This film is by Film Bilder, the studio who made Head Up. This film, part of the Animanimals series by Julie Ocker, depicts the systematic and collective life of an ant colony. The military precision of the ants is an apt catalyst to discuss the … [Read more...]
Bon Voyage
The grim irony of this film’s title demonstrates its hard-hitting treatment of the difficult, important subject of forced migration. The film begins as a traditional animation, depicting a group of refugees styled as simple line-drawings as they flee … [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...]
Domek [The House]
When a family leave their house for a new apartment in the centre of the city, the house uproots itself in order to follow them and win them back. A tale of rivalry between old and new technologies and ways of living begins, as the house follows the … [Read more...]
Die Igel und die Stadt [Hedgehogs and the City]
This beautiful example of Baltic (Latvian) stop-motion begins with a depiction of the role of industry in a changing landscape: a snowy forest scene is obliterated, and a city pops up in its place. In the centre of the city square is a park in which … [Read more...]
The Amazing Little Worm
The eponymous worm in this short film is frustrated with his identity and would like to be something else. He tries to befriend a pair of caterpillars, but fails to successfully adopt their metamorphosis into butterflies. He even makes a pair of … [Read more...]
Super Grand [Super Big]
A giant in a superhero cape arrives in a city on an island and scares all the tiny citizens. Although he tries to show benevolence by helping the citizens, they remain afraid of him. A volcano on the far side of the island begins to belch smoke as an … [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...]
November [Novembre]
The animals that live along a riverbank prepare for a long, cold winter in this gently told, beautifully animated short film by Swiss animator Marjolaine Perreten. Perreten also created Super Grand [Super Big]. As the rain falls and the sky grows … [Read more...]
