Theodore Ushev Movies

To the sound of a ramshackle brass band, a world slides towards ruin, carrying with it houses, birds, idols, balloons and whatever is left of reason....

To be confirmed.

A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation.

This animated short by Theodore Ushev combines warmth, humour and magic in a story about a young girl who misses her grandmother. When Lili finds a...

Animated short from Theodore Ushev

When Academy Award®–winning animator and painter Joan Gratz asked eleven filmmakers if they would contribute to an omnibus film, she...

For his entire life, a man has waited outside a closed door. What lies behind? The truth he seeks or another door?

Made with the filmmaker’s blood, a testament to the ideals that we fight and die for.

From the NFB: He is a young man; an optimist drawn to dark music and the themes of death and suffering. Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin...

Hot wax painting on a Barcelona directory; a palimpsest reflecting the violence and madness of the riots that shocked Spain in October 2019.

As a punishment for not working hard enough, “I” is forced by the authorities to live with an idiot. He chooses Vova from a lunatic...

National Film Board of Canada and staff wish a Happy Birthday to Annecy Festival

Three books: a film festival catalogue, a dictionary, the Bible. Three works whose materiality has become obsolete by the digital dematerialization....

This metaphorical surrealist tale is an allusion. NIGHTINGALES IN DECEMBER is a trip into the memories, and the fields of the current realities. What...

How to maintain a life while on lock-down. A comic portrait of the artist in pandemic times.

Ushev recomposes and triturates with great aesthetic vigor and panache Eisenstein's The Old and the New, giving this title a new historical...

Theodore Ushev pays tribute to Jean-Luc Godard's masterpiece À bout de souffle.

An animator dissects his own body, extracting memories, emotions and fears that will nurture his work. As he cuts into his skin, various symbolic...

An animated film painted on emergency thermal safety blankets, featuring the state of emergency declarations of Trump, Macron, Putin, Merkel and many...

A Japanese-produced animated film using Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons as its soundtrack. The four seasons all have separate animation directors. Its...