William is a middle-aged writer who lives alone in a small, untidy house and can't settle down doing what he loves. Confused and distressed, he flirts with death. With the rope around his neck, about to jump off a chair, the man looks around at his house and sees little “magical” objects that remind him of his past and passions, thus making a decision.
A reflective short film that recounts life alone during the pandemic and how what was once our daily life now seems to belong to an alien planet. Left adrift for almost a year due to quarantines, many saw their daily lives radically changed. For those who had to live this time alone, life became an endless monologue. What used to be day-to-day became something distant and strange. At the same time, home activities were now the only escape. Bars, cinemas, trips, urban transport... all of this became a world isolated by a void thousands of kilometres away. All of this became our new normal, a distant outside world and a strange inside world, a new world, an alien world.
Set several decades in the future, The Interrogation is a cat-and-mouse game between a corporate media executive performing a “loyalty test” and a savvy news director harboring a potentially game-changing secret. The Interrogation explores a mind-bending and often-psychedelic world where an all-powerful media company sets all the rules and demands religious-like devotion from its employees. In just 6 minutes, this short animation takes the audience on an unexpected ride full of twists and turns. Based on the award-winning The Cloaked Realm Universe created by Peter Issac Alexander and Marisa L. Cohen, The Interrogation features hand-drawn animation, an original score by John Baxter, and sound design by Dara Crawford.
"Locked Doors" is about a man stuck on a broken-down spaceship waiting for rescue. He has no idea what caused the wreck. His whole crew has mysteriously vanished, the ship has been overrun by strange vegetation, and he is slowly losing his mind. The one thing that's keeping the man alive is his curiosity about what may lie behind the one and only locked door aboard the ship...
An animated documentary about the relevance of Shakespeare's classical works for digital natives in Singapore: Live action and animation combined. The film was created in close collaboration with the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon.
A slow, thoughtful and meditative animation with no spoken word by the internationally renowned sculptor Rachel Ara. The film uses leaves as a metaphor for the cycles and rhythms of life. The rake and/or leaf blower symbolise our chosen approach. The film asks us to slow down. It is a time to think for ourselves and reflect on women’s roles, the environment and our approach to life
This film confronts the cultural backdrop of the Chinese taboo that forbids dialogue about poverty or financial want. In this tale of love, learning, enlightenment, creativity and growth, two children discover a way to give a Mother's Day gift beyond the value of money.
This mini-opera, animated in charcoal, reimagines Georges Bizet’s Carmen and its enduring relevance to issues of sexuality and conflict. In this new work, Carmen is stripped of her usual associations, including gender, race, place and time, leaving only a universal human figure and Bizet’s oiseau rebelle (rebel bird), two alter egos competing for love. This struggle leads to rebirth and a new future.