The Joy of Light

One Who Has Two Souls(fr)

He was called "He Who Has Two Souls". He was beautiful as a woman. And handsome as a man. He hesitated.

The Little One(cs)

When Rong was a small child she and her parents moved from Vietnam to Prague. Now she is grown up and remembers that time and what it was like to feel like a foreigner.

Videotape(en)

A Pixilation Sci-Fi Short Film about an old man's haunted VCR. This entire film is stop motion animation and was shot on a Canon EOS 400D SLR. 1,283 individual photos were used.

Satanika(ja)

Based on an original character created by Danzig lead singer Glenn Danzig for his comic company Verotik Press. This three-minute pilot was created by Madhouse for a planned Satanika OVA series. As Verotik Press encountered financial difficulties and closed, a full-length anime was never produced.

Les p'tits explorateurs(fr)

A collection of four animated short films, around the themes of friendship and tolerance.

Cars(en)

Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, McQueen gets to know the town's offbeat characters.

Video-Disc(pl)

A short animation using stop-motion photography.

Wheeeels No. 1(en)

"Dedicated to Detroit and subtitled 'America on wheels.' A fantasy-farce on the car of everyday life. Everything is a vehicle, life is in motion, motion is the means, the automation is the mean mania of today." - S.V.

False Memory(zh)

Unwilling to accept the death of his friend Shi Yan, the protagonist materializes him in his memory in the form of Bug Man, who he plays with to escape from the depressing reality. Bug Man in monitored by the Memory Management Bureau, and memory collectors Fang Tang and Bai Zhong are assigned to retrieve him.

Water, Water(ja)

Replika(pl)

Matrix III(en)

An abstract computer-generated animation set to music by Terry Riley.

Lonely "15"(en)

A young man learns that the size of one's heart matters more than the size of his endowment.

Dynamic Rectangle(pl)

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop.

The Line(pl)

Ordinary life is suddenly invaded by a strange element which transforms reality.

The Return(fr)

The Days that (Never) Were(es)

Three characters are about to have the time of their lives… until a strange phenomenon shows up to interrupt everything.

The Best Last Best Plane Ride Ever(en)

On October 15, 1986, the New York Mets came back from a three-run deficit in the ninth and beat the Houston Astros in 16 innings to win the pennant. This film recreates the Mets' infamous postgame celebration, from champagne in the jacuzzi to the destruction of a perfectly good Ozark Airlines DC-10. Starring the voices of Lenny Dykstra, Dwight Gooden, Kevin Mitchell, and Darryl Strawberry.

Quick Dream(en)

QUICK DREAM, subtitled "A Series of Exorcisms," is the result of this first assignment. As Mouris describes it, “This film is a series of visual experiments with magazine photograph cutouts that make moving collages; coloraid paper; Avery labels; whatever I could think of that might animate. It became the seedbed for everything that followed,” most notably FRANK FILM. As part of the project, the students’ films were subject to a round of guest criticism from artists and filmmakers Robert Breer and Red Grooms, who, as Mouris describes it, “praised our work and encouraged us to continue.” (Yale Film Archive)

The Erasers(fr)

A man flees, his face in his hands. He's hiding it, because it refuses to erase. (kg)