Kimono

An exploration of Japanese culture by experimental animation artist José Castillo.

1992-01-01 | ja

Chair Cemetery

Confusion settles in the house, how to make it a home again?

2025-03-06 | fr

The Peel

After a flat tire leaves her stranded in the woods, a woman revisits haunting memories of her self-destructive tendencies on the finger nails. As she peels the skin from her fingers, each strip draws her deeper into the past. With every layer, she steps closer to the hidden child within herself.

2025-03-30 | xx

Phantasia

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their respective invention in what today is considered to be the first cinema screening. Thus, both cinema and radiography fall within the scopic regime inaugurated by modernity. The use of X-rays on two sculptures from the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum generates images that reveal certain elements of them that would otherwise be invisible to our eyes. These images, despite being generally created for technical or scientific purposes, seem to produce a certain form of 'photogénie': they lend the radiographed objects a new appearance that lies somewhere between the material and the ethereal, endowing them with a vaporous and spectral quality. It is not by chance that physics and phantasmagoria share the term 'spectrum' in their vocabulary.

2024-03-13 | xx

Functional Block Diagrams

A synthesis of sound and movement; colourful characters dance and move in repetitive patterns to percussive and melodic elements. A combination of motion and music that is hypnotic and beautiful. At first it feels structured and orderly but as more elements are added becomes quixotically expressive.

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reMemBer2.human

In an indeterminate future, forbidden memories challenge a database containing all human memories. An experimental cinematic search between past and future, fiction and fact, Prishtina and Tirana. The future, a glitch.

2023-09-28 | sq

Optimizer Customizer

A feminine machine, stuffed with modern nano-technology and useless operations is depicted in this mixed-media 2D animation short, highlighting the consequences of consumerism and the downfall of civilized society. The machine reminiscent of a two-dimensional video game, leads to a destructive chain reaction after a strange malfunction, with people turning into clones and robots.

2002-01-01 | en

In my sleep, I swallow you

An exploration of intestines

2024-05-09 | xx

Seraphim on the Go!

a life size stop motion child puppet races through memories and daydreams reflecting on the cyclical nature of life.

2021-10-30 | en

Norsk Folksang

Emerging from the sea onto land an axolotl swims through complex terrain parallel to a man searching for an encounter with God.

2011-04-25 | en

Losing Touch

Searching for life in daily rituals, Losing Touch undertakes a shift in perception and presents the city as an ugly yet ecologically rich landscape. The film depicts the internal dialogue on coping with the grief and fear of ecological degradation, using the local streets of Berlin as a means to materialise and confront these emotions. As both the body and mind begin to wander, encounters with the landscape over a 24 hour period are transformed into an overstimulating and emotionally charged journey. Camcorder footage, film developed in beer and cyanotype create sensational and playful depictions of the surroundings, joining the rats scurrying on the ground and fleeing the night lights with the moths. Creatures of metal and flesh interact within and between the frames, coming together as an ugly yet vibrant community. Subverting the nature-culture dichotomy, a new image of nature is formed, not only as a romantic, distant place, but rather a dirty, omnipresent force.

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The Dog’s Drama

The dog's drama tells the story of a dog on the run through the Belgian countryside, attached to an endless leash.

2022-06-10 | fr

Fiz Amizade com um Fantasma

2024-04-23 | pt

Idéal

"You gave me your mud and I turned it into gold". The Flowers of Evil, Charles Baudelaire

2023-12-14 | fr

A Short Vision

The leaders, the wise men, the leopard, the deer, the owl and the rat all look up in the sky in fear as a strange object flies through the sky.

1956-05-27 | en

Chronopolis

In a gargantuan city lurking in the sky, powerful immortals who have become jaded with eternal life. Most of their time is spent monotonously constructing bizarre and unusual objects while waiting for the ultimate gift to arrive.

1983-09-21 | fr

The Figure of Unconscious Mind

In this abstract analogy between life and an apple, one will have to face problems and suffer wounds to push boundaries. Maybe something new will grow out of it.

2023-04-21 | xx

The Sketch

Upon his arrival in Paris, filmmaker Tomas Cali immerses himself in learning French, as well as the language of sketching. In an art studio, he meets transgender life model Linda Demorrir, who helps him to connect with himself and his new city in a profoundly different way.

2023-04-27 | fr

The Doldrums

A group of partygoers consider what awaits them after death.

2024-05-13 | en

Cymatic Cocoon

This film explores cymatics and telepathy among twins

2007-07-01 | en