Animated / Brief Encounters · Bristol
224 films from 27 countries are recorded in the archive for this edition, with 5 award winners.
2001 was a landmark double-festival year. In April, the second Animated Encounters welcomed Terry Gilliam for a Desert Island Flicks session and presented a Pixar retrospective. Programmer Helen Brunsdon assembled strands including Women of the World, Internet Animation, and Australian animation alongside the British competition, with Industry Day masterclasses reflecting the emerging digital landscape. In November, the seventh Brief Encounters — the first to receive EU MEDIA Plus funding — hosted the world premiere of Hamilton Mattress, Barry Purves's long-awaited 30-minute animated film for the BBC. The festival also premiered Ways to Leave Your Lover, a BBC2/BBC Choice season of seven new short films. The Without Boundaries strand at Arnolfini showcased artist filmmakers Cordelia Swann, Jayne Parker, Gilbert and George, and Wood and Harrison alongside a major Michael Snow exhibition. Festival Director Eiméar Carolan oversaw both festivals in her first year in the role.
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A car thief robs a Mercedes, without knowing the owner is inside. Starring the model Karen Mulder.
A young actress comes into a bar. She needs to rehearse a text for an audition and so asks a man sitting in the bar for a favour.
Growing up has never been easy on a South London sink estate.
A young girl finds herself performing in a strange mechanical dance. As she tries to work out the steps she begins to realise that all is not what it seems. Within the innocent pantomime setting a sinister story begins to unfold.
Set in the 1940’s, the film is based on a poem by Brenda Cook and her early experiences & relationships. Struggling with learning difficulties and a need to express herself in a society where individuality is seen as ‘different’, Brenda escapes into a fantasy world.
The title 1, meaning the beginning, is only a beginning of a greater world that will continue.
Two figures try to avoid being hit by tennis balls fired from a machine
A Colombian child's life through his TV screen.
One man's fight with his alter-ego. From sociopath to socialite? Maybe!
A quiet suburban ideal is disrupted by the sudden appearance of nine naked singing men walking down the road, wearing only socks and shoes. In the ensuing chaos of screaming children and manic mothers, a hypnotic spell is cast over the male onlookers.
Andreas, an elderly Greek-Cypriot man, lies dying in a hospital bed. As he drifts in and out of consciousness, we follow him in his memories of 1955.
Celebrating Penny’s last birthday is a tragic day.
When Jacob meets Chloe, he's stuck for words. The enigmatic kids in the park seem to be helping him, but is he alone in his dilemma? Who is she? And why does she believe the nonsense falling out of his mouth?
A personal exploration of memories of family life expressed like a photo album. Split screen techniques picture the emotions of leaving and being left behind.
Keko is desperately looking for Toni, a dealer, to ask him for a very special order.
Each character of this animated film tells their own real-life story about Pushkin.
A ten minute collection of shorts about ego, happiness and holding on. It combines low-tech animation, performance and beautifully written monologues to create a piece that is funny, intelligent and, above all, incredibly human.
An everyday morning at the "biglove" residence where two loving yet neurotic parents perform heroic feats to emotionally deal with the fact that their kids have to leave for school.
Inspiration on a production line. A coat hanger factory, a white pigeon and a young woman reveal that even the briefest encounter can inspire relief from life's everyday routine.
Pav, Carter and Louie have everything three lads could want; their own place, no restrictions and the occasional upheaval. A guide to life and the art of friendship.
Reality TV gone mad, where relationship break-ups have become televised sport.
This Godardian montage miniature captures the irony of the clash between politician's rhetoric, the diversity of local urban culture and the picturesque.
Anders, a middle-aged writing teacher, has spent his whole life validating the work of academics and students whom he has now come to regard with total contempt. On the day in question, Anders rushes from his “ivory tower” to his local bank in order to make a deposit and gets much more than he bargained for.
The children bring home a strange camera, and their father thinks it makes him age more rapidly.
A young actress comes into a bar. She needs to rehearse a text for an audition and so asks a man sitting in the bar for a favour.
Aaron tries to fix everything. Craig is just trying.
Jasna is searching for her two children who were killed by the Serbian Army during the war in Bosnia and buried in a mass grave. With the help of the State Commission for Searching Missing Persons, Jasna is checking all available information and inspecting mass grave sites, hoping to find the red rubber boots her son was wearing when he was abducted and taken from her.
