No Leaders, Please

The ErlKing

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.

Uncle Jake

Dear Basketball

An animated telling of Kobe Bryant's titular poem, signaling his retirement from the sport that made his name.

Onion

A short animation based on the poem "Onion" by Wislawa Szymborska.

I Would Like to Live on the Moon

A young non-binary person feels overwhelmed and wants to escape - literally, to the moon.

Namoo

A narrative poem brought to life and an ode to a grandfather's passing, NAMOO—which translates to “tree” in Korean—follows the journey of a budding artist from beginning to end.

No hay Eco en el Eco

A visual interpretation of the poem "the girl / the scream" by Mahmud Darwish.

Kobzar 2015

In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for Turkey and were executed by other Zaporizhian Sich Cossacks are reanimated as living dead at one cold night.

Em direção à Ítaca

The bread which once was dough

The main morality is the chronic desire for rest Within the historians, filmmakers, astronomers and the bread Which once was dough front to back Relationship stops along the way You are not a wax-work in a glass Become the concept of freedom Freedom exists and must bring fruit The universe glancing for purchase reasoned

The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Original Poem

Tim Burton's original poem narrated by Christopher Lee.

Apartment is as Quiet as Paper

A small film based on a poem by Osip Mandelstam. What the poet is thinking about, sitting in his apartment.

Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop

After meeting one day, a shy boy who expresses himself through haiku and a bubbly but self-conscious girl share a brief, magical summer.

Letter To Celestial

Letter to Celestial is a re-animation and re-imagination of archival documents found in the search for Asian sex workers in Montréal's Chinatown and historic Red Light District.

The Boy in the Bubble

Rupert, a ten year old boy, falls hopelessly in love for the first time. When it all goes terribly wrong, he wishes never to experience heartache again. Turning to a book of magic, he invokes a spell to shield him from emotion forever.

Afterimages

A film-poem created for Counterclock Journal's 2023 Patchwork: Film x Poetry fellowship, featuring an original poem by Mackenzie Duan and animation by Evan Bode.

Pourvu qu'ils me laissent le temps