El cerro de los elfos

An exploration of Japanese culture by experimental animation artist José Castillo.

My Body Is Not My Home is a 3D animated short film following the journey of an uncanny simulacrum who undergoes the process of becoming the ‘Other’.

Experimental animation film by José Castillo.

Threnody emphasises some of the madness and instability of a year filled with fires, infections and general disarray.

Jack O’ Lantern folktale about the origin of the Will-o’-the-Wisp retold through a haunted doll’s mind’s eye.

A child is attacked and turned into a chimera and must learn to navigate his strange world as an entirely new kind of being.

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A deformed nude woman is fired upon daily by mustachiod perverts in a spaceship attempting to impregnate her with rockets.

Hand-drawn animation tests, trials and experiments from way back when, with some water color, cut into a sweet. little. diddle. diddy. biddy. beep beep. boop boop. video.

In the dead of night I see your face before mine. Cobwebs stuck between the face of time keeps ticking. To undo the memory. Keep trying.

An exploration of phenomena through the glyphic constitutions of geography. Pictorializing the growths and formations of earthly "bodies" (land, life, technology, language) using humanity's most elemental symbols of communication. A voice, satellite-like in its disembodiment, articulates its stream of consciousness or lack thereof; its monologue meanders and overlaps, leaving viewers space to interpret the visual material of the colorful runic terrain. The ontological map is thus instantiated.

An exploration of intestines

A feminine machine, stuffed with modern nano-technology and useless operations is depicted in this mixed-media 2D animation short, highlighting the consequences of consumerism and the downfall of civilized society. The machine reminiscent of a two-dimensional video game, leads to a destructive chain reaction after a strange malfunction, with people turning into clones and robots.

A woman’s uterus is the source of all life. However, none of us remember what the uterus sounds and looks like. Uterus Galaxy is an experimental animated documentary that explores what happens in the uterus when a 32-year-old woman is wondering whether she wants a baby or not.

A synthesis of sound and movement; colourful characters dance and move in repetitive patterns to percussive and melodic elements. A combination of motion and music that is hypnotic and beautiful. At first it feels structured and orderly but as more elements are added becomes quixotically expressive.

a life size stop motion child puppet races through memories and daydreams reflecting on the cyclical nature of life.

The soaked soil, Taking the shape of a mountain, Our river, Flows into yesterday's late sun, Fish try to shun their reflection, Bubbles wrapped the words filling up the fish tank, Fish die in between the gaps of language; Banana leaves brush away the dust on the table, Lungs that refuse to be cleansed, Thermos is a container for storing the shadow of the mountain, The inner shell broken, The mountain walks away in the night; Everything is collected into a shriveled wooden drawer, Bamboo baskets piled on the concrete floor, swaying, The grey soil flowing, Filling up all the old boundaries The dried earth needs no expression, All decisiveness and hesitation lie underneath the smooth surface

Confusion settles in the house, how to make it a home again?

Emerging from the sea onto land an axolotl swims through complex terrain parallel to a man searching for an encounter with God.

Non-Sequitur? Malapropism? — Who Knows…