Dodo
Dodo‘s father is a big blue bird. One day he flies away from the window, and hasn‘t come back. From then on, Dodo stops growing up.
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In a Time Warp
On a journey into the past and future, we encounter metamorphosing figures who live in endless loops.
The Last Bar
Kicked out on his 21st birthday and troubled by his inner demons, Melvin thinks of ending things. But right on the edge of a cliff he finds ‘The Last Bar’, a quirky place of misfits that came for all the same reasons. Sparked by talks and confrontation, his inner journey continues and he has to
The Waiting
Karen Lips is researcher and lives for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica to observe frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest for a short time and returns, the frogs are gone. All of them. Karen sets out to find them – and encounters a horrible truth.
Hooked on Illusions
In this hand-painted and drawn animation, a lonely old man fishes his dreams from the moon’s reflection. Looking inside them, he faces surreal and devastating nightmares until a spiritual discovery frees him from all illusions.
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Gaze
“Gaze” is an 6-minute-long animation produced by Tianshu Yang and Xiaoxuan Yu, which tells an everyday story about being gazed at and gazed at. Being stared at by others in public is often a bad experience for us. Animators react to being stared at by being uncomfortable or insecure, even though they know that not
Bye Bear
The 80s. A run-down motel. This is where a secret club of robot friends gather regularly to live out their dreams of being something else. They share a desire to be animals. On this night, it’s a goodbye party for one of them. This friend will change and leave for good.
O/S
Taking inspiration from 20th-century avant-garde experiments in graphical sound generation, the entire image in O/S functions as an optical soundtrack. Abstract motion becomes sound. What you hear is exactly what you see.
The scent of beetroot and the people who live forever
A scientist discovers the key to immortality: the scent of beetroot. Through its excessive use, an impenetrable magenta atmosphere soon envelops the entire planet. Immortality spreads like a virus: death is not only avoidable, but impossible. In real interviews, the inhabitants talk about their lives in this dystopian utopia.
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