The Pet Shop

Esther Forest​ 2024​​

Louise, a pet shop assistant, navigates a world of mundane tasks and strange interactions, yearning for a real customer in a shop where nothing is as it seems. 

 

The Pet Shop is an experimental stop-motion animation film that explores the fragile boundaries between physical reality and its digital manifestations through the lens of being on the schizophrenia spectrum. A desire for tangible elements led to the decision to use and craft entirely physical components with stop motion being the primary animating technique used. Digitally animated elements are utilized as symbols of fantasy and magical thinking.  The labour-intensive nature of stop motion allowed for a meticulous and controlled construction of a unique and sentimental world.

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SOUL CATCHER

Jay Jay Jegathesan 2022​​

A deeply reflective, charming man. Three dynamic women. A mystery that cuts to the heart of self-knowledge and transformation. Much has been said of the way to a man’s heart. But what of the path to his soul? Meet Brock Aloysius Chopra. Discover the women who changed his life. The healer, the rebel, the mentor. Join Brocky’s journey on a path you may find familiar. Relatable. Echoing your memories....Yet utterly unknown.

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Shot with iPhone in one take and one shot.

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THE EMERALD WASP

Peter Renzullo 2024​​

The retelling of the tale of the emerald wasp is the foundation stone to the relationship between Khan and Isabella. How does this story impact on the lives of the teller and of the many who undoubtedly hear this often told tale of the sheer power of nature?

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Shot entirely on iPhone.

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BLACK&WHITE

Benn Wintle 2024​​​

In the midst of a photoshoot, Damien, a photographer, subconsciously attempts to piece together what went wrong in his previous relationship.

 

BLACK&WHITE’ was created using unconventional filmmaking techniques, lacking a script and disregarding standard cinematography rules plus editing to showcase sporadic memories and time displacement, providing a unique viewing experience.

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HER CREATURE

Jessica Lily 2023​​​

Her Creature is the story about Olive, a woman with dreams and aspirations, who unexpectedly finds herself struggling with mental illness that is represented in the form of the creature. Her journey of discovery, acceptance, and resolution over this seemingly uncontrollable creature is one of courage, empowerment, and strength. It is a didactic story whose primary objective is to educate and confront stigmas associated with mental illness in modern day society.

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Her Creature is a didactic story with its primary objective to educate and confront some of the stigmas associated with mental illness. Olive comes in and out of the surreal and the real world, to show the illogical nature of her condition. The creature is a metaphorical representation of her condition, our aim was to strip the creature of any human qualities so it would be evident to the audience that it is not real, we did this using VFX and low budget exploration using paints and SFX makeup. The actor also captured the nature of the creature brilliantly. Our team of creatives worked together to create a meaningful message about mental illness.

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FAVOURITE

Peter Renzullo 2024​​

A music-basef story about a mother who loses her young daughter, and tried to come to terms with the aftermath that follows such an experience.

 

This film features an animation-style aesthetic, but using real footage that has been manipulated in post-production using a series of colour, speed and filter layering techniques to appear as a 'hand sketched' texture.  Completely experimental techniques to achieve this look.

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EVAPORATE

Peter Renzullo 2024​

​A music-based story about the anger and resentment that can be left after a relationship ends.

 

I have used a number of experimental techniques here to give the impression of the actor being underwater, and also the use of glitch transitions to fast cut between identical framed shots that show costume changes switching.  We also used smoke to swipe between make up changes on a static framed face, and a number of lighting techniques to convey some hectic transformations between shots

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ABOULOMANIA​

Luca Vines 2024​​

"Plagued with Aboulomania, Tay (Pyper Stancer) is unable to make any decision in her daily life big or small. As her sanity slips and her world view crumbles, she seeks help from her friend to try to get her head back on straight."

 

Written, filmed and edited in a single night as an experiment, ABOULOMANIA came about when Luca came across the mental condition in one of his friends and saw how debilitating it was. Instead of taking it to the extreme, Luca went about creating a psychedelic representation of what a lack of choice feels like. A constantly shifting but uncertain world. Too much choice, even in the most simple of situations. What to wear, what to eat, what to watch. These things were discussed and portrayed by Luca by himself, with the solo actor of Pyper Stancer in a single, very long night.

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SHOW BUSINESS: A CUT SHORT

Luca Vines 2024​​

​ "Approached by The Handler (James Platel), Ethan Powell (Ethan Powell) is requested to come work for a mystery filmmaker (Luca Vines). Upon turning it down and returning to his abusive wife (Karla Jones), Ethan's life is turned upside down in his pursuit of show business."

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This was made in the shadow of the TAKE 48 challenge, but took life of its own after the team behind it felt that it needed a full short film dedicated to it. Show business is the third short film made in the CUT saga, leading up to the feature film CUT 2 BLACK: WARLAND that is set to be released at the end of 2024. Show business introduces an entirely new cast of characters to expand on both individually and help provide further structure and world building as well as be damn entertaining. This was filmed in 1 day, and edited across 48 hours, seeing a large success online and popularity across the board with viewers and fans of the CUT saga.

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SECRETS of the UNIVERSE​

Ivan Gian-Piero 2023

An experimental fantasy journey of colour, shapes, sound and wonder.

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A purely experimental imaginative process and challenge to transform a rough 9 second video of a fountain in a park into a film. I experimented with cropping, panning and zooming, multiple filters, exposure and transitions, ultimately forming some kind of strange story line resulting in a 4 minute experimental film/electronic music video.

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SUB CREATURES of the DIGITAL ABYSS​

Ivan Gian-Piero 2024​

A series of experimental works inspired by deep sea exploration of strange life forms of the abyss. Here, the sea creatures are portrayed as weird computer bugs captured in the infinite black of digital space. 

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Created using Powerpoint unconventionally, I designed each creature's movements and reactions based on their individual imagined characteristics. I composed individual soundscapes and invented them scientific sounding names.

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