Experimental

Director: Leena Lehti
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Finland

Elegia havumetsälle. Ilmaston lämpenemisen myötä kasvillisuusvyöhykkeiden rajat siirtyvät kohti pohjoista, ja havumetsä sellaisena, kuin sen tunnemme, on muuttumassa ja katoamassa. Taiga on tehty 16mm filmille ilman kameraa. Se yhdistää käsin raaputettua animaatiota ja taigalta kerättyjä pieniä kasveja ja sammalia.

Director: Leena Pukki
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 9 min 50 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Finland

Videoteoksessa limakkojen liike yhdistyy kuvioihin, jotka on valittu karjalaisista kuvatäkeistä. Limakot ovat alkeellisia aitotumallisia eliöitä, jotka pystyvät liikkumaan, vaikka niillä ei ole aivoja tai neurojärjestelmää. Taustalla kuultava runo käsittelee ajan, kiertokulun ja maatumisen teemoja.

Director: Justyna Pazdan
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 4 min 52 sec
Year: 2020
Country: Poland

Deep-sea organisms living in such a specific environment have developed unusual forms and properties. By observing them, you have the impression that you are watching an otherworldly, fairy-tale world of dreams.

Director: Paul Wenninger
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 5 min 38 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Austria, France

Stop Motion – a dancer as filmmaker refrains from superfluous movement in a villa in Brittany, giving way to an individual as well as social state described by the French philosopher Paul Virilio as “polar inertia”.

Director: Yiorgos Tsangaris
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 4 min 28 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Cyprus

Travelling theatre troupes with their pagan roots and Christian Orthodox tradition are two seemingly opposite worlds, both mysterious and both enchanting to the author.

Director: Chaerin Im
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 6 min 15 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Germany, South Korea, USA

Exploration of masculinity begins with the Minotaur, a mythical creature Picasso used to portray himself in his etching print series. The Minotaur goes through a violent struggle between being male and female. Finally, lines blur and boundaries of sexes disappear.

Director: Sasha Svirsky
Technique: 2D, 3D
Duration: 7 min 57 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Russia

Finally, Vadim goes out of a tight square space where he has been used to sitting. He embraces the brave new world and his renewed life.

Director: Rosalie Loncin
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 6 min 14 sec
Year: 2021
Country: France

In the distant future, a community living in a desert universe remembers with melancholy the time when there were still trees, insects, birds…

Director: Ethann Néon
Technique: Stop-motion, pixelation
Duration: 3 min 45 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Belgium

Piecing together fragments of a creative existence while locked down. A lone dweller in a small flat: time slips, memory erodes and fades, the inanimate become animated. A film of uncertainty: what have I become, or what was I?

Director: Patricks Smith
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 4 min
Year: 2020
Country: USA

“Beyond Noh” rhythmically animates 3,475 individual masks from all over the world, beginning with the distinctive masks of the Japanese Noh theater and continuing on a cultural journey through ritual, utility, deviance, and politics.

Director: Bruno Quast
Technique: 3D, sand animation
Duration: 6 min 40 sec
Year: 2020
Country: Estonia

The short film interprets the homonymous electroacoustic track by russian composer Viktoria Grahv.
Her music was inspired by the idea of breathing to break free of chains, envisioning a dragon sleeping in a cave.

Director: Yoriko Mizushiri
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 4 min 28 sec
Year: 2021
Country: France, Japan

Living things, artificial things, geometry shapes, and lines. When these different things encounter, a new direction is born.

Director: Angel Wu
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 3 min 36 sek
Year: 2020
Country: Taiwan

Q1: Why did you draw? Q2: How did you begin to draw? Q3: Why did you stop drawing? Q4: How did you go back to draw? Q5: Will you draw on?

Director: Senne Driesen
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 9 min 36 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Belgium

Press(ed) is not a movie, but an experience. A nostalgic trip that makes us aware of the monotonous industrialization. “Every day again those same tasks, endless repetitions. We are trapped in our repeated patterns of work. A street with no end, what kind of work [more…]

Director: Ben Fox
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 3 min 59 sec
Year: 2020
Country: UK

Piecing together fragments of a creative existence while locked down. A lone dweller in a small flat: time slips, memory erodes and fades, the inanimate become animated. A film of uncertainty: what have I become, or what was I?

Director: Paul Hartmann
Technique: Pixelation
Duration: 7 min 12 sec
Year: 2020
Country: Germany

Hey there, Stop for a second and follow me in a world, where we all together feel useless for a moment! What would you do, if the world would stop turning at this point? How could you stop texting or working, running and hustling. We all [more…]

Director: Vladimir Todorovic
Technique: 3D
Duration: 7 min 12 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Australia

This video demonstrates the most recent research achievements of the Centre for Mimoid Studies (CMS), a group from the Giesean Institute of Solaristics. According to their recently published paper, the scientists have discovered that tissue of the extraterrestrial organism (mimoid) regenerates after being exposed to the [more…]