On Chinese New Year's Eve in 2000, at the railway station in Qingxian County, people carrying bags, waiting for the train to go home. At this moment, A boy standing among the crowd with his ticket shouted for permission to enter the station.
“Malloe” is a short story about a family of intergalactic travelers who seek to discover new species of aliens. Mum and Dad go out every day in hope of finding alien life while the kids, Tina and Neil, stay close to their house. When one hungry alien is drawn to the delicious sugar of marshmallows, Tina’s innocent curiosity might be the key to gaining the trust of the aliens.
In “A Story of Strange Food”, there is a restaurant where the kitchen utensils are alive. The kitchen utensils work hard and conscientiously for the capitalist boss, but in the end, they are crushed and abandoned. Finally, the red giant punished the guilty shopkeeper and saved the oppressed kitchenware.
What kind of fantasies are occupying your mind when you're in a long queue and it's 6 minutes before store's closing time, but you really-really crave the bottle in your hands?
Socks and Squimmy are two peanut farmers living the easy life. One night, while out star-gazing, they spot a UFO crash into the nearby forest. They investigate to find a space-pod with a little alien inside. They bring the little alien home, thinking they have found a new friend, who makes himself very comfortable in Socks and Squimmy's house.
In the old soviet building a dog and his owner got separated by the shaky elevator and the dog ended up in the dangerous situation, it is now for the owner to stay calm and save his friend... or is it all the way around?
This film uses charcoal and watercolor to abstractly visualize the concept of “pierce”. In an abstract way, the lines and dots form various shapes with condensed blocks of shading. Adding the sound of streaming, aircraft taking off, science fiction, and deep bass, the film aims to reach a state of audio and visual concordance.
A boy and his mum lived in a narrow subdivided flat in Hong Kong. One day his mum brought back a fish tank and pet fish to answer the boy’s previous pet wish. But gradually they found the condition of these pet fish was a mirror of themselves…
An incident of an inconvenient attack at a parking lot. A physical representation of internal experience of an unexpected panic attack in the most mundane event of the day: getting to your car.
A man lives with his daughter in a house by the sea. The old man, a former fisherman, teaches his daughter the story and the role of the stars, based on the legends that have been passed down to him. Each evening they go on the dune to contemplate the sky and watch the stars dancing. But one day, a strange nebula comes and isolates the old man who then takes off to reach the stars.
While bringing mail to Saint Peter in Purgatory, Emil, a young postman, accidentally sends the wrong person to heaven. He goes to find and bring him back and avoid Saint Peter’s wrath.
In recent years, Japanese office workers put forward a new word “social animal” for self mockery. Because they feel like animals at work, they are just being used as tools, repeating things that are not important day after day without a soul. This is a thought-provoking thing. Why do we get emptiness and pressure from our hard work? “Line 0” is an attempt to simulate human beings as various tools in life in the form of real person posing. It shows a very regular and boring way of work, just like an industrial production line, which leads a repetitive and monotonous life every day, that just leaves this sense of emptiness.
A firekeeper's role is the bridge between the living and the dead. A traditionally animated film set in 1980s Singapore, this story follows the firekeeper's day-to-day job in stamping letters to be sent by locals to their loved ones by burning it in a special fire. It then focuses on his interaction with a sullen, young boy who visits every evening. When the boy misses a chance to send a letter, a confrontation ensues, resulting in a bittersweet discovery of the boy's yearning wish.
Mathieu, an intern working for the grim reaper, must take a life to validate his internship. He is accompanied in this task by a multifunction scythe named Faustine. Who, despite her goodwill, is more of a nuisance than a helping hand for Mathieu.
“Fish Out Of Water” is a short experimental animated movie. When the norms, traditions, customs and culture of the society are taken as the basis, there are individuals outside of them, they cannot adapt to the existing order and are labeled “misfit”. This is exactly the subject of this animation. “Fish Out Of Water”, whose main character is Osto, presents the society that caused the character's internal and external conflicts and the lost individual himself.