Anna Samo

The Opposites Game

Anna Samo, Lisa LaBracio

A stop motion animation that reveals the bare bones of violence by attempting to define its other.

The Japanese myth of the trickster raccoon

Anna Samo

Bethany Cutmore-Scott

On the dusty roads of a small village, a traveling salesman was having difficulty selling his wares. As he wandered the outskirts of town in the hopes of finding some new customers, he heard a high-pitched yelp coming from the edge of the forest. Following the screams to their source, he discovered a trapped tanuki. Iseult Gillespie details the Japanese myth of the shape-shifting creature.

Conversations with a Whale

Anna Samo

In this love letter to artists, their art and its audience, one filmmaker is trying to absorb rejection after rejection untill at last a beautiful fig tree nourished by the presumable failure bears sweet fruits.

Obon

Anna Samo, André Hörmann

Akiko Takakura is one of the last survivors of the Hiroshima bomb. During Obon, she receives the spirits of her parents and is haunted by memories. Finally Akiko experiences paternal love in the middle of the ruins of Hiroshima.