Da Capo is a series of six short cartoons that showcases the musical talents of a young cabaret duo. Each sequence features Claude accompanying his sister Octavia on an electronic keyboard, and ends with Claude falling victim to a variety of comic mishaps.
When Debbie walks into her salon, Pim is forced to face the time she was publicly ridiculed by her ex-best school friend. She retreats into Hollywood-Bollywood fantasy to cope. Will she take her chance for revenge?
Growing up has never been easy on a South London sink estate.
A contemporary bestiary of the twenty-first century, with a tongue-in-cheek look at relationships between dogs and girls. A subversive and witty film which merges voice and text with surreal and constructed images.
Donna is a reflective look at the small triumphs and tragedies of childhood seen through the eyes of a nine-year old girl, Donna. It explores the pursuit of friendship as Donna negotiates mistakes, troubles and her needs within a small Scottish town in the 1970s.
A young girl finds herself performing in a strange mechanical dance. As she tries to work out the steps she begins to realise that all is not what it seems. Within the innocent pantomime setting a sinister story begins to unfold.
An asylum seeker receives a registered letter, but does not open it. The next day, he goes into town and buys some methylated spirits. He then reads the letter, which contains a deportation date. He returns to town with the methylated spirits, determined to make his own exit.
A documentary that is a touching profile of lesbian, artistic, wannabe Elvis.
A re-enactment of extracts from the 1941 Spencer Tracy version of *Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde* in which the bodies of the original actors are replaced in every single frame by a series of different actors. Cinematic psychosis, in which the narrative remains superficially intact.
Their bodies lightly touch each other, their hands communicate, their eyes give loving glances. A delicate poem for the Other, whom we would be nothing without.
Drawing on Carol's extensive collection of newspaper cuttings, this film explores ideas of boredom and mundanity and is a poetic rendering of everyday life in crisis.
A moment of reflection.
Oliveira embarks on an emotional journey when he takes his current girlfriend, Pola, to a hotel he used to visit with Maga, a past love. There, he tries to recreate the moment with Pola, but it is fruitless and only serves to alienate her.
A compelling tango of partnership, opposition and attraction. A flow of 2D, 3D and live action-based animation.
Three men, a car, a road, a field, and a beach.
Overloaded with the weekly supermarket shop, three women pile into an old car. It’s been a long day, and when their car breaks down outside a deserted petrol station, it feels like the last straw. When a sleazy Spanish pump attendant appears things begin to change as he offers them a little “uplift” to their day.
Going to the hairdressers will never be the same after you’ve seen this film.
A dark tale of obsession and loneliness about a man searching for physical and emotional completeness. It is only when he thinks he has achieved this goal through the unwilling coalescence of his neighbour that he begins to understand the painful, irresolvable nature of his obsession.
When the sun shines, it’s bathing weather – even in February or March. Undaunted by the icy water, the film’s director gave into the temptation, climbing down into the waters with a camera mounted on her head.
One man’s mission to change the devastating course of time. A drama that aims to explore the subconscious: the power of regression and the supernatural qualities of the mind.
"Diving is like poetry, each movement flowing into the next." *The Diver* is a hymn to diving and the aesthetics of movement.
A man faces different situations during a day on the beach.
The idea for this film came as an analogy of the relationship between the public and private sectors. Through the internet and media, individuals can increasingly make themselves public, as society simultaneously invades the home.
In this charming animated film, a very small piglet tells a story of its short but funny life.
Before Rose gets officially engaged she has some unfinished business to clear up.
To sleep, per chance to dream, for in those dreams!
London co-stars as Paris in Je t'aime John Wayne, the story of a young man who lives out his dream of being French cinema icon, Jean Paul Belmondo. He's got the sharp suit and a pack of Luckies, but will he find the girl of his dreams?
Animation styled on 1960's girls' magazines. Jeanette listens to pop records and forgets a date with her boyfriend. His jealousy ultimately leads to tragedy.
A macabre and outrageously funny dead-of-night encounter between two men - a Cannibal and his Victim - in the sleeper compartment of the Amsterdam-Paris Express. The film veers between the photographic and the painted, creating a world where nothing is entirely what it seems.
In the genre of a 1950s US propaganda scare film, Jungle Jazz: Public Enemy #1, combines cutting edge music with footage from a lost American artform called Soundies - music videos from the early 1940s.
Short animated film inspired by African rhythms and voices.
