Anemone Temple

Nova

July 2020 •English

A young astronaut works in solitude on a spaceship, trying to avoid reminders of her life back on Earth. When an alien entity finds its way aboard her ship, she must face some difficult truths.

For Sock's Sake

July 2008 •English

Stop-motion animated short produced as a film student graduation project at the Gobelins Animation School of Paris by Carlo Vogele, class of 2008, leading to a career as a character animator at Pixar. It was selected as the winner of the Best Graduation Film award the following year at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

My Fat Arse and I

May 2020 •Polish

A girl who believes she is too fat is invited to the "Kingdom of Slimbuttlandia".

Entr'Acte

January 2014 •

A series of vaudeville acts inserted in images of reality, meant to demonstrate the ephemeral nature of all things.

Episode 11

September 2020 •Czech

Space hero Hart is captured by enemy robots. His son loses an arm in the attack, but he must save his father from their metal claws.

Square

October 2020 •Czech

sfumato

June 2021 •English

Derived from an installation, an asymmetrical orchestration of "motion paintings" pushing the limits of abstraction in the digital age.

The Routine

July 2017 •English

This animation is about a young man trapped in a daily routine where every single day is so very similar to the previous one. There are no happiness, satisfaction and love for a long time in his life because of such a routine days, weeks, months and even years.

Street Musique

November 1972 •English

Animator Ryan Larkin does a visual improvisation to music performed by a popular group presented as sidewalk entertainers. His take-off point is the music, but his own beat is more boisterous than that of the musicians. The illustrations range from convoluted abstractions to caricatures of familiar rituals. Without words.

Le ruban

July 2009 •French

China, in the early sixties: an angry mob is persecuting a rich landowner. Mei, a young worker, who is part of the crowd. Suddenly she recognizes the victim who she secretly loves. Frightened of revealing her feelings, Mei doesn't know what to do.

The Beast

November 2021 •Spanish

A young mexican smuggler and a little girl travel illegally on top of a cargo train, called La Bestia, to get to the USA. An injury transforms his perception of the journey.

Kastaars

May 2017 •Dutch

The residents of a flat building are completely self-absorbed and never look out their window to see a chicken frequently fluttering by. The chicken has a nest on the roof where she hatches her eggs. One day the eggs get stolen.

Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic

August 2020 •English

An elegy to a love affair that has gone sour, a fond farewell to that most beautiful material that has subjugated our planet – plastic.

Coffin

October 2020 •French

A man comes home and wants to go to bed. A bunch of noisy roommates. A crowded city in southern China.

Ab ovo - Traces of Sand

January 1987 •

A non-narrative film thematising the eternal struggle of human life in a series of scenes connected by associations and accompanied by a strong music motif.

Enter Hamlet

January 1965 •English

Enter Hamlet is a collage of images in cartoon form of a word put in balloon in each jump-cut scene as that word is said by the narrator Maurice Evans during his “To be or not to be…” soliloquy recording.

Love Is Just a Death Away

November 2021 •Czech

Sometimes life starts after death for someone. Like for a little parasite, who walks with a rotting corpse of a dead dog around an old landfill. Trapped in his unpalatable body he tries to find love and friendship.

Eyes Wide Open

January 2021 •French

During a very hot summer, Emma (15) is doomed to boredom at her grandparents's house. She's dying for something to happen. At the edge of a pond, she hides to observe The Young Man. She develops a brief but intense obsession for this fantasized stranger.

Six Men Getting Sick

January 1967 •English

Lynch's first film project consists of a loop of six people vomiting projected on to a special sculptured screen featuring twisted three-dimensional faces.

Daughter

June 2019 •Czech

The bond between a father and a daughter is imperilled by matters that go unspoken and hurts that are slow to heal.