A Sweet Tale

Adolfo Kaminsky started saving lives when chance and necessity made him a master forger. As a teenager, he became a member of the French Resistance and used his talent to save the lives of thousands of Jews. The Forger is a well-crafted origin story of a real-life superhero.

A Mighty Heroes short.

Short stop motion for the German TV youth magazine Dr. Mag. Studio Film Bilder produced 18 different shorts, each time with a different director who interpreted a given subject in his personal style. This time Jürgen Haas dealt with spring, puberty and first love.

This is about how drugs alter our perception and take the place of normal sensory input.

A closeted boy runs the risk of being outed by his own heart after it pops out of his chest to chase down the boy of his dreams.

Animators and urban planners both create worlds, but Czech stop motion specialist Jiří Barta's ingenious paper cut-out short punctures the stifling architecture of communist housing. Skilled hands blueprint an apartment tower standardized specifications. Envelopes contain the elements of each home. Family dwellings, bachelor pads, scholarly studies and artist studios: different social configurations are permitted but restrained to the same uniform box. A dystopian revision of the REAR WINDOW scenario, THE DESIGN's darkly comic social critique still has teeth.

It's hunting season, as well as Eda's 25th birthday. As a present, her father offers her an apartment under seizure.

Computer animation featuring a running figure that morphs into various elements. Originally commissioned for Hyundai Sejong Motor Gallery, Seoul, Korea and a special edit was shown in Times Square, New York, USA.

An alien crashlands to earth with his two stupid henchmen.

In Eshbaugh’s ‘political’ animated cartoon world, the Democratic platform is destroyed by its own swallowing of the NRA (National Recovery Act), sending the Donkey representing the party into a dizzying disastrous bucking fury (thanks to a ‘liberal’ added dose of Russian vodka).

An emotional and generational conflict between mother and son in the twenty-first century, except for one detail: Mother is none other than death.