Deauville in the thirties. A rendez-vous between two lovers. But a technical problem appears.
The adventures of Cinderella told in several scenes and images of clouds.
Lambeth Marsh takes Blake's poem London as a starting point from which to explore and examine the psyche of contemporary London.
Grandmother is having trouble understanding young Jaswinder's choices in life. Things come to a head after they become lost during a day out to a Yorkshire beauty spot.
A game of snakes and ladders around Lorient harbour or how twelve lonely telephonists settle their scores with men. For the young Cindy, who has recently arrived from Paris, Plume is a model of freedom, up until the day when she discovers that Plume protects herself so much from love because she has had her fingers burnt in the past.
Hot sex, cold feet. A man and a woman awake to very different worlds after sharing a one night stand.
When Niko and Resta start working for Uncle Carlucchio, Niko meets and falls in love with Laila, but in the process ends up killing his best mate Resta. Love’s Crazy is a comic tale of a love gone wrong.
An encounter between Florence and Ray who sense a narrative whilst exploring nature in a vagabond runaway western. The film was shot in Bridport, itself called the wild west, featuring local girls, farmers and housewives as extras on the journey.
Conceptual representation of one person’s indecisions and beliefs in life. One person with two interior voices carries out a conversation about different ways of doing things.
Animation about a mechanical man who finds his routine of life disturbed by illness from an unusual source.
The panic of a sixty-year-old man tortured by doubts and the experience of his strange metamorphosis.
Geir Sveum is supposed to be translating a French film into Norwegian, but ends up in a hilarious simultaneous translation. A journey into the essence of Envy, the sixth and most embarrassing of all the Deadly Sins.
To most people, condemning Nazism is a matter of common sense, but not to everyone. As a child, Carl Johan De Geer lived with his Nazi grandmother. After her death, he started to ponder why her belief in Nazism and Hitler had been so strong.
In a train station, three characters cross paths in a menacing series of encounters involving timeslips, pickpockets, doppelgangers and the speaking clock.
Six drummers participate in a well-planned musical attack in the suburbs. Using everyday objects just waiting to be brought to life, they give a concert in four movements: Kitchen, Bedroom, Bathroom and Living room.
In the hard beating of Havana's life, Gabriel tries the impossible: to build his perfect musical scale.
A film about the man who wanted a more beautiful day.
Ernst Jandl's poems to childhood are composed in a language that the author calls "childlike". They do not attempt to parody the child's minimal linguistic means of expression, but rather to evoke childlike ways of experiencing life, as seen from the position of an ageing man.
A house cat dreams of her past lives.
Uyen travels to Vietnam for the first time in 20 years to see her country and her people. The film is about the search for identity; one which had been suppressed by her struggle to integrate in the western world.
Animation of outer space adventure that may seem familiar!
One Eyed Jacques is a sight gag – literally. Experience the sights, sounds and perils of a Parisian night out from the point of view of one part of Jacques that won’t sit still and behave.
Reetta wants a man. She goes on a 24-hour cruise to find Mr. Right but finds herself in a cabin with a couple celebrating their wedding anniversary.
Ornaments is an award winning computer animated short about a mischievous little Christmas decoration with a hunger for some milk and cookies. To reach them he'll have to conquer his fear of heights, pull a few daredevil stunts, and make a bit of a mess along the way.
In one single day a man loses everything he has. An ordinary story told in an unusual way.
An adult brother and sister are caught in a cyclical and obsessional game; they collect people, or rather, one particular kind of person. But now this cathartic ritual has to come to an end.
A slightly unhinged chronicle of a year, with flashbacks and film clips, in the life and imagination of a woman confined to her flat.
A couple return to their honeymoon hotel to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. Once luxurious, the hotel is now the worst that faded grandeur has to offer. How will they both cope with their disappointment?
Sune had to retire early because of hearing problems. Now he mostly occupies himself by mending minor things in the house. But, one day, Sune is worried about his wife, who comes back home early in the morning.
A group of housewives meet for coffee in someone's kitchen. They talk about special offers and fire a Smith & Wesson 38-calibre handgun.
Kelly is a fifteen-year old prostitute who has been working the streets of Kings Cross for the last couple of years. The film takes place over three hours on a cold winter night in a very dismal but intriguing part of London.
Animation about a little boy who has night terrors.
A couple in their 30s are on a guided tour in an art museum. The man gets impatient and distances himself. He leans against an installation and falls into another dimension only to see his real reflection.
