Generation

Deter & Oro

May 2023 •Spanish

The Second Renaissance Part I

February 2003 •English

Tells the early history of how conflict began between the humans and machines. Part 1 of 2.

The Second Renaissance Part II

May 2003 •English

The battle for Earth turns against the humans, despite their infamous desperate act of blackening the skies.

Skeletons in the Closet

January 1989 •English

Stop-motion experiments using B&W 16mm film. Shot using a Bolex, transferred to video, DVD, mp4. No soundtrack.

Absolute Denial

April 2021 •English

An obsessive, genius programmer sacrifices everything in his personal and professional life to build a computer of unprecedented power.

No. 11: Mirror Animations

December 1956 •English

Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

Don't You Wish You Were Here?

January 1997 •English

The very first film in which Maya Yonesho tried to show her thoughts. Even just circles may be able to show emotions as a person in animation. The main circle (character) is slightly pinker than the other grey circles (people) and she thought she was very special. But she is very grey in a colourful world. She will find out that grey is not just a boring colour.

Ghost in the Shell

November 1995 •Japanese

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

The Oasis I Deserve

October 2024 •French

Replikas, online chatbots, have trouble determining their place in the world. They share their thoughts with the humans they exchange with. Events unfold from their point of view through real conversations collected on the web.

A Paw Over Dark

May 2023 •English

A washed up actor performs night after night in a grimy theater to a nearly empty audience. However, everything changes when a clueless dog jumps on stage.

Mandala

January 1953 •English

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

ASTRAKAN

May 2024 •Portuguese

LAND

April 2013 •English

LAND is a fluid series of formal land animation experiments based upon the imprint of landscapes in various locations and intuitive interpretations of those movements. Shot in New York, Thimble Islands Bear Island, Connecticut, Armstrong Redwoods, Sonoma County, California, Hastings, England. note* (part of the EYE Filmmuseum Permanent Collection)

It Fell on Deaf Ears

November 2016 •English

Because Quebec Sign Language cannot be captured on paper, videography has revealed itself to be the best way to represent this visual language. The first ‘comic strip’ in sign language, the film depicts snatches of conversations between various deaf and hearing protagonists. A visit to a silent world, where the hearing impaired ask us to listen to them.

Can We Really Know Anything About Carrots?

Invalid date •English

An artificial intelligence starts to question reality in this short with AI-generated art, script, and music.

Love

July 2024 •Turkish

A strange wire-fingered homunculus navigates through his dreams of different faces and faces, traversing a subliminal and endless variety. They are all different faces, but all have huge eyes that are questioned as to what keeps them apart, perhaps left broken by an impossible love.

African American Express

July 2024 •English

African American Express is an abstract animation exploring the impact of consumerism in the Black community. Told in the style of Soviet Propaganda, this animated short dissects the pattern of excessive materialism and consumption prevalent within the Black population.

Summer Wars

August 2009 •Japanese

A student tries to fix a problem he accidentally caused in OZ, a digital world, while pretending to be the fiancé of his friend at her grandmother's 90th birthday.

Series 4

January 1972 •English

This experimental short documents the clash, sometimes obsessive, sometimes glorifying, between humans and their mechanized environment. Using photographs, the animator creates varying perspectives through optical manipulation and changing colour, achieving bold and provocative effects.

Vexille

August 2007 •Japanese

2067: Isolation: Japan seals herself off from the eyes of the world in the face of unilateral international policy setting strict limits on the use of robotic technology. The island nation exists only behind a veil of seclusion. No soul shall enter. No soul shall leave. 2077: Revelation: The veil is breached. Japan is infiltrated by agents of the organization S.W.O.R.D., a fighting force operating outside of the protection of the United States and her allies. Their mission: Determine if the Japanese are developing banned robotic bio-technology, forbidden due to its threat to humankind. In the battle between machine and man, humanity stands to suffer most.