Leaders

Fantaisie érotique

January 1936 •Czech

Fraktura

June 2021 •English

Peregrine

June 2021 •English

A dedicated bird watcher observes a hawk and journeys to the limits of what it means to be human.

Beyond Noh

June 2021 •English

"Beyond Noh" rhythmically animates 3,475 individual masks from all over the world, beginning with the distinctive masks of the Japanese Noh theater and continuing on a cultural journey through ritual, utility, deviance, and politics.

sfumato

June 2021 •English

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

Entr'Acte

January 2014 •

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

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.

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.

Abandoned Village

June 2021 •Georgian

Village, like a human being, is born out of love. Village, like a human being, is ruined, if left without love.

Threnody

June 2020 •English

Threnody emphasises some of the madness and instability of a year filled with fires, infections and general disarray.

Concatenation

June 2021 •Italian

A destructive sequence with infinite consequences.

Senescence

June 2021 •English

Poum Poum !

June 2021 •French

A musical animated film which celebrates the simple and childish joy of hitting drums, scribbling on paper using marker pens, splashing paint or making cracked cymbals screech.

Boy Oh Boy

June 2021 •English

A boy conjures the stars out of yogurt.

Strange Fish

March 2017 •English

Blind evolution. Seemingly arbitrary stages of the evolution in black-and-white drawings on rough paper.

Dark Mixer

January 2014 •Japanese

Iwasaki’s ink oscillates like an evil lava lamp that might actually be alive and its progression into more and more disturbing images create an impressive sense of dread in a film that is basically just some pencil drawings on a blank background. (Film School Rejects)

Alexander Mosolov. Three Pieces

June 2020 •Russian

Experimental film from the almanac of classical music for children "Children's Album". It is dedicated to the constructivist period of Alexander Mosolov, as well as architecture and cinema of this direction and consists of three parts, with conditional names: 1. "Shadows", 2. "Movement", 3. "Volume". The structure of the film is visually and rhythmically close to constructivism.

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.

Square

October 2020 •Czech

There Is Something Behind the Sound

October 2019 •Czech