Return, dir. Lindong Chen (China, 2023, 3’)
“If the fish in the stream are freer than the fish in the tank,
then the fish in the river are freer than the fish in the stream.
If the fish in the river are freer than the fish in the stream,
then the fish in the sea are freer than the fish in the river.
But if the fish in the sea are freer than the fish in the river,
where is the freest fish of all?”
This work is an animation created using materials such as slime and plastic paper, produced through stop-motion animation. It tells the story of the protagonist escaping from a pool and running away to the sea.
Disappearing Acts, dir. Sarah E. Jenkins (USA, 2022, 4’)
Darkness encroaches upon a loggy landscape of animated tricks and turns.
Beneath, dir. Beth Walker (UK, 2022, 4’)
A meditation on growth, connection, and symbiosis, inspired by the entangled lives of fungi.
Recent years have seen a surge of research and collective curiosity around fungi. Particularly striking is the notion of the ‘wood wide web’ — the ability of fungi to connect plants and trees in complex underground networks.
Beneath is inspired by the behaviors of fungi, and wider themes of growth, connection, and symbiosis. Using experimental analog and digital techniques, the films take its audience into a hidden world where edges blur, connection is vital, and life thrives through togetherness.
artifacts of you, artifacts of me., dir. Brecht De Cock (Belgium, 2022, 9’)
Combining elegant animation, live action, and photogrammetry, this intensely personal film tackles with the universal topic of grief. Pushing the medium to its limit, the expressive nature of animation and its power to represent our most abstract feelings is brought to the fore. A touching film that reinvents itself at every step, and surprises with images that trigger mind and imagination.
Silent chirping of invisible Digits, dir. Vera Sebert (Austria, 2023, 10’)
Like a single film frame, insects flash for the fraction of a second, only to immediately withdraw from the field of vision again. In between their flickering body fragments, the film shows undefinable voids. What can be seen when familiar filters of vision and the narratives associated with them are missing?
Sit Down, Don’t Touch Anything, dir. Frederic Siegel (Switzerland, 2022, 5’)
A face is born out of chaos. It struggles to exist. It struggles to find its purpose. It struggles to sit on a chair. In fact, it struggles with many things. But thank God, it’s trying. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Motus, dir. Nelson Fernandes (Portugal, 2023, 4’)
Motus: a body in motion. A stop-motion animation where conception, degradation and regeneration cohabit in a unique way. A creation on a metal sheet using ethanol as the raw material.
Hungry Ghost, dir. Guido Devadder (Belgium, 2022, 7’)
The feelings of both loss and desire are among the first and strongest emotions we experience as human beings. Desire is what keeps us alive, propagates us, but also destroys us. ‘Hungry Ghost’ is a poetic journey into the hazy netherworld of human craving, visualized through looping zoetrope animations.
they rise, these sponge fortresses, dir. Guillaume Vallée (Canada, 2022, 7’)
The cameraless animated short ”they rise, these sponge fortresses” is made from a 35 mm trailer of the feature film ”Water Lilies” (2007) by Céline Sciamma. Experimental filmmaker Guillaume Vallée explores and questions his sensory memory as a teenager, partially lost. This process of resuscitating buried experiences and forgotten memories is carried by the materiality of 35 mm film, the nature of the images filmed and the interventions of the filmmaker painting and scratching the film emulsion directly. In this reverse journey, the memory-images, the affects reveal their plasticity, their imperfections, their chaos, their sensuality, and their significance. The soundtrack is by Stephanie Castonguay and the texts by author Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay.
Juice, dir. Mona Keil (Germany, 2022, 5’)
Meaty creatures must learn to share their juicy world with the pesky little bugs, before they run dry.
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