Tala Madani (b. 1981, Tehran, Iran) makes paintings and animations whose indelible images bring together wide-ranging modes of critique, prompting reflection on gender and political authority, and questions of who and what gets represented in art.
Reni (6) likes to draw, sing, read. Reni starts 1st grade in a school where he doesn't know anyone and that causes him some fear. At school a girl approaches him and invites him to know something wonderful, and a journey of knowledge, enjoyment and friendship begins. Reni returns home, safe and happy.
In the kingdom of Stinky Scabiouse Village, King Emmanuel 1st ruled spreading terror until the peasant Maxe changed inadvertently the course of History.
Jeremy is jolted awake from a sex dream before it's finished and spends his day seeing sex everywhere he goes, an animation full of projected fantasies.
The people of a certain village were living their normal lives, but everything changed when a humanoid crocodile appeared at the village's only bus stop. The crocodile's name was Kuroko, and she had a special reason for coming to the bus stop: to make friends with humans.
White leads us through the indigenous plants of the Taranaki forest, Aotearoa (New Zealand), before the landscape dissolves in a mysterious whitewash. This ecosystem was largely destroyed in the 19th century when British colonial settlers cleared the forest to introduce dairy farming. Dean invites us to consider the effects of colonialism within human-made climate change. The animation loops and the forest returns, hopeful of renewal and showing the resistance of Mãori communities.