At the mercy of the dentist's chair, the protagonist cannot escape the confrontation with pain and the dregs of the miserable human condition. To distract himself, he takes refuge in a fantasised story of fishermen and the sea.
"Cine Club UACh" celebrates 60 years with an animated short film that rescues its history. Always located on the Isla Teja Campus of the Universidad Austral de Chile (Austral University of Chile), the Cine Club UACh celebrates 60 years of history, a trajectory marked by an indisputable ability to adapt to historical, political, generational and reproduction format changes, which currently consolidates it as the oldest Cinema Club in continuous operation in the country.
Ok silence was born of the desire to create a sensitive animation inspired by the codes of direct cinema. With this in mind, the artist carried her tape recorder around with her for six months, capturing the noises and conversations that form the soundtrack of her own life. In so doing, the film takes on the form of an autofiction, or even an experimental diary.
Julia, who is 7, thinks she came to Łódź on holiday only, but in fact she lives with her family imprisoned in the ghetto. Her grandfather tries to explain the world to her comparing it to the story of Minotaur. A subtle combination of dramatic World War II events with Greek mythology.
To the surprise of the village residents, all of a sudden, the stone figure of Virgin Mary starts moving, leaves the chapel and begins to walk ahead. Soon, it is joined by other animated sculptures. Miracles do happen and they fascinate the most a little boneless girl.
What would the world be like without humans? Closed cafés, loungers with no one to sit on them and empty parking lots may indicate an approaching apocalypse. It seems as if there is no life in this sterile world, but is it true? Adaptation of a poem by Sara Teasdale ‘There will come soft rains’ written in 1918.
‘Hands up, it’s a holdup!’ – is what two women who decided to rob a bank could have shouted. But they took the money without uttering a word, got into a convertible and darted away. This story begins like an enhanced version of ‘Thelma and Louise’; however, it progresses towards a completely different, unexpected finale.
An intimate take on the emotions related to awaiting a baby and the grief after the infant’s loss. The pain accompanying the parents was depicted by means of visual symbols and metaphors. An economical, surreal story about a personal tragedy which, at the same time, is a remarkably beautiful observation of the love between two people who are trying to overcome a trauma together.
A woman is afraid of a big black bird she keeps in her flat locked in a cage. She decides to take it to the Office of Weights and Measures to have it measured. Hovering over the border between the absurd and grotesque, the animation shows our hidden fears, loneliness and cages we create for ourselves.
They planned to spend only three months in Germany. Unexpectedly, the imposition of martial law forced the mother and the daughter to change their plans. A nostalgic story about loneliness, longing and unpredictability around which the audience is guided by a little girl and Barnaby the bear.
The film “Outside” tells the story of domestic violence happening every day behind closed doors. Our heroine deals with violence in her own way. The film was inspired by an article about this in a German newspaper, titled "The Numbers Are Scary".
'Girls should not have opinions. Higher education is useless if you have no husband. If you have a daughter, she will cook you a meal or give you medication. A son will protect you and a daughter will feed you.' Don’t they both deserve to live? The animation touches upon a difficult and hidden subject – sex-selective abortions performed in Montenegro. It employs stereotypical opinions on the two genders, fragments of conversations and singing illustrated with images derived from Balkan tradition. Intertwining scenes of individual stages of human life, from birth to death, emphasize the power of patriarchy, so well-engrained in the system.
The mouflon, wild sheep with beautiful curved antlers, were brought to the island as an attraction. Nevertheless, they should not be admired but killed – to add variety to the pursuit of game or control the species numbers on the island. One animal becomes separated from the herd – will it manage to survive? Based on real events, the animation combines the symbolic images of the animal’s escape with the drastic photographs documenting the harm done to the species in Tenerife. The atmosphere of fear and anxiety is achieved by means of pulsating music and black and white colours.
Genius Loci is a short film on its own, but also a prelude to Anatomy Lessons. It takes place in northern Italy shortly before the end of the cholera epidemic of 1865 - 1867. In a state of restlessness and fatalism given by isolation and by the epidemic, a mysterious scholar wonders where the true seat of the soul is.