The list of fantastic, mythical animals compiled by Carl Linnaeus in his seminal 18th century work Systema Naturae could well be the seed of Niles Atallah’s Animalia Paradoxa – an eccentric tale set in a post-apocalyptic world that follows a strange creature struggling to survive. Dressed in rags and a gas mask, moving like an alien dancer, Animalia roams through an abandoned building – crawling and stretching across concrete, plastic, waste. She laboriously carries and fills up an array of empty bottles to enjoy a modest bath. The camera eye lingers on her with compassion and explores the architectures of trash at an agonising pace. We know in our hearts that Animalia is a human-amphibian longing for the sea…
This Christmas special breathes new life into some of Astrid Lindgren's beloved stories. Some, we've seen before, some we've never seen in animated form and some are completely new. Centering around a mysterious cuckoo clock, this film brings us into the worlds of Emil, Brenda Brave and Nils Karlsson Pyssling among others.
A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and traitorous lord of Rohan seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm Hammerhand, the King of Rohan, and his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient stronghold of the Hornburg.
Two figures —an angel bathed in light and a widow veiled in mourning— mirror each other’s gestures. Through the interplay of costume, color, and hand-drawn intervention, Emerge & Fade explores how innocence and disillusion coexist and transform one another.
While working in her sewing workshop, Lorraine receives a letter from her partner that will destabilize her life and trigger the mysterious flower disease.
A green caterpillar is ostracized at its home forest. After metamorphosis, compassion opens a path of self discovery that will light the way to a promising future.
An attempt to capture the feeling of emptiness and nostalgia, reflecting it as reality in the Latvian rural landscape, partly from the observer's position, but also questioningly - what is the future of these rural areas? What is the relationship of contemporary society in Latvia with the Soviet legacy? Does it have a place to survive today and in the future, or were the materials, structures and philosophy used in Soviet times not sustainable enough to remain as witnesses to the history our country has experienced? This work is the author's personal observations of people who have remained in the countryside and possibly still live in the past or even idealize the past, and is therefore, without condemnation, a tribute to them.
When anna, an olympic athlete, finds herself behind in the race, she redoubles her efforts with the aim of winning the competition and never disappoint again. but as she pushes herself beyond her limits, she.
Sorrow is an analog animation in which through black, red and gold ink the internal conflict of a being who tries to inhabit his own house, but how they do not allow themselves to do so. As they try to go about everyday activities, mysterious creatures interrupt everything they intend to do.
The second instalment in a four part series in which a city is explored through the daily behaviour of its citizens. Habitography (Three) is a place where time is what weighs the most.
On a quiet day in the life of a Pixar-style young woman, everything seems perfectly normal. He wakes up, listens to the radio, feeds his cats and goes about his daily routines. But an unexpected encounter in the middle of a forest changes his world completely. A mysterious vortex draws her in and drags her through a series of surreal, space-like worlds. As you travel through this strange landscape, you hear voices that seem to come from important moments in your life. The experience is disconcerting without knowing what awaits you on the other side.