Japanese salaryman escapes to a dream world

Animation of a windmil set up in the middle of a desert to interesting effects

A young man wakes up in a strange garden.

"Fridays" is a short film (comedy) about a man "Pokey" and his missing remote control. When the televison is stuck on the Animal Channel, Pokey has no choice but to search for his missing clicker. His roomates Keith and Cannon are on the way home with junkfood so that Pokey can enjoy his day off from dieting.

Directed by: Joel Hoffman
Written by: Joel Hoffman & Richard Blanchette
Starring Jason Diaz, Richard Blanchette & Joel Hoffman.

My first short film. Me and my friend Cagdas Helvaci made this in May 2007. We wanted to make a thriller clishé. We didn't focus on the story, we just focused on the atmosphere.

12 minutes
Language: Turkish
With English subtitles

Cast: Burak Turker, Memetcan Kilic, Imre Haydaroglu, Hasan Suzer
Directors: Erhan Gucel & Cagdas Helvaci
Asst. Director: Hidir Demirbilek
DoP, Editing: Erhan Gucel

Location: Cihangir, Istanbul, Turkey

This film was shot on a very, very cold winter day (-40c). Thank you to all involved for their amazing dedication.

This film is based on a poem. It is the story of a man who has just come from a funeral viewing of his wife, and goes to the location where he first met her 25 years earlier, which is also the place where she met her tragic and sudden end.

Acting on a tip, a man seeks to avenge his previous abduction.

At first I photographed stop motion　animation. And I displayed the photographs in my room and photographed it again. I used 1,300 printed pictures. Enjoy a connection with the world of the room and the world in the photograph. Thanks for watching.Some musicians add music on my video and reupload it. Thank you very much.

Wolfram says: The Janitor is my first real animated short film. The idea came already sometime towards the end of 2006. The story is about a very, very special kind of Janitor, who lives in a surreal, futuristic world. His job is to control day and night... The whole movie was created together with Michael Noll (http://www.sent-design.de) out of drawings, photography and 3D images that were animated and composed in AfterFX and put together over a time span of about three months.

What would you do with the last seconds of your life? Would you be able to enjoy the ride, when the last stop is on sight?

The story, in Fallen, relies completely on the facial expression of Schorsch, the little lava character. Very lovely.

A short by Wolfram Kampffmeyer and Sascha Geddert. Compositing by Sebastian Nozon. Music and sound design by David Christiansen.