Animation Now! International Programme #5: Dark Hearts 

A journey into Vaysha’s world – one in which she can see only the past with her left eye and only the future with her right.

Navigating a feral film noir world, a man follows the orders of a cosmically ordained dog to wear a woman’s coat for protection. Creepy.

A tidy little white cat moves in and sets about domesticating the housemate. The big black lunk of a dog is a quicker learner than his head-banger tendencies might imply.

Tiny figures lead lives of lonely squalor in a jet-black high rise. Based on a poem by Dilian Elenkov.

‘Twenty-seven hours on the Greyhound. No crack, no cigarettes, no benzos. So yeah, that’s how I ended up in Adena.’ A white trash monologue of bad sex and bad drugs worthy of Harmony Korine, written by Beth Raymer, splashily illustrated in paint and photo montage.

A dinghy containing a giant boot sails through an ocean of flaming orange hair on the head of a ravenous madman. Antic comic-book surrealism in hallucinogenic colour.

In an inscrutable space with a rectangle window, a man and woman sat facing each other across a small table. In the darkness lurks a ravenous mouth.

A haunting relic from a pedal-powered industrial age.

Yeah – not a good start to the day, that’s for sure. But there is worse and stranger – much stranger – to come.

The romance has cooled, the seven dwarves have a new project and Snow White isn’t in such a good space these days.

The picnicking farmyard animals prefer their human flesh organic. It’s time to tell junior about the factory farms.