The 1990s in Poland were a difficult time for an eight-year-old. Dark school corridors, gloomy housing estates. Grey. Desperation. The solution seems to be to escape to the colourful virtual world of computer games. But the catechist doesn’t approve of it…This original music video combines various techniques without disrupting the nostalgically gloomy, strange and almost terrifying atmosphere.
The film follows Irma and her weird neighbours during the final days before the world is supposed to end. This farcical story full of black humour is highly topical and shows us that it is possible to find friendship and understanding among all sorts of people.
Two friends, lovers, soulmates, a pair of two, searching for and ultimately finding each other. This pair travelling between worlds and changing forms is expressed through 15 styles of animation by 15 animators from around the world, including Niki Lindroth von Bahr.
A vision of Los Angeles from the perspective of a service industry worker is, in fact, a gloomy and towards the end also tragicomic story of this metropolis that doesn’t even try to hide its dark sides. This film was made at CalArts and Shaffner not only directed it, but also composed the score and engineered the sound.
The disturbing and surreal, traditionally animated film Flaws depicts the intransigence of the labour process in which people are trapped, confined, psychologically tortured and denied of any hope of a free life. The author uses an extraordinary animation technique – all of the stages of animation in a given sequence are drawn on a single piece of paper.
A time-lapse oil-painting animated film about an insomniac guy and what he dreams when he finally falls asleep. In addition to atypical animation techniques, this conceptually daring film also uses enhanced naturalistic sound, making the protagonist’s insomnia even more unbearable and the whole film more disturbing.
This abstract music video by a young Czech animator pleasantly visualises a song by (also young) Czech band, Ida the Young. To create the transforming images, the director used stop-motion animation of shapeable material. She creates various motifs by scratching into it and subsequently shaping it.
Compound animation loops filmed on a single canvas depict an immensely playful, colourful and abstract whirlwind of various particles perfectly harmonised with Bach’s excellent composition. This one-minute-long abstract film in which Josh Shaffner made good use of his experience with painting was made at CalArts in a programme for experimental animation.
This narrative music video with elements of fantasy was made for the catchy song ‘My Way’ by the Argentinian electro pop-rock band Siamés. Regina makes her way to the ritual of initiation into magic. Makeup, glitter and a blood pact define a new attitude in Regina, who is now ready for anything.
For this largely abstract music video, the experienced director of non-narrative films chose a piano composition. This music video is a dreamlike journey through cosmic landscapes, reflecting the themes of exploitation and transformation. While creating this music video in shades of blue, the director combined several animation techniques, both manual and computer-generated.
