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Film blockOur Bodies
70 min.

Despite a strong signal showing on our phones, we haven’t reached our friends in months. So, in this section of animated films, we remember them – inside the pixelated world of GTA. Our longing for connection and closeness will echo through a house of mourning and across the Bay of Naples. We’ll dissect ourselves in relation to others – and others in relation to us. Hidden insecurities will surface on an amorphous body, and flicker through the neon rooms of a love hotel.

Slovak and English subtitles.

Introduction in English by curators Ema Nemčovičová and Jakub Spevák.

Enough
Director(s): Anna MantzarisUK2 min.2017

This film centers around impulses we all can feel but never act upon. Showing glimpses of emotional anarchy and moments of lost self-control.

Martin Cries
Director(s): Jonathan VinelFR16 min.2017

This machinima portrays Martin's contemporary loneliness thanks to footage extracted from GTA V. The young man wanders in the solitude of a dematerialized universe, the echoes of which explore a very real contemporary melancholy.

Underground Lovers
Director(s): Gianluigi ToccafondoIT4 min.2021

The longed for lover might well stand for an imaginary body, upon which insecurities around human / non-human as well as digital / analogue relationships are played out.

Hedge
Director(s): Amanda BonaiutoUS6 min.2018

A mother is tangled up with her children, a mob of women aggressively mourn, bored funeral directors kick novelty caskets, a daughter follows a ghost.

Noir-soleil
Director(s): Marie LarrivéFR20 min.2021

After an earthquake in Naples bay, the body of a man is found. While Dino and his daughter, Victoria, travel to Italy for a DNA test, the past catches up with them.

Drop by Drop
Director(s): Alexandra Ramires (Xá), Laura GonçalvesPT10 min.2017

The last habitants of a village refuse to let themselves sink into oblivion. In a world where the idea of progress appears to be above all, this home floats.

The XXXL Plumber Jack Dingbongs Her Tiny Skinpompom: Episode 8
Director(s): Vojtěch KočíSE2 min.2018

Created during the director’s study in Sweden, this film uses grotesque exaggeration to critique pornography, exposing its falsehood and absurdity through a typical script.

My Dear Lover
Director(s): Milva StutzCH10 min.2020

The animated short film «My Dear Lover» tells of a figure's yearning for touch and the impossibility of bringing that about. While one hand is trying to get into contact with the surface of an amorphous body, a voice in the off is reading a love letter.

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Film blockOur Bodies
39 min.

The 18th edition of Fest Anča’s main guest is Japanese animator Sawako Kabuki – typically described as provocative, daring, and delightfully quirky. In the retrospective Shame? Don’t Know Her!, she’ll present her internationally acclaimed films that challenge societal expectations and taboos as part of this year’s festival theme: Our Bodies. The lineup includes I’m Late, a raw take on missing your period; Anal Juke-Anal Juice, a surreal mix of dream, break-up, and earthquake; and Cockroach Calisthenics, featuring adorable cockroaches doing aerobics. These films are cheeky, surreal, playful, disturbing – and yes, hilarious.

Slovak and English subtitles.

Director(s): Sawako KabukiJP1 min.2010

I studied graphic design at university, but somehow we had to take an animation class. This is something I made for that assignment.

Kuricorder Quartet - Southpaw
Director(s): Sawako KabukiJP2 min.2019

"This music video features a 60s Japanese hit song, covered by the Kuricorder Quartet.

As their cheerful recorder tune plays, creatures come to life and dance."

Anal Juke - Anal Juice
Director(s): Sawako KabukiJP3 min.2013

After my breakup, I dreamed of Japan’s post-3/11 chaos fused with my own heartbreak. That dream became this animation — eerie, unstable, intimate. I couldn’t remember my ex’s face, just their enema kink, so I gave them an ass for a head.

Master Blaster
Director(s): Sawako KabukiJP4 min.2014

A girl dreams of crawling into the rectum of someone she loves — a surreal metaphor for wanting total closeness. That desire warps into obsession, but without knowing their feelings, she’s left raw, tangled in longing, jealousy, and guilt.

