SYNOPSIS
Through the eyes of a young girl suffering from mental illness, CALDERA glimpses into a world of psychosis and explores a world of ambiguous reality and the nature of life and death.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
CALDERA is inspired by my father's struggle with schizoaffective disorder. In states of delusion, my father has danced on the rings of Saturn, spoken with angels, and fled from...
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An insignificant office worker sees his repressed drives taking shape as a monstrous thing which will fulfill his most violent desires…
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Captain Awesome is about to save the day once again, when an upset stomach threatens to ruin it all.
A story of a superhero’s race against time to save his image or humanity before it all goes down the drain!
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With the use of mathematics, Man is able to understand concrete ideas that totally exceed his cerebral abilities. Quantum physics for example uses several dimensions, which are most of the time invisible and so very difficult to represent schematically. At this time where Terra is fond of images in 3 dimensions, scientists have develop theories that would extend the universe to a space beyond 11...
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Cinematics is a timeline of classic films and characters. It's a experimental project.
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A short film about the rhythms of the London Underground and the people who ride within it.
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'Catzilla' is an original hybrid art project with the aesthetics of the film and the same time for video game.
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Bold is a character with an atypical physic. He is way more taller than his peers, and very brutal in spite of himself. Which led him to be rejected by everyone. Dirt, is just the opposite, it’s a bum small and sickly, constantly struggling for survival. Bold is going to offer a fruit to Dirt, by kindness, but he will obviously take fright. What follows is a chase between the two...
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Duke and Max are two hunters that are both attempting to catch the same rabbit by tempting it with carrots. Things quickly escalate as they start to try to outdo each other. They soon lose sight of their goal and become focused only on one-upping each other, only to have the rabbit snatched from them at the height of their battle.
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A Christmas saga set in Copenhagen 1932 during the depression. The story is about a little pig imprisoned by a family who is fattening him up for Christmas but one day the door to his prison opens and he has the chance to escape.
The film uses songs instead of dialog and explore the world trough one continues camera move for 7 minutes.
It is a daring experiment how to tell a story in a dreamlike...
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The film tells the story of a mysterious clock maker and a young girl who are trapped underneath water, in a tidelly enveloped city. The level of water goes up and down at fixed hours as a result of huge tides, and the two of them have to find a way out against time.
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“Chick” is a humorous true-life story about male-female relations. Infatuation and its consequences are depicted in a ironic way: meeting a guy, dancing, having fun, a sexual act. A man, giddy with the charm of a femme fatale, leaves a room. He is followed by failure and doom.
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Tells the adventures and misfortunes of Demódoco, a projectionist, who discovers by chance a one-of-a-kind way to get pleasure. However, abusing it leads to risky consequences.
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A game of chess comes to an end. The Black Queen runs constantly, looking for the next white pawn with which she will redden her teeth. White to play!
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A man is collecting coins and piling them up. Coins fall from above and he stacks them like stairs.
The stairs go higher and higher and the man climbs up the coins to place the new one where it belongs.
The job becomes more difficult with every new coin that falls from above… and the man adamantly keeps on staking them, as we wonder why?...
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A door opens onto a world, haunted by flying fishes, buried chimeras and deep fancies.
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Born and raised in a fowl run a chicken isn't able to lay eggs, and so she is condemned to die. As she escapes she discovers her true nature...
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The story so far...
The port city of Lhek is on the brink of collapse. A Pacific Rim state in a not too distant Asian future with no borders, no meaningful government and little law and order.
Corruption and crime are out of control in the dark alleys of Eda, Lhek's slum district. Most sectors of the city are controlled by the army of dictator Khaan. The most underprivileged parts of the city...
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A former circus manager leads a boring life until he receives a tempting invitation that will lead him to an unexpected situation.
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Chump & Clump meet at a bus station. While waiting for the bus, which drives only once a week, a bizarre and wonderful friendship develops, that still prevails when all odds turn against our heroes.
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A young llama named Koro discovers that the grass is always greener on the other side (of the electric fence).
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Donovan Murdock loves his Coin, when stolen from him, he will stop at nothing in this rock 'em sock 'em beat 'em up! Take a nostalgic journey with Donovan as he travels through yesterday's most memorable video games!
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Cupidon makes people fall in love with each other, but when there is a miss, he have to correct it's.
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The carnotaurus finds himself in a tough situation when he realizes his own body is his worst enemy.
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"Chicken or the Egg" is an offbeat romantic comedy about a pig who has an EGGdiction to eating eggs. But when he falls in love with the hottest chicken in town, he must choose what comes first... the Chicken or the Egg.
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Surreal film about a strange dance with incredible choreography.
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Society make people comply. Man can not be fully expressed in solitude.
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Meet Cosmo and learn what unusual dream this clumsy prehistoric creature is pursuing.
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A girl is commissioned to paint over an old concrete illustration, in which to her surprise, sinks into.
She befriends a painted dragon who has a wing missing.
