A baby sea turtle needs to reach the ocean. To achieve that, she has to overcome lots of obstacles and predators on her way.
A huge egg washes up near the stream where two small forest spirits live. A Duckling comes out and they decide to go on an adventure to bring him back to his mother.
In this autobiographical story, a young woman’s visit to her late grandmother's home uncovers hidden pieces of her past, revealing a life far richer and more complex than the hardships that marked her later years.
In the void of night, a hungry creature looks for food and perpetuates an everyday cycle.
Haunted House is a blurry dream of somewhere you used to know every inch of, a trail of breadcrumbs through family ghost stories and slowly-decomposing home videos. A dark night, a childhood home, and something caught half-visible in the periphery of your vision. Through hand-made lace, rotoscoped archival footage, and mixed-media collage, the piece burrows deep into cycles of grief, longing, and the distorting hand of time.
The sky is vast, the wilderness is boundless While the lonely maple tree stands at the corner of the world It bears thousands of seeds,Transforming into butterflies Flirting and dancing over the water bubbles They fall in love
Like each year, the swifts are coming back to their homes in the sleeping districts. This time they don't find any humans. The space is filled with spirits.
Mariposa's world begins to unravel around her when she finds a mysterious butterfly.
An anxious young woman tries to break out of her shell by going to a party but her fears are lurking beneath the surface.
This work is an animation that poetically explores the cycle of life in which various beings coexist. The video is an irregular sequence of landscapes and fragments of life. At the beginning, we see a person (A) going about his daily routine on a secluded hillside. Spending time with his dog, A moves to new places and passes through different landscapes and people. The camera reflects on the daily lives of the other people that the individual meets, showing the landscapes that permeate their lives. The point of view then expands, and we quickly see landscapes, cultures, and emotions from all corners of the globe. In the final scene, all these landscapes converge on a single point, the earth, and spread out like a wave, conveying a message of existence, cycles, and eternity to the audience.
In the Mongolian wilds, a hunter's heir, With his father, a bond so rare. Kindness within, 'midst nature's might, A tale of love, in the wild's wild fight.
Jimmy G. Fungus is a young mushroom stuck in the lowest pit of existence: the Mushpit, a place where everyone he loved met their demise, full of creeps, and where the light never reaches. After another night of heavy drinking in a bar, a stranger calls him out on his cowardice and the dream he gave up on, due to the loss of a dear friend and his grief. This confrontation hits jimmy deeply, triggering a trippy existential crisis where he meet his deceased friend telling him to realize his dream. Once awaken from this mental journey, Jimmy decides to leave the mushpit to pursue his dream of reaching the surface and seeing the flowers there.
An 80’s fast food safety training video that gets aliens ready for their first day on the job, where each deadly task prepares the worker for the mortal dangers of the workplace, with the final task being to defeat the monster in the fridge.
Jacque, a diligent bellboy of the extravagant Hotel L’infini, is caught red-handed for possible murder by a brooding detective who chases him through the hotel.
A robot chef lives his entire life inside a fast food vending machine, where his sole job is to microwave hamburgers. The only thing keeping him sane is his dream of becoming a real cook.
A shadow monster influences Kye, a college student, to kill himself. Knowing that it is not the boy's time yet, a Grim Reaper fights off the monster and saves him.
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