A modern fairytale about one woman's struggle to keep her relationships alive. This lyrical short film, saturated in rich colour, plays out a series of humorous catastrophes, and incidental disasters in the name of love.
A stylish black comedy set in an unusual nunnery.
A series of small moments: a child celebrates her birthday, an old couple prepare to eat a picnic, a girl prepares to leave her boyfriend. Taking place in real time over 8 ½ minutes, this disparate group of people find themselves linked by an event that will change their lives forever.
A pale blue sky. A deserted sandy beach. A solitary figure, running. But where to? Or what from?
A stag night has an unexpected climax. Next morning Sammi and Luke have a lot of thinking to do.
Susanne Sillemann is seven years old. She would like to make a wish that she had another name. As a matter of fact, she would like to make a wish that many things were different in her life. Then she discovers a magic charm that makes all her wishes come true. One day, she happens to make a wish that she sincerely regrets, something with awful consequences. Can she manage to escape from her fantasy world?
Why are there so few people in Sweden and wouldn't it be nice if more foreigners moved in?
William is bored and decides to swap his dad for a pair of goldfish. When his mum forces him to get dad back, William and his sister Marge embark on an unexpected odyssey that William will never forget.
Saying it’s over is never easy.
A young football fan, his faltering romance, his long stagnant parents, and an omnipresent notebook. What’s going on beneath the surface of this seemingly everyday family and will all misunderstandings be resolved in 8 ½ minutes?
I say “Fuck ‘em if they can’t take a joke!” by God. “Anything for a laugh”, I say. “I am the last remaining Homo Correctus, I am a goddamn Man of the Future!”
Bekky experiences time in the opposite direction to everyone else. This way round the world makes sense, and living backwards has an unlikely logic to it. If time was truly running backwards, progress and decline would be simple substitutions, but in this wry meditation a nonsense is made of both.
A flower shop at closing time. Once the florist turned the key in the lock, the wires spin out from their spools to become small men and women. The party begins. Dance after dance sweeps across the florist's counter.
Field focuses on the isolation and boredom that provincial life can create.
An introduction to the world’s smallest library and its Head Librarian.
A melodrama shot in the style of a 1920s Soviet silent film.
Only one Dwight Hokum can save the world.
The Neighbour* is a short, darkly comic tale about the consequences of disturbing your neighbour. BEWARE!
A man tells in a voice-over how he met the love of his life and how it completely changed his life. His tale is illustrated by his pinboard that "comes alive".
A comic psychological battle between men in a gym.
Set in the 1940’s, the film is based on a poem by Brenda Cook and her early experiences & relationships. Struggling with learning difficulties and a need to express herself in a society where individuality is seen as ‘different’, Brenda escapes into a fantasy world.
This surreal and dark, but fun, film script explores the domestic life of a serial killer.
A tale of psychological terror in an enormous block of flats where the inhabitants are unwittingly imprisoned.
Didier, 39 years, hypochondriac and depressive, is sure he is going to die soon. In hope of reconciliation with his father, he decides to be filmed through Wallonia, taking the same roads his father took, and then offer the film to his father.
The controversy continues with Jean Genet’s stunningly erotic prison cell drama Un Chant D’Amour - a lyrical evocation of homosexual passion and romance in prison, with its attendant fantasies and frustrations. One of the most intensely physical films ever made, it contains explicit sexual material.
One of the seminal (and most notorious) films of the avant-garde and the most fully-realised Surrealist film. Buñuel and Dali collaborated on the script, which was intended as automatic expression. The dream-like quality of the film’s logic and the striking originality of the images combine to create a series of memorable visual metaphors, the most celebrated being the razor slicing across an exposed cornea. In the UK, the film was banned from public exhibition until 1968 when it received an ‘X’ certificate.
A car thief robs a Mercedes, without knowing the owner is inside. Starring the model Karen Mulder.
Splitting up means dividing your belongings, which can be very painful.
The tiger grows carrots in his garden. One morning he discovers that somebody has stolen them.
Late at night, from a window, two friends see an unmarked package being hidden in a doorway in the street below. What happens next leads them into the strangest night of their lives. A dark, comic tale of snatched opportunity, of watching, and of being watched.
