“The faster you break it the faster we make it,” says the wooden column at one point, going on to acknowledge the bounteous economic logic of this reality with the observation that “production is sealed in gold.”Early on we see the black-and-white striped house Adolf Loos designed for Josephine Baker. It’s a cardboard model, of course; the plans were never realized. The house is an idea, an image, a virtual presence, a possibility, a provocation. Later in the film it reappears, reconfigured in different materials with a different range of qualities and surface finishes. “Why do so many things look the same, and only one of them is good?” asks a female voice. This is not the column’s voice but that of someone who sounds much like Marten herself. It is, in fact, her sister, one Marten speaking another Marten’s words. After all, in order to manufacture glamour, a little plagiarism is essential. And this process—call it borrowing, copying, paying homage, whatever—is both violent and comic.

An alien spaceship breaks down and crashes on earth in the countryside.

A lizard conductor leads his symphony orchestra when suddenly he encounters a noise that disturbs th...

Charcoal animation, taken from from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (2003).

Autumn is in the air as the Kitauji High School concert band prepares for the National Competition. ...

Young Rosella is saved by a few kind animals after a shipwreck. Now called Ro, she learns to talk to...

Elina is a flower fairy who discovers that her home of Magic Meadow has been overcome by a horrible ...

In this animated follow-up to Fairytopia, Elina enlists the help of a mermaid, Nori, to save her fri...

King Randolph sends for his cousin, Duchess Rowena, to help turn his daughters, Princess Genevieve a...

Liana and Alexa are best friends who share everything, including their love of singing. Upon meeting...

Shot on 16mm film in New York and composed in Berlin, the work explores polarizing themes of the met...

Reunited with Lancelot for the first time since their tragic accident, Tristan must learn to conquer...

On Christmas Eve, Kelly is reluctant to go to a Christmas Eve ball, so Barbie tells her the story of...

While living as an ordinary deliveryman and motor racing fan, Nezha encounters old nemeses and must ...

40-years ago, there was a prophecy claiming that in the year of “20” and “23”, two emitting lights w...

Following his robbery, a man finds himself forced to board into a little grandma’s car to escape the...

Liyoki, a silverback gorilla, lives peacefully with his family, when they are attacked by poachers.

Remy, a resident of Paris, has quite a sophisticated palate. He would love to become a chef so he ca...

When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Togethe...

Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate text...