This is a story about relationships and how they can shape our life forever. It’s also about a weird character and his cat who claims his way to the eternity. Maybe it’s just a story about a man and a cat. But a good one.
First episode of Perfect City animation and digital arts series. Lured by the perfect hallucinogenic liquid, Perfect Spray, a wooden monster mother decides to carve her root baby into a human.
For 25 years, Betty Thompson — who was lovingly referred to as “Miss Betty” — dedicated her career to Jackson Women’s Health Organization where she helped countless people who walked through those doors. In 2004, Jackson Women’s Health Organization became the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi, and in 2022, it was forced to close as a result of the US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. At StoryCorps, Betty reflects on her decision to help these women, and the experiences as a teenager in the 1960s that brought her to her calling.
An old woman’s solitary existence in the woods is haunted by a mysterious presence. A world turned upside down is seen through the eyes of a goat-riding witch. Catchpenny prints and old woodcuts come to life in these short animations by artist Luca Dipierro, taken from his latest film The Cadence. A puppet play filmed in stop motion with tiny cut out marionettes made of book cloth, paper and fabric.
When desire is stronger than physical strength, and the consequences are immeasurable, we are left with a radical journey of an elderly person who wants to skate in order to feel alive again.
Does a creaking rocking chair make you feel uneasy or totally relaxed? In this crafty parable by animator Luca Dipierro it’s probably the former. His is a world of informed buffoonery, resourceful infantility and playfulness – the only adversary here is death, and you don’t want to trifle with that. The film’s uncomfortably seductive soundtrack is the work of the Father Murphy duo.
In a primitive land, a sexually frustrated hominid breaks the food chain by giving in to the temptation of murdering innocents and self-destructive fun without consequences.
A curious Fox and Pigeon find themselves shelved in a library, where they meet new friends, explore exciting storybook worlds, and learn the joys of being themselves along the way.