Deepworld Serenade is a 3D animation with an AI-generated soundtrack, set in an underwater sanctuary built by humans after an asteroid wiped out the surface world. Within this refuge, glass-headed hybrid figures gather in surreal landscapes, lounging as catastrophe unfolds nearby. The work reflects on apathy in the face of disaster, where distraction and spectacle replace urgency and care.
A geometric shape chases a blob around an underground complex.
Perspective is an abstract animated short set within shifting two-dimensional spaces built through perspective and changing eye levels. Abstract geometric forms move like characters, each defined by a distinct direction, rhythm, and way of moving. These movement patterns unfold through repetition and variation, echoing one another like melodic phrases in a song. Inspired by Paul Klee’s idea that “a line is a dot that went for a walk,” the film explores how meaning emerges through motion and perception.
Jason Zumpano’s Dig, a hand drawn digitally animated narrative stripped free of embellishments, meditates on modes of recovery. With a Lambda string synth tightening around an existential moment, a lone jean-jacketed and scruffy figure of ambivalence stands in the middle of the desert. An Ennio Morricone-inflected soundscape subtly advances this lost character’s stumbling into whatever lies ahead. A sonic archivist of the soul’s lesser known corners, Zumpano’s fourth short film presents a psycho-social foray into minimalism and masculinity’s ambiguities.
An immersive visual poem about a journey within a blank page. Is a blank page ever really empty? Where does an artwork begin or end? Are you the one directing creative flow or is it leading you? One may feel a creative impulse, but confronting daunting emptiness as a point of departure is inevitable. The only thing left to do is to make the first step, first dot, line or movement and suddenly the page transforms into something completely else and the multitudes it contains take up life on its own.
An animated suite in five movements that transforms urban decay and personal mourning into a visual refuge. Through the singularity of the small, and exploring the urban skin through the ephemeral traces of Valencia's street art, Microcosmos is an experimental documentary animation that immerses us in the collection of existence.
Rebirth reinterprets the Romanian spring fertility ritual Băbăluda, traditionally performed in a village by young men in costumes of bark and branches. The film follows the character of Măriuța, the only female figure in the group, questioning the relevance of myth and ritual in a contemporary world shaped by technological acceleration and environmental collapse. Suspended in a digital void between memory and the present, Măriuța goes beyond her prescribed role. By performing a ritual of purification, inspired by a Romanian spell (descântec), she initiates a new cycle of life, rebalancing the relation between humans and nature.
An experimental documentary that reveals both the facts and fantasies of the history of pregnancy tests from the 1930s-60s which relied on the use of live frogs and rabbits. These pregnancy tests changed the world: they expanded our understanding of hormones, gave women more reproductive choice, and caused ecological crisis- decimating certain amphibian populations.
A rapidly associative animated film about life inside a neurodivergent mind: too many ideas, too little rest. It explores the inner noise of a filmmaker who wants everything at once – and almost breaks under it.
Before our very eyes a strange human-bird hybrid undergoes constant transformation to cope with the omnipresent tensions of economical, ideological, military, and climatic threats.
Using Malaysia’s national flower, the big red flower (the red hibiscus), alongside non-native plants in Taiwan as characters, this collage illustrates the experience of Malaysian Chinese living in Taiwan. Trapped between dual identities and the language of others, they search for self-definition and a sense of belonging. Through the perspective of plants, the work reflects personal life experiences, with the hope of breaking down the boundaries between individual, national, and identity definitions.
The sun completing its journey from rise to set. This is a screen-printed animation created by: making costumes and filming the initial concept; cutting the footage together; laying out the frames on letter-sized grids and printing transparencies; burning the transparencies onto a 3 x 4 foot screen; and screen printing them onto large-format paper. Every frame of an animation was printed simultaneously. Then came the task of cutting each "page" out of the 3x4 ft sheet, scanning, and editing each frame into the finalized film.
The “blind spot” generally refers to parts of the self that are not perceived by a person. In social terms, it can refer to a systemic void or to individual issues that have not received sufficient attention. In “the blackness of the blind spot”, black symbolizes the potential that individual processing could unfold or the social enrichment of processing “blind spots”.
Desire, memory, and hope swirl elusively in a lingering dance of colorful fragments.
Encoded Instinct is an experimental meditation on how generative AI systems can extrapolate from organic beginnings and articulate a visual dialectic between living systems and machine processes. This piece reflects on contemporary questions about agency and hybridity in AI artmaking: where does instinct end and computation begin? Through the recursive interplay between source photography and generative animation, Encoded Instinct offers a contemplative and visually immersive exploration of post-natural form and emergent logic.
Kapō Maʻi Lele, (Kapo And Her Flying Lady Parts) is a a visually stunning, animated take on a traditional Hawaiian tale (moʻolelo). The film offers a fresh and humorous rendition of the story of how Kohelepele (Koko Head) came to exist. Told in ‘Ōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian) and Pidgin English, Kapo Maʻi Lele (Kapo And Her Flying Lady Parts) follows the exploits of arrogant, playboy demigod, Kamapuaʻa as he lustfully pursues Pele, the powerful and alluring Volcano Goddess. During the encounter, Peleʻs magical sister, Kapo, sends her flying vagina from Maui to Hawaii Island to distract Kamapuaʻa from Pele. He takes the bait and an airborne chase ensues in which the result is an explosive new crater, Kohelepelepe, on the island of ‘Oahu.
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