A gifted musician's pursuit of fame traps him in the audience's demands—until a broken violin forces him to choose between hollow applause and true artistic freedom.
Avoiding responsibilities, men run to the ice cream van. Meanwhile women scream. But the daily routine pattern breaks because the Old Lady dies. Fortunately the Priest finds a fish. … happy end.
In a scorching hot desert, Betty, a young robot still grieving her kind, discovers a miraculous flower. To protect her, Betty will have to face the elements and her own attachments to the past...
Lewis, a young deliveryman, must deliver a small pink package to a massive, intimidating cabin. When it’s stolen inside by Castagne, the pet beaver, he sneaks in to retrieve it.
Follwing the murder of his spouse, Don Sorrentino hosts a dinner with his henchman Alberto and Mirabella, the latter's wife. The events take a turn when Angelo, the Don's son, murders his own father and goes on a manhunt after the couple.
Warp and Weft is an animated documentary short about traditional textile crafts. A love letter to the act of hand-making, traditional craft practices, and the people who love them. Stemming from the fear of these artforms slipping away in a society that no longer values the human labour behind them.
A surreal mythology following the journey of a firstborn child.
A story of two girls, told through the making of a bowl of ramen.
In a world of fantasy and magic not entirely unlike our own, there stands a super store called MagiMart, wherein a sacrificial goat munches idly on hay. Hilarity ensues.
After years of use, a small Christmas train is thrown away and forgotten. Can this discarded toy find new meaning through transformation?
Among a mystical forest of ice and snow, a hunter reaps the consequences of what he sows.
For this series, students created animated creatures using locations within the art building for their habitats.
In the middle of nowhere, Rufi, an old woman whose only companion is a taxidermy dog, devotes her days to online gambling and ignoring the outside world. Her misfortune? Bob, her hippie neighbour, who’s turned his motorhome into a private jungle, throws apples with the aim of a half-blind sniper, and greets others while wearing so little that even a cactus would be traumatized. Between invasive plants, weird incense, and homicidal fruit, Rufi’s quiet life starts to become… strangely entertaining.
“Shattered” is a short film that follows the breaking of a characters normality . Set in frail porcelain, one’s monochrome view is all challenged, face to face with a point of no return. The short was inspired by someone’s hypothetical realization that their once perception of identity and reality was nothing but an illusion, leaving them exposed to the infinite unknown of their new existence. What once was predictable is out of control surrounded by shatters of porcelain.
Deep in the forest, Ash, a young beaver with fangs, struggles with his identity. He watches his mother stripping bark off a log like most beavers do naturally. He tries to do the same but his sharp teeth only get stuck. Disappointed, he decides to watch TV to distract himself. After flipping through channels, he comes across Nosferatu and realises that they have similar teeth! Could he be a vampire? He sets out to test his new theory.
Lemonia is the owner of the most popular bakery in town, but the genius behind her most sought-after goods is not her, but her new employee, Margarita. Margarita's repertoire includes many types of desserts, the most renowned being her hyperrealistic cakes made to look nothing like sweets. They imitate cuts of meat, but imitation can only go so far...
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