One of the most celebrated of all avant-garde films: a 45 minute single zoom across a large loft. The soundtrack is a sine wave, the “ear equivalent of a zoom” (Snow). Four abrupt and random human events take place but the most important things that break up the zoom are the changes in colour, the cutting to negative, and the altering of film stock. The steady movement forward redefines filmic action but, in its own way, is a tense, exciting and action packed movie.
On location in the Wild West, an ageing cowboy has his last shot at being a star.
An irreverent and frenetic account of one man's life (in a dress) from beginning to bitter end.
A man will go to great lengths to get a good night's sleep.
An African herdsman performs a tribal dance to ward off the evil spirit of the predatory leopard.
An intelligence test is carried out on a monkey. A film based on the work of graffiti artist Banksy.
A matador's dual to the death with a surreal twist.
A very early American experimental film which uses frame-by-frame drawings with moving objects photographed at various speeds and lights.
A dark and twisted look at a little boy and his balloon.
An ordinary man breeds flies in his apartment and seems to be very fond of them. But appearances can be deceptive.
A cold night in Rubber Duck's sleeping quarters. Swab, Poop and Cat are trying to sleep and keep warm. When one falls asleep another steals his blanket. In the end they all manage to go to sleep and keep warm by sharing blankets.
Everywhere Leunig goes, there is the unmistakable smell of Doom and Gloom.
A flock of small birds are perched on a telephone wire and a larger bird tries to join them. The flock is upset by this unwelcome arrival. How will they get rid of him?
Cyril would rather play in the sandpit than admit to Maisy that he needs to go to the toilet. Will he have an accident?
Bill & Ben decide to cheer up Weed. An impromptu orchestra made of various weird and wonderful garden objects soon has the desired effect.
Angelmouse has to prove he can be an angel by helping a friend, only he doesn't know which one! When he saves Quilly Bird during a storm, Angelmouse discovers just what he was meant to do after all.
Ethelbert goes to the cold arctic and meets a friendly polar bear, who introduces Ethelbert to his family.
Ralph's being rotten again, but to avoid the family getting cross he pretends to be ever so ill. When they guess that Ralph is faking he ends up paying the price.
It's a wet day and Bob is trying to clean the machines, but Muck doesn't want to be washed. After a mud fight in the field Bob manages to trick him into a wash down.
All is quiet in the sleepy town, but no one is safe from a rude intrusion.
The anti-hero Munchy Man saves the day in this homage to exploitation movies of the 1970s.
America's most loved film critic, booted off the TV airwaves, has found a home on the Internet.
Two space travellers question life as they hurtle through the universe.
Two bugs fight over their evening meal with hilarious consequences.
Amos the Aardvark decides against having his wart treated for the sake of entertainment.
Pixar animator Victor Navone's first lip-synch exercise has become one of the most traded movies online.
A 3-D animated action flick about a coffee bean who doesn't take crap from anyone. A homage to John Woo and Matrix-like special effects, Killer Bean 2 took Jeffrey Lew three years to create in his spare time on his home computer.
Straight from its premiere at Sundance, the surreal world of Fishbar explores the absurdity of being human in Violence of the Lambs. In this episode, best friends Tommy and Donnie take a trip to the sheep races in Mexico. Mayhem ensues.
A lone cyclist wages war against automotive injustice. Angry Kid is riding his bike down a busy street, a van behind him wants to overtake, but as the driver finds out, this will not be an easy task.
It's toe-to-toe, eye-to-eye, as Stainboy dares to outstare the girl with the lethal gaze.
Nine months ago, in a uterus not far away.
A full-length Flash music video from Phish's 11th and most recent release on Elektra Records. The "First Tube" video is a morphing adventure through the phases of psychosis.
After a freak accident, police dog Simon changes his name and reinvents himself as an urban crime fighter.
The first show to expose the secret life of gay cartoon animals, it was a pilot for the recently doomed icebox.com site.
McLaren and Lambart use fluid lines and brilliant colour painted directly onto film to create perpetual movement with abstract images. The music was specially composed by jazz musician Oscar Peterson.
An excerpt from the first operetta to be animated. Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore is set in a haunted castle and tells of a family curse.
Fred Astaire sings and taps out the rhythm for this thirties style musical number with erotic overtones.
A couple meet in a coffee bar. Their conversation is interpreted visually to show a contradiction in emotions.
How long can three caryatids hold aloft the crumbling columns of a Greek temple? This hilarious dig at "liberation" won an Academy Award® for its director.
A comic allegory on perestroika. Although the door of an apartment block finally opens, its inhabitants continue to use every other means of entry rather than accept the new freedom.
