House Rules

Electronic Performers(fr)

Has feeling got a physical representation? This video is the story of a feeling represented by a warm vibration spreading all over the body.

The Forger(en)

Adolfo Kaminsky started saving lives when chance and necessity made him a master forger. As a teenager, he became a member of the French Resistance and used his talent to save the lives of thousands of Jews. The Forger is a well-crafted origin story of a real-life superhero.

Francine(en)

Francine, a brilliant 9-year-old girl who hates her mother's cooking, battles a robot version of herself for her life - and a slice of pizza.

The Circus(fr)

In the vestibule of a hospital room, a young boy waits to see his dying mother. The clamor and spiralling movements of bodies around him intensify, forming a grotesque circus—a cacophonous circle that pushes the child back, depriving him of one final touch of his mother's hand. Using rotoscoped drawings suggestive of charcoal sketches, as well as 3D and object animation techniques, The Circus compels viewing with its unsettling realism. Colour is employed metaphorically to subtly express the promise and the memory of maternal affection. Nicolas Brault's highly personal film, suffused with poetic modesty, casts a poignantly sincere gaze on the heartbreak of a child facing the fearful, mysterious experience of his mother's death.

Prometheus(de)

Allegory of men's use of fire to kill, when it was given by Prometheus to help them.

Beat(en)

In a bland, utilitarian world of order, one worker finds his inner jazz

Oblivion(ru)

A lone passenger is reflected in the windows of a train crawling through layers of textures towards Minsk. During his absence, the city has not changed: all the streets are frozen, long-gone voices can be heard in the empty rooms and around the corner you can find yourself in a video game from your childhood.

Anxious Body(xx)

When living things, artificial things, geometry shapes, and lines encounter, a new direction is born.

The Vandal(en)

Set in a world not unlike mid-20th century America, The Vandal centers on Harold, whose tormented search for peace from traumatic loss results in an unexpectedly destructive awakening after he undergoes a lobotomy. When the procedure “turns his mind inside out” and his great love is suddenly gone, Harold’s desperate search intensifies.

Afternoon Class(ko)

Drowsiness washes over me during the afternoon class. My head gets heavier as I try to stay awake in an afternoon class.

Ingest(en)

A vlogger with a paper eating addiction is haunted by an offensive doodle from her past.

The Christmas Film(sv)

An animated holiday film from Sweden, based on a song composed by Anders F. Rönnblom.

Hillbilly Blue(en)

Crawdad Eustace is fed-up with being treated as food and goes with possum pal Mordechai on a cross-country trip to New Orleans.

The Myth of the Water Goddess(es)

A little girl will have to sing to the mythical goddess of water so that this valuable liquid can reach her community.

None of That(en)

A museum guard is doing his night patrol when a tiny nun breaks into the museum and starts censoring nude art.

New Babylon(en)

An impossible city is built up out of enormous rotating rings, steering the lives of its lonely inhabitants. New Babylon is a visual trip through an oppressive night in which contemporary, individualistic life is reflected in a circular metropole.

My Small Doll House(ko)

My Small Doll House features a woman’s fear, fantasy, and anxious psychology toward the world by contrasting a doll and a girl playing with it in a box. The small box is a safe place hidden in her deep conscious world, but she must open it and step out of the world.

dans le ciel(fr)

The Tell-Tale Heart(en)

A computer-generated rendering of the classic Poe tale about a man haunted by an old man's strange eye and the drastic measures he takes to rid himself of it.

Ninety-Five Senses(en)

A heartfelt depiction of a man facing his own mortality while reflecting on the grave mistakes of his youth.