Normal Planet

Normal Planet

2026 · 30 min · ★ 5.0 · Animation, Documentary

Lost in the middle of a universal internet, visitors wander through a virtual museum, dressed in wacky avatars. In this psychedelic-tinged anticipation documentary, it is through the bewildered gaze of a fish who arrived there by chance while surfing the internet that the filmmakers lift the veil on the visitors' imaginations and their intimate view of art and the museum space.

Directed by Ekiem Barbier · Written by Ekiem Barbier

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What the Statues Are Looking At

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