A Morning Stroll

Director: Grant Orchard

Year: 2007

Tensions mount in surely the shortest game ever, as match emotions and park life are merged and condensed into mere minutes though the simple yet hugely evocative animation by regular studio aka animator Orchard.

Director: Grant Orchard

Year: 2004

Welcome to Glaringly is the sinister tale of a man who goes to visit an old friend in a new town, and who is suspected by the townsfolk as coming for an entirely different reason.

Director: Tatiana Collet Apraxine

Year: 2028

You awaken on a fog-shrouded shoreline and meet Echo, a strange child with a hole in their stomach. Together you cross a lantern festival where the veil between worlds is thinnest, sail into an ocean that opens beneath you, and descend through a portal into the Underworld. The Underworld moves through different facets of grief: a rave where silhouettes dance in slow motion, indifferent to Echo's attempts to reach them; a frozen sea where giant statues crack open to release a buried memory of a lost mother; a shadow theatre where an anger monster is unleashed, reducing everything to embers. From the embers, a boat carries you into a vast darkness, where Mother appears, and they are finally reunited. You sail together to the Tree of Life, a bioluminescent, cosmic jungle. Echo begs her to return to the World of the Living, but ancestors appear and surround you. She cannot come back - the journey was never about bringing her back. Echo, revealed to be your own child self, dissolves around you as the hole fills with light.