MONSTRA Festival

TripleX

Triple-X

Sessions:

28 March | CINEMA SÃO JORGE | 21:45

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Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2011 Duration: 5 mins.
Synopsis:
The film opens with a close-up of a closed eye. Each blink births episodes of life and love, with comical exaggerations, like birds eating sperm cells and beetles fighting after mating. A smiling, pot-bellied Buddha tumbles from the eye and into the lotus position while a couple making passionate love gets entangled in acrobatic dance formations. The search for “sensuous survival” comes to an end when a galloping udder equipped with a drag parachute vanishes into nothingness.
Credits:
Direction: Tone Fink
Writers: Tone Fink
Production: Tone Fink
Animation: Tone Fink
Music: Werner Kodytek
Sound: -
Distribution: sixpackfilm
Age Classification: M/18

Lezzieflick

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2008 Duration: 7 mins.
Synopsis:
‘Lezzieflick’ (2008) is a deconstructive remix of stereotypical representations of lesbian sex in hetero porn. The body forms become fluid, continually changing, and the women no longer appear to be available as the passive object of voyeuristic desire. The content of the image, as well as the usual position of the subject, are shifted. The material of the film appears to dissolve in satisfaction. Is there such a thing as beautiful hardcore camera work?
Credits:
Direction: Nana Swiczinsky
Writers: Nana Swiczinsky
Production: Nana Swiczinsky
Animation: Nana Swiczinsky
Music: Andi Haller
Sound: -
Distribution: sixpackfilm
Age Classification: M/18

Stuck

Country: CROATIA Year: 2024 Duration: 4 mins.
Synopsis:
The bodily fluid unleashes a cycle of events among total strangers who got stuck together naked in the murky water, surrounded by otherworldly sounds and shadows. A young girl escapes and accidentally triggers worlds to collide.
Credits:
Direction: Svebor Kranjc
Writers: SVEBOR KRANJC
Production: Vinko Bresan
Animation: SVEBOR KRANJC
Music: HRVOJE ŠTEFOTI?
Sound: HRVOJE ŠTEFOTI?
Distribution: Sanja Borcic
Age Classification: M/18

G3N3SIS

Country: GREECE Year: 2024 Duration: 9 mins.
Synopsis:
‘G3N3SIS’ (2024) is an experimental AI-assisted animation that reimagines mythology from a female perspective. It starts with the creation of the world and black Eve by a female deity, follows women’s exile by the jealous biblical god, their revolution and liberation, the creation of a new type of men and ends with the apotheosis of the androgynous Hermaphrodite. The style blends post-Renaissance, hyperrealism, metaphysical elements, mystical symbolism, and dark eroticism.
Credits:
Direction: Antonis Doussias
Writers: Antonis Doussias
Production: Antonis Doussias
Animation: Antonis Doussias
Music: Marios Aristopoulos
Sound: Marios Aristopoulos
Distribution: Antonis Doussias
Age Classification: M/18

Melk

Country: NETHERLANDS Year: 2023 Duration: 3 mins.
Synopsis:
In this loose 2D animation, a young man explores how to deal with the expectations he has about life as a homosexual. ‘Melk’ (2023) is a movie about these expectations and the social construct around homosexuality. It questions the focus on sex between two men, relationships and lots of melk.
Credits:
Direction: Niek de Leeuw
Writers: Niek de Leeuw
Production: independent
Animation: Niek de Leeuw
Music: No Music
Sound: Niek de Leeuw
Distribution: independent
Age Classification: M/18

Short Life

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2007 Duration: 9 mins.
Synopsis:
‘Short life’ (2008) is a drawn film. Each of its drawings is a tiny masterpiece, complex and precisely made. This produces unexpected shifts in perspective, as well as transformations and changes in lighting that lead from one state to another.
Credits:
Direction: Johanna Freise, Daniel Šulji?
Writers: Johanna Freise
Production: Johanna Freise, Daniel Sulji?
Animation: Johanna Freise
Music: Daniel Sulji?
Sound: Daniel Sulji?
Distribution: sixpackfilm
Age Classification: M/12

