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Oh Willy...

Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels, Belgium, 2011, 17’
SXSW

2011

Ottawa Int’l Animation Festival

2011

Fifty-something Willy returns to the naturist community, where he spent his youth, to visit his dying mother. When she dies shortly after he arrives, Willy is confronted with the choices he made in life. In a state of sadness, he retreats into the forest. After a rough start, he finds himself under the maternal protection of a gentle, hairy beast.

Oh Willy... (Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels, 2011)
Oh Willy... (Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels, 2011)
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Woolen Horizons

Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels’ Oh Willy... (2001)

Sven Hollebeke
03.12.2023

Willy’s roots can also be found in the main character of De Swaef’s graduating film Soft Plants (2008). The short documentary follows an old and lonely officer who finds refuge in his thoughts and fantasies of a dark and magical forest. This longing for safety, a stubborn passivity, or even feigned innocence is woven into the duo’s oeuvre.

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Credits

Script
Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels
Camera
Marc James Roels
Editor
Marc James Roels
Sound
Bram Meindersma
Music
Bram Meindersma
Producer
Arnoud Rijken, Ben Tesseur, Christophe Mazodier, Jean-François Le Corre, Mathieu Courtois, Michiel Snijders, Nidia Santiago, Steven De Beul
Production
Beast Animation
183
animation fiction adventure drama fantasy

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Luciana Decker Orozco, Bolivia, USA, 2025, 12’

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Impossible Figures and Other Stories II

Marta Pajek, Poland, 2016, 15’

A woman trips and falls while rushing around the house. She gets up only to discover that her home has unusual features—it is built from paradoxes, filled with illusions, and covered with patterns.

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Note on Multitude

Ibro Hasanović, Belgium, Kosovo, 2015, 8’

Intimate, emotional, and sometimes violent moments of farewell: men, women, and children leave their homes for an (unknown) future as migrants.

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Luis Buñuel, France, 1929, 21’

Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel wrote his first feat together with Salvador Dalí, based on their dreams. Don’t get stuck on the plot. Buñuel deliberately omits chronology and opts for Freudian dream logic, in which scenes do not necessarily follow one another logically.

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Paradise

Laura Vandewynckel, Belgium, 2014, 6’

People are heading for a better place on either side of the ocean. Although their paths do cross at times, they never really seem to meet. Paradise is a light-hearted yet critical reflection on the ethics of tourism.

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Blow Up My Town

Chantal Akerman, Belgium, 1968, 13’

A young woman, played by Chantal Akerman herself, enters her flat in Brussels and begins a household routine that gradually degenerates. Parodying the everyday, she mops the floor, polishes her shoes, and sticks tape over the cracks in the door, thereby giving domestic life an explosive twist.

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Cyclepaths

Anton Cla, Belgium, 2023, 12’

On the outskirts of the city, the new modern buildings are silent, and the motorway bridge drones. Birds are circling in the sky, and a young man, concealed by his hoodie, is riding his e-scooter along a park path. The only irritating element is the rifle over his shoulder. Cyclepaths conveys a mood of high alert, even though the disaster has, in fact, already happened.

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The End of Suffering (A Proposal)

Jacqueline Lentzou, Greece, 2020, 14’

Sofia is panicky again. The Universe decides to contact her—an other-worldly dialogue. Jacqueline Lentzou’s short film is a planet symphony for Mars, where people dream awake and fight for love.

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