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A glimpse into the daily life of the women who work and stay in the shelter for battered women. The film collects their personal stories and throughout the process of accepting women into the shelter, starting with the operator of the emergency line and ending with the story of one of the women who lived there. The collection of stories is an opening that allows one to look at the topic of violence within the family, and to try and understand what a shelter is.

1194D is originally a tweak of 115C8, one of the “Algorithmic Creature” series based on recursive triangle subdivision. The idea and complexity of the work started to go beyond the initial expectation after it was decided to experiment with multiple “creatures” co-existing within the environment.

Sae Okamoto's first independent animation work, featuring music by Shouta Murasato.

Between 11:10 and 11:12 you realise the symmetry of the moment, and of life itself, in Max Kisman's provocative riff on the monotony of driving through the desert.

A basic toy explores pattern and motion to create an immersive optical illusion.

12 little Christmas tales from Bill Plympton.

The story of an apology. A turbulent mother and son relationship manifests in the form of intoxication induced flashbacks, experienced by the son while dancing away the heartache and guilt on the dancefloor of the city's dingiest nightclub. Regardless of his attempts to escape from the consequences of his actions, he is ultimately faced with a choice in order to accept the past and repair the relationship.

For twelve years she ignored sneers and mockery and stood up for her relationship. But that was probably a mistake.

Just when you think the world around you is what it is; it isn't. Walk with Mouse Fitzgerald through his murky past and even murkier present, for clues that will unlock the future: his and yours. Enjoy this television series as it has never been seen before: as a seamless, flawless movie, with character development and a story arc that rivals Citizen Kane.

A family trip is interrupted at midday, when the fabric of reality thins and the seamy side of a summer day is revealed.

We see: a mosaic, printed on self-adhesive transparent film, cut and stuck to the front and back sides of 35mm clear leader. We hear: a piece of text, converted into barcode, printed onto self-adhesive transparent film, cut and stuck to 35mm clear leader.

A little head made out of clay woke up, and found that the body parts that were put for it, was not what was supposed to be. The little head tried to dig, to find the body parts that would meet its expectation. With lots of help from its friends, the little head had a journey to be comforted by its own choices

The film approaches in an original way the devastating events of the Athens Polytechnic Uprising in 1973, starting from today.

“I lost something I had found; I found something that had been lost.”

An animated music video set to The Residents' "Loser≅Weed" that revolves around a false predetermined apocalypse. In other words, 12/21/2012: the end, but not really.

A group of lemons wired together as a makeshift battery sits under the moving light of a rapidly passing day. As the light fades, a mini cabin settles among the fruit and draws power from the improvised circuit.

Several surrealist animated shorts compiled together.

We have selected 17 short films on the environment divided into 4 different categories: amateur, animation, fiction and documentary. These short films are in competition for the prize on each category.

A nightmare reconstruction.

A dying dog sniffs its way back to its birthplace in Barking along a dreamlike version of the A13 trunk road, drawn in single lines on a handheld computer. An animate! commission for Channel 4 and the Arts Council of England.

On a renovation site in Shanghai in the 80’s, workers are waking up from their daily nap and going back to work.

This interpretation of 13 cantos from the first part of Dante's The Divine Comedy is dedicated to Carl Koch and Lotte Reiniger, the husband-and-wife team who pioneered the technique of silhouette animation.

An gentleman's animated guide to hankie code and flagging.