Spectacle is proud to present HEAD SPACE, a showcase of animated works exploring dimensions both interior and outlying. Featuring an extremely talented and creative group working in a diverse array of styles, the shorts wander through strange and sometimes sketchy landscapes, including alternate-universe appliance stores, the ramblings of Charles Manson, environmental catastrophes in the Dutch style of painting, and a houseplant’s musings. Some, like Sally Cruikshank’s Make Me Psychic, are established classics; others feature newer animators working in looping GIF format, presented away from the small screen’s momentary pleasures to fully appreciate the art that it is. Occasionally gross, often beautiful, and always interesting, HEAD SPACE is a sampler of the thoughts happening inside and out of each frame.
Half asleep with my eyes closed, my conscience flies beyond time and space and I transform myself to...
An animated retelling set to Prokofiev's suite. Peter is a slight lad, solitary, locked out of the w...
When the mind says aah, the body says hee. I dance around the confusion and the consensus, and my w...
Animation in sand and other materials, inspired by the poetry of Al Berto. On a solitary journey in ...
The history of the Americas is considered from an Indigenous perspective, featuring the poetry of th...
Based on the book by Posy Simmonds. Mischievous kitten Fred grows up to be feline singing superstar,...
An animated adaptation of Franz Kafka’s acclaimed novella, “The Metamorphosis,” made from carving im...
Albert thinks he is old enough to get a dog, as he's now seven. He tries to convince dad that he's n...
Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as t...
A stop motion film about an oddball felted character who slips through floors into the past and the ...
An alliance of evil-doers, led by Frieda, looks to take over Fairy Tale Land. But when Ella realizes...
A large group of children from different countries sail to the Black Sea port, heading for the inter...
A film about (local) patriotism, tourism and emigration. A girl lives in a gray, isolated country, e...
A nightingale bird discovers a true lover when she witnesses a young university student talk with gr...
A reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Penelope, ”the most faithful of wives”, who waited 20 year...
Sofía, a little girl of seven, remembers the day she fractured her arm while being chased through th...
To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smok...
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a m...
A stop-motion animation about an author suffering writer's block. When his neighbour asks him to wri...