Brush me

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2024 Duration: 2 mins.
Synopsis:
In a bustling bathroom, amidst the chaos of everyday life, two toothbrushes find themselves drawn to each other. ‘Brush me’ (2024) is a heartwarming tale of love, loss, and the resilience of the toothbrush spirit.
Credits:
Direction: Nikolaus Jantsch
Writers: Nikolaus Jantsch
Production: Nikolaus Jantsch
Animation: Nikolaus Jantsch
Music: Nikolaus Jantsch
Sound: Nikolaus Jantsch
Distribution: Nikolaus Jantsch
Age Classification: M/16

Cherry, Passion Fruit

Country: PORTUGAL , BELGIUM Year: 2024 Duration: 5 mins.
Synopsis:
Nature contains both the flowing waterfall and the consuming fire. Inside a mysterious rainforest, lust takes shape between love and pain. Would you face your haunting desire?
Credits:
Direction: Renato José Duque
Writers: Renato José Duque
Production: Renato José Duque
Animation: Renato José Duque
Music: Afonso Gaspar
Sound: Mariana Vieira Gregório
Distribution: Renato José Duque
Age Classification: M/12

Cheeese!

Country: GERMANY Year: 2024 Duration: 2 mins.
Synopsis:
Cutting cheese, eating cheese, licking cheese. Penetrating... cheese. ‘Cheeese!’ (2024) is an animated short film about the enjoyment of cheese.
Credits:
Direction: Elena Wiener, Josefine Maier
Writers: Elena Wiener, Josefine Maier
Production: Elena Wiener, Josefine Maier
Animation: Elena Wiener, Josefine Maier
Music: lucafrancini
Sound: Elena Wiener
Distribution: Elena Wiener, Josefine Maier
Age Classification: M/16

Les Misérables

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 1987 Duration: 2 mins.
Synopsis:
Cartoon characters Mimi and Max have a bit of a childlike-bisexuality to them, even when the subject is the desire for the other sex. Interestingly, the characters are all voiced by the same voice actor, and their representation is channeled into a single and fictive form of expression. The children’s song ‘Eyes and ears can easily be lost’ and the fight about which is better - to be blind or deaf - refers to the movie-goer’s basic perceptive organs, as well as the author’s.
Credits:
Direction: Mara Mattuschka
Writers: Mara Mattuschka
Production: Mara Mattuschka
Animation: Mara Mattuschka
Music: Mara Mattuschka
Sound: Mara Mattuschka
Distribution: sixpackfilm
Age Classification: M/18

Stuffed

Country: FRANCE Year: 2024 Duration: 10 mins.
Synopsis:
Olla, 24, decides to take a moment for herself. Her "cheat meal", an instant noodle soup, awaits her on a small tray above a warm bath. However, nothing goes as planned, and Olla accidentally ends up spilling the tray and its contents into the bathtub. Disaster...
Credits:
Direction: Louise Labrousse
Writers: Louise Labrousse
Animation: Lucas Verreman
Music: Eva Alliod
Sound: Sonia Sokolowski
Distribution: Wasia Distribution
Age Classification: M/18

Animal Locomotion

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2023 Duration: 5 mins.
Synopsis:
Eadweard Muybridge and his studies on Animal Locomotion (1887) are the starting point of the reflections on motivation and propulsion, standstill and movement as well as their recording. A fever dream. The film was created as a reflection on why we as humans are still trying to record movements while feverishly dreaming of artificial intelligence, or conversely as a reflection on why we talk about artificial intelligence while still feverishly dreaming of recording ourselves in motion.
Credits:
Direction: Muzak
Writers: Muzak
Production: Muzak
Animation: Muzak
Sound: Muzak
Age Classification: M/18

Apontamentos de Curva - Correnteza

Country: PORTUGAL , BRAZIL Year: 2022 Duration: 6 mins.
Synopsis:
This film explores tensions of body and desire in its anti-matter, in-between the unsaid, in the intimacy of the pose. A porn animation of handmade watercolour paintings built through the premise of rethinking the body as a critical space.
Credits:
Direction: Flavia Regaldo
Writers: Flavia Regaldo
Production: Flavia Regaldo
Animation: Flavia Regaldo
Music: Vanessa de Michelis
Sound: Vanessa de Michelis
Distribution: Flavia Regaldo
Age Classification: M/18