Encounters 20 · Bristol
227 films from 35 countries are recorded in the archive for this edition, with 7 award winners.
The twentieth anniversary edition brought an expanded programme with strong showings in animation, including Mikey Please's Marilyn Myller, the Oscar-nominated The Dam Keeper by Robert Kondo, and Ainslie Henderson's Monkey Love Experiments. The European Film Awards nominees screened across three free programmes and the Industry Forum drew delegates from across Europe. Notes on Blindness by Peter Middleton and James Spinney premiered in an early version before going on to widespread acclaim. The live action competition featured Anthony by Jonathan van Tulleken and Francis Lee's Bradford-Halifax-London, made before his BAFTA-nominated feature God's Own Country.
Melancholy as a survival strategy in the American Mid-West.
Charles is obsessed with the disappearance of his partner, Lucy. He writes her letters and struggles to remember their time together until a chance find at the lake leads to recovering lost memories and discovering the truth about her disappearance.
A BEREAVED HEADMASTER FIGHTS A CROCODILE.
Marilyn is trying really hard to make something that is good. For once her expectations and reality are going to align, perfectly.
Illustrated Aliens is a year-long project, comprising 12 animated shorts created at the end of each month. Andy Martin challenged himself to create one character a day.
In 1983 writer and theologian John Hull went blind. He began keeping an audio diary to make sense of his loss. With exclusive access to these original audio recordings, NOTES ON BLINDNESS reconstructs John's diaries.
Hannah is a deaf-mute little girl. However she hears a strange noise in a parc. Her mother doesn’t believe her but Hannah is becoming more and more obsessed with that experience. She believes that the parc wants to communicate something to her.
The shadow of your smile, when you are gone A teardrop kissed your lips and so did I.
Summer is here and with it comes sun, sea and Sandy. Playful, bright and ever-so-slightly NSFW, Sandy's seaside world was brought to life entirely through the world of animation.
One summer night, he is about to make out with her. But in the tiny stifling car, the phantasm changes itself smoothly into a disturbing dream.
This is a film for everyone who has ever been on a shit night out.
Two men meet in a hypnotic bar. As they stroll through its back corridors, they get closer to handing over a surreal relay for an intriguing job.
On a long and dusty road a routine cruise patrol takes an unexpected turn and spirals totally out of control.
In an Icelandic cabaret, a woman master of ceremonies performs an esoteric coloscopy act with a strange organic camera.
A stone, with its unflawed surface, was carved and polished by beliefs and rules. Yet the core is raw. The more eager you try to smoothen it, the more eager it indulges itself. Its untamed nature is no longer to be restrained.
Keith and Val are going dogging. Years of constant sniping have taken their toll on their marriage, so Val has persuaded a reluctant Keith to try something new. But someone else in the car park has a far bigger problem…
A fast-paced comedy arguing the joys of being dead, aided by a montage of corpses and a dance-crazed Grim Reaper.
A story about a fight between a man and a mosquito non-verbally. The annoying buzz deep in the night drives many people crazy. Turning the lights on the buzz disappears and it is deadly silent again. How far could one go to kill an insect?
Eventually everyone runs out of time, but before that happens to you, make some time to go on a jourey through an existentialist universe of temporal confusion, TV guides and bathtime.
It was the summer I started getting more restless. I was suddenly too fast, out of control, too much. Too much of everything.
Kerry is a train driver, she is on sick leave due to a trauma at work. While roaming the train network to make sense of her tragedy she meets a man who understands her and knows what she needs.
Their last dinner before he leaves to join the Army. The reality of the situation begins to break in through the four surrounding walls.
An isolated agoraphobic man's addiction to a computer game means he is unaware of real drama occurring in the world at large.
A session between a psychiatrist, a patient and his mother. Three directors depict the characters and their perspectives across three screens. When one's reality is in a different dimension from the others can those realities ever meet?
PULSE is a noir-like, expressionistic short about peril, rescue and the basic human need to connect. It expresses how fundamental our mental wellbeing is, how complex and sinister the territory in people’s minds can become.
When Jonas father is drinking, the great Mr. Secret appears on the rooftop and ruins everything. Just when the entire house is falling down, Jonas finds out that he must reach out and tell Amanda the truth, if he wants Mr. Secret to go away.
Roy is a documentary portrait of the underground artist Roy Anders, and tells the story about his relationship with mental illness and art.
