Animation
Dreams into Drawing
Animation
The painter Kuwagata Keisai lived over 200 years ago. He created 'Ways to Sketch', a series of picture books illustrating humans and animals, all richly expressed. One day he was sketching out a carp, just at that moment he slept and he became a carp in dream. A carp was enjoy to swimming, but a fisherman caught that carp...
A Kitten Named Woof: The Second Story
Animation
Simpleton Jack
Animation
Have you ever had the hiccups? Well, of course. Who hasn’t dealt with this amusing little affliction? And what’s the best cure for hiccups? No, not this, and definitely not that. The best cure is…
Atopia
Animation
The film explores the state of ‘atopia’ that afflicts Socrates in Plato’s *Symposium*. It is an aesthetic experience of stepping outside oneself, which the work conveys by depicting a musical improvisation by cellist Giovanni Sollima as he plays against a backdrop of abstract images created by directly manipulating 35mm film using acid etching, colour, scratches and abrasions. The secret relationship between the musician and his instrument is thus transposed onto the film medium, producing a synaesthetic perception.
Agreement
Animation
An animated conversation in which eight voices agree and disagree about the agreement that is language.
Adoration
Animation
The island of Giudecca, south of the historic center of Venice, is the home of the Convent of the Convertite, which for about 200 years has been a women’s jail for the imprisonment and rehabilitation of condemned prisoners. Even before that, the building was a convent where prostitutes and women considered immoral were locked up against their will. Nevertheless, behind those walls, and in particular in the parlor, there is another story, and according to this story women performed for high society offering shows of transvestism, sometimes even blasphemous.
Parle-moi
ComedyAnimation
Two ex-lovers meet again after a few years being apart. Electrified by the encounter, they decide to spend the night together.
Météores
Animation
On a cool summer night, animals with eyes full of light leave the forest to venture into the alleys of a suburban neighborhood. Four children sneak out of their beds, and stars begin to fall from the sky. By the morning everything will have changed, but for now let’s run!