Reflections

The End of Pinky

September 2013 •English

Claire Blanchet directs this visually stunning stereoscopic animation, adapted from Heather O’Neills eponymous slice of Montreal noir.

Ripples

April 1967 •English

Ripples uses images cut together to visualize the mind's eye of an architect as he considers his next project.

The Call

March 2006 •English

Pirelli Film's first promotional short, starring John Malcovich and Naomi Campbell.

The Boutdebois Brothers

December 1908 •French

And here is an early success as he puts the viewer in the mood of a little boy, playing with his toys, running them through the paces of his little circus.

O Outro Lado do Arco-íris

March 2004 •Portuguese

Carica is only seven years old and wants a bicycle for Christmas. But his family has no money and offers him a book. The grandfather tells him the story of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. On the first day of rain and sun, Carica embarks on adventure.

Elephants Dream

March 2006 •English

Elephants Dream is the story of two strange characters exploring a capricious and seemingly infinite machine. The elder, Proog, acts as a tour-guide and protector, happily showing off the sights and dangers of the machine to his initially curious but increasingly skeptical protege Emo. As their journey unfolds we discover signs that the machine is not all Proog thinks it is, and his guiding takes on a more desperate aspect. Elephants Dream is a story about communication and fiction, made purposefully open-ended as the world’s first 3D animated “Open movie”. The film itself is released under the Creative Commons license, along with the entirety of the production files used to make it (roughly 7 Gigabytes of data). The software used to make the movie is the free/open source animation suite Blender along with other open source software, thus allowing the movie to be remade, remixed and re-purposed with only a computer and the data on the DVD or download.

Just Before Losing Everything

January 2013 •French

Julien is 10 years old. He pretends to go to school but then hides out under a bridge, his backpack filled with clothes. A few kilometers away, 15-year-old Joséphine does the same and waits for the bus.

Still Got Lives

October 2013 •German

Marco and Lisa are in love. Online, they fight together against dreadful monsters. Sometimes they die on their mission, but there’s always one life to spare. Yet, Lisa refuses to meet Marco for real. One day she stops showing up for the game, Marco decides to go searching for her.

Break

September 2013 •Portuguese

André is a man with the need to pause. In a world where life, is so futile and fragile, he just needs a break. But what is reality, when that break... becomes too long?

Escolhas

August 2013 •Portuguese

Eu Também Prometo

August 2010 •Portuguese

Miguel and Beatriz have been married for seven years, but mutual love is no longer part of their lives. Now, while Miguel surfs the Internet and hides in computer games, Beatriz takes refuge in television programs dedicated to restoring dilapidated houses, gardens, and rooms. Each in their own world, life becomes virtual, in exchange for reality. Then the unexpected happens. The door is locked from the inside and the couple finds themselves unable to return. Locked on the balcony of that villa isolated from the world, Miguel and Beatriz now have to live together.

Sombras de Thule

January 2006 •Portuguese

In 1947, the Thule sect fled Berlin and settled in Lisbon. That same year, a series of disappearances and deaths caught the attention of journalist Vicente d'Orey, who began to investigate... Decades later, in 2005, Rodrigo d'Orey, a doctor at a morgue, stumbled upon the same mysterious crimes and continued the investigation begun by his grandfather. But the truth comes at a price!

The Way to the Sea

September 1936 •English

A 1936 documentary film about the London to Portsmouth railway. A lesser known contemporary of Night Mail, also featuring the music of Benjamin Britten and poetry of W.H. Auden.

Puppet Show

November 1936 •English

Cartoon rabbit Oswald puts on a live-action puppet show.

Sacred Site

January 1986 •English

High-speed film and time-lapse photography combined to create breathtaking images of the night sky and Halley's Comet in this astronomical short subject.

A Fervent Wish

July 2012 •English

Charlie, a backpacker, is walking through the bushes with a pen and notebook in his hand. He sways with the rustling of the trees as the music plays in his ears. While walking he sees a lady, Anna, a teenager, swimming in the river. That river became their meeting place and they easily became friends. But Anna’s father, Mang Berting, prohibited Charlie from coming to the river and even threatened him. How far will Anna and Charlie’s friendship go?

Chasin’ The Bird

September 2007 •Portuguese

A short film

Big Ear

February 1989 •Russian

An alien falls down from the sky in front of a wolf cub. His big ear allows him to listen to everything that happens in the universe. Yet somehow he fails to hear forest creatures calling for help.

Underground Crossing

March 1984 •Russian

About the funny adventures of a snake, a muskrat, a fox and a badger.

Railway Station

January 1980 •Polish

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. Maybe they'll come, maybe they won't. The film is about people looking for something.