Movies: Experimental animation

Threnody emphasises some of the madness and instability of a year filled with fires, infections and general disarray....

A family pod of three dolphins navigates decay as an inevitable register while also having a secret ascension to a higher ground....

Do you ever wonder why you are the way you are? One day I decided to ask myself this question and I have been struggling to put the answer together ever since. “Enough of Myself” is my visualization of this process. When I finally had the headspace ...

a life size stop motion child puppet races through memories and daydreams reflecting on the cyclical nature of life....

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Jack O’ Lantern folktale about the origin of the Will-o’-the-Wisp retold through a haunted doll’s mind’s eye....

16mm life size stop motion puppetry and time lapse animation....

BOOKANIMA, a compound word of ‘Book’ and ‘Anima’, is an Experimental Animation project to give new cinematic life to books. It aims ‘Book Cinema’ in the third scope between Book and Cinema by Chronophotography Animation, paying homage to Edward Muybr...

An exploration of Japanese culture by experimental animation artist José Castillo....

A time-lapse animated meditation on geothermal energy, erosion, seismic activity and magma. Shot above the Yellowstone Caldera and amongst the Bryce Canyon hoodoos, the film explores how they connect these past cataclysms to the present endangered en...

Amanda's stoner slumber party is put to a halt when one of her guests is nowhere to be found....

A short animated film revealing what lies behind the surface of reality. A journey into the depths of the mind. Revel in the shape of darkness, Where shadows emerge and phantoms lurk, In the camouflage of an unnatural night....

A child is attacked and turned into a chimera and must learn to navigate his strange world as an entirely new kind of being....

A mad clock takes the viewer on a trip to a random planet. Which happens to work in a different conception of time than we know. Made in relay process, the results are unexpected and mind tripping....

The bell tower rings and the birds fly away. In the countryside on the outskirts of a small village, a dog tied to a very long rope, watches them disappear in the horizon. It’s time for him to go. Prance across fields. How far will his rope allow him...

Experimental animation film by José Castillo....

Confusion settles in the house, how to make it a home again?...

After a flat tire leaves her stranded in the woods, a woman revisits haunting memories of her self-destructive tendencies on the finger nails. As she peels the skin from her fingers, each strip draws her deeper into the past. With every layer, she st...