Polish Short Animation

ZIMA — Tomek Popakul & Kasumi Ozeki | 2024

It grows slowly as an icicle, but one day it drops and crashes. Anka loves cats. And Jesus. In a winter silence the lagoon freezes and the unspoken resurfaces like crack on ice. Mosaic portrait of a small fisherman’s village where human to human, human to animal, animal to animal interdepend on a delicate balance of warm tender care and cold emotional cruelty. An eerie story of loneliness and community narrated with magical realism.

Martyr’s Guidebook — Maks Rzontkowski | 2024

Tony is the ultimate good guy, sometimes to a fault. From nabbing the smallest slice of cake in grade school to guiding lost strangers in the city, his kindness knows no bounds. He also lives with an angel.

Ziemniaki — Marcin Podolec | 2023

A story about an intergenerational relationship, drawn with a trembling line. Sometimes it's worth letting go - yourself and others.

Colaholic — Marcin Podolec | 2018

Colaholic is a diary of a person who drinks way too much sweet sodas, a documentary and a romantic comedy rolled into one.

Slow Light — Kijek/Adamski | 2022

A seven-year-old boy who was born blind suddenly sees a light, but it is from the past. A medical examination reveals that his eyes are so dense that it takes years for light to pass through his retina and for the image to reach his consciousness.

We Cut Corners / Pirate’s Life — Kijek/Adamski | 2014

Hand drawn frame by frame - markers on paper — this video won the Music Video Prize at Annecy 2012, France.

AHEAD — Ala Nunu | 2020

A short story about living with and as a headless person.

HK Short Animation

You build a home in my heart｜心之房 — Florence Yuk-ki Lee | 2023-4

Translating and encapsulating the artist's personal childhood experiences as well as past lived experiences, “You build a home in my mind” explores themes of memory, loss, and resilience. It comprises of objects from childhood and special objects recalled from memories—weaving together a melody that lures the viewers to roam and wander.

The Cave with a Wheeze — Jess Lau | 2021

In the fixed-point stop-motion animation, Lau repeatedly draws carbon-black beings in charcoal on a 2×3m white wall. Each figure walks in from the edge to gather at the centre, until the wall is filled with hundreds of beings, after which Lau wipes the charcoal away by hand, attempting to return the wall to white. A clock in the upper left records real time, running alongside the animation’s condensed time. Conceived during the summer of 2020, after long hours contemplating the studio wall, the work emerged from the idea of “filling the wall with bodies.”

Divisional Articulations — Max Hattler | 2017

Repetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music and geometric digital animation collide in an electronic feedback loop, and spawn arrays of divisional articulations in time and space.

Serial Parallels — Max Hattler | 2019

Hong Kong's signature architecture of horizon-eclipsing housing estates is reimagined as parallel rows of film strips.