“The faster you break it the faster we make it,” says the wooden column at one point, going on to acknowledge the bounteous economic logic of this reality with the observation that “production is sealed in gold.”Early on we see the black-and-white striped house Adolf Loos designed for Josephine Baker. It’s a cardboard model, of course; the plans were never realized. The house is an idea, an image, a virtual presence, a possibility, a provocation. Later in the film it reappears, reconfigured in different materials with a different range of qualities and surface finishes. “Why do so many things look the same, and only one of them is good?” asks a female voice. This is not the column’s voice but that of someone who sounds much like Marten herself. It is, in fact, her sister, one Marten speaking another Marten’s words. After all, in order to manufacture glamour, a little plagiarism is essential. And this process—call it borrowing, copying, paying homage, whatever—is both violent and comic.
An educational film to raise awareness for the prevention of cavities.
In this hyper-realistic digitally rendered video, sandwiches are assembled in sequence. Each component, from the first slice of bread to the last, is dropped dramatically from a height, before bouncing and settling into place in slow motion. Mayonnaise, then ham, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, and the final slice on top. This perfect yet uncanny choreography reads like an exaggerated, perverse take on ‘food-porn’ obsessed advertising campaigns. These sequences repeat, the sound gradually incorporates saws and machinery, echos from empty environments, pianos breaking, smashes, crashes and mechanical crescendos like jet engines alongside eerie drones, bells, and hard rummaging noises. Another piece of bread lands, some rubber baby dolls fall onto it, some brown slop, a blanket, denim jeans, some businessmen in suits, and more slop. Ketchup, then a union jack, all encased in the final layer of bread that falls to the top of the pile to the sound of a tolling bell. Infinite continuation, loop.
Based on the 300-year old ballad of the same, the story is of a beguiling lover who entices a sequence of girls to their deaths that is until he meets Lady Isobel, a maiden in waiting for the love and revenge.
A Berlinale award nominated short animation.
The North Cape on Midsummer's Night, when human beings are not the only ones in search of love. Even frogs are liable to profess their feelings to each other, in Shakespearean fashion.
"Elijah, an aspiring movie director and optimistic young adult, suddenly finds himself in a realm of the millennials in Richmond, Virginia, and tries to cope with it. So much so that he comes across a dozen characters who either have common sense like Elijah, or, in Elijah’s words, “out of their minds”. WARNING: This contains scenes and language that may not be suitable for those under 17."
Short animation following the daily routine of someone working an office job.
A nostalgic serviceman battling against the recruits of today.
An animated self-portrait.
Bibi, Bobby, the snowman Gogo, the Santa Claus from Zaz, the robot R1 and the mysterious guardians of Zaz unite in order to same all of the music in the universe.
A late-night dog walk becomes a terrifying escape from a neighbourhood being warped and distorted by an unfamiliar presence.
Basia has a character and says what she thinks. And what she feels. So does Zdzisiek Bear - because he likes to do what Basia does. The resolute five-year-old and her friends return in a new adaptation of the beloved books by Zofia Stanecka and Marianna Oklejak!
A young man walks through a paradise garden with lush vegetation and classical sculptures. With each step, the boy becomes more and more enchanted by the nature surrounding him, but suddenly he falls into a dark hole.
A woman living in a glass Rubik's cube makes sure everything is orderly, clean and symmetrical. One day, she accidentally hurts her foot, and chaos begins to break into her otherwise orderly life.