Don’t tell Mom
Director(s): Sawako KabukiJP3 min.2015

A nighttime educational film designed to support children’s development of emotions, self-expression, language, and physical skills through fun songs and exercises with a friendly big brother.

I’m Late
Director(s): Sawako KabukiFR, JP11 min.2021

Have you or your partner ever had an experience where you missed your period or been “late”?

Ici, là et partout
Director(s): Sawako KabukiJP2 min.2013

Love can be beautiful but slippery — intense, intoxicating, and impossible to pin down. This piece was born from that rush, created while drunk on affection. But no matter how deep the love, the other remains unknowable. That painful distance, that fleetingness, is echoed in the constant transformations within the video. Fittingly, I got dumped just as I finished it.

Waaah
Director(s): Sawako KabukiJP1 min.2018

I synchronized the irritation of baby cries with the frustration I’ve experienced in my life. Everyone is born crying, and we all grow up crying. I’ve become an adult — but deep down, I strongly wish I could be a baby again.

Summer's Puke is Winter's Delight
Director(s): Sawako KabukiJP3 min.2016

Even painful events from the past eventually become memories with time. But still, we vomit again — and eat again. Life is ecological.

Takoyaki Story
Director(s): Sawako KabukiJP2 min.2018

A girl who’s always drawn to takoyaki, but hesitates—until she finally gives in and becomes addicted. Takoyaki (octopus balls) is a popular and delicious Japanese street food.

Cockroach Calisthenics (TV series)
Director(s): Sawako KabukiUS7 min.2021

Cockroach Calisthenics is a song born in 2009, and people have been singing it somewhere in the world ever since.

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Film blockOur Bodies
72 min.

The virtual world offers our bodies endless possibilities – but just as often, it takes us hostage. Can we still reset the system? Start over? Or maybe become a bug in the machine? This section explores the relationship between our bodies and technology, the internet, artificial intelligence, and even the animal kingdom. You'll find films about mischievous statistical graphs, new life emerging from the ruins of the Anthropocene, and an essay imagining the potential of a cybernetic society.

Slovak and English subtitles.

Introduction in English by curators Ema Nemčovičová and Jakub Spevák.

All My Mother's Phone Calls
Director(s): Iiti Yli-HarjaFI10 min.2021

In this chaotic documentary we get to know my mother Maija through her phone calls. We see how she copes with the challenges in her life, like alcoholism, demanding family members, autism and various absurd situations that seem to follow her.

Average Happiness
Director(s): Maja GehrigCH7 min.2019

During a PowerPoint presentation, statistical diagrams break free. A trip into the sensual world of statistics begins. Pie charts are melting, arrow diagrams twisting, scatter plots, bar graphs and stock market curves join in a collective climax.

Blindness
Director(s): Yu-seon ParkKR5 min.2021

The main character was fascinated by one scent and entered the monitor room. There was a fascinating woman on the monitor, who gave her everything she wanted. The main character tries to reach the perfect monitor she can't reach, and she gradually loses herself.

Data Flesh
Director(s): Felipe ElguetaCL5 min.2024

DATA FLESH is an algorithmic incantation that revives images, an essay that invokes internet archives, slaves of humanity and infinite scroll. Using generative techniques they create a future that only they can imagine.

Fungi Head
Director(s): Maxime SaillardFR4 min.2023

Tim, a teenager living in the Limousin region, absolutely loves mushrooms. He decides to try to communicate with them, but his plans are thwarted.

Rehousing Technosphere
Director(s): Wang & SöderströmDK6 min.2022

This film takes us into a desert-like world, soft and colourful. New species exploit a degrading layer of the planet’s crust by digging, foraging, and designing new homes. What is toxic for one species is a perfect habitat for another. Among the remnants of the Anthropocene, life moves.

DIY: How Boobzilla Gets Her Tyres Changed
Director(s): Léahn Vivier-ChapasFR4 min.2016

Leyomi Bum Bum, a former car tuning champion, films a tutorial about her latest project: Boobzilla.

Second
Director(s): André Santos MartinsDE, PT31 min.2021

Four weeks into quarantine, André starts digitally recreating his Berlin street. Curious about cyber society, he revisits Second Life, searching for the promise he was once told as a child.

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