Venus

The Auteur

Bobby's a film student, but unfortunately he doesn't have much in common with his new roommate Corb, an eccentric cinephile. Tensions rise when Corb thinks he has found not only a new best friend but also a subject for his own strange film.

Follow That Sleigh

Two kids accidentally steal Santas sleigh. It's up to Elvis the Rockin' Reindeer to save the day.

Drowning

Animation by Ginko Abe. Music by Abhi Tambe.

Roxanne

an overly dramatic romance between a pet rock named Roxanne and a handsome action figure named Dwayne. But things get complicated when Roxanne's husband gets in the way of their relationship.

Little One

A worn out mother, Sara, seeks out the source of her child’s favorite lullaby.

Animated Putty

Stop-motion animation of putty modeling itself into faces.

The Great Cognito

The film tells of a music hall impressionist who caricatures personalities from the second world war. Animated by Barry Bruce at Will Vinton Productions. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Ident

Explores the nature of man, not only with feet of clay, but with a face of clay as well. Within a colourless city of walls, corridors, and small rooms, a man makes his way from home to work, then to a bar, and then, by a stroke of luck, into an outdoors of space, fresh air, and colour. Along the way, he changes his face to fit his surroundings, interacts with his dog, argues with co-workers, and gossips at a bar. His altering of his visage suggests a two-faced nature, and his stepping into the outdoors provides the ultimate test of his real identity.

Barefootin'

Aardman's claymation to the song Barefootin'.

ARGILEUX

A potter loses himself in a dream about matter, and seeks The way out by transforming himself and by transforming matter.

Canhead

Jay Clay and Blue are wanderers in the wilderness. Blue vanishes and Jay is lost and alone. The anxiety in his mind and soul manifest in the form of the mighty giant, Canhead. Jay must overpower the giant if he is to live on and be reunited with Blue.

Clay Town

Tengers

Whilst working on "the great South African novel," an unemployed writer gets caught up in the harsh realities of life in the city of Johannesburg.

Mestre Vitalino E Nós No Barro

Jimmy the C

President Jimmy Carter "sings" Ray Charles' "Georgia on my Mind", while thinking about his home state. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

Rivers and Tides

Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature.

The Polizzi Project

When Australian artist Eolo Bottaro revives the lost Triform Goddess Isis, Polizzi's forgotten history revives. This gripping documentary captures the statue's creation, the town's awe, and the artist's unexpected bond with the Sicilian town.

Transfiguration

Olivier de Sagazan disfigures his face into various creatures, human and nonhuman, to explore the strangeness of life and the body.

Con las manos de ella

After her mother's death, Martina is unable to move on with her life. So she decides to preserve and honor her mother's memory by giving ceramic plates with meaningful illustrations to each of the town's inhabitants, thus continuing the family legacy.

Galician Caress (of Clay)

This film was reconstructed and completed in 1995 by Javier Codesal for the Filmoteca de Andalucia, from the montage and the sound that Val del Omar had outlined before his death, after having returned to a project abandoned twenty years before with the incorporation of significant additions (above all in the soundtrack). Val del Omar's notes show that, as he typically did, he had other alternative titles in mind, such as "Acariño de la Terra Meiga" (Caress of the Magic Land), "Acariño a nosa terra" (Caress of Our Land), or "Barro de ánimas" (Clay of Souls), and that in the final phase of the unfinished project he wanted to add a second sound channel – following the diaphonic principle, and using electro-acoustic techniques – consisting of ambient material that he intended to record at the first screenings of the film in the very places and to the very people that were its origin: its "clay".