Picotopia(2013)

Sleeping Beauty(de)

A king and queen celebrate their daughter’s birth, but a forgotten fairy curses her to die by pricking her finger on a spindle. Another fairy softens the curse, allowing her to sleep for a hundred years. Despite efforts to remove all spindles, the princess pricks her finger and falls asleep, along with the entire castle. A hundred years later, a prince awakens her with a kiss, reviving everyone. They marry, and the thorn hedge dissolves.

D.I.Y. Duck(en)

Donald Duck's efforts to replace a light bulb end in comic and catastrophic results.

Shuteye Hotel(en)

A film-noir murder mystery that takes place in a sleazy hotel. As cops investigate the gruesome murders, they become victims of this evil force.

Rabbit and Deer(hu)

Rabbit and Deer are living happily and careless until their friendship is put to the test by Deer's new obsession to find the formula for the 3rd dimension. After an unexpected accident Deer finds himself in a new world, unknown to him. Separated by dimensions the two characters have to find the way back to each other.

La Maison en Petits Cubes(ja)

La Maison en Petits Cubes tells the story of a grandfather's memories as he adds more blocks to his house to stem the flooding waters.

Raw Data(en)

Hand-drawn animation with ink, gouache, white-out and coffee.

The Deep End(en)

Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out and coffee

Sick Leave(en)

Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

Nightfall(en)

Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

Headache(en)

Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out and crayon.

Last Meal(en)

Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

Waiting Room(en)

Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

The Heat of a Thousand Suns(fr)

A young man from the far future, bored by his surroundings, blasts off into space with only his cat and some robots for company. On a distant planet he discovers a serene, tranquil culture and falls in love with a girl.

The Baby Birds of Norman McLaren(ja)

A short kaleidoscopic homage to Norman McLaren from Japanese artists Mirai Mizue and Yukie Nakauchi on the 100th anniversary of birth in 2014.

La chair(fr)

The Popstar Water Deer and I(ko)

Although globally rare, the water deer is common in Korea and typically encountered when it suddenly jumps out and gets hit by a car.

Egg(en)

A microscopic tale of epic tragedy. One pea-sized pirate quests to slay his golden nemesis in this surrealistic, stop-motion animated retelling of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. A fully realized animation, full of conflict and tension, that makes perfect narrative sense while defying all common sense.

Wittgenstein's Poker(en)

On October 25, 1946... in a small crowded room at Cambridge University, two of the world’s greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper, came face-to-face for the first and only time. A third man, Lord Bertrand Russell was also present, acting as umpire of the event. The meeting - which lasted only 10 minutes - did not go well. To this day, no one can agree precisely what took place in those fiery minutes. Almost immediately, rumours started to spread around the world that the two philosophers, Wittgenstein and Popper, had come to blows armed with red-hot fire pokers!

Prehistoric Beast(en)

In a dense forest, a monoceratops-type plant-eating dinosaur is stalked by a carnivorous Tyrannosaurus rex.

Dexter's Laboratory: Chicken Scratch(en)

When Dexter gets the chicken pox, Dee Dee tells him that if he scratches he'll turn into a chicken. Dexter strives against the elements of nature to not scratch but he cannot help it. Based on the television series "Dexter's Laboratory."