German artist ATAK presents a carnivalesque theme of power negotiation in this representation of an upside down world. The banker begs on the street corner while the punk hands over spare change; the mouse chases the cat; a horse rides a jockey; a … [Read more...]
Pipopingviini [The Red Herring]
This Finnish-Irish co-production is by some of the same makers as Isän Poika [Papa’s Boy]. A community of penguins are used to traditional methods of fishing, but a pair of suave penguin businessmen arrive to propose a new method. A huge machine is … [Read more...]
Il principi azurro, la principessa fuxia [Prince Charming & The Purple Princess]
This is the second reversible picturebook in the corpus: the other is the Migrando [Migrating] which is themed around the migrant crisis. The wordless form is to put to use to provide two different ways of consider the same story. One side of the … [Read more...]
La Loi du Plus Fort [Law of the Jungle]
A little monkey in a jungle has his eye on a huge bunch of bananas, but no matter what he does, he cannot reach it. When a big monkey succeeds where he has failed, all seems lost, but then a gorilla appears to make things even more complicated. The … [Read more...]
Isän Poika [Papa’s Boy]
This CGI short film, co-produced in Ireland and Finland, is about masculinity and femininity. The film was originally prepared as part of a project celebrating the music of Chopin. Although knowledge of Chopin is by no mean requisite to the success … [Read more...]
Caged
This evocative wordless picturebook is about freedom. It is an allegorical story about two men who build a cage in a forest to trap a flock of dazzlingly bright birds. Unbeknownst to the two men, another bird is watching, who swoops forward to save … [Read more...]