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Two old men sit down for a less than normal game of chess.
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A charming girl entered to a cafe and Jannick immediately fell in love with her. As now bringing to its attention to enamored guy?
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Lone among the people of the big city young man gets an amazing chance to visit many places, to finally be home with a loving mother and maybe change something in their own lives...
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A nineteen year old finds himself alone in a hostile desert, scared as hell and trained to react.
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People of a small village located in the heart of the desert, desperately trying to get water. To do this, they have a special machine for the production of water from the clouds. But where to get them? Apparently they have to hunt. All is well until hero stumbles on the giant storm, has he captured to much?
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Film about a kid with an crazy imagination on an adventure with a crab.
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In a paper world, the innocent game of two children takes an unexpected twist...
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In 1940, Dunkrik (France). Pierre will go across the streets of the city and the halls of his building to save his daughter.
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A hungry rabbit tried everything, to pull a big carrot out of the ground.
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Two children walk on a road mapped out in black and white. They encounter colorful toys of the three primary colors. This is soaking up the experience as they move will take a new path...
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A man and a woman surrounded by the overwhelming noise of electronics and consumerism. A portrait of loneliness in modern times.
AWARDS
*2013 Montreal Stop Motion Film Festival, Montreal – Special Mention for great story telling
*2014 Goiânia Mostra Curtas, Brazil– best short film, jury selection
*2014 Air Canada Enroute Festival – Achievement in...
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A modern fairy tale about a wooden Colossus and a small good bird.
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One night, passing through her childhood home of Russia, a woman reminisces about faraway landscapes.
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An apprehensive homeless girl must traverse a dangerous, wintry city in order to find a new home.
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The police chases a young trainwritin who painted a girl on the wall, but the living image is trying to help the artist.
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The story of a fish who lives a drama under sea coming back to his roots, it's scary but he's fine because he's stoned.
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This is a student film about how to pass through the traffic with a scooter.
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Thierry, in a fast food mascot, celebrates 35 years alone in the bathroom of his work. Clumsiness will cause it to be fired that day. Rejected the city as in life, it will make a strange encounter that will change his life.
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The girl on a motorcycle gets into fatal accidents on the mountain road through the fault of ghost that solves to fix the tragic consequences.
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A fiery dog with magic powers burst into an ordered urban universe and disrupts its perfect machinery.
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In memory of the First World War... Shell and mortar fire rain down on a muddy battlefield littered with barbed wire entanglements and craters. But the battle takes an unexpected twist when two soldiers meet in no-man's-land...
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As two organisms compete for the one light amid the darkness, their story reveals the volatile nature of power.
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Sci-fi film that starts with the duel of a ROBOT GLADIATOR vs SPACE JESUS but escalates to a much bigger conflict when the love interest appears. CYBORG goes against ROBO-DINOSAUR in a chaotic battle that finally ends in outer space.
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The awesome film about the big dream of a small ant. The film is made in a unique technique of bulk materials from different types of tea leaves.
AWARDS:
*2012 Hiroshima (Japan), International jury special prize.
*2012 Fantoche International Festival für Animationsfilm (Switzerland), Audience award.
*2012 Animage (Brazil), Prize for the best animation for children.
*2012 Cinefest (Hungary),...
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A sofa-bound dog is shocked to learn that a huge world lies outside the door — the maddening, unbreakable door.
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It's winter in Patagonia, food is getting scarce. Koro the Llama engages with Oti the pesky penguin, in an epic fight over that last tasty berry.
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On a typical sunny day the young crab saw on the beach very nice tattoo and immediately fell in love with her all his pincers.
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The arrival of a space shop disturbs the serenity of a strange planet and its inhabitants.
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Gather round ladies and gentlefolk, to hear the tale of Sir Moros, the buffest knight in the Kingdom. On a quest to find what lies at the end of a mysterious treasure map, Sir Moros is sure to succeed. He is renowned amongst his fellow knights and to all in the land, famous for his incomparable strength and ultra-tight breeches. Despite all of his fame and glory, he has one unfortunate...
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18+ Canis — an award-winning puppet animated short film by Marc Riba & Anna Solanas about a boy who survives isolated in a house constantly besieged by a horde of stray dogs.
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Not of this world!
Laika, a female dog, is kidnapped and then launched into outer space. Choban, her owner, starts the search and ends up in an underground city. Meanwhile, Laika travels to a planet inhabited by a mysterious black grandmother called Moira who tailors fate and bends time and space.
Dedicated to Andrzej Zulawski & Piotr Szulkin.
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A brand new alarm clock is eager to ring for the first time. Will he manage to ring in time?
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Coin Operated is an award winning 5 minute short animation that spans 70 years in the life of one naive explorer. This film was proudly made by independent artists.Coin Operated is an award winning 5 minute short animation that spans 70 years in the life of one naive explorer. This film was proudly made by independent artists.
A young boy, like many others, dreams of going out to space and...
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