Short films that defy the status quo and boldly take paths less traveled or make their own. This program includes a vast expanse of visually intense videos ranging from eye-opening documentaries to strange animations and one-of-a-kind collages. Expect anything but the ordinary!
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In a series of explorations, this short aims to connect reality and abstraction through animation in an attempt to understand what it means "to abstract".
This series started from the desire to bridge the gap between abstract art and reality. Normally when faced with an abstract image our mind must extrapolate from the reduced artwork in order to reconstruct the original subject it was created from. Each of the individual animations tackles a different form of abstraction and stitches it together with its source.
A 78-year-old man covered his body with one beautiful tattoo. The retired Principal City Planner for Baltimore talks about trees, consciousness, letting go of life and his genitals.
Epoch is a visual representation of our connection to earth and it's vulnerable glory. Our time here is esoteric, limited and intangible. The fragility which exists in all aspects of life is one thing that is certain. We are brittle, and so is Mother Earth.
Explorations of four dimensional forms.
On a small island a bunch of exotic creatures run across each other.
The Lethal Weapon franchise reduced to sax riffs. I'm too old for this shit.
An interpretation of a disagreement between 2 stubborn people.
Set in a campy western mining town, Stinkhorn tells the tale of a lady blacksmith named Dusty and her naughty trickster paramour, Blaze. At night Blaze turns Dusty’s apprentices into horses and rides them all night long, Finally, Cassidy, the clever apprentice hatches a plan. A psychedelic trip wrapped in a queer western, Stinkhorn is a magical who-rides-who tale with a twist. Combining live action, drawings, miniatures and animation, Stinkhorn is the second story in, Fairy Fantastic!, a gender diverse folk and fairy tale series.
This experimental animation approaches Hong Kong’s built environment from the conceptual perspective of celluloid film, by applying the technique of film animation to the photographic image. The city’s signature architecture of horizon- eclipsing housing estates is reimagined as parallel rows of film strips: Serial Parallels.
In films, as in life, the bathtub is often considered a private space for women - a place not only to groom, but to relax, to think, to grieve, to be alone, to find sanctuary. For Hollywood, though, it's also a place of naked vulnerability, where women narratively placed in harm's way have no escape.
Squame explores the body’s sensitive envelope, the skin. The ephemeral animated desquamations, created with the help of sugar casts, evoke fragile landscapes in a world at the edge of abstraction. Somewhere between archeological artifacts and macroscopic observations, the friable frontiers of these human bodies elude our gaze.
A woman slogs through an identity mired with gendered stereotypes and consumer capitalism to attempt to discover her true self. What is "natural" or "original" becomes inaccessible, forgotten, and nonexistent.
“Very Noise” is an attempt to transcribe into images the synthesis of many testimonies of stroke victims that we have collected over the past few years. About 3/4 of the stroke victims are heterosexual white males over 50 years old and the visions that arise from these experiences have in common the neuroses of this category of the population. Identity disorder, existential anxieties linked to erection problems, transfer phenomenon to a more sporty image of the father, burning desire for extreme but playful activities such as motocross or solo rock climbing... The notion of figurative abstraction is also very significant in the stories, it is a form of link between two ideas that challenge each other, one could speak of a remedy for cognitive dissonance generated by overlapping fantasies.
Deep in the forest, a hunter encounters a strange creature he cannot kill.
