Mavka: The Forest Song

Mavka, a Soul of the Forest, faces an impossible choice between love and her duty as Guardian of the Heart of the Forest when she falls for a human, a talented young musician named Lukas.

In the Box

A character is inside a cubical room; there is a hole in the roof, which is too high to reach. But pushing on the walls distorts the room in various ways, always appearing to bring the hole closer while still leaving it tantalizingly inaccessible.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Shot on 16mm film in New York and composed in Berlin, the work explores polarizing themes of the metropolis. Audibly and visually, the viewer is put in a flicker between serenity and intensity; harrowing ambience cut with sharp beeps, vulnerable steps mashed in high velocity.

Palomita

A hungry pidgeon finds a box of popcorn, down on a bench, and tries to reach it. The only thing it stops him to get it it's the rain.

Bunnyhood

What could possibly be more important than feeding your daughter?

A Descent into the Maelström

Two brothers are caught by storm and they are drifted to the greatest whirpool on the world. Due to circumstances they will be forced to fight each other for life and death.

The End

It is said that if a man is fading away, he sees his life running quickly in front of his eyes. What does a hundred-year old film strip see before it gives way to digital vehicles? Does it see broken frames, scratched film stock or something else? This is a film about time and its ephemeral nature.

Emptiness

A man sits in his living room, doing absolutely nothing while morning arrives.

The Flight of Paloma

A short film narrated by the drag queen Paloma, in interview with the filmmaker.

La fontaine et la chute IV (les origines)

We Are Human, After All

During a very harsh winter, a hare has to deal with the bitter cold, hunger and the threats posed by hunters and other animals. One day he sees the easy, comfortable and safe lives that rabbits lead. He decides to go and stay with them in the hutch.

Caldera

Through the eyes of a young girl suffering from mental illness, 'Caldera' glimpses into a world of psychosis and explores a world of ambiguous reality and the nature of life and death.

Valentine in Things City

A research and design project that imagines the future of post-human spaces like Google data centers and Amazon warehouses. Using the same artificial intelligence code that organizes logistics infrastructure, a fictional fulfillment center at the scale of a city has been procedurally generated. Things City is designed to accommodate only delivery drones, logistics bots, and packages as its citizens. Through the eyes of the city’s machines, we watch as a girl enters Things City on Valentine’s day searching for a lost package.

Things to Come

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Angel

In this short film, a young man, a girl and a dog attempt to fly with wings more symbolic than practical.

FernGully: The Last Rainforest

When a sprite named Crysta shrinks a human boy, Zak, down to her size, he vows to help the magical fairy folk stop a greedy logging company from destroying their home: the pristine rainforest known as FernGully. Zak and his new friends fight to defend FernGully from lumberjacks — and the vengeful spirit they accidentally unleash after chopping down a magic tree.

Orbit

After her best friend leaves to Lunar University, Geo has to deal with his absence on Earth when carnival season arrives.

The Enchanted Bell

After a magic bell from Tibet is stolen, a little girl and an elephant undertake a dangerous journey to bring the bell home.

Excellence

A black-and-white experimental animation short about the tribulating reality of work.

Spermageddon

Two narrative threads: one is an emerging love story between awkward teens Jens and Lisa, who are having sex for the first time; the other, an eventful quest of Simon the Semen and his friends to reach the golden goal, the Egg.