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anthropocene investigates the effects of global industrial capitalism. Hamburg port serves as an example of mass consumption, pollution and exploitation. Through the sequential animation of satellite images, the extent of human interference in natural ecosystems is radically depicted. Repeated sequences symbolize the unstoppability of the global machinery as well as the loss of all individuality in mass production.

In a purely abstract way the film deals with a core idea of the Common Good Economy model. Both visual patterns and the ensemble’s voices are tied up in hierarchical behaviour, which restrains the full potential and mobility of each individual element. Soon the matrix pattern breaks out, and connections and directions are lost, resulting in entropic disorder.

Renowned American solitaire of 3D computer animation returns with another film starring a plastically perfect character. This time, the protagonist is a man named Jack. Jack is naked. Jack is pretending to play guitar. Jack looks silly and vulnerable? Jack, Jack, Jack. Jack everywhere.

The Serbian author originally reflects the passage of time in her old house. She uses photogrammetry to show us the house’s surroundings and its interior. Thanks to the chosen technique, this exploration is fluctuating and volatile. But the deconstructed architecture has a captivating visual and, thanks to real sounds, also aural power.

Twelve animated projections combine to develop a rhythmic dialogue exploring the intrinsic relationship between sound and image using 16mm film, paint and a projector.
Responding to a hand-drawn soundtrack, each projection is individually created by painting and scratching directly on 16mm film stock.

Film documents the presence of urban art in various neighbourhoods of Valencia, Spain, between 2018 and 2019. In the film these pieces of ephemeral art are animated, connecting each image in continuity like the frames of a film. All these faces look at us with widely opened eyes, as if they tell us that we exist, but we might not exist – and the world would go on.

A ball goes through various gear mechanisms and tracks. It appears and disappears in various pits without an apparent meaning. As the rhythm of the cycle accelerates, the viewers recognize a hidden life of the entire apparatus. The American author of this short film makes use of a minimalist artistic style which he eventually turns into an unusual dance.

During a boring PowerPoint presentation, statistical diagrams are breaking free from the strait-jacket of their coordinates. A trip into the sensual world of statistics begins. Pie charts are melting, arrow diagrams twisting, scatter plots, bar graphs and stock market curves join in a collective climax.

A secluded house in the countryside. And in it? A family cocktail of love, care, shared history and all kinds of gadgets and unfinished things. Or a space for living out the rest of one’s life peacefully. This simple documentary stop-motion animation pays tribute to the author’s parents and the things they left here. The director finds life and a special kind of beauty in them.

An experimental animation using only microscopic images of xylem, one of the two types of transport tissue in vascular plants. Thanks to a rapid montage and disturbing score, the plant cellulose creates a hypnotic symphony. Under the influence of this audio-visual stream, the viewers can easily get lost and become unsure whether they are watching the inside of a plant, cosmic matter or a close-up of a curtain.

A pregnant scientist becomes a mother, two men draw and a cat observes butterflies. Their stories merge to form a dreamlike celebration of rebirth and transformation. The film created almost entirely with optical illusions presents the viewers with many riddles. But at the same time, it slowly reveals details of a noir story.

The Japanese master of abstract dynamic animation returns with a whirlwind of colourful images pulsating in a breakneck tempo of experimental music. It is hard to find any connecting motifs. A human mind is unable to comprehend it as it’s watching the world’s first animation made to be watched by chimpanzees. Just this once, we will show it to you humans.

Serial Parallels 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.

This German paella is everything but a simply digestible delicacy. The collage style of the experimental film includes hand-drawn, cutout and 3D animated ingredients. Political motifs alternate with natural motifs. But there is a nuclear threat looming from the sky.

In his film essay, the Japanese director takes us to places leaking life. This mesmerising film works with a seemingly real environment and things, but everything undergoes a detailed paintbrush transformation. Leaking life is thus manifested both in the content of the film (an overflowing glass, an outflow) and thanks to dripping colours also in its form.