Angry Frames

Los Viejos: Amnesia in the State

The band Los Viejos describes themselves as “Old-school, new-school, with skate punk, thrash and grind,” and this music video seems to celebrate all those styles. Stripping away all conventional rules of aesthetics, it merges qualities of VHS, YouTube and social media, infotainment tv, and comic strips. (Photosensitivity alert.) Direction Esteban Azuela Duration 3' Language English Country Mexico Year 2016

Baton

This story about police brutality unravels with the use of reduced art design, simple animation, and minimalistic audio. In a disturbingly sensual manner, the images explore the structure and functionality of a baton as well as the performativity of a police character in action. Direction Reynaert Vosveld Duration 4' Language NL/de Country Netherlands Year 2018

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Dictators like Hitler do not come out of nowhere. Some among us want them to come, some don’t feel the need to resist, others think it’s better just to wait. Virgil’s palindrome closes this looped-structure film: “We go round and round in the night and are consumed by fire.” Direction Roberto Biadi Duration 2' Language no dialogue Country Italy Year 2017

Who Would Have Thought?

A man has disappeared. Who was he? What drove him? What happened to him? In the style of a raw and sketchy mockumentary, the film lets people speak who seem to have known him. Will they find answers to their questions? Direction Ewa Borysewicz Duration 11' Language PL/en Country Poland Year 2009

A Short Manual of Linguistic Anarchism

An anarchistic experiment in overthrowing an oppressive regime of language. It is a kaleidoscope of absurd, animated and live-action images, distorted sounds, and misinformative texts. Radically and randomly rebellious, this guerilla art is also ironic. Direction Sasha Svirsky Duration 4' Language RU/en Country Russia Year 2017

Manipulator

Driven by a fascination for the history of cinema and trick photography, the film features several themes that are distinctive in Mead’s avant-garde filmmaking in an interplay of submission and domination: homosexual desire, body performativity, a double image of pain and lust. Direction Wirk Mead Duration 4' Language no dialogue Country Canada Year 2002

Hezurbeltzak, a Common Grave

A body does not define a person, yet heavily influences one’s path in life. The Basque word “hezurbeltzak” (literally “black bones”) does not appear in dictionaries, but is used to describe socially invisible groups. An animation of sketchy, surreal drawings. Direction Izibene Oñederra Duration 5' Language no dialogue Country Spain Year 2007

San Laszlo contro Santa Maria Egiziaca

Saint Laszlo, the 11th-century king of Hungary and Croatia, fought the pagans and saved damsels in distress. Maria Aegyptiaca, a Jezebel-turned-virgin, died all alone in the desert, but her soul was pure. Now they confront each other and fight by means of samba, techno, and Italo disco. Direction Magda Guidi Duration 3' Language no dialogue Country Italy Year 2014

Scum Show – OSEES

Hand-processed and hand-animated, this video was shot on Super8 film. The vintage charm of direct-on-tape animation mixes with naturalistic footage from a concert. Freak folk, garage rock, hardcore punk – the Osees change their styles frequently in the spirit of being “noisier, harder, and weirder”. Direction MaLo Sutra Fish Duration 2' Language English Country France Year 2022

Grabowski, Haus des Lebens

This pioneering, award-winning CGI is the debut animated film by Mariola Brillowska, an eccentrically daring visual artist, performer, and writer. Kinky/sado-erotic, passionate, and ugly at times, the film sets a cemetery as the stage for exercises in sexual fulfilment across the borders of class.

Direction Mariola Brillowska Duration 19' Language DE/en Country Germany Year 1990

Wohlstandskühe

Mixing hand drawings, cut-outs, and collage, this film allegorically speaks of the fate of economic migrants in Europe, the continent of opportunities. Direction Claudius Gentinetta Duration 4' Language no dialogue Country Switzerland Year 1992

Spik-Bebis

A man with spikes on his head lives in a surreal world at the top of a tower. This experimental video, shot on 16mm film, is a hybrid stop motion/live action film classic, combining dusty timelessness, theatrical violence and Cold Wave ambient styles. Direction Max Andersson Duration 14' Language no dialogue Country Sweden Year 1987