Eastern and Central European Panorama
Uporni duh / Rebellious Essence
A cat walks into the Office of the Ministry for Cat Affairs and requests a passport. All goes well until the female and male cat clerks demand to know the cat's sex.
Aenigma
A requiem to Form, Feminine-Goddess, eternal Eve, Art. From idealization and sacred worship to delectation and insemination, to transformation and reproduction, to deterioration and decay, to desecration and vandalizing, to condemnation and subjugation, to the fall into timeless Erebus. To the dream of regeneration.
Broken Lock: Mass-produced Unicorns
A journey to find some Unicorns down the Matrix rabbit hole. In this dystopia, consumerism also reigns.
Io
IO is an animated music video for Attic Giant's debut song. The video tries to combine the poetic lyrics with the sentimental music into a visually exciting trip. The lyrics describe a feeling of togetherness and leave a lot open, so that associations can flow freely.
The video is a combination of background scenes hand-painted directly on film.
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Uročena / Ouřek / The Spellbound
A short animated comedy about an old woman and an old man who are trying to save their spellbound goat. The story is inspired by the world of famous Czech storyteller J.Š. Kubín.
Escobars: Dej povej; Zrisan / Tell Me; Redrawn
A story of uncertain love set in a surrealist train journey. The aim was to explore traditional animation methods that make digital animation convincing: to combine the principles of composition, narration, storyboard, editing, animation and film aesthetics into an integrated finished product. The film is the result of six months' efforts by a single author.
Gamer Girl
The film is set in a computer game. Programmed and limited possibilities provide the backdrop against which Lily is trying to fight for the love of her life.
Fury
A music video made in stop motion. All the cables want to come together and make some music. But it's not always so easy to just go and play because something or someone wants to shut them down. Having a will of their own, the furious cables are going to use all the energy they can muster to get together and fulfil their desire.
Ujet / Confino / Confined
Sicily, the fascist period. A shadow show performer is confined in an island with a lighthouse because during one of his shows he used his art to make fun of Mussolini. A fortuitous event along with his art will redeem him from loneliness and captivity.
Virtual Reality
A short animated film about the dangers of virtual reality, pointing to its addictive characteristics and the blurring of boundaries with the real environment.
The Fish
A simple story about the internal struggle between nature and technology.
Yorke
A short animated video about a chef named Yorke. He is a funny looking guy in underpants who loves to cook. But it turns out he is also a DJ, so when he makes his food he is actually playing music.
Kako sem opustil kajenje / Kā Es Atmetu Smēķēšanu... / How I Gave Up Smoking...
Smoking is given up at the end of the film. But at the beginning of the film, a Scandinavian woman almost died because the filmmaker lit a cigarette at the airport…