Kidomania

The map of an American city goes on a quest across the world to find oil in order to feed its body, made of streets, highways and freeways.

New York City is invaded by 8-bit creatures.

"Very short film based on a simple idea, loosely inspired by Magritte's paintings. Shot in Paris with anamorphic lenses." - Patrick Jean

Instead of fighting poverty, we fight the poor. Europe: its chic neighborhoods and its suburban high-rise hovels where ‘zero tolerance’ is increasingly the order of the day. A prison is built when a factory shuts down. The poor, in general, and young people from an immigrant background, in particular, are the focus of many fears. Passing to the other side of the mirror and breaking away from clichés, the film shows the humanity of these people, in the street, a prison, a courtroom or a city cellar, with their emotions, desires, fears and despair. Far from an image of European democracy where everyone has an equal chance, the film, calling to witness France and Belgium, offers a critical and moving glimpse of a society that is sometimes horrific and brutal, our own. “What a strange period! Just where are we heading? Have we lost our minds?

A multi-faceted look at how, in a supposedly egalitarian (Western and post-industrial) world, women are still locked into gender roles and, disproportionately, victims of violence and discrimination.

The same story seen by the cat Tom, by the granny and by the dog. And by of the bird that passed by?

A taxidermist has just died.His widow and a team of funeral directors pay him their last respect. Directed by Paulin Cointot, Dorianne Fibleuil, Antoine Robert, Maud Sertour.

End of the day for the bobsleigh managers. Which means it’s time to party, and to stuff yourself with fish.

Go-Go flamingos fan out on the slopes to win unexpected style points.

Caught up in our human lives, we miss out on the amazing. On an airplane wing, a company of snails performs a wonderfully slippery choreography.

5 Meters 80 really is an absurd movie. Yet, no matter how ridiculous, Nicolas Deveaux managed to make it look so realistic that it’s as if giraffes jumping off the high dive are the most natural thing in the world. And that’s what makes it amazing.

A turtle goes from slow crawler to smooth operator, figure-eight style.

Wild animals compete in athletic events. Today, pink flamingoes are on the starting blocks of a middle-distance race. Amongst them is an odd one.

Two kangaroos –Mogul skiing champions– give a demonstration. It’s a hard act to follow!

Stone and light, just stone and light. ‘Elegy is a form of poetry natural to the reflective mind. Sorrow and love became the principal themes of the elegy. Elegy presents everything as lost and gone or absent and future.’ (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

A parasitic presence has completely taken over the body of its host while allowing its movements and mannerisms to remain intact; a pas de deux from classical ballet has been restaged frame by frame with the two original dancers replaced by four new dancers. The movement remains continuous, but in each frame a different person occupies the dancers’ body spaces.

An elegy to a love affair that has gone sour, a fond farewell to that most beautiful material that has subjugated our planet – plastic.

Short stop motion animation Directed by Paul Bush

More than three thousand insects appear in this film each for a single frame. As the colours glow and change across their bodies and wings it is as if the genetic programme of millions of years is taking place in a few minutes. It is a rampant creation that seems to defy the explanations of evolutionists and fundamentalists. It is like a mescalin dream of Charles Darwin's. The film is inspired by the insect collection of Walter Linsenmaier in the natural history museum of Luzern. As each insect follows the other, frame by frame, they appear to unfurl their antennae, scuttle along, or flap their wings as if trying to escape the pinions which attach them forever in their display cases. Just for a moment the eye is tricked into believing that these dead creatures still live . . .

Quick cutting provides the speed in this tribute to two wheeled transport.

An experimental animation in which thousands of artifacts from the collections of small museums are brought to life in an animated history of human endeavor.

Imagine that the camera is possessed with a psychosis similar to human schizophrenia; suppose that this disease subtly changes every single frame of film while leaving the narrative superficially intact. A reworking of 1941 MGM version of Jekyll and Hyde in which the actors are replaced in every single frame.

In ancient times they talked of a city in which you could meet youself at birth and on your deathbed. If a city ever existed in which the past and the future were united with the present, it would exist now, and forever...

Drama, from the Greek, to do, act, or perform. A composition in which a story is related by means of dialogue and action and is represented with accompanying gesture, costume and scenery, as in real life, a play. The simplest story; a cow in a field, a day passes, articulated by a sequence of simple actions. Another day passes and the actions only vary with the chance events that make one day different from any other. Between the days three traditional songs about work, love and death are sung. These are stories too, but of generalisation, metaphor and myth, whereas the cow's drama follows only the surface pattern of events, the specific.

An Inuit child wanders away from his village, fascinated by a wild bird. His father follow his trail, determined to find him before he gets lost on the ice floe...

An Inuit child wanders away from his village, fascinated by a wild bird. His father follow his trail, determined to find him before he gets lost on the ice floe...

An Inuit child wanders away from his village, fascinated by a wild bird. His father follow his trail, determined to find him before he gets lost on the ice floe...

Every day, with the help of a small chick, a little girl with dog ears tries to hide eggs in order to keep them from being eaten.

Anatole is always dragging his little pan behind him. It fell on him one day, for no reason. Ever since, it gets caught everywhere and prevents him from going forward. Anatole is fed up, so he hides. Luckily, things are not that simple.

Once upon a time a strange magician arrives during the festivities at the King’s palace. He is a Master of Ice, and his specialty is to freeze everything. The King does not like the icy magic, and the magician is impolitely sent away. Even the Princess laughs at him. But later the angry magician returns and freezes the Princess, stealing her away to his ice castle. When they try to rescue her, the Mater of Ice freezes the whole kingdom. Only young Page remains unfrozen, and he is only one who can try to rescue the Princess...

The Mole's life is tricky - a battle among humans is happening right above his head, and also his neighbor the Bull does not like the Mole very much. But all will end well!