The Falling Shadow

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Brutalism

August 2014 •English

Black giants break classical architecture and rebuild them into Brutalistic structure.

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The Spring of Huang Jueping

March 2017 •Chinese

An artist looks back on his younger years at the Chongqing Art Academy in the turbulent 1990s. The selection and demands used to be killing. He was close friends with two boys and a girl. They fought with local youngsters and tried to give each other pep talks. Parallels with the childhood years of his parents, during the Cultural Revolution, also show violence and gun battles. Semi-autobiographical, with motion capture.

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Eclectic Shorts by Eric Leiser

May 2006 •English

Eric Leiser displays his boundless creativity in this short collection; A stunning compilation of works presented with a mixture of live action, stop motion animation, puppetry and pixilation techniques, produced between 2001 and 2006.

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Silent

February 2014 •English

A duo of street performers learns how sound and picture work together to create amazing cinema experiences.

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Miss Hokusai

May 2015 •Japanese

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.

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In Ictu Oculi

October 2020 •Basque

The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of human-made decay. In the blink of an eye 66 years pass by and a savings bank replaces a church.

5.8

The Hunger Artist

June 2002 •English

Set in a city both past and present, on a deserted street where only the distant sounds of life blow by. The Hunger Artist stands alone, locked in his cage. Once famous and adored by the crowds, he now performs alone.

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My Art is Not Dead

November 2013 •English

A poor artist accidentally discovers the use of blood to paint his works and now he's on the search for the perfect color.

6.8

The Stolen Princess

March 2018 •Ukrainian

This wonderful story happened in the age of valiant knights, beautiful princesses, and battling sorcerers. Ruslan, a wandering artist dreaming to become a knight, met beautiful Mila and fell in love with her; he didn’t even suspect that she is the King’s daughter. However, the lovers’ happiness wasn’t meant to last too long. Chernomor, the evil sorcerer, appeared in a magic vortex and stole Mila right before Ruslan’s eyes to transform her power of love into his own magic power. Without further ado, Ruslan sets out on a chase after the stolen princess to overcome all obstacles and to prove that real love is stronger than magic.

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A Spot for Frog

June 2022 •English

Locked out of the school art room, a creative non-binary teen named Frog grapples with anxiety as they seek a new place to eat lunch. Imagination blurs with reality in this hybrid work of live action and animation about finding a place to belong.

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Artist at work

June 2021 •English

Two egg-shaped clown performers try out new ways to impress audiences.

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Hasan Everywhere

February 2010 •English

Hasan Everywhere is an animation which broaches the subtlety of a relationship between a man and a woman who bear the passports of enemies, to sympathetically deal with the subjects of death, grief, lost opportunity; but mostly it seeks to demonstrate the possibility of friendship triumphing over the deepest of rifts between two people. In that regard it is most unusual among the standard fare of animated shorts.

4.5

Gloria's Call

October 2019 •English

In 1971, graduate student Gloria Orenstein received a call from Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington that sparked a lifelong journey into art, ecofeminism and shamanism. This short film uses art, animation and storytelling to celebrate this wild adventure. Now more than 40 years later, award-winning Dr. Gloria Feman Orenstein is a feminist art critic and pioneer scholar of women in Surrealism and ecofeminism in the arts. Her delightful tale brings alive an often unseen history of women in the arts.

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Cliff: A Portrait of an Artist

June 2021 •English

Acclaimed Canadian artist Cliff Eyland looks back on his life after a successful double lung transplant.

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Entergalactic

September 2022 •English

Ambitious artist Jabari attempts to balance success and love when he moves into his dream Manhattan apartment and falls for his next-door neighbor.

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The Whisper of Ziggurat: Untold Secrets of Elamite Civilization

October 2020 •English

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three millennia. They created marvelous works in architecture and craftsmanship. These works of art depict the lifestyle, thoughts, and beliefs of the Elamites.

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Loving Vincent

June 2017 •English

A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.

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Art That Moves: The Work of Len Lye

July 2009 •English

Len Lye (1901-1980) was a pioneer of experimental animation, and also of kinetic sculpture. This short film dramatically presents 18 minutes inside the head of the artist as a teenager. The opening scenes are set in New Zealand in the year 1917, on the day when Lye (setting out on his bicycle to deliver newspapers) makes his excited discovery that motion can be the basis for a radically new approach to art.

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The Invisible Moustache of Raoul Dufy

January 1955 •English

A short animated biopic of popular and fashionable French painter Raoul Dufy.

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This Means More

March 2020 •French

Images of crowd simulation are faced with testimonies from Liverpool Football Club’s supporters who recall their experience marked by a tragic event: the Hillsborough stadium disaster in 1989, which changed the nature of the game of football.