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A Selection of Shorts From The Onedotzero Festival

Here’s a few of the films that caught our eye.

There was a vast amount of animations present at the onedotzero festival, but here’s six that we really enjoyed.

1) A delicate, tranquil, beautiful visualisation of the Icelandic music playing over it, captivating you as the coloured smoke arches and plunges across the screen.

2) Surreal sculptures are given form in this visual realisation of a quote from Comte de Lautréamont who described Surrealism as “the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella.”

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3) Riffing on an old rave track—4 Hero’s “Mr Kirk’s Nightmare”—but substituting it all with fruit, this film, just like the song, is great fun but has a dark sensibility with a sense of foreboding created by the song’s pounding repetition and unnerving line. In other words, it’s awesome.

4) This is a very clever stop-motion animation that takes the overused skateboard video and gives it a fresh injection.

5) While the world of decay is repellent to us, some life forms thrive off it. In this funny yet disturbing animation, those lifeforms are strange creatures caught in a predatory, Darwinian world.

6) All is not what it seems in this ’80s pastiche video, pulling the rug from under our feet as those fond childhood memories of nostalgic magic shows get a jolt.