A Mongolian student arrives in Italy to pursue his dreams. As he starts to face lots of difficulties, he is left to make some important decisions.
A loner artist, exiled from the art community for creating a sculpture deemed too offensive, embarks on a bizarre odyssey of art, flesh, decomposition, and spiritual ascension. Vexanthrone details the mental and physical difficulties of the creative process in an experimental and surreal fashion that mixes arthouse sensibilities with gross-out body horror.
A dream-like animated short. A woman cries, and her tears undergo a beautiful metamorphosis.
As Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning from unsettling dreams, he finds himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.
A despondent character struggles to balance self-acceptance and self-loathing when their worst fears manifest in the form of a sickly deer.
Computer animation featuring a running figure that morphs into various elements. Originally commissioned for Hyundai Sejong Motor Gallery, Seoul, Korea and a special edit was shown in Times Square, New York, USA.
When Iva was a little girl, she was a believer. As an adult, she added the D to her name to become D-Iva, a pure product of the star system. Offered to and adored by her trance-like audience as a modern golden calf, D-Iva realizes that her childhood dream has turned into a nightmare.
Graduate student Myrrha, upset that her professor refers to Ovid's Metamorphoses as "being about love", pushes him and suddenly he transforms into a mirror version of herself. As she recollects her relationship with music, sex, and sexual violence, he is transported into Ovid's stories to come to a new understanding.
Octavio Ocampo is the creator of the metamorphic style painting technique, a technique of overlapping and juxtaposing realistic and figurative details within the images he creates. This is his story.
Keratin is a collaboration with the London Sinfionetta, visually responding to Gavin Higgins' Seven Welsh Folk Songs: I. Dacw 'Nghariad i. The film tells the journey of a mating of elements, two bodies grieve over a lost third: a child separated from their womb. The three bodies bound by their keratin, regain connection in a wombic journey which spiritually networks the three into a fused collective body.
An actress loses her identity in a character, what then turns her life into tragedy.
Mother and daughter are immersed in a daily absurdity. She is altered by another body that awakens the impulse of desire never found before. Loaded with eroticism, it will take its limits to unknown lands.
Alex, a young, somewhat lost, daydreaming graphic designer, falls for his new neighbor Lili, a beautiful Asian girl. Too shy to approach her, Alex secretly observes her and quickly discovers her secret: Lili does not come from China, but from far far away.
A prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis: rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her hometown of Calgary in this critique of the bacteria-like spread of suburbia and exurbia. This film was made as part of the third edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.
A portrait of a woman recovering from cosmetic surgery in Miami.
1. What's Right Is Wrong (Live)
2. Nocturnal Animal (Live)
3. There are Loves (Live)
4. Nude (Live)
5. Join me to be alone (Live)
6. Love (Live)
7. My Girlfriend Is Getting Old (Live)
8. History of Taxi (Live)
9. Tell Me No / When / How Medley Hurts (Live)
10. Lady of the Four Decades (Live)
11. Reconciliation (Live)
12. Afternoon (No Damage to Third Parties) (Live)
13. It Was You (Live)
14. I Know You (Live)
15. I Love You (Live)
16. If the North were the South (Live)
17. The Problem (Live)
18. Minutes (Live)
19. Women (Live)
20. Each Who His Winter (Live)
As a caterpillar falls to the ground and dissolves, an anthropoid in the same erratic realm experiences its metamorphic fate.
Loosely based on Franz Kafka's novella Metamorphosis 'Swaroopa' narrates the story of Gregory Samson and his family of father, mother, sister assisted by a maid within the social transformations taking place in late colonial and early postcolonial Sri Lanka. It is situated within the contours of a rented apartment of a middle class family depending solely on the income of Gregory who is a travelling salesman for a pharmaceutical company. Gregory bears the bulk of the financial responsibilities for the rent of the apartment, the violin lessons for his sister, and the general upkeep of the family. As a young medical representative who has to travel a lot. He forms relationships in his travels which do not seem to be lasting. One fine morning Gregory wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect.
A reclusive woman holds the secret to a series of mysterious child disappearances in a small northern community.