Dark Toons 2017

This woman can't stop growing fingers.

The world is a wonderful stage, but its characters are disgraceful.

A man walks among the streets of Paris. Around him, the city is waking up. Adapted from a poem by Robert Desnos. A sand and cut-paper animation.

An artistic improvisation in real time led and inspired by the international event of the pages of the French daily newspaper Libération.

In a continuous scenery, his physical movement stays in the same position. The speed of the continuity and his movement have accelerated and gradually cause a distortion.

A disembodied memory of adolescence in a California suburb. The stuck-stillness of endless summer is interrupted only by a passing El Niño.

A story of net-cross'd lovers.

Painful events become memories over time. Still, we vomit and eat again. Life is Eco.

Scavengers is a surreal sci fi journey into the unknown centered around two main characters as they struggle to find a way of getting some sense of what they had back on earth. It's a story about the exploration of the human condition surviving in an unforgiving world.

We must protect this house.

A badger lies motionless on a local road. A police patrol approaches the body in the dark. They soon realise that the animal is not dead; the badger is dead drunk! When the police attempt to drag the creature off the road, he wakes up and things take a strange turn.

Gabriele Stoetzer and Birgit Willschuetz were political inmates at Hoheneck Castle, the most notorious women’s prison in East Germany. Their story is one of overcrowded cells, despotic hierarchies, ruthless everydays, and the enduring effects of incarceration. Most of all, however, it is about the crushing pressure of forced labour. Prisoners at Hoheneck manufactured millions of pantyhose, bed sheets, and other products for West German retailers, bringing enormous profits to both sides of the Iron Curtain. Part of the young animadoc tradition, the seven-minute film pairs original audio interview extracts with abstract, monochrome animation.

In the midst of reflective fantasy, a young woman's inner thoughts arouse a surreal exploration of sensuality, self-esteem, and deeply rooted fears. Her arrival is one of strength, beauty, and greater character.