Mangy dogs band together into packs, mark their territory, and recarve someone else’s paths to fit their paws – and old grouch Kolya hates them for it. So he decides to build a Fog Machine that will envelop all the land in white and make the dogs lose each other in the whiteness. An obedient boy called Osya is helping him with his plan. When the machine is almost ready, the dogs attack Kolya, and while he is lying on the ground half-dead, they show Osya their wondrous world. The boy decides to help the dogs save their land from the fog, but neither his desire nor his effort is enough. Kolka gets the upper hand, and the dogs’ land disappears into the fog forever.
In a regulated system, different figures live isolated from each other in their boxes. They draw, cut, fold and stack the paper boxes on top of each other. As the stacks get higher and higher and collapse, the figures find each other and discover life together.
Created in the form of a palimpsest between mythical references and personal mythology, Persephone addresses mother-daughter transmission. This short-film meet theatre and visual arts. Actresses, puppets, masks and objects are animated with live-action and animation hybrid.
Fotorevolte tells of the moment when the world's available storage capacity is exhausted. All digitally stored photographs and films come to life. People are displaced from their reality by photos of sights and celebrities, logos and film characters. A bizarre competition unfolds between cleaning up and the manifestation of ever new images, until the boundary between the real and virtual world turns completely blurred. When finally the Internet overflows, the world sinks into a mishmash of pixels. In Fotorevolte, the question of the influence of always available real and fictional images on the world is turned upside down and taken ad absurdum. The animated film combines around 1000 drawings, photos, graphics and videos, whose different visual languages fight for space, overlap and mix. In line with this approach, music and sounds were created by transforming the film images with a light-sound synthesizer. There is also a version suitable only for adults: https://vimeo.com/998264469 Password: fotorevolte
In the futuristic city of Nouveau San Francisco, a hard-boiled hero "the Viper" and his rage fuelled pet partner "Kitty", will attempt to stop an egomaniacal industrialist "the Jackal" from an evil plan to create a pollution apocalypse. Starring: Frank Marrs - (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts) & Nicholas Savard L'Herbier- As our unheroic hero, The Viper Martin Watier - (Polytechnique: Jean-François) - As our maniacal villain, The Jackal
LIFTED follows Hugo, a reserved man whose routine life takes a surreal turn during a simple elevator ride. Thrust into fantastical realms, he faces challenges that awaken his courage and transform his outlook. Returning as a changed man, he reconnects with Claire, a young woman whose lost earring sparked his extraordinary journey.
A stranger tells a most improper story.
This is a story I wrote when I was 8, then animated 30 years later. And still we're left wondering.. who is the murderer?
Cloud formations converge and transform into shapes of two transient dancers in the sky. The beautifully surreal illusion displays the ephemeral nature of relationships and life.
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