a life size stop motion child puppet races through memories and daydreams reflecting on the cyclical nature of life.
Seraphim Cloud
as Seraphim
The tropical rainforests of Mexico and Peru. A unique poetic reality. The eternal dance of life and death as experienced by magical creatures of porcelain - animals, birds, insects and flowers – fragile and resilient at the same time.
Rumble of train rails; Crashing of ocean waves; Soft caress of distant wind. Two people. Two ways of perceiving the world.
I turned my gaze to the various events in daily life and made this filmic diary in a manner as if confessing my feelings. Of course, since I was making the film, I wanted to depict these feelings and events with tricky techniques. I used various methods to shoot photographs of a relative's wedding, the landscape I see from window of my house, commemorative travel photographs and the like frame-by-frame.
Set in a parallel universe entering a black hole, a woman reading the book of Revelation has visions of regeneration during Anthropocene.
Following the discovery of a serious threat to the Clone Army of the Republic, a unit of civilian volunteers is dispatched to quell the Separatist scheme. Meanwhile, a young man with a special gift struggles to find a place of belonging in the galaxy. "From the Ashes" is a fan-made, feature-length LEGO stop-motion Star Wars film.
The wind carries an aspiring healer into a chaotic, virulent parallel world. Paralyzed by a familiar universe that is gradually becoming distorted, she discovers she has the power to stop time.
Mary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee, falls in love with the seductive Eva, who is busy becoming a revue star. When Eva fails and loses her money, Armand tries to help her out.
“Belladonna Museum” is a short film that portrays a personal experience of a transgender woman in a tragic love relationship: it is a visual poetry that reinterprets iconic paintings from surrealism and post-impressionism to address themes such as emotional dependence, loneliness, objectification, the attachment and the abuse both emotional and physical.
Animated poetic ode to the bright Soviet Future, based on the poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky.
A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's tale The Ugly Duckling.
A short puppet animation. Winner of the Oofuji Noburou Award.
The first animated short film to feature Varga's clumsy claymation character Augusta.
A feminine machine, stuffed with modern nano-technology and useless operations is depicted in this mixed-media 2D animation short, highlighting the consequences of consumerism and the downfall of civilized society. The machine reminiscent of a two-dimensional video game, leads to a destructive chain reaction after a strange malfunction, with people turning into clones and robots.
Ella Blake, a stop-motion animator struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother, embarks upon the creation of a film that becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her project take on a life of their own.
A child is lured out of his home, kidnapped and held captive in the small cell in the basement of a church-bunker by three pedophile priests. One night a mysterious visitor opens the cell door and leaves him a sack full of Christmas presents.... The Film was published as a segment of "Deathcember" but was banned from the VOD Releases by the US Publisher in UK and the USA.
When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.
A shopping center along a large highway is the scene of an apocalyptic musical. Animation with a strong sense of form set to auto-tuned music by Klungan. About liberation through great catastrophy.
'Afloat' is an experimental film that paints a portrait of Japanese performance artist: Ayumi Lanoire. The film opens as a telephone call between Ayumi and Person X, which meanders the audience through the various layers that make up her personas leading one to wonder whether she is in fact a myth or reality.
In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.