Four in the morning, crapped out, yawning.
A visual journey into the epilogue of a life.
In the end everything is forgotten, love, loss, leaving, shame, regret, even cocktail sausages.
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A man is sinking under the weight of his own memories. To survive, he must confront the question: Is our past more important than life? What would we give up in order to keep on going?
A drawing line explores the life and death of my Grandfather.
Father tells his 4-year-old daughter Nunu that there's a cow at the bottom of her milk cup. Nunu believes him and drinks all of her milk, but there is no cow. Nunu gradually stops believing her father, who constantly tells various lies.
Animated documentary series. Remarkable stories of survival based on eyewitness accounts of Nazi atrocities during World War 2. Episode 2 - Trude Silman a young Jewish girl escaping Nazi Czechoslovakia on the Kindertransport to Britain.
This latest clay animation from Izabela Pluciń ska is a captivating picture of the feeling of being lost and alienated and an attempt at putting the pieces that fail to fit together into a whole.
A collection of memories set in stone.
Carrotrope is a new optical toy.
When you put a shell to your ear what do you hear? Connected by the sea between them, soldiers, friends, musicians fighting in the trenches in WWI reach out to those battling back home.
A forgotten name leads to a mind-bending romp through a game show of the unconscious.
An eight year-old girl and six year-old boy amble through a strange and still summer afternoon in a world which seems to exist only for them.
Baths” is a short film about the dynamics of life based on a dualistic philosophy, constantly oscillating between two extremes: fantasy and reality, life and death, body and consciousness, past and future.
The baby bird fly around the world to transformation.
Perceval takes over from the Fisher King and revives the Wasteland.
Undersea adventure in snowy city. A short cartoon film as a homage to Jacques Cousteau.
The film shows a new life waking up as well as the anxiety that accompanies the transformation of a female body which loses its former shape responding to the internal force affecting it.
The life and death of animals in meat production.
A cathartic expression of negative repressed emotions, explored through a history of mosquito bites and wasp stings.
Nine is a haunting tale of innocence lost as the Grey Cat, afraid of losing his final life, makes a deal with the devil and gets much more than he bargained for, and loses even more along the way.
In a city it can feel like nothing fits or works as it should and life can be a struggle to find your place.
A farmer struggles to keep his farm when Mr. Fall's fault finding goes too far and a judge must question his judgment.
A group of logs is about to freeze to death in a cold, icy desert. When they realize only themselves are possible fuel for a warming fire things start heating up.
‘Spectators’ is an observational animation that inverts the expected focus of a football match, turning attention to those on the periphery.
A mother gets simple questions from her son, concerning todays bold dream of eternal economic growth, our short-term way of thinking ahead and our devastating dependence on oil.
In the Mood for Sex is an animated film, which visually describes sexual activity by using circuit diagram..
Zinedine Zidane, why did you head-butt that man?
An animated documentary about a gormless duo's attempt at hitchiking nearly 2000 miles across Europe.
It's not as easy as it seems to be a pussy cat... But nothing is better than a little bit of music to cheer you up! Wackatdooo is an animated short film colored with crazy swing jazz and pure animation frenzy.
Mysterious creature has appeared, it issues a message of mystery, go away.
It’s the Duck and Andy show!
Stuck outside looking in, Phil is forced to face the world he’s been ignoring. Now he must take a leap of faith or be trapped forever.
In a city at night, a human-shaped deer tries to steal a man's identity by taking his head off.
A candle on a writer’s desk faces an existential crisis and tries to overcome it with the help of his new friends.
The CG team at Rushes has brought to life the everyday urban world around our feet. The Tiny Worlds trilogy of short films shows a humorous take on what might happen to the litter and rubbish on London's streets when we're not looking.
Our hero gets dissed from the heavens. With just their friend Messy Dinosaur and an egg to help them, can our heroes right this terrible wrong?
In a You-Tube review of his favourite video game, a man tells a story of heartbreak. Guiding us through 'Nomad X', he offers hints and tips on game-play...and tells us why he got punched in the throat.
A knight's day is full of perils and today he must rescue a damsel in distress who has clearly made a wrong decision.
Stop motion animation– how hard can it be? This poor fellow is about to find out.
After accidentally joining the navy and losing a leg, Roy's annoying cousin Roly shows up needing somewhere to stay, and rap.
