The moon is tired of living with the sun. She leaves for the Caribbean Sea. She discovers a wonderful new world. The sun is bored alone. He sends his soldiers to capture the moon.
A creature, alone and sad on his ice floe, who wants to see his situation change. We follow his journey against a backdrop of icy, chilling Arctic landscapes.
An old woman braids the threads in the forest when her community is captured and the Hammock begins an unexpected journey. Multiple adventures follow - or precede? - as the Hammock guides us through a narrative in knots.
A short film featuring the twelve Chinese Zodiac Animals in harmony with each one's respective trine. It is a celebration of a new year in the calendar cycle.
Tala Madani's paintings, deadpan and brushy scenes of fictive ritual create a grotesquery populated by dichotomies. Figures simultaneously innocent and nefarious, furtive and self-aware, or comical and violent float through a hazy pastel palette that seems to shine light through the vulgar comforts of bonding
Beneath the Light is about a silk scarf flowing and dancing through her magical world while she attempts to flee from evil spirits represented as dark clouds. The film is animated under camera with acrylic paint on canvas and the figures are choreographed to a dramatic Mozart piece.
One late summer evening at the nightclub “Båten Båten” in Umeå, Anna meets Nils. Nils is a 30-year-old DJ, while Anna, 23, works at a nursing home. They fall head over heels for each other, and soon Anna discovers she is pregnant. Suddenly, they are faced with the huge challenge of becoming parents.
A short film about creating a life that is joyful to live through the experience of transness. It’s about building community, breaking free of public perception, and cultivating the things in life that bring happiness. It's about how life is painful, but still so beautiful and precious nonetheless. These things can never be separated, but neither one can erase the other.
“I’m Fine” is a very personal story about dealing with depression, anxiety and the never ending healing journey. It is about every day fights to keep oneself above water, to reach stability.
Two cells befriend each other and explore the organism they inhabit. They grow together, until an accidental separation forces them to follow a different path. They continue to evolve and specialize, influenced by their respective experiences. When they finally meet again, it's to find that they have inexorably become incompatible.
With his video History of the Main Complaint (1996) serving as a backdrop, William Kentridge discusses how artists draw upon tragedy as subject matter for their work and how drawing itself can be a compassionate act.