Anemone Temple

Street Musique(en)

Animator Ryan Larkin does a visual improvisation to music performed by a popular group presented as sidewalk entertainers. His take-off point is the music, but his own beat is more boisterous than that of the musicians. The illustrations range from convoluted abstractions to caricatures of familiar rituals. Without words.

Coffin(fr)

A man comes home and wants to go to bed. A bunch of noisy roommates. A crowded city in southern China.

Dogs Smell Like the Sea(ru)

You know, it's like having a dog, and it chooses someone else as the owner, not you. And as soon as the "other" rings the Bicycle bell, the dog, happily wagging its tail, rushes to catch up with him. And you follow her. It turns out that for him, too. But you can't say anything: just stand there and breathe in silence to the beat of the waves.

The Beast(es)

A young mexican smuggler and a little girl travel illegally on top of a cargo train, called La Bestia, to get to the USA. An injury transforms his perception of the journey.

After the rain(fr)

A child fishing in a puddle using bananas as bait catches a bigger fish than he can handle and flees with the giant fish in pursuit.

Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic(en)

An elegy to a love affair that has gone sour, a fond farewell to that most beautiful material that has subjugated our planet – plastic.

Ab ovo - Traces of Sand(xx)

A non-narrative film thematising the eternal struggle of human life in a series of scenes connected by associations and accompanied by a strong music motif.

Voila le plan(fr)

Misery Loves Company(ko)

As Seolgi is lying on a grass field with friends, a shooting star falls, and dark, intrusive thoughts hit her. Her melancholy blooms into bright and colorful "flower people," dancing and wishing for a meteorite to end the world.

Enter Hamlet(en)

Enter Hamlet is a collage of images in cartoon form of a word put in balloon in each jump-cut scene as that word is said by the narrator Maurice Evans during his “To be or not to be…” soliloquy recording.

Strange Fish(en)

Blind evolution. Seemingly arbitrary stages of the evolution in black-and-white drawings on rough paper.

Love Is Just a Death Away(cs)

Sometimes life starts after death for someone. Like for a little parasite, who walks with a rotting corpse of a dead dog around an old landfill. Trapped in his unpalatable body he tries to find love and friendship.

Daughter(cs)

The bond between a father and a daughter is imperilled by matters that go unspoken and hurts that are slow to heal.

Fantaisie érotique(cs)

God of Chaos(en)

A mysterious cult performs an ancient ceremony, inviting an otherworldly power into their earthly realm.

Six Men Getting Sick(en)

Lynch's first film project consists of a loop of six people vomiting projected on to a special sculptured screen featuring twisted three-dimensional faces.

První sníh(cs)

Dino Bone(en)

After seeing a suggestive fossil of two dinosaurs "getting it on," an anxious father tells his curious son a series of little white lies to avoid having "The Talk."

Dark Mixer(ja)

Iwasaki’s ink oscillates like an evil lava lamp that might actually be alive and its progression into more and more disturbing images create an impressive sense of dread in a film that is basically just some pencil drawings on a blank background. (Film School Rejects)

Incognito(hu)

The main character is a young girl who sees the world around her as cold, depraved and ugly. She can’t and won’t fit in. One day, a strange cloud appears over her apartment, triggering a supernatural event.