Always treasure the time you have with those that you love. Time waits for no one. One minute you’re 4 and the next day you’re 21. Days go by, and you see those you love get older and older, and you never know when their time may end.
The main characters want to be alone, but random events force them to face each other.
Teddy Bear is seated to the window during the pandemic to cheer up the children, but soon Teddy Bear discovers that the loneliness of being in the window is deadly. The loneliness is relieved when Teddy encounters another teddy bear in the opposite window.
The film is a fantasy about the little world under our feet. The protagonist breaks free from the general monotonous rhythm of the workers and embarks on his own journey to discover the new sound of the familiar space.
A young man is going to the country to gather mushrooms. On his way to the country, he meets a young girl. The impression of this fleeting meeting changes both his inner world and the reality around him.
Surfer balances between sleep and reality and the sound waves become the sea. The film is about preserving fragile harmony in the midst of chaos. The directorial debut of the artist was drawn by hand on small pieces of paper.
The events of the film take place two hundred years ago, when flowers were taller than houses and witches turned their daughters-in-law into poplars. The Cossack has gone to war not knowing that, when he returns, nothing will be the same.
Five dead men approach the boarder, which is guarded by dogs. Having fed the dog, they are waiting for the crossing to the other side. Howling dogs helps to cross the border. Leaving is liberation.
This animation manifests the emotional selfish desire called love. In every relationship, individual’s spirit and soul should not be tied down with each other. And whether their relationship ends in happiness or misery, in the river of natural life, each person’s life is just a small stream that injects into the long river halfway and then evaporates halfway. In this film, two individuals with strong personalities, are ultimately driven to ruin by selfish possessiveness. But in the end, their death, their rebirth after corruption, is just a part of this continuum called natural life, no matter whether their behaviors should be morally criticized, or should be introspected by us.
Created by students in Experimental Animation at Sam Houston State University
Fish It, is a cut out stop motion animated short film, created during a 2D Stop Motion Animation seminar-workshop, in May and June 2022, at the Graphic Arts, Typography and Book Arts Studio of thw Athens School of Fine Arts. Purpose of the seminar was introduction into Stop Motion Animation and creation of a collaborative stop motion short film from start to finish. The persons responsible for the seminar were the undergraduate student Chrysa Voudouri and the Studio technical staff member Kostas Backas. 12 students participated, who collaborated in groups, after jointly deciding how to create the animation (paper cut out - creating all the scenes and the moving parts with cut out colored papers), and the script (the story and characters of the student Iliana Fafouti were voted on). According to the storyboard made by the students and with the director's instructions, each group undertook to implement some scenes, i.e. to make the characters and scenery with paper and to take all the necessary shots for the scene in the studio set up for this purpose in the Studio. Some of the students also took on the role of coordinator, so that while one group was filming, the others were preparing their material. Each student also made for themselves a paper cut out character for the end credits, while student Thalia Vegkou created a digital typeface specifically for the film. After all the shots were done, the images were transferred for post production, which was also done in the Lab, as was the design of all the sounds. During the seminar the students were introduced to animation and video production, in the context of expanding the subject matter of Graphic Design. The students who participated in the seminar (in alphabetical order): Elena Asimakopoulou, Iliana Fafouti, Spyridoula Fideropoulou, Themis Gourgiotis, Stefania Karabela, Myrto Papadopoulou, Eva Rizou, Katerina Skordou, Christianna Sotiriou, Margarita Stefanidou, Alekos Tranoulidis, Thalia Vegkou.
For young Violet it is the moment to face her worst fear: the fear of invariably creating something wrong, a "noise", in front of the eyes of others..
Memento Mori is an experimental stop-motion film that follows Charlie through his surreal journey through the five stages of grief. After losing his partner, Charlie becomes imprisoned by denial, haunted by the past in bargaining, rampages in anger and sinks into the dark depth of depression. However, Charlie is able to prevail over these trials and emerge on the other side, accepting and coming to terms with his loss.
Follow Clementine, the hardworking owner of the Little Leaf plant shop on an especially busy day. Her friend and guardian of the shop, playful and energetic, unintentionally pushes Clementine to her breaking point; wherein she learns the consequences of not controlling her emotions.
Lumi is a little star with bright career goals; becoming a constellation at the renowned Constellation Corporation, like Ursa Major or the Little Dipper. However, when they arrive late to the group interview they are thrown into a grand light show of other applicants who perform with ease. Will this little star shape up in a galaxy that's too big for them?
Emily is left feeling hopeless after seeing the state of the coral reef during her Island trip. Enter the mischievous Iluka, who leads Emily on a wild chase across the island. In the end, below the waves, Emily regains her hope of a beautiful future for the Great Barrier Reef.
Two cockatoo slobs, Blake and Sulley, are sitting in front of the TV in their shitty apartment. Lanky Blake is resting his legs on shortstack Sulley, who’s playing video games. When cassowary landlord Damo comes knocking for rent money, it sends the duo into a panic. In the frantic search to pay their rent, the duo is yanked into an alternate hellish dimension, meeting an omnipotent being known as the Rent Guardian. However, Damo is stalking, still out for his precious cash.
Sophie begins to panic as the crowded train fills and closes in on her. When she sees a young girl having a harder time than her, she reaches out to help. The girl leads her through places that feel strangely familiar until they reach an emotional confrontation. As crashing waves fill the space around them, Sophie starts to question who the girl could really be.
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