BAP: Master Storytellers
Length: 78′
BAP was created in 2011 as the animation studio of Bando à Parte. In 2018 it became autonomous as a cooperative: BAP ANIMATION STUDIO – an animation production company, formed by a collective of directors, animators and storytellers who believe in the power of collaboration. Since its inception, it has been responsible for the creation of several auteur animation short films whose quality and artistic diversity has gained national and international recognition.
It's like soot that rests on the walls of our head. We can’t see it. It belongs there already.
In the beginning there was an object, a very special collective instrument with 42 drawers and boxes and other furniture pieces where sound came from… mechanical, elective, soft, noisy and mysterious. And from these sounds, pictures came in a synchronization exercise without ever losing ourselves in the corridors of memories kept in the drawers.
During the late hours of the night a form tries to fall asleep. Struggling to maintain control, it gets trapped into vicious cycles of abstract madness, visually and audibly growing into a visceral and bizarre conflict between compression and decompression.
Oscar is a child germinating in its parent's garden. Its body is developing underground. Nobody knows its biological sex but he wants to be a boy. One day, Oscar gets out of the ground and discovers his female body. After this painful discovery, is his desired identity finally going to be accepted?
A Garrano horse is forced to pull a heavy load in the blazing sun; young boy Joel discovers a man who is about to set a forest on fire.
On a hot August afternoon, the family gathered at the table remembers uncle Botão: the Colonial War, emigration to France, where he lived and worked for thirty years as a garbage man.
A curious mole explores the world around him.
Realised by 12th-grade students, under the guidance of Laura Gonçalves, Alexandra Ramires, Dimitrije Mihajlović and Leonor Pacheco.
A little girl reads herself to sleep. As she dozes off, the physical world starts melting into an alternate reality where the contents of a book rule over the laws of physics. Ana has to escape being swallowed by the overwhelming accumulation of printed knowledge and find her own space in a world where nothing is what it seems.
BAP: Master Storytellers
Length: 78′
BAP was created in 2011 as the animation studio of Bando à Parte. In 2018 it became autonomous as a cooperative: BAP ANIMATION STUDIO – an animation production company, formed by a collective of directors, animators and storytellers who believe in the power of collaboration. Since its inception, it has been responsible for the creation of several auteur animation short films whose quality and artistic diversity has gained national and international recognition.
It's like soot that rests on the walls of our head. We can’t see it. It belongs there already.
In the beginning there was an object, a very special collective instrument with 42 drawers and boxes and other furniture pieces where sound came from… mechanical, elective, soft, noisy and mysterious. And from these sounds, pictures came in a synchronization exercise without ever losing ourselves in the corridors of memories kept in the drawers.
During the late hours of the night a form tries to fall asleep. Struggling to maintain control, it gets trapped into vicious cycles of abstract madness, visually and audibly growing into a visceral and bizarre conflict between compression and decompression.
Oscar is a child germinating in its parent's garden. Its body is developing underground. Nobody knows its biological sex but he wants to be a boy. One day, Oscar gets out of the ground and discovers his female body. After this painful discovery, is his desired identity finally going to be accepted?
A Garrano horse is forced to pull a heavy load in the blazing sun; young boy Joel discovers a man who is about to set a forest on fire.
On a hot August afternoon, the family gathered at the table remembers uncle Botão: the Colonial War, emigration to France, where he lived and worked for thirty years as a garbage man.
A curious mole explores the world around him.
Realised by 12th-grade students, under the guidance of Laura Gonçalves, Alexandra Ramires, Dimitrije Mihajlović and Leonor Pacheco.
A little girl reads herself to sleep. As she dozes off, the physical world starts melting into an alternate reality where the contents of a book rule over the laws of physics. Ana has to escape being swallowed by the overwhelming accumulation of printed knowledge and find her own space in a world where nothing is what it seems.