The fifth of five brand new video vignettes from Maywa Denki, a Japanese musical toy company and art initiative, using MIDI and animatronics to bring their popular Otamatone device and its assortment of associated kawaii noisemakers to life
Jacob grew up in the country with his grandparents and the quiet life there made him a happy child. But after he moved with his parents to a distant big city, his life changed completely. During his school years, he slowly realised that his ethnic background caused him many problems. He set a goal to move there one day, but the distance didn't help loosen the shackles on his mind. Jacob thought it was fine as long as he went far enough away, but he did not expect it to be at the cost of loneliness and the imprisonment of the soul.
After Rona cut contact with her family in Israel and moved to Japan, a surprising phone call from her father, informing her that her sister had been killed in an accident, changes her world. The film follows the most difficult 24 hours of her life, during which she tries to continue her daily routine as a member of a family for rent. As she denies her sister's death she begins to be a stranger that is trapped in her previous world.
Takeshi Murata and Christopher Rutledge continue their playful investigation of both the sharp-edged hyperrealism of commercial CGI and its oozing, anarchic breakdown in Larry, which propels its titular character—a droopy-eyed canine baller—through a series of increasingly bizarre and messy loops. Set to a soundtrack of maxed-out electronic rhythms, these vignettes form a ludic study in morphology and motion, as its pooch protagonist continually vaults, multiplies, gets buckets, and dissolves into digital goo.
Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald and Daisy are trick-or-treating when Donald spies the spookiest mansion he’s ever seen and assumes it has the best treats. After he convinces his friends to risk a visit, the owner, Witch Hazel, casts a spell that turns them into their costumes.
A woman wakes up in a dark and unrecognizable world, seemingly deserted. As she's trying to find her way out, she encounters grotesque-looking creatures made from lumps of flesh. Desperate to escape them, she begins to reexamine her fate.
Alfred had to flee his country because of the war. Without housing, he wanders, from rejection to rejection. One day he meets Sonia, who offers him a coffee…
In a world inhabitated by wild creatures an intelligent little fella wants to set himself apart from the rest by shaping his surroundings according to his ideas. However, he hasn't quite learned that messing with an ecosystem may come with unexpected consequences.
The series of shorts is based on Wada's "My Exercise" game about a curious boy who exercises with a dog. The boy encounters various creatures and tries to emulate them, with the valiant help of his dog.
The true story of a couple driving through an unpopulated region of the New Mexico desert when they see something unexplainable in the night sky. This amazing and hilarious story, told by the filmmakers’ parents, is lovingly animated by hand and brings to life a family legend that remained a secret for over 15 years.
PTA president Keli Pam Convoy is a model mother who does everything perfectly except for this one little thing: she accidentally sent a picture of her vagina to her manny (male nanny), who also happens to be an assistant teacher at her kids’ school. Can Keli come back from this disastrous faux pas? Will she be able to show her her face at the next bake sale?
Follow Alexis, a recent college graduate, on the most stressful day of her life: her dream-job interview. She’s armed with a resume, design portfolio, and two trusted companions: her inner critic and her inner child. Join Alexis on a journey through the origins of comfort food as she uncovers new depths within herself and finds the courage to be her own advocate, but will it be enough for her to land her dream job?
After constantly being beaten down by stress, depression, and his own exceedingly high expectations of himself, Alex plans to take his own life. But first, to find out if there’s anyone out there who would care enough to stop him, he puts a suicide note and a map into a paper airplane and tosses it into the city. When a complete stranger finds the paper airplane on a windowsill, it’s a race against time to stop Alex before it’s too late.