Theodore Ushev Movies

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

An interpretation of French Cancan by Renoir.

A short animation edited from photos of disposed COVID-19 pandemic gloves and masks.

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...

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

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

8 minutes and 19 seconds – that’s all the time we have until the news about the death of the sun reaches us. That's what it takes for the...

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

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

When Frank’s car breaks down in a bleak winter landscape, a mechanic named Barry comes to his aid. Hoping to repair the car, the two men take...

Animated short from Theodore Ushev

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....

Set to a kinetic soundtrack, Sou is a dazzling multi-layered animated collage piece on how a Western man, through ill-equipped eyes, views the...

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

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

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

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

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

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