Night. A little girl is frightened of the dark. Even her mother seems strange and mysterious until she begins to sing a lullaby.
An experimental film showing an ever changing metamorphosis of rhythm and colour created by flashlight exposures onto film stock.
This was John Lasseter's first demonstration of his new approach to character animation.
The endearing tale of an old man who likes to play chess in the park against himself.
A love story, no matter how you look at it.
A bittersweet tale of existential angst, about a pigeon who yearns to fly and the onion pie which makes that dream come true.
A message is passed from person to person until nobody's sure what it means anymore.
Captain Linger sends a rampaging dinosaur into outer space.
Why is it easier to mourn the loss of an object than the loss of a loved one?
A character with a sorrowful and lost expression takes the bus with a pizza in his hands. He's almost seated when the driver pulls up roughly. His pizza flies and falls.
A magical story about the mystery of the human heart.
A tragi-comic story of a cat abused by two children told as a criminal investigation.
A stripper in a bar remembers the man who abused her as a child. This internal journey returns obsessively to the image of the hat he wore.
A playful film about a boy with an over-active imagination, set simultaneously in reality and fantasy.
A poetic fable about a man named Milosh who, with the help of his little friend, summons up the courage to face his wife, Babka.
Johnny Casanova is the antihero of this animated sit com pilot, but who is he? Sure, he's flesh and blood on the outside but inside he's different. He's a whirlpool of have-a-go hormones.
Plaza follows the fates of live action characters who fall prey to rampant consumerism in a huge neo-futuristic shopping mall.
The Zogs look strange and have even stranger habits.
Three redundant robots struggle to find meaning in their empty lives.
Great pop promo from 'Cut La Roc'.
Featuring a little old lady on a moped, who Clarke originally created in his graduation film 1200cc, and a burly mean-spirited Biker on a "tweaked" 1300cc Harley. The twisted plot takes us on a ride through the countryside.
The sands of time measure out a never-ending cycle of life.
A young man leaves his home for the first time and finds himself in the Land of Enchantment. There he plays chess with the mysterious Green Man of Knowledge and completes three challenges to win the hand of his youngest daughter.
A body in a garden doesn't do much for house prices. The businessman, the secretary, the wife and the lover lead us up the garden path.
A chance to see this animated pop video by 'Midfielder General' on the big screen.
A film about Artificial Intelligence based on the idea that the film itself is a form of AI.
One man, one monkey, but only one apple tree.
Stuck indoors on a rainy night, a little boy fights with his reflection in the mirror. But his reflection fights back, dragging him into a fantasy world. Here the boy must defeat his own shadow before he can return home.
Directors Shynola demonstrate their skill in this pop promo for the band Morgan.
Captain Sarcastic is a superhero from yesteryear. He is so efficient at ridding the streets of Ipswich of "baddies" that he has done himself out of a job.
An interview with the last dinosaur on earth. Will he be able to tell us why dinosaurs became extinct?
An elderly tiger who wants to become human before he dies discovers that his dream can come true if he eats three children at once. The tiger is ingeniously defeated by a little girl.
Rejected work from animated commercials reconstituted to form something glossy, colourful and eternally shallow.
Jennifer, a young woman in her mid twenties, recounts an internal struggle during her childhood. A fascinating approach to one moment of a girl's inevitable progression into adulthood.
This promo, for the band Coldplay, uses both live action and computer graphics in Tim Hope's highly distinctive collage style.
A grey anonymous mob try to destroy a bright, white individual who appears amongst them, but after his resurrection they start worshipping him. In the end it seems they have not learnt to tolerate difference.
Can birds in cages fly? It would seem that the answer is no.
Two young cowboys spend their days in the cool shade of a rock, but at night they make their way to the bazaar of sex and desire.
An animated look into the sparkling ocean at night. Sounds and pictures drawn on film.
A religious choir sings a rather peculiar ode.
This was made as a New Year's greeting which the director sent to his friends.
A fashion conscious shopper sees beautiful coats advertised in the newspaper, but when he tries to buy one things aren't that straightforward.
The sudden appearance of a noisy vehicle destroys the silence of the desert. Two pistoleros exit the car ready for a duel.
A man's cynical view of a day on the beach.
Hamilton Mattress tells the story of an unloved aardvark who embarks on an epic adventure which sees friendship and talent triumph over greed and prejudice.