A short by Estonian animator Chintis Lundgren about Manivald – an ‘overeducated, unemployed and generally uninspired’ 33 year old fox who lives at home with this overbearing retired mother. To wit:
Manivald spends his days learning piano while she makes his coffee and washes his socks. It is an easy life, but not a good one. Their unhealthy co-dependence is about to change when the washing machine breaks down and in comes Toomas, a sexy and adventurous wolf repairman, to fix it, and them.
An installation by global design collective Universal Everything currently running at the Barbican in London as part of the AI: More Than Human exhibition.
Visitors are presented with a gyrating, wiggling abstract animation that tracks and mimics their movements via 47,000 possible variations.
The animation becomes more agile as it learns the specific movements of the observer. The exhibition runs until the end of August, if you’re passing.
A rather mesmerising short by Alexa Lim Haas focussing on the daily routines of a Chinese manicurist at a Florida strip mall struggling with loneliness and a language she barely understands.
Far less grim than it sounds.
A short by art student Andrew Ognibene documenting his genuinely frightening struggle with sleep paralysis and the demonic hallucinations associated with it.
A short by Damien Bastelica featuring Roger – an office worker for whom every day sucks.
A short film by Stefan Hunt in which a man encounters a talking tree, assuming some greater significance to the fact that it has chosen to address him.
A pixel art short by animator Lumpy Touch that reimagines Jim Davis’ lasagne-fixated feline as 32-bit nightmare fuel in some survival horror game on the Game Boy Advance.
A 2018 short by Alexandra Lemay featuring a neurotic mother-daughter relationship inspired by the filmmaker’s own unorthodox upbringing with a dog-breeding, child-fostering, multi-tasking single mum.
A semi autobiographical short by Nate Milton, created as a therapeutic way to focus the ‘dark energy’ of his mental health condition. To wit:
…a true story based on the filmmaker’s experiences within the realms of High Strangeness, Magical Thinking and Manic Delusion
