Stories Sarah Tells

On the anniversary of their mother's death, brothers Enzo and Franco find a box with many old photographs. As one of the brothers is blind, the other will tell him what is in the photographs.

A cardboard house is built as refuge for the remains of a family's home video archives. Memories of maternal guidance, tenderness, and reunion are brought to life by following a child's early years.

Utilizing the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, the epic Indian tale of exiled prince Ramayana and his bride Sita is mirrored by a spurned woman's contemporary personal life, and light-hearted but knowledgeable discussion of historical background by a trio of Indian shadow puppets.

A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.

Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father and his mystical weaponry, as well as discover his own magical powers.

Paraguaçu

A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns. As with an atom, the variety of possibilities from a base movement is potentially infinite.

Compilation movie of Let's Make a Mug Too Season 1.

Take a ride with Dorothy and her best pal Toto as they share their favorite adventures in the magical land of Oz. It's Dorothy And Toto's Storytime: The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz part 1.

1194D is originally a tweak of 115C8, one of the “Algorithmic Creature” series based on recursive triangle subdivision. The idea and complexity of the work started to go beyond the initial expectation after it was decided to experiment with multiple “creatures” co-existing within the environment.

What it’s made of was produced for the Dutch customs laboratory (douane lab) in Sloterdijk over a period of 4 months. In this dual-channel film installation the viewer can watch the Dutch Customs Laboratory take shape in front of their eyes. Observing this process of the laboratory and its machines slowly being formed, attention is drawn to the shapes and forms that make up the laboratory and its machines.

Melbhattan. Melbhattan is part homage, part pastiche of the opening sequence of Woody Allen's seminal 1979 film Manhattan. Melbhattan features more than sixty black and white tableaux of Melbourne each composed to mimic images in Allen's film.

A wooden rocking chair serves as a tool to delve through the history of Quebec in the last century.

Harlem Fragments is an Afro-futurist scrapbook storytelling of a Harlem Black family's beautiful destruction during the 2008 recession. A natural disaster so mesmerizing you can't look away from the tragedy. Based on true events- The film explores the haunting societal pressures of achieving the Black American dream, told in the POV of 10 year old TJ revisiting his family's home that's up for sale. By empowering this Black boy in this film with the agency to imagine, TJ, through his own journey, finds a way to process and come to terms with his family's divorce. It's important for every Black child out there enduring the same foreign emotions to know that it's okay to feel them, and affirm that there is a future trajectory forward out of the initial destruction.

The short follows the lives of a family consisting of Bert, Rae, and their daughter Rachel. The viewer serves as an observer of the family's lifecycle before, during, and after living in their home. It is Walt Disney Animation Studios' first short set in virtual reality.

Two storytellers put forth their versions of the story of Shravan Kumar. The art for the film uses painted images from a wooden portable shrine called a Kaavad. The film is a collaborative work between traditional Kaavad storytellers and Kaavad artists from Rajasthan, together with the filmmaker. Combining lush animation with live-action, the film is an interpretation of two stories which are forever fused in the act of telling and retelling.

君の十字架

Vinyl Scratch, or DJ-Pon3, puts on her headphones and listens to her favorite music as she stops by Sugarcube Corner Cafe on her way to school, while everything around her seems to react in time to her music.

A hand-painted stop-motion elegy that traces the erasure of a family home by eminent domain, accompanied by a soundscape drawn from archival family VHS recordings.

A young man Nuno, tries to understand how his fate is tied to that of his deceased uncle Nuno, whom he never met.