3 Essais
Following in the footsteps of pioneers like Émile Cohl, the brilliant inventor and self-taught artist Louis Van Maelder created a body of work of unparalleled richness and inventiveness by drawing directly onto the film strip.
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Following in the footsteps of pioneers like Émile Cohl, the brilliant inventor and self-taught artist Louis Van Maelder created a body of work of unparalleled richness and inventiveness by drawing directly onto the film strip.

3 Feet is the adventurous journey of Gonzalo, an imaginative and tenacious 10-year old facing the most difficult task of his life: get to school with clean shoes in order to prevent being separated from his best friend (his soccer ball), until the end of the year.
Set in the near future, this is a tale about Han, a boy born with a handphone inside his head. Han is now eighteen years old and he is in love with Mei, a girl born with two small speakers inside her head and a small TV inside her right palm. Han and Mei must struggle with the fact that they will always be three feet apart.

A story of a family of three consisting of a pig, fish and a tadpole that lives in the stomach of a big fish. Their lives are turned upside down when a fruit floats into their home.

In a post-graduation landscape of boredom, uncertainty, and struggle, there is a desire for the simpler life: a shepherd and artist in the middle of the rural South.
A retelling of the tales “3 Little Piggies” and “The Little Red Riding Hood”, which are connected through a common character between the stories.
This piece addresses the astonishing rate of transformation in the contemporary Chinese cityscape, presenting an ironic vision of Chinese architecture out of control. I have taken buildings of the most well known architectural projects from the Beijing skyscape and reconstructed them so they become an undoable spectacle. The Chinese Government is deliberately producing awe-inspiring architecture to persuade and convince foreign observers of their hyper-modernist perspective. More importantly, while visiting Beijing it became evident that the Communist Party is also deliberately using architecture to persuade and convince their national audience of the Party’s insightful perspective on their own future.

Young Mr Johnson, goes to hospital to pick up a health report and discovers that he only has 3 minutes to live. The news upsets him, and in a rage, incredible events follow that trigger global chaos.

Three stories of people in distress that interlock.

Deep into her dreams, Ava wanders through the mysterious walls of her childhood dollhouse.






English Colonel Rimfire reads that a circus offers $1000 for a live tiger. Rimfire decides to deliver Cool Cat...

In a household where meal times are a delightful feast full of bonding, fellowship and good eating, 3 members of this tight-knit family are diagnosed with Diabetes Mellitus.

New animated film by Anna Yarotskaya.

A triptych stop-frame animation made on the floor of my London flat using water, cardboard, and homemade slime. The animations were made over a long period of time and the project was pulled together during successive pandemic lockdowns while imagining wide open marshland, mires, and swamps of different kinds.

A pig, a chicken and a goat escape a farm to avoid becoming the Christmas Eve dinner, and befriend a blue iguana. When their friend gets kidnapped, they set out to rescue him.

3 generations, 3 narrations, 3 different points of view. A dance of generations.


An animated film using a multitude of techniques, in which a flower tries to grow while the planet is dying.