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Commotion at Ikedaya

Commotion at Ikedaya

Independent film by Yanagihara Ryouhei, member of the Animation Sannin no Kai pioneer group of independent animation. It tells the story of the Ikedaya raid by the Shinsengumi from the point of view of the neighbors of the Ikedaya.

1984

A film commissioned and conceived by the artist Eduardo Paolozzi using drawings and photocopies provided by him. A non-narrative film focusing on Paolozzi's themes about modern man.

Shrinking Violet

Shrinking Violet

When class bully Irwin taunts Violet about her fat knees (they're not) or deadly sewer gas smell (she doesn't), all she wants to do is shrink away. The thought of being in the class play about the solar system makes her itch and scratch and twirl her hair. But when she's alone or with her best friend, Opal, Violet is a master performer, mimicking her classmates and retaliating against Irwin with razor-sharp wit. Her chance for real-life revenge comes at last during the play, when she plays the offstage role of Lady Space. On opening night, when Irwin, a.k.a. Mars, starts to spin out of control and forgets his lines, Violet saves the day (but not without a little of her savage humor).

Giraffes Can't Dance

Giraffes Can't Dance

Gerald, the giraffe, wants nothing more than to dance. With crooked knees and thin legs, it's harder for a giraffe to dance than the other animals. Gerald is finally able to dance to his own tune when he gets some encouraging words from an unlikely friend.

At Tourkovounia

At Tourkovounia

Greek internal migrants in Athens, after the Greek Civil War colonize the tops of the Tourkovounia hills.

I’m Afraid

I’m Afraid

The artist brings her skill in illustration and collage to this feminist music video for singer Maria Rodés.

Snail, Cabbage, Cabbage

Snail, Cabbage, Cabbage

A psychotic killer with an affection for snails is welcomed by an abused wife in this gruesome comedy.

Daybreak Express

Daybreak Express

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.

Homage to Tarzan

Homage to Tarzan

Avant-garde analog animation techniques in stark black and white dramatize the effect of white men’s violence on an African jungle.

Uncensored Women

Uncensored Women

The story of a group of actresses who, in the Spain of the seventies, and in the midst of the democratic Transition, decided to appear nude in the films of that time of radical political change, defying the rigid and deeply rooted social rules.

The Hare

The Hare

A short Estonian animation about a rabbit who creates a mechanical being that struggles to navigate a frantic, pop-art world.

Monster

Sara helps her little brother Tomas to overcome his fear of the monster under the bed, but it is harder to protect him from his violent and authoritarian father.

White Earth

White Earth

An oil boom has drawn thousands to America’s Northern Plains in search of work. Against the backdrop of a cruel North Dakota winter, the stories of three children and an immigrant mother intertwine among themes of innocence, home, and the American Dream.

Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

Rainer Kohlberger’s abstract film was created entirely without a camera. Through digital algorithms, he precisely arranged a rhythm of light and shadow that pulsates off the screen into our physical space with blinding intensity. The presence of light is almost felt as we are sucked into the image to become its ghostly accomplice. As we leave the theatre, the optical vibrations continue to haunt us.

It's a Date

It's a Date

It’s a Date is a culmination of his preoccupations, a weird but humanistic look at a couple on a first date. It seems to be going well until the man decides to really open up and get (sur)real.

From the Room to the Cinema to Outside

From the Room to the Cinema to Outside

An experimental short where a character sends a series of progressively desperate emails asking for a job.

Mirror

Mirror

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

Garu & Ponki

Garu & Ponki

When their therapist announces a trip to the town of 'The Forgotten' to work on their bad behavior, cousins Garu and Ponki laugh and make fun, believing their parents will send them to a luxury resort instead, as usual. What they don’t know is that this time their irreverence will lead them to a less glamorous, and possibly perpetual, adventure!

2 or 3 Things I Know About Him

2 or 3 Things I Know About Him

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom became a filmmaker. It's a fascinating, maddening, sometimes even humorous look at what the director calls "a typical German story." (Film Forum)

Color-Blind

Color-Blind

A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless ghost of Gauguin in excavating the colonial legacy of a post-postcolonial present.