The Ballad of the Indispensable Walnut Man(2023)

Cockroach(ja)

My name is a “cockroach”. I was called that from childhood.

The portrait of the pestilence(es)

In the Middle Ages, when the dreaded plague ended the life of so many people, a young apprentice painter who lives with his teacher will find a way to deal with it.

Solo Duets(en)

On the background of a room rebuilt in every detail, a man is suspended in the emptiness of his memories, without dialog, speaking only through the notes of Satie. And his other self (his youth) who appears suddenly to remind us of the past, and of the fleeting nature of life.

Cages(es)

An old man crosses the desert with a valuable load, a row of cages with cherubs of sublime songs; when one of them is carelessly abandoned, he reveals the divine power to give life to lifeless beings and things.

Unusual Cooking(fr)

A chef comes into the kitchen and throws a lot of rags on the floor: he then casts a spell over them, and immediately they take the form of human beings, and dance a wild saraband around the place. After performing many unique tricks they disappear into space, and are replaced by a group of knives and forks, pans, kettles and spoons. (Moving Picture World)

Teremok(ru)

In the middle of the forest, a bear finds an abandoned hut full of food and sweets and encounters different animals while staying there.

The War(et)

The protagonist of the film is the Bat living in an old mill and fighting rats and crows. It’s the war fought by disproportioned forces, where the battle is won by cleverness, skill and cunning. Somewhere outside the mill another war is fought.

Lost & Found(en)

A bumbling knitted dinosaur must completely unravel itself to save the love of its life.

Body Memory(et)

What can an old apple tree tell us? What mysteries are hidden in his roots, gnarled over time? Does he remember the serpent and the lost Paradise? Our body remembers more than we can expect and imagine. It remembers the sorrow and pain of our predecessors. It keeps alive the stories of our parents and grandparents as well as their ancestors. But how far back is it possible to go in your bodily memory? The stop-motion animation BODY MEMORY takes as its central concept the idea that our body remembers, not only individual experiences, but also the sorrow and pain of our predecessors. A powerful visualization of subconscious processes and the hidden horror of deportation. Inspired by historical events: the Soviet deportations from Estonia in the 1940s.

The Feather Pillow(pt)

Shortly after her honeymoon Alicia contracts an inexplicable illness, while her husband Jordan bear witness seemingly indifferent. Something hidden is driving her insane. The disease makes the young woman mix reality with gruesome hallucinations.

Sky High Tea(en)

In this quirky stop-action short, a neon hedgehog steals tea from a piano giraffe, falls in love with caffeine, and suffers the consequences. What to expect: nonsense and puns.

Nami(ja)

A woman is masturbating when a swarm of fish bursts out from all over her house to disturb her.

My Life as a Zucchini(fr)

After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.

We’re Having a Party and Everyone’s Invited(en)

A little white party guy is on their way to a party when they get interrupted by a stranger on the street named Kevin Kaos who proclaims he is the lord of hell and other shenanigans. This film is based on a real interaction I had with someone.

Meaning of Robots(en)

This short film profiles the benevolent Mike Sullivan, who has been in the process of shooting a stop-motion robot sex film in his New York City apartment for the last ten years. Obsessed with the meticulous construction of the miniature robot porn stars, his apartment now overflows with thousands, leaving him only tiny paths to navigate and no place to film his epic.

The Moustache(fi)

This town is too small for the both of them. And for their moustache.

Wound Up(en)

This is about being the better person. It is an artistic expression of the emotions that occur when you are being doubted by others, and how everyone needs one another to survive. We are all co-dependent one way or another.

Jak ulovit mamuta(cs)

Lionfish Delusion(es)

Greed and hierarchy in the Caribbean reefs.

Edmond(en)

A stop motion film about an oddball felted character who slips through floors into the past and the deepest parts of his psyche in his pursuit of self-understanding.