Serving as the episode 0 of the 50th anniversary Super Sentai Series, No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger, this short film features the record of the Super Sentai's final battle in the event called "Universe War".
I live in Saarland. The place is surrounded by forests and I find it very beautiful and exotic. Almost like a Bob Ross painting. But while hiking I came across a bunker and realized that there were beasts lurking behind the happy trees. A short essay film about war and forest.
An experimental animated short film that explores the relationship between humans and nature. Shot in December 2023 to support the ongoing battle to ban whaling in Iceland, the film takes viewers to spontaneous locations around Reykjavik and poses the question: can humanity find a more harmonious rhythm with nature?
In A Metamorphosis, Lin Htet Aung transforms the uncanny and absurd experiences of what it is like to grow up with state television propaganda into a kind of counter-broadcast, redefining the compositions and narratives that defined them. This distorted, eerie broadcast explores the daily experiences of living in a dictatorship and the imagery you get accustomed to as a child, accompanied by a lullaby that will haunt you afterwards: Yee, lé-lé! Yee, lé-lé-
Bisma and his colleague got caught in a last minute overtime. In a dark office late at night, work stress, caffeine, and unfilled stomach slowly turns them into a monstrous creature
The film examines the divine female figure in West African sculpture through an exploration of the director/animator’s Bété ancestry, drawing upon the spiritual iconography of the Bété people and other tribal groups on the Ivory Coast.
After remembering a family-woven island tale, young Ailsa ventures into a dreamlike world, in search of her absent father and a way to heal their hearts.
Dilution is an experimental short film that explores the transit between resistance and (di)ssolution, between holding and releasing and a path towards obsessive repetition. They are layers, exposed pores, matter that oscillates between remaining or disappearing. The sound is not a background, but a puncture: friction, tearing, water that drags what still persists. A sensorial testimony of what refuses to vanish completely.
When Julie, a French-Korean teenager, arrives at her family home in Korea, she tries to find her place in her father's family despite the language barrier.
"Hush Now." takes an intimate look at the world's leaders in their everyday moments, asking what's on their minds when the world is in mourning, what they think about when they're alone, in their moments of relaxation, or what they dream about during their naps.
"Red Terror" visual picks up where "Open Hearts" leaves off. The Weeknd is portrayed as a mouthless child who appears to be chased by monsters through an ominous forest as he tries to shed his original form.
Rooted in wetlands, páramos and centennial forests at the verge of disappearing, memories and a speculated future collide. 500 years of exploitation, exile and resilience are nourished by a collective pain and a desire to crack through it all.
Images from 2000s music videos are transferred onto the film strip, torn and abstracted until the visuals convulse and shift—a tactile, poetic exploration of materiality, memory, and medium.
Masks, bananas, dreamlike landscapes and apes. On a night like many others, a sleepless neighbour discovers suddenly that there is a whole shocking planet upstairs. Filmmaker Alexandre Sousa, in an agile animation with an amusing and absurd tone, reflects on the isolation in our society, on the creation of imaginary spaces alienated from the grey outside world, about dreams and dreamed realities.