When Noemí left Escarigo in the 1960s in pursuit of a better life, she left behind a village whose streets were filled with life and joy. Now, silence reigns over this rural portuguese town. We follow Noemí on a trip back to her hometown, which she barely recognizes. With the help of the few locals and her longtime friends, Noemí dives into her past as she tries to cope with the loss of loved ones.
You can't choose what you remember
A short-animated film interpreting famous war photographer Don McCullin's contemplation on his professional experience and impact it had on his life. Frame-by-frame Charcoal animation.
A boy and his ageing grandfather are connected by the music his grandfather plays. When the grandfather suddenly can’t remember how to play and his very own light goes out, the boy must find a way to bring his grandfather and the light back.
Eve muses on ageing and the formation of identity as she applies her make up in a backstage dressing room. The film becomes increasingly surreal as the disparity between self-perception and how we are seen by others is revealed.
A man slowly realises he is trapped in a video game.
A father helps his son move into university accomodation.
"Punchbag" is the cycle of abuse, With this film we aim to make a statement about the the trauma of abuse and toxic masculinity that is traveled down through a Grandfather, Father and a Son.
When Thurston, an overworked videogame developer, finds a 3D rendered version of himself on an online database called “This Person Does Not Exist”, he begins to question the nature of his own reality - and whether he is an expendable asset at his company. Are his actions coded and pre-determined, or is he the one playing the game?
A lonely performer who spends her days as a living statue waits and wishes for someone to notice her. One day another statue appears on her boardwalk, pulling her out of her shell.
A hunter who lives in the mountain knows the bears well. She apologizes to each bear every time she kills one, but she has to, for it is how she makes her living. One evening, she comes across a bear and when she is about to kill it, the bear speaks to her.
The director couldn’t have anticipated the coronavirus epidemic, but here is a near-future world in which a middle-class protagonist lives indoors, congratulating himself on the economic virtues of having ingested ‘animal condensed’ – an unexplained substance that seems to merge human and animal – and its benefits to his comfortably alienated life. “It optimises, it abstracts… it made us safe, here at home, with our accelerated portfolios”, he explains. Upstairs, his daughter virtually reconfigures Peppa Pig. Outside, meanwhile, hiding in the forest, is an unnamed, camouflaged fugitive, who explains her escape from a society that seems to have happily abolished the distinction between organic and technological life. An artist who has become a guerrilla fighter, the woman is busy preparing totem-like countermeasures to disrupt those who have become ‘animal expanded’.
Roadkill is a stop-motion animated thriller. One alpha male deer goes for an evening car ride and has an unfortunate car accident.
A stop-motion animated short following the life of an escaped chimp attempting to live the life of a normal human.
Thaumatrope n°1 is an avant-garde non-narrative animation created physical using the Victorian optical toy. The thaumatropes are made through a combination of illustrations and photographs. It aims to portrait anxiety and explore ways to expand cinematic language.
Left Unsaid is an experimental animated film about cultural dysphoria and the disconnect between grandfather and grandchild caused by an ever-growing language barrier.
A short documentary about Laurence Dixon, repairman of the double bass and owner of Bass Place.
'The Tiger' is a Promotional film for the Children's Society 2022 'HOPE' campaign. The film illustrates the narrator's experience with her trauma through a metaphorical tiger.