One Year, One Film, One Second a Day.
A simple shopping trip goes horribly wrong.
Illustrated Aliens is a year-long project, comprising 12 animated shorts created at the end of each month. Andy Martin challenged himself to create one character a day.
Crow is busy building a next, but he has a rival.
A black comedy exploring some of life's common fears: fear of the unknown, of failure, rejection and finally the fear of death. Narrated by George Takei.
We seem cold, inner desire to communicate.
A split screen divides the worlds of Jonathan Smallman, who is recording his dating profile, and Philip Button, the Internet chef. But will the irritating sound from the real world stand in the way of their search for companionship and acceptance.
A girl and stuffed toys live happily. But that earthquake hits them. After that, stuffed toys awake to find it messes everything and they can’t find the girl. They decide to wait for her, clearing up the house. Can she come back to them?
A lonely shadow reaches out to the sun for companionship. This film explores interaction and social needs and how our actions affect others.
When you lose something dear to your heart, there is only one place it can be found. The Lost Property office.
A series of near misses results in a fateful encounter for Mr. Plastimime.
his is an animated short that talks about a love story about a boy.
Mark has just lost his job and his day is about to get a whole lot worse. A domestic tragedy exploring the surreal nature of losing someone you love.
Day by day a woman nurses her bedridden father. The dictatorship in Argentina is over, but this army daughter is lost to the world.
Surviving on the wing of an airplane in the middle of the ocean.
Inspired by love, a misguided monkey believes he is destined for the moon.
An autobiographical dark comedy about the hilarious and awkward misadventures of a 6’4’’ tall woman who is a star on the basketball court but struggles to find true love.
Marilyn is trying really hard to make something that is good. For once her expectations and reality are going to align, perfectly.
A nineteen year old kid finds himself alone in a hostile desert, scared as hell and trained to react.
The world is crumbling. Trapped and alone, high up in a dilapidated office building, a small boy must escape by any means if he is to survive. ‘The Palace’ is a film about loss, fear, survival and hope in a dark and foreboding world.
Bruce the gritter unwittingly makes an enemy as he carries out his job, clearing the roads of snow.
Which image is real - the one staring at us from the mirror or the one standing in front of it?
During The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), they were the red guards, they were armed, they were breaking the old world.
A boy is awoken in the night to the offer of tea but his host is not all he seems.
Gabby keeps bothering her older sister Tam to play, so Tam tells a story about a monster that lives in the forest.
The film is based on the poem of the same name by Etta Streicher. It is concerned with not speaking out, keeping your feet still or actually biting the bullet and achieving inner freedom. And about how individual mental states influence the world.
Hob, the cat from outer space, has crash landed. He wanders on a beautiful and lively planet, escaping deadly dangers, in a quest for answers.
The Dam Keeper, a short film by feature animation artists Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi tells the tale of a young pig encumbered with an important job, and the meeting of a new classmate who changes everything.
Based on a true story, CRUISING follows a young man through an extrovert's dream and an introvert's nightmare the chaotic and cacophonous world of forced-fun aboard an insular cruise ship.
An experimental animated short film using abstract painting to explore the tension field between abstraction and recognisability.
We were taught do not to break the box when write Chinese characters. Inside the box is good, outside the box is bad. The box is limiting, it’s suffocating and I struggle when I try to break the box in my brain in order to find the sparks.
Staged inside of picture frames, two artists compete for the top prize at the annual art fair.
The boundaries between childhood and adulthood become blurry for a kid at his mother’s cocktail party.
Using only charcoal and three sheets of A1 paper, 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat' is an animated visualisation of Oliver Sacks' seminal work, describing a unique neurological oddity.
A middle-aged siberian man living in a windy steppe, his life suddenly change due to a strange guest. Absurdity and realism are combined together into a small wooden cabin where there's no room for hope.
Dorothea Mackellar's iconic poem My Country is brought to life with an animated vision of our beautiful country.
Allan’s Asperger phobias and boundaries are challenged when he must brave the outdoors to save his only friend, a pet fish named Paul.
When we were young we knew so little but felt so much.
‘The Sine Wave’ is a short film about trying to understand the ups and downs of life through the mathematical function of the sine wave.
Her house has many tiny windows, yet hidden from the outside world. Mostly she is alone, at times she dances with a man. She melts in his arms. She lives in layers, she lives in the layers of trees.
