In her first film, Canadian artist and animator Matea Radic imagines an impossible return. Paradaïz follows a young woman as she travels back to a city still unstable with the conflict she fled. Blending her own memories of leaving Sarajevo as a child in the early 1990s with a droll sense of humor and a quirky animation style peppered with archival photos, Radic offers an atypical portrait of displacement.
This film screens as part of Shorts Program 2: Animation.[…]
In this swirling flight through a busy apartment building, each resident navigates the unintended consequences of their neighbors’ attempts to find equilibrium. Animating with acrylic paint on paper, Jenny Jokela creates eccentric characters and their vibrant homes in a delightful exploration of the self within a community.
This film screens as part of Shorts Program 2: Animation.[…]
Yoriko Mizushiri’s gorgeous short lulls the viewer into a dreamy tactile world. A meditation on the beauty of simplicity led by a graphic design that seems at once exacting and soft, Ordinary Life calls attention to the present moment.
This film screens as part of Shorts Program 2: Animation.[…]
