Ake & Ch(1991)

The Falling Star(fr)

The last conscious moments of Stalin, the solitary tyrant who believes himself immortal. An evocation of the mental chaos of the Little Father of the People who was suffering from delusions of persecution and untold power during the three days of his death throes. And, in fact, is he really dead? In the limbo of the Soviet past, the ghosts from the gulag dream of settling some old scores.

Cool Cat's Crazy Dream(en)

Cool Cat, the coolest cat in the world, tells his friends, the audience, a crazy dream, how he was invited to a celebrity party and meets many celebrities. And he loved it.

Those That Go Unnoticed(en)

This is a short film about two childhood best friends who have always been inseparable. As they now embark on a new chapter of their lives, they are forced to confront hidden truths about their friendship, and the emotional echoes of memories.

Ocean(en)

Litter Rap(en)

A rap teaching kids how to use a waste basket.

Letters O, P, and R(en)

Words that start with the letter O, P, and R. A typographic animation.

Paper Origami(en)

Things you can do with a single sheet of paper.

Floor Tiles(en)

When you’re asleep(fr)

This little film, which juxtaposes animated sand and scratching on 16mm film, was made during studies at the Royal College of Art. The starting point of this film was the sentence "but it's always when you're asleep that I want to talk to you", read on a wall in the underground... a phrase actually taken from a Mano Solo song.

Bird Food(en)

A man plans to eat his lunch in the park, but the local pigeons have other ideas.

Monkeydoodle(en)

Simon the Monk(ey) terrorizes a weird-looking dog, which plays the part of his slave - takes any order from the “master” and gets beaten from time to time. They run through the jungle, meet a monkey-jazz-band, then escape from a tiger and nothing really happens...

Wonder Bakers at the World's Fair(en)

Animated segments which might have originally framed live action footage of bakers at work making Wonder Bread and Hostess cakes.

Haramiste(fr)

Two teenage sisters deal with the Muslim taboo of premarital sex.

Até a China(pt)

I went to China with hand luggage only. In China, motorcyclists wear the reverse jacket and restaurants serve fish heads, crayfish and eels. The event's employee studies cinema and likes Kung Fu films. I bought vacuum-packed chicken feet.

Hungry Hoboes(en)

Oswald and his friend and nemesis Peg-Leg Pete are hobos riding on a train and playing checkers when hilarity ensues

Chick(pl)

Humorous true-life story about male-female relations. Infatuation and its consequences are depicted in a ironic way: meeting a guy, dancing, having fun, a sexual act. A man, giddy with the charm of a femme fatale, leaves a room. He is followed by failure and doom.

The Fox and the Ouzel(uk)

This story takes place in a Ukrainian village. A thievish fox could not resist not eating some poultry. One night he crawled into a house to steal a chicken, but his actions awakened the owners of the house. In an attempt to flee, he fell into a trap. Only the Ouzel could solve all the fox’s problems.

Sweet Cocoon(xx)

A story about a caterpillar undergoing metaphorphosis in a too-small cocoon.

How Petryk Pyatochkin Counted Little Elephants(uk)

Petryk Pyatochkin goes to kindergarten and loves to play around. One day he counted elephants so that he could fall asleep with the other children during quiet time. And when he succeeded, Petryk got to Africa in an amazing kindergarten, where he had to take care of baby elephants, who did not miss the opportunity to have fun.

The Way of Peace(en)

Punctuated with stories from the Bible, the film’s purpose was to reinforce Christian values in the atomic age by condemning the consequences of human conflict with scenes of the crucifixion, lynching and Nazi fascism.