In this insect equivalent of a theatrical fine-dining experience, termite butchers, with musical accompaniment of a termite pianist, perform a ritualistic slaughter on a piece of power cable. The fact that their climate crisis-induced dietary choice also causes power outages in human cities is the proverbial cherry on the cable. A delightfully strange and pleasantly icky spectacle that combines costume play and animation. Eat up!
An extraterrestrial duo crosses the universe to share technological insights with less brilliant minds. On one peculiar planet, things don't quite go as planned.
Millie buys some new boots at lunchtime and wears them back to the office - but they are too tight - and now she's worn them! Why did she buy them? her best friend June asks helpfully..... She nervously imagines what the assistant will say when she takes them back and how she will have an answer for everything ...
Who really benefits from technological progress? In Silent Engine, Korean interdisciplinary artist Kahee Jeong uses image and sound to examine the growing digital divide and the exclusivity of our technological future, revealing its impact on society.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, 23 million American households adopted pets, reflecting the growing urge for animal companions. The evolving, yet complex bond between humans and animals lies at the core of Artist in Focus Matthew Lax’s AN ANIMATED DOG READS JOHN BERGER, HARAWAY, AND KAFKA which explores the complexities of human-dog relationships through cultural and philosophical lenses.
Urzelina is a half-hearted level crossing attendant. In the middle of the day, she drinks a cup of half milk, half coffee and eats half a piece of toast. Her days are also spent halfway between the past and the present, working on the railway line. One day, something different happens in her routine, forcing her to perform a task. It is this change that unlocks her movements, even though they are no longer necessary. Urzelina is trapped in what she no longer has.
A football team warms up for the World Cup final, a golfer gets ready to take his first shot, and a rally duo sets off on a test drive, while their audiences watch in eager anticipation. The air is tense, a storm is brewing, but all eyes remain fixated on the match. With masterfully manipulated footage from FIFA 23, PGA Tour 2k21, and DiRT Rally 2.0, Total Refusal (Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein) lays bare the rules of the game.
Peter Larsson’s Keyhole Conversation draws the eye down to the small gate of the camera. From there, through quivering and percussive forms of direct and stop-motion animation, the eye begins to experience the scale of an image anew. At times segueing into a flicker, but maintaining a charmed form of attention to the marks of pencils and the channels dredged in emulsion by a paintbrush, all to a curious soundtrack of pulses and bleeps.
An extroverted, cheerful, dreamer, Rosetta was raised in the “Traveling Circus of Pitibiribas”. From a very young age, she dreamed of following her parents' profession and become a circus clown, but when offered the opportunity to perform in public for the first time, she gets nervous and gets her number wrong. Consumed with the feeling of failure, she runs away before she could fulfill her dream
High school student Akira Mizutane, whose mother is a genius scientist, spends his days trying to follow in his mother's footsteps. However, he feels that he has reached a dead end in his research and becomes depressed, thinking that he doesn't have the talent his mother has. One day, Akira is advised by a friend that a man can become more powerful by having a girlfriend, so he creates an artificial human girlfriend, "No. 0".
Realistic CG documentary film focusing on prehistoric creatures of the Agate Fossil Beds during the Miocene, following Moropus and Daeodon, as they and other animals grow and adapt to the changing environment.
In a story that spans billions of years, a buoy and a satellite meet online long after humanity’s extinction. As they learn what life was like on Earth, they discover themselves and what it means to be alive and in love.
Latvia, 1949. Seventeen-year-old Pauline's safe and sunny youth gets shattered by the Soviet occupation forces as she's deported to Siberia. She now needs to focus her strengths to overcome the deprivation of food, exhausting work and torture, while trying to preserve her inner light and humanity in the face of evil.
Dima reluctantly moves with his family from the city to the village. His attitude towards nature changes forever when he meets a cheerful local girl named Alesya and a bison named Bublik. Together they set off into the heart of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha in search of the magical Tree of Wishes. But not only magic awaits them - the children encounter a gang of poachers who are mercilessly cutting down the ancient forest. Now the friends will have to not only find the Tree, but also save the pushcha from destruction.