Composition
Sound and image are the most important things human beings communicate through. They are made by the same lines engraved directly on a 35mm film stock in order to create the most harmonic relationship between them. In this film you can see the sound and hear the image.
His face is a mask. He wears it not to be different from others, hiding his secret desires and dreams. His aim is to stay himself in the world of coldness and cruelty.
Piano
Marta hauls a piano home from a shop that sells used musical instruments. She almost succeeds. Albert tries for the thirtieth year already to tell Paula that he loves her. He almost succeeds. Paula wants to respond to Albert in the same vein. She almost succeeds. Police commissioner Kits has dreamed of parachuting all his life. He almost succeeds. Mirjam wants be become a circus artist. She almost succeeds. A honeybee tries to get out past a closed window. It almost succeeds.
Eleven floors of thoughts held tight by iron brackets.
On an island, at the edge of the woods, a watchman and his bird live a miserable and isolated life. One day a deceptive chance comes up to escape the boredom. But great danger lurks behind it.
A psychedelic drama about a chimney sweeper and a burning woman.
A girl is swimming. Some images emerge from the dense darkness around. A little girl is in the church, on the First Holy Communion day. For a moment, Dalila adult and Dalila child can see each other. The girl feels hesitation during the time of her communion. A doubt, a new awareness towards the world of adults and their impositions. Dalila adult looks Dalila child in the eyes again, but now she’s ashamed, and she’s no longer able to hold up the gaze.
Tick Tack
The film “Tick-Tack” is visualizing time and its fatal nature. In order to underline the time as a metaphysical phenomenon there are a lot of clocks and watches and their parts to characterize it. We all are given “our time”, which in reality consists of thousands of different “times” since even every cell in our body has its own time given to live and to die.
Pandemonio is a kaleidoscope of monsters, animals and other strange creatures brought to life by the primitive and frenzied pace of Zu's music. Each figure is made by overlapping felt circles. The animation is obtained by moving, resizing and painting every circle without deforming its perfect shape.
In Uncanny Valley, we are at once bombarded by the psychological and physical intensity of a battle fought between desperate soldiers during the First World War. Each frame of this animated live action piece reveals its own painful yet detailed moment, resistant to the synthetic image of history. The culminating effect reveals the numbing futility of war, the agony of conflict and survival, the discovery of brotherhood, and the madness of it all.