights themes of identity, surrealism & subjectivity, where the instability of the self is at the forefront of the film. The film uses elements of mixed media montage to portray the character’s inner thoughts.

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.

An 8-minute satire on politics featuring the first French presidential election campaign broadcasts from 1965 and The Shadoks.

Hunting, a vicious merry go round, a carousel for savage adults against wildlife. Avoid the circular logic of thinking about hunting in a roundabout way. Hunting must be stopped now, discursive roundabouts about the possibility of regulating it are circumlocutory escape routes! In this video, you hear ouzels singing in a cellar, deprived of sunlight, exploited and commodified, sold as call birds. Ouzels are highly sought for their wondrous vocalization. In turn, as in a death carousel, they are then used for attracting other birds that will be killed by legalized exterminators, otherwise called hunters.

Computer and clay; dedicated to the Amazon rain forest. The first animated short to combine 3D computer animated characters with clay animation. As seen on MTV's Liquid Television.

Radio host and cyber hacker Skinny Mike and his assistant Crutch are asked to hack the Datadyne Corporation by a mysterious client. Created to promote Brain Dead and Gotcha's collaboration for a surf-inspired collection.

A documentary on the work of experimental British animator David Anderson.

For the multimedia exhibition Tangenten I (Tangents I), Dammbeck and co-organizer, sculptor and painter Frieder Heinze had planned to collaborate on a film that would combine non-camera animation with 35mm footage of a train ride between the two Dresden districts of Radebeul and Pieschen. When the exhibition was banned in 1978, Heinze turned to other projects, but Dammbeck continued working on the film by himself. Metamorphoses I—the first experimental film ever to be shown publicly in East Germany—marks the filmic beginning of Dammbeck’s long-term art project the Herakles-Konzept (Hercules Concept).

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.

Heartwarming and sad film about a young man in the city catches a songbird. They live together happily until she flies away from him at the ocean. Includes live action, still photography, and drawing. Shown at Sundance in 1998

The marshmallow test became the poster child for the idea that there are specific personality traits that are stable and consistent. And this drives Walter Mischel crazy. "That iconic story is upside-down wrong," Mischel says, "That your future is in a marshmallow. Because it isn't."

Mixed media animated short

When Naoko presses "play" on her CD player, she finds herself face-to-face with a mysterious entity inside of a subway train and reminisces on the meaning of friendships, nature and death.

A dog that dreams of space travel is pushed to pursue his ambition after leading a mundane life of routine.

A little white party guy is on their way to a party when they get interrupted by a stranger on the street named Kevin Kaos who proclaims he is the lord of hell and other shenanigans. This film is based on a real interaction I had with someone.

STORY DRIVE Entry #011 - A teen receives a cosmic gift and decides to keep on giving.