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Beyond Noh rhythmically animates 3,475 individual masks from all over the world, beginning with the distinctive masks of the Japanese Noh theatre and continuing on a cultural journey through ritual, utility, deviance and politics. The mesmerising experience is enhanced by a purely percussive soundtrack.

Dispersing fog reveals tree stumps. As it clears, the static shot shows more details of a mountain landscape with the remnants of houses. Only the soothing soundtrack of this contemplative film evokes the memories of life once nourished by this place. A village, just like a human being, is born out of love. A village, just like a human being, is ruined if left without love.

Film věnující se konstruktivistickému období Alexandra Vasiljeviče Mosolova a architektuře a filmu tohoto uměleckého směru sestává ze tří častí, které režisérka intuitivně pojmenovala Stíny, Pohyb a Objem. Díla, která složil tento skladatel vážné hudby pro děti, hrají mladí hudebníci, studenti Dětské umělecké školy Jakova Fliera. S nápadem vytvořit animované hudební album přišla Irina Margolina.

Poum Poum! is an animated musical film which celebrates the simple and childish joy of hitting drums, scribbling on paper using marker pens, splashing paint and making cracked cymbals screech. Poum Poum! finds chaos and mishaps amusing and aims at spreading a spontaneous and joyful creative energy.

Deep-sea organisms living in their specific environment have developed unusual forms and properties. By observing them, you have the impression that you are watching an otherworldly, fairy-tale world of dreams. The film is a creative interpretation of the underwater world, in which the author invites you to take part in a relaxing session. It is represented by luminescent clay, the closest thing to underwater organisms.

A destructive sequence with infinite consequences. The renowned Italian director built his ‛film-shot’ using borrowed footage of all kinds. In this less than one minute long, but nevertheless captivating video, he flies through many unrelated environments while playing with the ‘butterfly effect’ theory.

Fraktura is an abstract horror, evoking a unique German Expressionist atmosphere. It features a collection of lead type from the Gutenberg Museum, printed directly onto 35mm film using a letterpress. An original film score performed on a church organ completes this film, produced in the spirit of Murnau’s film Nosferatu and Stoker’s novel Dracula.

The sounds act as witnesses. They blur into memories, half-dreams, it is undecided if they are real or not. Fluctuation between imagination and reality. Pictures rocking in the mind, pulsating with dark emotions. A horrible secret in the raging winds of our cells.  This minimalist film evokes the feeling of being hypnotised.

An experimental ani-doc about the author’s personal experiences and observations during lockdown. At the beginning of Austria’s first lockdown he decided to shut himself up in his hometown of Salzburg to work on these animated chronicles that deal with the places where he grew up with but also with his thoughts and observations in March and June 2020.

The author works with the interaction of space in which we find ourselves, and the energies associated with it. The state of rest, then being torn out of it, then returning to it, forms a framed structure; it is about presenting this kind of duality and the balance between the two states. The work is based on artistic starting points, which is why he chose traditional hand-drawn animation. 

This playful short film uses simple building blocks provided by a young creator. His voice and sufficiently rhythmised first words are complemented by visual elements from his first drawings, which imply that we are watching the miracle of creation. Yoghurt turns into nothing less than the Milky Way.

This experimental short film was made as a graduation project in the Studio of Film and TV Graphics of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. The author found the inspiration for her film when travelling through Scotland and she managed to transfer the country’s atmosphere to the viewers despite using only wool.

Senescence is a visceral depiction of the very human process of senescence; the condition and process of deterioration with age. The author alternates detailed shots from the inside and outside of the human body. She uses traditional hand-drawn animation accompanied by a sometimes relaxed and sometimes chillingly naturalistic soundtrack.

This slightly disturbing, ambiguous video was made by Faiyaz Jafri, a specialist in 3D CGI animation. The dominant motif of this video is a woman wearing a white leotard and a helmet, looking like a cheerleader. Her figure is multiplied many times and it moves in a cyclical rhythm. According to the author, the mass of lifeless bodies is a choreographed vision of the future.

Liza is a predominantly abstract film made using the traditional technique of direct animation. It also makes use of another popular technique – it animates a specific musical composition. In this case, it is a visual transcription of a composition by George Gershwin. This (along with colour and movement) gives you a chance to get to know Liza.

A film poem created with the wild flowers that grow along the shore of the Laira estuary, the tidal mouth of the River Plym, on the southwest coast of Britain. The petals and leaves stream past as the haunting soundscape ebbs and flows. The title relates to the cyclical nature of the seasons and the twice daily rhythm of the tides.

A dedicated bird watcher observes a hawk and journeys to the limits of what it means to be human. Peregrine is an experimental animated film about obsession, instinct and innate darkness. It explores the elegance and majesty of nature, but also its unavoidable cruelty. It is inspired by the autobiographical The Peregrine, written by J. A. Baker.

This experimental film is based on a multi-channel video installation by Berlin-based artist Robert Seidel, pushing the limits of abstract painting in the digital age. It unleashes a sublime moment of pure abstraction into an asymmetrical orchestration of motion paintings.

An animated extravaganza of plastic collected from beaches, roadsides, attics and junk shops. This is an elegy to a love affair that has gone sour, a fond farewell to that most beautiful material that has enslaved our planet – plastic.