LAVOMATRIX

This animation is a visual interpretation of a poem, "Crime of Passion" written by a Taiwanese poet, Hsia Yu. It is selected from her 1984 poetry collection, Beiwanglu, Memoranda. She reveals her emotions of love and sadness intertwined with one another and connects them with abstractions and metaphors. It expresses the preemptive feelings and desire for love regardless of reality. With the artist's way of interpretation, the poem transforms and alters its original forms. The artist wishes to present the poem in a different aesthetics from words to images.

Ben Chan stars as a man assign to retrieve a briefcase in order to clear some of his debts to the Fixer.

When Goldilocks, a sassy reality TV star decides to film her next show at the humble home of the Bears, she gives them a taste of the celebrity sweet life they've never had before.

In the future, technology may change, but the patterns and routines of daily life stay constant, until we disrupt them. A short animation by Matthias Hoegg.

A man who accidentally saw a UFO, falls into a painful illusion as his body is torn apart by a mysterious power. His illusion gets worse as he actually has his lovers kill themselves. But after…

Adam, a drifter, arrives in a small town after a long journey in search of his lost brother. There, he encounters a prostitute who offers to help him in his hopeless search, and after a long conversation, it seems she truly might. But the next day, Adam realizes that the town itself is toying with his sanity, his memories, and his very soul, as everything spirals into a Kafkaesque nightmare of labyrinthine plotlines and shifting personalities.

When Doctor Pangea, "the world's deadliest geologist", escapes from prison with plans to destroy Earth as we know it, the city turns to its unlikely champion: 14 year old homeless girl - and kungfu skateboarding superhero - Street Angel! Short film based on the comic of the same name.

When an old man is visited by Death at his home in the meadows, he has to delve deep to secure more time for himself. Based on a story by Richard Kennedy.

Life in Solby is nice and peaceful until one day Mitcho and Sebastian find a message in a bottle by the harbour. The bottle is from the missing mayor of Solby with a message that he is on a mysterious island and has made a great discovery. Now they must embark on a perilous journey to help save the mayor and bring him home, and in the process they uncover something that will bring great pleasure to the city of Solby – a giant pear.

A German stop-motion adaptation of Sleeping Beauty.

Set during the final ten minutes before an eighteenth birthday, the film follows a young protagonist on the threshold between childhood and adulthood. Through poetic monologues and symbolic ritual, it explores the fear, loss, and quiet transformation that accompany coming of age. Blending introspection with elements of symbolic horror, the film treats growing up not as a celebration, but as a rite of passage, culminating in a final return to childhood memory as midnight arrives.

In a bleak hillside hotel, strange events are afoot, as something surprising drifts in on the mist… In this gorgeously made stop motion Animator, a lonely performer falls in love with a walrus. But her dreams of singing success may prove hopeless, as the audience has other plans. A deeply surreal but profoundly heartfelt film about finding your inner voice.