Anima Mundi Opening Titles

Here Come The Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized" is an animated collaboration between the band and four filmmakers: Guilherme Marcondes, Julia Pott, Peter Sluszka and Santa Maria. The Los Angeles Times describes it as "a tumbling series of visuals with four distinct aesthetic styles. Peter Sluszka's ultra-slow motion capture of exploding mushrooms and elegantly disseminating seed pods … Julia Pott's line art of wolves and foxes hovering in geometric constellations … Guilherme Marcondes' renderings of skeletons caught among leafless branches and verdant human arms that unfurl like ferns… Santa Maria provides context…with cosmic, computer-generated vistas, cartoons of splintering bones.

A giant tiger mysteriously appears in a big city. It will reveal the hidden reality in an otherwise ordinary night.

A man tries desperately to complete a simple wooden puzzle. He is visibly frustrated by his numerous attempts to solve the puzzle. A superhero flies in to his rescue, only to be deflated and mocked when the superhero's true self is revealed.

The body is not merely matter but a continual and incessant materializing of possibilities.

[EN] When his estranged father is hospitalized near the end of his life, a son ends up caring for the man who never cared for him, forcing them into an intimacy they have never known. [PT] Depois de uma vida inteira distante, um filho se vê, de repente, responsável por cuidar do pai, já nos últimos meses de vida. Na rotina de um quarto de hospital, o cuidado aproxima dois homens que nunca aprenderam a ser pai e filho.

The 1st Volume of Characters in Motion introduces a new wealth of cutting edge character visuals to the established world of animation. The DVD compiles over 90 stylistically outstanding films by 60 international studios, artists and designers in curated programs such as Characters in Narration, Characters in Rhythm and Characters in Motion. Additionally, a special selection menu allows to sort the 180+ minutes of animation by creator, character or style.

A budding young love, moving from the blissful early stages of carnival-won stuffed animals and selfies to a gradually more jealous, controlling and abusive relationship.