A still life painting becomes charged with motion as the earth is disturbed. Gaining in momentum, quietude gradually builds to a turbulent crescendo.
The tupilaq is both a symbol of the spirit of a forefather and a curse. ”Tupilaq” is a personal short film revolving around the themes of cultural alienation, abuse, and the contrast between mythological greenlandic nature and western urban culture.
The film applies an unconventional narrative. It presents a subjective world through 47 scenes. The small events, interlaced by associations, express the irrational coherence of our surroundings.
We try to enrich ourselves through prayer, faith and devotion to someone or something 'other'. Similarly, we believe in the existence of 'anomalies', such as unknowable and uncontrollable monsters. But can such beliefs advance us?
Printed directly onto 35mm celluloid using letterpress, Two Weeks – Two Minutes explores the double page format of the book.
Man on the chair is tormented and constantly doubts his very own existence. It is just merely a picture that I created... Perhaps could I be also an image crafted by others?
Where does love go when lovers break apart? Or when they stay together? Is it permissible-possible to love several people at the same time? What becomes of our love after death, is it really that important or simply inevitable?
On the Finnish island Utö an uncommon triangle relationship is taking place which knows only one solution.
A vintage nature film explores the migratory pattern of a herd of wild creatures.
It’s a journey through a child imagination where everything is possible, creativity has no limits and freedom of creation is value itself. But as always values change with the time passing by and it only depends on us which values will “blind” us.
A interpretation of the Reality of Time based on the theories of French philosopher Henri Bergson and his meaning of la durée .
Everything that is alive is hungry seed is hungry for light, bird is hungry for flight, man is hungry for the touch of another. The seed of longing grows into what feeds us.
With unique access to the recordings of Ted Hughes reading what he considered his career masterpiece, this film tells the visceral story of CROW - a dark reworking of the Genesis story. Music by Leafcutter John. (c) Faber, FSG, 2003.
An epic journey through time, spirit and mind. Surreal time-lapse worlds and intense life-size Stop-Motion animated characters converge to tell the story of a wandering being's transcendence to an otherworldly dimension beyond.
In REPLACE we are confronted with a Nature seemingly familiar to us, but only at first glance. Quickly it becomes clear that Nature’s laws have been suspended and strange creatures are inhabiting the Planet.
Petite Neige, a young inuit, needs to capture a low flying bird in order to pass into the world of grown-ups. On the verge of catching it, she falls into a mysterious crevice belonging to the giant dwarf...
The 365 minutes animation consists of 8760 sequence of pictures, all different shape and color, hand-drawn by the director everyday in 365 days. This is the ultimate analog approach by the abstract animated film creator in digital era.
Christmas Eve. An enormous explosion tears through Lapland. Santa and his elf, Anthony, have crash-landed in the middle of nowhere on their busiest night.
You don't have to be on the judo pitch to do judo, and you don't even need a partner. Roy uses the London Underground to showcase his outstanding balance, but shows too much ambition.
An extroverted mouse wants to play.
As the analogue age ends, eight men in a bar in rural Ireland battle to survive in the digital world the TV in the corner a harbinger of this technological future. The film is an existential exploration of people caught between two worlds.
Stinging from the heavens comes Metal B-Boy, his super venom sting leaves our hero’s magnetized. Maybe Strawberry Caterpillar has a trick up one of her many sleeves to save the day?
The life to death story of a compulsive dancer who is born into poverty, sucked up by the fame machine and spat out the other end.
A 7 year-old girl whose parents are unconventional modernist architects, wants her family to be like other Norwegian 1960s families. This causes worries the summer she asks her parents for a bike. A new short by Academy Award winner Torill Kove.
In a soliloquy a vowel reciting speaking machine describes opression, exploitation and beatings and complains that it is only needed for its functional performance.
From real world into the mikrocosmos in one shot.
The chaos of a last-minute dinner party provides the backdrop for a quiet epiphany about embracing life’s rich pageant.
This is a film about a start of a strange friendship.
Our demented lothario loves his lady very hard. He is desperate to win her, and demonstrates his affections by explaining all the wonderful things he will do for her. Unfortunately he is completely unhinged and these things are repulsive.
A portrait of a season, a reality where the boundary between life and death is so thin that is sometimes almost nonexistent.
A motel. A memory. Kurt Cobain.
