M'es en abyme

Hedgehog in Love

January 2015 •Ukrainian

Experimental cartoon which unites various techniques: puppets, sand & water (ebru) animations. About friendship, love and necessity to pay attention not only to the visual appeal.

Demi-Goddesses

October 2023 •

The second essay about still dominant dark aspects of our modern society. It is conceived as a surreal anti-patriarchal thought experiment and raises important questions about gender, power, and social change, prompting us to reflect on how historical patterns of discrimination and oppression might be either repeated or overcome in a reversed gendered world. It challenges the viewer to confront their own assumptions and biases, and to consider the possibilities of a more equitable society.

Vortex

June 2017 •Portuguese

A corridor of an apartment is transformed into a claustrophobic and vertiginous vortex that swallows and imprisons you in an infinite fall through a mise en abyme: it’s a pure enclosure inside the image world, it’s the Descent into the Maelstrom.

Beyond the Forest

April 2006 •English

A Romany woman travels from Praha to her home in Transylvania

Knock Down

January 1975 •Polish

Impressions about fighting the passing of time, living in a constant hurry and the uphill battle of finding the natural tempo to life itself.

What Is Sex?

June 2024 •English

A multimedia sex-ed video about life and love in a world where humans have corkscrew penises and corkscrew vaginas.

Impulse

September 1977 •English

An early experimental abstract animation, made by drawing directly on to 16mm film.

Afterimages

August 2023 •English

A film-poem created for Counterclock Journal's 2023 Patchwork: Film x Poetry fellowship, featuring an original poem by Mackenzie Duan and animation by Evan Bode.

Mother and Music

January 2006 •Russian

A film based on an autobiographical prose of the famous Russian poet - Marina Cvetaeva.

Lines

February 2021 •English

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.

Forgetfulness

June 2006 •English

A short film inspired by the poetry of Billy Collins.

相思（上）

December 2016 •Chinese

A Child's Garden of Poetry

April 2011 •English

Poems by some of the greatest writers of all time are brought to life through lyrical animation and readings by some of today’s most respected performers.

The Wings

January 2019 •English

A kinetic typography animation set to a reading of the poem "The Wings" by Sebastian Fox.

Magnicidios Poe

January 2017 •Spanish

The sarcastic account of the assassination of five Spanish politicians between 1870 and 1973 is mixed with the narration of five short stories by Edgar Allan Poe illustrated by five skillful pencil artists. A documentary, a video essay, a collage, a provocative experiment where various pop culture figures and icons perform unexpected cameos. The macabre joke of a jester. Never more.

Fast Film

May 2003 •English

Bits of found film and different types of animation illustrate a classic chase scene scenario: A woman is abducted and a man comes to her rescue, but during their escape they find themselves in the enemy's secret headquarters.

SCAR

July 2024 •English

IT'S RAINING...

How the Moon Conquered Pop

January 2019 •German

Musicians inspired by the Moon. Since the Apollo landings, the Moon has entered popular consciousness like never before. A journey through pop music's lunar obsession.

The Whimsical Council

June 2010 •French

A young man opens the window of his attic room and discovers a lunar landscape which submerges him and threatens to imprison him in an eternal sheet of ice. He closes the window to escape this vision and hears from deep inside his soul the sound of a poem being sung.

The Blue Years

November 2018 •Spanish

Rubén tries to describe the color blue as "The color of dreams, of art, of the ocean and of the firmament", thereby unleashing half a century of poetry.