Sztuka spadania (2004)

In an old forgotten military base far from civilization, a group of deranged military officers nurture their insanity.
A volunteer soldier plummets to his death. A photograph is taken and sent by courier to a huge man, who adds it to his macabre collection.
The message behind ‘Fallen Art’ changed during production. At the beginning Tomek Baginski wanted to make just a funny film about the army, but many things happened in the world while the crew was fine-tuning the storyboards.



Fallen Art is an exploration of animation itself, as it is done in very caricaturist CG but has the second level of being something of a stop-motion animation.
The main assumption of the technique used in the film was the combining of the modern language of computer animation with the classical hand painting so that the picture would gain the feeling of an actual painting.

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Jim Rugg has worked with VH1, Harcourt, SLG, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, Adhouse Books, Meathaus, Alternative, SPX, Top Shelf, and Sparkplug. He is the co-creator of Street Angell, Afrodisiac and the The Plain Janes.

J'attendrai le suivant... (2002)

Philippe Orreindy directed I'll Wait for the Next One, a short which sets itself up as a cute little comedy skit, and it delivers on that premise but also surprises you with an incredibly moving finale.



Lasting only four minutes, the film takes place almost entirely on a metro train.
On a subway train, a man announces that he's looking for someone who might be interested in him; the usual dating methods have not worked, though there's nothing wrong with him. He explains that any interested woman can just get off at the next stop. One woman looks interested...

We the Robots 4

We The Robots is a comic strip by animator and former syndicated cartoonist, Chris Harding. It is about robots.

Helium (2005)

Adam Janeczeic directed one of the best animated videos I've ever watched.

Helium is so elegant for its choreography. This short reminde of some sequences of dancing fairies in Fantasia. The animation is perfect for its graceful timing of these Casper - ghosts.

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By Michael Englert.

Copy Shop (2001)

Copy Shop is an ingenious, visually stunning experimental film about a guy who works in a copy shop. During his morning test of the machine, he accidentally copies his hand; while he's looking at that copy, the machine starts churning out scenes from earlier that morning. Spooked by this, he closes up early and goes home. Soon, it seems, he's part of a society in which everyone looks like him and wears check vest. Can he get things back to normal?


Virgil Widrich shot the film on digital video then took the footage into a computer and edited all the fancy effects. The result is truly unique.

We the Robots 3

We The Robots is a comic strip by animator and former syndicated cartoonist, Chris Harding. It is about robots.

Empire (2005)

As we see the Statue of Liberty from the air, the voice of President George W. Bush speaks about a great people facing terror. Then there follows a montage of images of offices, homes, and back yards of the U.S. in the late 1950s and early 1960s: the colors of avocado green and harvest gold dominate. People, all of them white, are well dressed and well scrubbed; houses and offices well kept.



Archives images compiled by Edouard Salier demonstrate the blissful consumers of the standard American family, which become deformed by their transparent backdrops. Each image is criss-crossed by optical effects that magnify or obscure, and that invite sharper observation. Empire is remarkable for its integration of form, technique and content, deploying digital technologies with glacial precision in its exploration of the pervasive, unsettling realities of our times. Empire is a graphic illustration of the American way of life, and its warlike tendencies.

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By Momo.

Kleingeld (1999)

Herr Hoffman parks his late-model car in a lot across from his corner office on the top floor. Each day, he puts a coin in the cup of a beggar who stands in front of the building. One day, Hoffman looks out his window and notices the beggar washing his car. That evening, when he gives the beggar a coin, Hoffmann tells him not the wash it. But the next day, it happens again...

Kleingeld was inspired by The Philanthropist, a play which was performed in Berlin by a student theater group. In the play a character tells a story about something that happened to him, but in the film, it's a different character, it's a different setting.
Marc-Andreas Bochert makes a short which is exceptionally well thought through, visually.
The cinematic space that articulates this story is made up of a series of repetitions, this space is shown with many variations.
Marc-Andreas Bochert also worked very carefully with the music. These are the dynamics from which Kleingeld can profit.

We the Robots 2

We The Robots is a comic strip by animator and former syndicated cartoonist, Chris Harding. It is about robots.