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Karl is tired of the heavy burden of fame that oppresses him, and so he decides to liberate himself from it. He returns to life among “ordinary” people, after which he crosses paths with the fame-seeking Marilyn. The ordinary Karl is the force that turns Marilyn into an idol of the masses. But not for long.... Grand Prix Golden Jabberwocky 2005.

A country doctor responds with breathless urgency to a nighttime summons to attend to a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as “unearthly horses” transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal distractions and grievances against those he is employed to care for, fails to find what is revealed to be a vile, fatal wound.… Grand Prix Golden Jabberwocky 2007.

In a park, a grandfather is dreaming quietly while sitting on a bench. Behind his apparent serenity, the old man is haunted by images of the Great War: battles, killings, blasts… Mr Gerbier came close to dying three times. But today, death is waiting for him. It might be sitting on the next bench… Grand Prix Golden Jabberwocky 2009.

Full steam ahead into the final sleep. A lullaby with closed eyes for a silent downfall. Grand Prix Golden Jabberwocky 2010.

A girl trapped between two worlds, connected by an umbilical cord of pictures and emotions. Sleepincord is about a dream that can be neither observed nor examined. Grand Prix Golden Jabberwocky 2011.

An interpretation of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, inspired by the slow, cumbersome movement of an ox pulling a heavily-laden cart. Grand Prix Golden Jabberwocky 2012.

An epic miniature of the birth of the Universe. The narration is driven by the modern language of theoretical cosmology, with the theorems forming a modern-day Book of Genesis. The film’s mostly serious tone is offset by humorous visuals, which explain the text only seemingly. In fact, they play with the words’ meaning.

A falling drop of water sets a new course of events into motion. Nature is continuously evolving, showing the triumphal power of life, which is constantly giving birth and creating new forms from the same materials.

A musical story of how art saved the world.

A man disappears under unclear circumstances. What happened to him? Was something troubling him? What kind of life did he lead? These are the questions the people who knew him try to answer. Will the mystery ever be solved?

In a small apartment in Buenos Aires, an old woman eagerly awaits the birth of her grandchild and all the joys of becoming a grandmother. However, horrific circumstances force her to wait for more than 30 years. Using real-life testimonials, this animated documentary raises issues of memory, repression and loss.

“I always thought I had a perfect memory. I wanted to show these drawings to you.” A collection of drawings, a collection of memories, a collection of loss. These images do not exist, but the drawings are real. The memory is only in my head.

Single frames of 8-millimetre films are compared to the windows of building facades in a big city. Film cameras shoot 24 single frames per second: Story-telling pictures. This found footage was edited into a collage and combined with the music of Franz Schubert. Grand Prix Golden Jabberwocky 2008.