When desire is stronger than physical strength, and the consequences are immeasurable, we are left with a radical journey of an elderly person who wants to skate in order to feel alive again.
Does a creaking rocking chair make you feel uneasy or totally relaxed? In this crafty parable by animator Luca Dipierro it’s probably the former. His is a world of informed buffoonery, resourceful infantility and playfulness – the only adversary here is death, and you don’t want to trifle with that. The film’s uncomfortably seductive soundtrack is the work of the Father Murphy duo.
In a primitive land, a sexually frustrated hominid breaks the food chain by giving in to the temptation of murdering innocents and self-destructive fun without consequences.
A curious Fox and Pigeon find themselves shelved in a library, where they meet new friends, explore exciting storybook worlds, and learn the joys of being themselves along the way.
An animated short film about asexuality--an orientation generally defined by a lack of sexual attraction, regardless of gender. The narrative explores the common asexual experience of feeling different than most of the population, and the isolation, confusion, and self-loathing that difference can create. However, the story also emphasizes the self-love and joy that can come from recognition of one's asexuality and the asexual community, and how it's possible to embrace the orientation by viewing it in a different light.
Ever since coming across the world of boy’s rhythmic gymnastics during the last summer of junior-high, Shotaro Futaba has become fascinated with the sport. So when he enters Soshokuan Private High School, known as Ao High for short, he heads to the boy’s rhythmic gymnastics club, where he meets unique seniors and the ace of the team, Ryoya Misato. The members of the club each have their own passions, but they’ve put it all on the line with a single goal in mind. Now the next stage in their journey has arrived: the inter-high competition!
Through metaphor and visual abstraction, No More is an experimental video about love, loss and memories of years long gone. The animated imagery is created by running original photographs and xerography through an AI application. The song is by David Lynch’s music collaborator Dean Hurley.
Begun in 2015 and completed in 2022, Five Days Till Tomorrow evokes a timeless oneiric twilight, depicting a menagerie of fantasy comic book characters as they sleep, loll, and patiently inhabit a landscape of 1970s futuristic architecture waiting for the extended night—described in the title—to come to its end.
In a galaxy far, far away, a village idiot and his reluctant buddy embark on a foolhardy quest to rescue a workplace crush before she falls into enemy hands.
A garbage-collecting robot on two wheels rolls through the city streets at night. It is controlled by an elderly woman who, during her dull work, is reminded of her youthful ease by a unexpected encounter.