Unboxing Nosferatu
Empty box-like apartments and shipping containers evoke the border crossing vampire who travels in a coffin. Unboxing Nosferatu is part of the anthology ‘I Went to a Party Alone’ in which YouTube vlogs of random daily life are recast as scenes imbued with mythic allusions. When the hard cuts and juxtapositions reveal a landscape of oppressive social control, the vloggers’ mundane normal soon gives way to the surreal. Surveillance helicopters chase astral travellers; child hunters look through scope-cam rifles to aim for the heart; 'unboxing' and 'apartment tour' vlogs conjure containment and borders; a 'drive with me' transforms into sousveillance. Seemingly innocuous recordings about shopping, driving or dating are fraught with foreboding as the vloggers who yearn for freedom, love and self-expression find themselves unable to escape society’s haunting bondage.
Bugcrush
A teenager's infatuation with the new bad boy at school leads him onto a dark path.
ABC Book
A staged cinematic parable, it presents in symbolic images a painful diagnosis of Poles' sense of identity in the 1970s.
Gaslight
Gaslight is a CG-animated short comedy about a messy breakup between a smoker, Ryan, and his girlfriend, a sentient lighter named El. Unfortunately for Ryan, El does not take heartbreak well, and Ryan must do all he can to keep this relationship from ending in literal flames.
Memory
The memories of a man and a woman come to life through photography and animation.
Lion and Bull
Award winning animated short film by Fyodor Khitruk.
Grief Night Club
As a young man struggles through moments of uncertainty, grief, mortality and being unable to cope with the influx of emotion, he is brought along on a mental journey of self-discovery and self-worth through a language that speaks when words no longer work -- music.
Leaving Loveland
As Mio goes on a journey to Loveland to find closure, an incident occurs, giving him new hope for his heart to shine again. A story about the importance of loving and coping, of hearts connecting and separating.
Don't Leave Me
Through dance and movement improvisation, "Non lasciarmi" explores the metaphorical reaction of humanity when it realizes that its love story with Nature has irrevocably come to an end.
On Board
Sailors want to remain in their small world, which is warm and cozy and full of lies, but their routine life turns upside down when one of them gets mugged and badly beaten.
Lemonade and the Immortality of Soul
Three little girls open a lemonade stand, but in the grown-up world is never easy to do something simple.
Papa Is in the Garden
Interrogations of patricide offenders, footage of vandalised statues, and photographs of Victorian children in faux gardens are interwoven into a metaphor for the perverse legacy of privilege and wealth inherited by those who inhabit The Garden.
W.T.F. – Wait, That’s Fair?
“W.T.F. – Wait, That’s Fair?” provides a dystopian example of inappropriate conduct and poor institutional response in a diner as a parallel to how sexual abuse survivors commonly experience the systems of justice. The video compels the audience to encounter the realities of societal response and justice-seeking from the survivor’s perspective. A darkly satirical analogy that flips a diner scene on its head to reveal the absurdity—and cruelty—of how survivors are often treated in the real world.
Dracula, l'éternel
The European Dream
A metaphorical love story about the dream of peace, freedom and solidarity in Europe, with the reality of right-wing politics and terror trying to destroy it.
Wood Screw
When the individual lifestyles of the embodiments of urban and nature meet... They clash, and create a new parasitic relationship.
Jeu de Société
In the form of an allegory of society, the film denounces a system dominated by money and power relations while focusing on the violence that structures cause on human relations.
A Lovely Place.
"A Lovely Place." by Melissa Adam Paulo Barbosa Inspired by Hotel California Hotels are familiar, but they are never truly home... Where every hallway whispers inside your mind... And every sin knows your name... A place you can enter, but never truly leaves... Additional audio credits: Choppy Song Sample by f-r-a-g-i-l-e -- https://freesound.org/s/434282/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Emotional Orchestra by TheoJT -- https://freesound.org/s/569776/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Typewriter typing test (typewriter turned on) by zrrion -- https://freesound.org/s/586852/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 FXSaSc Phone Interference by Profispiesser -- https://freesound.org/s/520189/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 michele.mp3 by milton. -- https://freesound.org/s/76309/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 3.0
Fantasy
What happens when an earth-splitting disaster destroys the home world of a lone living skeleton? As long as he has his most valuable treasure, he doesn't worry about anything else. But can he hold onto his treasure in such a cataclysm?
The Great Metaphor
What does a bankrupt poet with no desire to live have to say about life?