Kappa Kawatarou

The Death of Toys

Ten year-old SETH wants to give up his toys, but his work-numbed mother LILY needs the spark of their playtime more than he does. Her insistence that he keep the toys leads to some unexpected places.

타임

The Guest

A servant boy's world is turned upside down by the arrival of a guest.

Holy Shit

Athens is transforming rapidly to absorb the tons of tourists who are flooding the city. The situation gets out of control, leading to big, stinky explosions in every corner of the city and then, all over the world!

Throwing Sticks at the Sun

When a group of boys accidentally kills a bird, Navid tries to suppress his feelings of guilt in order to remain part of the group.

Cocoon

A film by daixuan (129mlwater on instagram) Inspired by Edogawa Ranpo’s novel, A Brute’s Love. The visual direction of this film is heavily influenced by Salvador Dalí, along with lots of other painters he admired over the years. In many ways, this film is a reflection of his personal artistic evolution. He also did sound design.

Cops and Robbers

Animation and activism unite in this multimedia spoken-word response to police brutality and racial injustice.

The Drawer and the Crow

Best Canadian Short Film - Ottawa International Animation Festival 2009

Babička

Misery Loves Company

As Seolgi is lying on a grass field with friends, a shooting star falls, and dark, intrusive thoughts hit her. Her melancholy blooms into bright and colorful "flower people," dancing and wishing for a meteorite to end the world.

Sister and Brother

A sister and brother dream of the same adventures, though each interprets their dream differently. A dream travels where we are not, and where each misfortune turns into a new opportunity, but the goal always remains unattainable.

The Bearers of Memories

With every moment – one more memory. But memory sometimes goes blind and what is left becomes hazy.

The Fall of the House of Usher

Animated adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe 1839 short story The Fall of the House of Usher, a work of Gothic fiction that includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities.

Weeping Willow

Pikachu is sick. He and his friends come to my village in Seine-et-Marne hoping to cure him. The film is made from images taken from YouTube that I superimposed onto my home in Voisenon, Seine-et-Marne.

Veterinarian

A veterinarian routinely goes on house calls to treat sick animals. He is able to save most, but one time he arrives too late. The animal dies, and that breaks the veterinarian's heart. One night the animals that he has treated come to him in a dream. He receives love and forgiveness. When Veterinarian wakes up, his heart has healed.

Planet Playground

Another ordinary day in the digital circus...

Nephila

A Boy (Black and White Drawing) is in love with A Girl (Cardboard Cut Out Puppet), he is too shy and anxious, which makes him too incapable to express his feelings for her. The Girl tries to get closer to him, but after he doesn’t react to her approaches, she decides to stop trying. When she leaves, she drops a little cardboard spider, which the Boy takes home.

Popsicle

A penguin performing in a circus becomes homesick after seeing an image of snow and ice on an "Eskimo" ice cream wrapper.

Camilla

The Greatest Arrogance

Integrating motion-captured hand gestures with 3D animation, The Greatest Arrogance follows a series of toy blocks assembled and dismantled beneath an ultraviolet bug lantern that at times becomes the video's central subject.