Apathy has infected a world confronted with the apocalypse. Amid this planetary desolation a group of three players still want to play mah-jong. Their problem: they can´t because they are one player short. This cutout animation inventively uses vintage patterns, textures, colours and sounds to build an artificial universe mired in an avant-garde atmosphere of melancholy.

Victor Orozco

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Silver Dove in the International Competition Short Film 2015

Looking through a subjective camera, the protagonist tramps through a snowy landscape, quoting his own diary entries and passing the now deserted place of his childhood described there, accompanied by a silent mandrill. Clear signs, including a huge ceiling fan, are collected in a single virtual space. The compression triggers doubts. Cao Shu steers a one-shot odyssey through a digitally constructed memory course.

André Eckardt