Make Dutch great again! Oh wait, Dutch culture is great... Need proof? Watch these locally produced shorts that showcase the immense talent of Dutch producers, filmmakers and so on!
Assemblages is a collaborative video work where mechanical systems interplay with organic structures. The visual content was entirely rendered with 3D software, and was based on sculptures, drawings and visual concepts from both Matthew Schoen and Nathalie Vanderveken. The musical score was composed by Carmen Vanderveken.
Rob took one drag from this neighbor's crack pipe, just to get rid of the pain. He started using more and more. His bills started piling up. Until finally a letter arrived: his house was going to be repossessed. The day before the debt collectors would come he packed a tent, got on his bike and started cycling."I figured I’d just keep cycling until I died."
A huge factory, powered by two sole workers on a tandem, produces an unusual result.
Travelling through the thoughts of Lucas, a man who is afraid of losing his masculinity after eating a pink fruit. This dialogue-free movie is about insecurity, it’s juicy and a bit erotic. Expect fast and organic movements, transitions and metamorphosis.
Gerard has some traditions that he will never let go.
In this ultrashort animated film, we follow an octopus who is a clean-up neat-freak. But sometimes,
even though you have so many arms, you still cannot reach what you are aiming for.
During a walk in the forest, a worried girl takes in her surroundings and uses her imagination to find inner peace.
In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. When she falls ill due to a bacterial infection, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations.
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With the departing of the last human on earth, we are ushered into a new era of life.
Jeep is looking for the ultimate vacation spot; an idyllic island full of wilderness and beautiful tropical birds. Once arrived Jeep finds out that he is not the only adventurer. What started as an idyllic trip escalates quickly into a true tourist trap where no escape is possible.
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A starving man is forced by ancient tradition to carry his elderly mother to the top of a mountain, to leave her there to die.
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Seasonal animated abstractions on the Violin Concerto in F minor, RV 297 'Winter' by Antonio Vivaldi.
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A figure is stuck on a lonely journey, but then another figure becomes visible. Their courses seem to be crossing, and after nervous and enthusiastic anticipation follows an intense encounter. But then the figures drift apart again, forced to continue their solitary courses.
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