Diaphony is a short animated documentary following three people who share their experiences of the pandemic. Each handles this difficult time in their own way, but it turns out that they share the same way of finding comfort through music.
The fascinating and partially hidden story of this woman and other former “guest workers” in Germany is told by her daughter, who as a member of the next generation is struggling with her own identity and her relationship with her mother, as well as her mother’s different cultural mindset.
Faced with a rapidly-changing music scene and an uncertain future, electro-pop duo FINKEL leave their home in Los Angeles and embark on a journey to the icy forests of Michigan's famous Mackinac Island. Here Jane returns to her childhood home with partner and bandmate Brian to revisit the people and places from her past. With its longstanding ban on automobiles and the daily onslaught of extreme winter weather, life for the few who live on the island year-round is not easy. FINKEL must embrace this unique lifestyle as they dive headfirst in the creative process once more. Their goal: write an album inspired by this extraordinary place. Navigating the joys and complexities of returning to a place frozen in the past, Jane and Brian immerse themselves in the sonic landscape of Mackinac and find inspiration for their new body of work.
The housing market in South Korea is tight, and animator Sunghwan Lee moves from one semi-basement to another temporary home. This situation, combined with his difficult childhood, got him thinking. What is a home? What makes a house a home?
An animated-experimental film which, in accordance with the process of creation – the chemical and thermomechanical processes – features coincidences as its immanent part and thus tries to surpass the conventions of traditional animation and narration.
A robot is trying to keep a sunflower alive through different attempts but always comes out unsuccessful. His attempts get more and more desperate as all he wants is to make the sunflower see the sun. It goes to the absolute extreme and flies to the sun. In the end, the robot is an imaginary representation of a kid sitting on his bed ending a one-sided friendship.
A young man clings to the last remaining piece of his relationship: his ex’s dachshund. In this loosely animated film, the pet serves as a metaphor of his inability to let go. While he is moping with the animal’s hind quarters, his ex has picked up the thread and walks through town with the dog’s front part. For how long will this relational sorrow be stretched – literally and figuratively?
Stark naked in prehistory – primeval life in Drenthe needs improvement. Four primitive little men start the construction of something big. But their wild plans are sabotaged when a rabbit hops by. The hunt for a potential meal fouls up their wild ideas, but eventually leads to the creation of the megalith in this animation, in which you literally recognise the makers’ fingerprints.
It’s nice to be pretty in pink, but it is very inconvenient when you are a chameleon sunbathing on a branch and you spot a bird of prey high up in the air. But when the animal changes to leaf green, the misery really begins in this vivid clay animation. When a throbbing chainsaw fells the tree, the chameleon ends up in more tricky situations than there are colours in the rainbow.
Midnight. A construction site. A man with a colored corn head and a woman with pink hair meet in a powerful encounter. A provocative tale of love, right and wrong over a quarter of a century between two outcasts. A sensational subject matter and a staggered ethical viewpoints are explored in this latest work of the artist's best work! We run, leaving the world behind.