Ahimsa(2025)

Generation(en)

A brief journey through the human experience as seen by the eyes of an Artificial Intelligence.

Hysteresis(xx)

The term hysteresis soberly describes a processual behaviour where the previous history affects the result as much as new changes. Robert Seidel enters analogue drawings, performance footage of the queer dancer Tsuki and pluck sounds and drones by Oval into a feedback system that reorganises time and movement in a multicoloured and sensual organic tableau.

Sigma_001(en)

An engineer at a major tech company sneaks a skeptical journalist inside to interview what he believes is the first sentient AI.

Hiraeth(en)

Misha, a lonely bear waking from hibernation, finds the world completely changed and abandoned. In his search for food, he meets someone unexpected and they form a bond.

Thank You For Not Answering(en)

As a man leaves a voicemail to a person from his past, he is flooded with fragments of his fading memory and imagines a life that could have been.

Absolve(en)

A leak in the ceiling of the Louvre pulls Jacques into an emotional vortex where a cosmic teardrop dissolves the museum’s masterpieces into their rawest forms. Follow your tears and see where it might take you.

Dr. Moreau(hu)

Dr. Moreau is an abstract horror short, adapted from H.G.Wells' classic novel, that will invite the viewer to board on a tangible journey to the borders of science, where the differences between nature and humanity are blurred.

Hitlers Traum von Micky Maus - Zeichentrick unterm Hakenkreuz(de)

The order comes in the summer of 1941 from propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels himself: The best animators are summoned to Berlin. Their task: Producing feature-length cartoons in ‘Disney-Quality’ with the newly founded ‘Deutsche Zeichenfilm GmbH’. To get trained, the Disney movie “Snow White” is re-traced frame by frame. After the final victory, one new feature-length production of quality shall be released every year from 1947 onwards. – that is the plan. Only in 1943, the first production is completed: “Armer Hansi” a 17-minute-long colour movie, realized with the effortful Multiplane-technology. The second film by the ‘Deutsche Zeichenfilm’ is only completed in 1946 – by DEFA. In the territories occupied by Germany, cartoons are produced as well, sometimes harmless ones, sometimes propagandistic ones. With excerpts from animated movies, life-action film documents, and witness reports by contemporaries, this documentary draws a picture of the cartoon production in the third Reich.

Valeria(es)

Valeria travels in between the real world and her imagination to avoid the horrible truth of her life. Some things are unbearable, and some decisions can be the beginning of the end.

The Old Fire Horse(en)

Terrytoons cartoon short

Inside Cackle Corners(en)

Cold-War propaganda film where the importance of research and development in capitalism is stressed.

Fresh Laid Plans(en)

Cold War propaganda allegory about farm markets.

Poo And Spring(et)

A stray dog gives birth to the main character Poo, on a marvellous spring day. The young Poo befriends a Sparrow, who educates him in ways of life. Observing loving sparrow family’s ventures from his shanty throughout autumn and winter, a desire for a beloved arises in Poo’s heart.

Stuck in the Middle(fr)

The Balloon(en)

A short film warning people against rumor mongering. Rumors can make a mountain out of a molehill.

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children(ja)

Two years have passed since the final battle with Sephiroth. Though Midgar, city of mako, city of prosperity, has been reduced to ruins, its people slowly but steadily walk the road to reconstruction. However, a mysterious illness called Geostigma torments them. With no cure in sight, it brings death to the afflicted, one after another, robbing the people of their fledgling hope.

Dora the Explorer: Pirate Adventure(en)

Dora and friends are on a mission to find the missing treasure chest!

Babylon(en)

Dark animation examining the thin line between human definitions of war and peace. Part of Sweet Disaster; a 1986 series of short films made for Channel 4. It consists of “animated visions of the apocalypse”.