Being human is a fragile opportunity to experience life and the universe around us. In the face of overwhelming darkness all we can do is to rely on and find solace in one another. The film is based on authentic emergency calls and radio traffic.
Through the endless winters, every year, her love takes new shapes and forms.
In 1983 writer and theologian John Hull went blind. He began keeping an audio diary to make sense of his loss. With exclusive access to these original audio recordings, NOTES ON BLINDNESS reconstructs John's diaries.
In 2010, Abu Eyad and other young Palestinian men travelled to Greece. Like so many other migrants, they came looking for a way into Europe but found themselves trapped in a country undergoing economic, political, and social collapse.
An animated character is tortured by his creator to the point the creature rebels from his creator and escapes from the drawing table. The human manages to bring the character back but only to find out that he no longer can eliminate his creation.
«In summer everyone goes on holiday, to the beach I guess. There they don’t even realize that nothing ever happens at all».
Normally they argue tooth and nail like cats and dogs always do. But what happens if they swap voices?
A world of Adventure.
Two street performers dream of bringing their Picture and Sound Show to life.
In a Year 4 classroom Jane befriends Ravi, a Sri Lankan boy recently arrived, but government restrictions on asylum seekers threaten to destroy their friendship.
The letter I journeys to find her missing U.
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Charles is obsessed with the disappearance of his partner, Lucy. He writes her letters and struggles to remember their time together until a chance find at the lake leads to recovering lost memories and discovering the truth about her disappearance.
This is a short stop motion animated film featuring singing seals in the Arctic. The music is performed by Hoagy Carmichael. There is an environmental message about the protection of our oceans.
Stromae shows in this video his male and female side.
A music video for 'Fear & Delight' by The Correspondents, using a composited camera (multiple cameras acting as one) to describe a space in which synchronised multiples exist in a rotationally symmetric, kaleidoscopic world.
Chella Ride is a high octane ride through a dystopian future of space exploration.
On Stony Ground' follows a young rugby team as they complete a bruising training session, the track both emboldens and undercuts their devotion to discipline and duty.
Those who misquote Bogart deserve no other.
Beginning and endings of life in a world of string.
The clip shows how the singer-songwriter Boggie transforms from an ordinary girl into an artificially beautiful public face.
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Light Motif explores the possibilities of synergy between image and music through a semi-abstract environment made of colored lights and geometric shapes.
A journey into the creepy loneliness of a family where the mother figure has disappeared or has perhaps been replaced by the daughter. Viewer of this sad story is an innocent child.
Boy searching for his dad.
Official music video of English afro-folk-pop band The Melodic's song 'Ode to Victor Jara'. This stop-motion animation was crafted as a tribute to Chilean Folk-hero Victor Jara who was brutally murdered at the hands of the Pinocet regime in 1973.
A young girl who misinterprets something she sees and inadvertently causes tragedy to ensue. We see her memory of the events play out on an empty stage as she considers what she has done.
A lone figure transcends a grimy, nocturnal landscape through a mesmerizingly emotional and beautiful dance.
Two creatures born into a world of light and dark struggle to find balance with each other.
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To get the necessary daily medication for his mother, Victor and his father resort to the toughest and the most dangerous solution. Physical survival in the context of poverty is sometimes cruel and can irretrievably destroy human values.
‘Happy Toys’ is focused around lead character Stella. Stella’s day job is to inhabit an adult bear costume and become Happy Bear, the shopfront mascot for commercial toy store ‘Happy Toys’.
Four months ago, their 12 year old son committed suicide. Whilst looking to friends and a new found religion to help deal with their loss, an even more disturbing issue is revealed, one that affects not only them, but also their community.
Cadet is the black tragicomedy of Steve, a 13 year-old athlete who is secretly being doped by his father and coach Patrick to enhance his performance on the track. Steve is faced with the hard choice between his self-esteem and his father's wishes.
Although she’s been dead for six months, Martin’s mother still watches his every move. It seems like he can’t do anything right and his odd behaviour is getting worse.
The final shift between a pregnant carer and one of her patients.
The supermarket is about to close. A boy hurries up with his last minute shopping.
What is the true cost of a bargain? Subtotal is a story of an untraditional encounter between a Swedish salesman and a Norwegian couple on their monthly bargain hunting at the border between Norway and Sweden.
A film by Kazik Radwanski.
