This film oscillating between anidoc, music video and film essay takes us to the delta of the Danube known for its beautiful nature. The author focuses on the area’s transformation from an industrial zone and uses its example to thematize the evolution of thinking and society in post-Communist Europe.
The Little Red Riding Hood of old was a good-natured and defenceless girl, but the wolf will certainly not get to the Little Red Riding Hood from this film. In this artistically distinct film, the hungry beast will eventually feast on things other than what we would have expected. This humorously altered (non)fairy-tale about visiting Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother is unforgettably narrated by Czech actor Ota Jirák.
A collection of audio-visual Haiku poems. Stop-motion poetry, oscillating between animation, documentary and experiment. Transforming Haiku poetry based on 5-7-5 syllables to the audio-visual form using a 5-7-5 second shot structure. The author made the film during a two-month art residency in Japan and uses typical local motifs, which he often puts in unusual contexts.
A co když je tu doma?! Autobiografický film o malé Vietnamce, která vyrůstá v českém maloměstě. Zatímco si zvyká na to být zároveň cizí i doma, její rodina směřuje k zásadnímu rozhodnutí. Kdo odjede - kdo zůstane? A čí domov je kde?
Did you know that the grizzly bear is not as solitary as people claim? You can learn this interesting fact, which you almost certainly didn't know, and four others from the world of bears in the short animated movie The Bearytales.
Hypnagogia is an original experiment that combines abstract scenes with techniques of traditional anidocs. The film depicts the state of falling asleep, and describes and illustrates the visual sensory phenomena that are experienced when crossing the borders of sleep in its own poetic and documentary-style way.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Morning, noon, evening. Beginning, middle, end. The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach and FOOD searches for parallels between eating and pairing rituals. The film uses cut-out animation and folded paper that introduces another dimension to classical cut-outs.
Gorgeous Sleeper Cell is a fan music video for Seattle-based abstract rap duo Shabazz Palaces. It narrates an abstract story based on the duo’s poetic, almost symbolistic lyrics. We watch some sort of a genie who got into our reality from his animated world.
Half Asleep presents a silent relationship between two half bodies in a poetic way. It reduces the narrative but enhances mixed feelings of anxiety, pleasure, struggle and endurance. Despite using minimalist methods such as flickering hints of the bodies, subtle symbolism and an elaborate score, the author has created a mesmerizing film.
