Grandmother is a Crab borrows from an earlier digital video, made fifteen years ago, that itself used footage captured from a travel advertisement on television. Black and white, and mirror effects, take the image out of time, giving it both vividness and distance. The music is played in reverse. And the voice-over and under-titles are a poem that re-enters the magic world of a child on a beach.
Macropolis is the story of two reject toys who escape from the factory. Determined to rejoin the other toys, they lose themselves in the big city. Shot in an unusual combination of stop motion, CGi and time-lapse photography, this short film is animated entirely on the streets of Belfast.
A minimalist world invaded by a series of uninvited, unexplained presences. Anomalies is a film about the human compulsion to meddle, probe and fiddle with things that are better left alone.
Martin's first experience of life was rather positive. He was swimming with thousands of similar sperms towards the warmly inviting egg. Reached it, Martin was the winner, the quickest one of all.
Was it determination or beginners luck?
Ellipsis follows a familiar routine of a character going about his business, but it is made strange and dramatic by removing the familiar material world to leave just characters interacting.
A lonely little girl who yearns for somebody to talk to begins to confide in the moon from her bedroom window each night. However, when a cloudy evening obscures her view, she ventures out into the garden to find her skyward friend.
An account of events when Yeuk Seng slowly grasps the fact that he has become a social outcast as a breathing person. Refusing to give in, he is now struggling to live in a city that he does not belong to anymore.
The film is loosely based on Little Red Riding Hood. Embarking on a physical journey into the depth of a forest, the surrounding landscape slowly transforms into an otherworldly environment, adopting features of the protagonist's mind, merging with memories and imagination until the distinction between internal and external worlds disappear.
