Bernie Krause's niche theory is that an animal's voice evolved in a way to occupy its own little, unique acoustic slot within a whole soundscape, a puzzle piece in the whole puzzle, to be distinguishable in the mess. A fisher wonders what sounds fit best in niches created by surrounding sounds.
Addiction is an animated short video made for Appleat. Appleat is french organisation which deals with various sorts of addictions in society and tries to detaboo them.
"The Odd Hour" is an experimentation with space, objects and an overhead projector. It is the first animated adaptation of poem by Ewald Murrer, member of the Wernisch family consisting of three generations of respected Czech poets. Along with the other two will be made an animated triptych or rather a bond tying their torn-apart relationship.
Throughout history, people have always been searching for a perfect place. This short film, based on Guaraní mythology (Tierra sin mal) offers another point of view on paradise: what if the real paradise is inside us and lies in the harmony and unity of everything alive?
In “Flat ’n’ Round” we are introduced to a peculiar parallel universe where everybody in the world has been divided between two competing physical forms and fanatical ideologies – flat and round. Two boys representing the opposing factions get into a heated argument over the shape of the world and a fantastical adventure ensues. What happens when you launch a flat-earther into orbit? Is the Earth truly round or have we all been deceived?
Tim is longing for love. He’s a lonely human being who struggles with exclusion every day. Every time Tim feels different than others he transforms into a french bulldog. Ginger makes Tim feel human. Ginger is an old friend of Tim`s whom he was in love with, unrequited love. Tim collides with Ginger in the street, they talk and become friends again. After meeting Ginger Tim becomes a dog again. This time he chooses to enjoy being a dog and sees all the possibilities of a dog`s life. It’s good to be a human being but it’s good being a dog sometimes too.
A little girl reflects on her last summer with her father at his funeral.
Set on a small island in Japan where the director was born and raised, the film explores the relationship between the death of her father and the bomb storage in the mountain behind the family house.
DIRECTOR’S NOTE
There are regions scattered throughout Japan that have a tradition known as “hone kami,” or “biting the bone.” After the deceased is cremated, certain bones survive the blaze, and fragments of these are eaten as a means of making the deceased a part of oneself, and of overcoming grief and pain. I first learned of this practice as an adult, and was quite shocked by it.
As it happens, there was such a tradition among certain families in my native village. And in my own first experience with death (the death of my father), I was encouraged to eat one of his bones, but could not bring myself to do it. Still very young, I could not come to terms with and accept my father’s death. My memory of that experience is traumatic.
The bone I did not eat stayed with me, as if stuck in my throat, and I found myself unable to express the experience in words nor forget it.
More than a decade has passed since I left my distant and tiny island home at age 15 to live on my own. An old wartime powder magazine still stands on the island I was born on.
The fact that it was an ammunition dump, rather than an air raid shelter, near my childhood home made me feel that I was on the side that imposed death and cruel violence, rather than on the side that was subjected to it.
That fact evokes fear and loathing and a multitude of emotions that are hard to describe in words, but I felt I must own that history. Or rather, that I had already owned it all along.
Reflecting on this experience as an adult, I decided to confront the connection between my father’s bones and the ammunition dump.
The landscape and ocean of my island are teeming with life, and the serenity of nature is always accompanied by nature’s severity. The visual concept of this project is to synthesize natural landscapes and childhood memories by presenting memory as a collection of points.
Zoo is a short animated video, of a same named song by the electroclash music band Nauzea Orchestra, about a dark world full of skulls, scary creatures and secrets. The audience is enchanted through the spinning wheel of transformations and it invites us to join this creepy Levandul´s parade.
Festival films
Bizarre animation
Life is Life
Informative films
Musical motives
