African American Express

Losing Touch

Searching for life in daily rituals, Losing Touch undertakes a shift in perception and presents the city as an ugly yet ecologically rich landscape. The film depicts the internal dialogue on coping with the grief and fear of ecological degradation, using the local streets of Berlin as a means to materialise and confront these emotions. As both the body and mind begin to wander, encounters with the landscape over a 24 hour period are transformed into an overstimulating and emotionally charged journey. Camcorder footage, film developed in beer and cyanotype create sensational and playful depictions of the surroundings, joining the rats scurrying on the ground and fleeing the night lights with the moths. Creatures of metal and flesh interact within and between the frames, coming together as an ugly yet vibrant community. Subverting the nature-culture dichotomy, a new image of nature is formed, not only as a romantic, distant place, but rather a dirty, omnipresent force.

Angel

1966

In this short film, a young man, a girl and a dog attempt to fly with wings more symbolic than practical.

Dieci Cadute

2012

An underground fight is taking place in a painter's studio between the artist and the ten tyrants.

Series 4

1972

This experimental short documents the clash, sometimes obsessive, sometimes glorifying, between humans and their mechanized environment. Using photographs, the animator creates varying perspectives through optical manipulation and changing colour, achieving bold and provocative effects.

Gavora

1989

Psychedelic animation that impresses with eyeballs and other motifs.

Rain – Memory of Cloud.1

1996

A psychedelic animation that starts with an irregular ink spread and develops while increasing the degree of confusion.

.wszechświat

2022

Dissipative Fantasies

1986

An individual finds that the world that intrudes upon his personal life cannot be escaped, and he turns to the next generation.

Moon|Rabbit

2017

A meditation on the Moon as a series of spheres melting away. The audio-visuals are synchronized via a repeated glitch process: the same values that databent the visuals are also used to change the base audio samples, creating a translation between a visual glitch and an audible one, even though in the final presentation they seem entirely different.

Black Fish

2006

Darkness and light, as seen by VIFF’s favourite Buddhist erotist. Part of the TOKYO LOOP animation anthology produced by ImageForum Japan.

HYPERSONIC Music Club

2023

In 2017, a short anime film called Hypersonic Music Club was produced in Japan. It was directed and written by Osamu Kobayashi, a veteran of the industry who passed away in April 2021. For various reasons, this short anime was never released. It was made public on August 1, 2023.

5am

2025

A collection of solitary urban images intersect with each other.