We are put to the test when we have to choose between what is right and what is easy. “Money back, please” is shot at a shopping mall with a hidden camera team, and we get to observe a situation that arises.
A woman works in a gas station, alone, at night. People she doesn't know step into her world and out again, leaving her in her own little bubble. Until one night, a special kind of stranger walks in.
It's 1972 in the hardworking steel town of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Sixteen-year-old Joey has the chance to prove himself when his crush ends up at his house to watch the infamous football game between the Steelers and the Raiders.
Selma gets a live chicken. When she realises the animal is going to be killed to feed the family, she decides to save it.
A haunting & poetic short Doc about the flooding of The Redding Pit in Central Scotland 1923, the men trapped below & the women above.
A school girl’s self-defence lesson is the only human touch she gets. When attacked in the woods, she knows what she has to do.
The story of a young student on a field trip to post communist Poland who comes of age when he makes a choice to withhold the truth.
London and Warsaw, 1980. London and Leipzig, 1997. Where now?
A family gathers at their summer house on an island. Waiting for the last member to join them they wander around absorbed by the overwhelming nature, unaware of the devastating news awaiting them.
The Rising is a short film which depicts an invasive alien species, Giant Hogweed, as it rapidly colonizes the British landscape.
Hannah is a deaf-mute little girl. However she hears a strange noise in a parc. Her mother doesn’t believe her but Hannah is becoming more and more obsessed with that experience. She believes that the parc wants to communicate something to her.
A BEREAVED HEADMASTER FIGHTS A CROCODILE.
A narrator recounts the relationship between Adeline, a 12-year-old botanical prodigy and her recently deceased, elderly mentor.
Hector is a British photojournalist covering the Bosnian War. How far will he go for his art? Where will he draw the line between documentation and intervention?
A runaway scientist leaks a video confession of a secret and shocking discovery regarding our Solar System.
On the final assignment of their course as officer candidates in the Israeli army, two women trek through a harsh desert landscape when one suddenly remembers she’s forgotten something crucial…
a violent black comedy about mid-life crisis.
Two lifelong friends find their small-town routine thrown into peril when a buxom woman their own age shows up in their hot tub.
Red Reflections is a short film about the seemingly petty but inevitable drama of going on a night out. It explores the nature of jealousy, betrayal and insecurity but above all, friendship.
There is always a first time for everything, even for celery.
A woman's lifelong devotion is tested when she learns of her ailing husband's infidelity.
Melancholy as a survival strategy in the American Mid-West.
It's a silent night in a small town. The only way to fill the emptiness of life is Milk.
One day in a man’s life. He is looking for his wife, he is looking for some answers, he is looking for a life.
An introspective cinematic journey tracing the thin line between transcendental inspiration and bleak visions evoked by the spirit of vodka.
Ten year old Jonas lives with his ill mother in a small two bedroom apartment. One day he watches from his window as a circus troupe passes by. Later he comes across the troupe again...
A carousel-esque pocket-movie set in a Florentine piazza.
Sometimes you have to drive to the edge of town to catch your breath.
ESCORT' reveals the story of young, inexperienced members of the Dutch Boarder Patrol. They undergo an intensive training on escorting refused asylum seekers to their ‘homeland’.
When a mother is hit by a rare condition that sees her lift off the ground at a slow but ever increasing rate, her husband and daughter are forced to come to terms with losing her.
A family take the 10:22 train from Bradford to London when Dad looses his rag, pregnant Mam concocts a surprise and their teenage daughter aches from embarrassment on just another 'typical family' outing...
A poem, a postcard and a love letter bundled together in one short film shot on the bustling streets of Mumbai.
An ageing scientist, troubled by remembrances from his past, tries to (re-) discover secrets to the creation of life. The creature, struggling for existence in the natural world, journeys unceasingly to find its creator.
Natura’ is an artist film that explores a tumultuous relationship between a daughter and her mentally ill mother. Through a metaphorical journeying to the past, the daughter gains a deeper understanding of the relationship that they shared.
Built from 16mm found footage, Implausible things' seven sequences create a patchwork of reflective tonality, in which each viewer is subtly invited to leave their conceptions of reason and causality behind.
A multitude of animals brought together in a rhythmical sequence of photographs. An accumulation of bygone days, captured in photos, in which the animals are variable, but the same employees frequently reappear.