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Conversations With a Whale by Anna Samo

"In this love letter to artists, their art and its audience, a filmmaker is confronted with rejection after rejection until, at last a beautiful fig tree bears sweet fruits. “Conversations with a Whale” was created directly under the camera lens, using various analogue animation techniques."

art, direction and animation by Anna Samo
produced by Tom Bergmann
music and sound design Merche Blasco
with the voices of Lisa Labracio, Merche Blasco Jason Patience, Biljana Labovich Jeremiah Dickey, Abdallah Ewis Bethany Cutmore-Scott
sound re-recording mixer Benjamin Beladi
additional sound design, foley and mix David Jalbert

Goal by Bear Damen

"Roused by ambition, two men face the price of their prize. They race side by side and yet are mentally miles away. The game is not over, it’s a tie…"
"The tie so sorrowful that you wear and that adorns you oh civilized one take it off if you wish to breathe" - Guillaume Apollinaire

Director: Bear Damen
Choreography: Mathilde Gilhet in collaboration with the performers
Featuring: Simon Bus and Roy Overdijk
Producer: Luc de Kock
Edit / Sound / Music / Color Grade: Bear Damen

à la fin… by Nicolas Lichtle.

"Here is a film ... , it's neither fiction nor animation, the graphic style is rather singular. It's a moment of introspection, very intimate, staged through a succession of small moments imbued with poetry, absurdity and sometimes surrealism…"

(Un)Related To God by Thomas Pons

"A track by Apollo Noir, entitled « Unrelated to God », chanting God’s name…
Wait… Yes, it seems we are facing a paradox. Men strive to name God, to define Him, as much as they are willing to detach themselves from Him.
This traditional 2D animation video is about our relationship to God, the little figures embodying the metaphor of Men as builders of their own belief. The dust from stones disintegrate in elementary particles giving birth to new figures and matter. Men, stones and particles transform in mysterious cycles, Particles turning gigantic, Stones becoming alive, Men growing in colossal sculptures.  ..."

Written & performed by Apollo Noir.
Directed by Thomas Pons.

Pitch video: https://vimeo.com/407888190

Says You by The Luyas

"A wandering woman is swallowed by the blooming desert."

Music by The Luyas
Directed by Amanda Bonaiuto

paperbagrecords.com/artists/the-luyas/
theluyas.net/

Vienna Hit by Anna Vasof

Sea You by Ben Brand

"Would you feel it? Would you know it? Travel back in time and sea for yourself...
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When my girlfriend told me the story of her family spreading her deceased grandmothers ash over the sea (like a lot of people around the world do) i started wondering what actually happens to all that ash ..."