Afterimages

The Spring Night

1976

A spring night is a poetic film which is based on the motives of the poem by V. Lugovsky. The film is devoted to the theme of fidelity to the battle traditions of revolutionary past, to the theme of human happiness the sense of it in the battle for high ideals.

Un spectacle interrompu

2012

La vita nuova

2008

Hedgehog's Home

2017

In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is at once admired, respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s unwavering devotion to his home annoys and mystifies a quartet of insatiable beasts: a cunning fox, an angry wolf, a gluttonous bear and a muddy boar. Together, the haughty brutes march off towards Hedgehog’s home to see just what is so precious about this “castle, shiny and huge.” What they find amazes them and sparks a tense and prickly standoff.

The Whimsical Council

2010

A young man opens the window of his attic room and discovers a lunar landscape which submerges him and threatens to imprison him in an eternal sheet of ice. He closes the window to escape this vision and hears from deep inside his soul the sound of a poem being sung.

A Letter On A Bicycle

2025

Narrated as a letter to a mother, this short film traces the emotional undercurrents of leaving home and adjusting to a new environment, blending inner transformation with the changing landscape.

No Leaders, Please

2021

Works inspired by artists Basquiat, Banksy, Haring, and Ai Weiwei represent Bukowski's poem's theme of self-invention.

Onion

2011

A short animation based on the poem "Onion" by Wislawa Szymborska.

Dear Basketball

2017

An animated telling of Kobe Bryant's titular poem, signaling his retirement from the sport that made his name.

Pour ne pas oublier l'invisible

2024

The Infinite

2020

Animation inspired by the poem “The Infinite” by Giacomo Leopardi.

A Child's Garden of Poetry

2011

Poems by some of the greatest writers of all time are brought to life through lyrical animation and readings by some of today’s most respected performers.