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.
In the future, technology and mankind are fused together. The world’s largest corporation, “Nirvana Corporation”, implants a “Nirvana ID” into newborns that not only serve convenience functions such as identification and payment but also preserve every person’s complete life record. Set in the distant future, lazy and selfish Pigsy embarks on a journey of deceit and swindling in an effort to attain a better life, only to find out that true happiness is closer than you think.
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.
Through clever manipulations of collage, drawings, and prints, Violet translates 3D life into the 2D. Photos taken on toy cameras and iPhones are printed out of broken printers then taped, glued, and stitched together, adorned with stickers and compiled in decaying 1920s French composition books that she dutifully repairs and reuses.
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.
The story follows Paprika, an American exchange student on a "homestay" in Japan and her friend, Juicy, who have to deal with the arrival of Paprika's obnoxious cousin, Chibiham. Chibiham is determined to have a good time while visiting Japan, but she's oblivious to cultural differences and runs roughshod over the locals - complaining about the food, picking fights with store clerks, and otherwise making a nuisance of herself. Will Juicy's mother be able to set Chibiham straight?