Theodore Ushev Trailers
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Theodore Asenov Ushev (Bulgarian: Теодор Асенов Ушев; born 4 February, 1968; Kyustendil) is a Bulgarian and Canadian animator, film director and screenwriter based in Montreal. He is best known for his work at the National Film Board of Canada, including the 2016 animated short Blind Vaysha, which was nominated for an Academy Award.[1] He is a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France.
Most Popular Theodore Ushev Trailers
Total trailers found: 39
15 February 2016
From the moment she was born, Vaysha was a very special girl. With her left eye she can only see into the past, and with her right she can only see the future.
01 January 2020
An animated film painted on emergency thermal safety blankets, featuring the state of emergency declarations of Trump, Macron, Putin, Merkel and many others.
03 February 2017
A collection of the animated short films nominated for the 2017 Academy Awards. 1. Blind Vaysha ("Vaysha l'aveugle", Canada, 8') 2.
01 June 2023
An old man is chasing a wolf pack. A little wolf survives, but eventually will return. Who will win - the wolf or the man?
20 September 2024
Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get it out.
05 June 2013
Reflection is an exploration of Montreal through an abstract lens. Director Sylvie Trouvé examines how reflected images pervade our surroundings, how our senses filter out these ghost images and, finally, how the camera can capture emotions created by a shimmering puddle or a sparkling coloured glass surface.
22 February 2018
A deep dive into a snowstorm of structural chaos and a blizzard of exploding gestural animation.
31 May 2020
When Academy Award®–winning animator and painter Joan Gratz asked eleven filmmakers if they would contribute to an omnibus film, she wasn’t sure what to expect—after prompting them to make a “one-minute memoir,” she let them figure out the rest.
08 July 2020
How to maintain a life while on lock-down. A comic portrait of the artist in pandemic times.
19 October 2006
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 seductive qualities of the pell mell kitsch that is the modern Japanese society.
20 December 2019
Toronto, Canada, 1899. William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) fervently believes that he is destined to become Prime Minister, but to do so he will first have to fight his personal obsessions and overcome the many obstacles he will encounter on his tortuous path to power.
06 September 2019
Tracks an unknown man’s life as he sifts through memories of his youth in Bulgaria through to his increasingly rootless and melancholic adulthood in Canada.
05 May 2023
In a dystopian future, a nation of bio-titans has been created and the female sex and procreation have become obsolete.
15 March 2018
8 minutes and 19 seconds – that’s all the time we have until the news about the death of the sun reaches us.
16 March 2006
This animated short by Theodore Ushev is like a whirlwind tour of Russian constructivist art and is filled with visual references to artists of the era, including Vertov, Stenberg, Rodchenko, Lissitsky and Popova.
01 May 2010
From the NFB: He is a young man; an optimist drawn to dark music and the themes of death and suffering.
27 November 2017
An interpretation of French Cancan by Renoir.
10 February 2012
Animated short from Theodore Ushev
12 September 2012
A woman writes a letter that will be read by a man in prison. A letter full of love, worry, compassion, suffering and hope.
21 September 2003
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.
01 September 2015
Director Theodore Ushev uses his own blood to animate struggles with injustice in the world.
08 June 2025
As a punishment for not working hard enough, “I” is forced by the authorities to live with an idiot.
01 January 2014
Three books: a film festival catalogue, a dictionary, the Bible. Three works whose materiality has become obsolete by the digital dematerialization.
10 October 2010
A descent into the maelstrom of anguish that tormented Arthur Lipsett, a famed Canadian experimental filmmaker who died at 49.
22 April 2020
A short animation edited from photos of disposed COVID-19 pandemic gloves and masks.
25 June 2015
With the shade around her waist, she dreams on her balcony. Under the gypsy moon, all things are watching her, and she cannot see them.
14 March 2012
This metaphorical surrealist tale is an allusion. NIGHTINGALES IN DECEMBER is a trip into the memories, and the fields of the current realities.
20 January 2017
Made with the filmmaker’s blood, a testament to the ideals that we fight and die for.
06 July 2013
Theodore Ushev’s acclaimed 20th century trilogy concludes with this brilliant fusion of 3D and Russian constructivist-styled animation.
19 September 2008
Partly figurative, partly abstract, Drux Flux is an animation film of fast-flowing images showing modern people crushed by industry.
01 January 2006
For his entire life, a man has waited outside a closed door. What lies behind? The truth he seeks or another door?
07 October 2020
Hot wax painting on a Barcelona directory; a palimpsest reflecting the violence and madness of the riots that shocked Spain in October 2019.
09 June 2023
Theodore Ushev pays tribute to Jean-Luc Godard's masterpiece À bout de souffle.
21 September 2022
While visiting his native country to shoot his first live-action film (PHI 1.618), animation filmmaker Theodore Ushev recounts the highlights of his life in Bulgaria and recalls the various underground artistic movements that have influenced him.
16 June 2021
National Film Board of Canada and staff wish a Happy Birthday to Annecy Festival
09 May 2018
An animator dissects his own body, extracting memories, emotions and fears that will nurture his work.
14 April 2007
This animated short by Theodore Ushev combines warmth, humour and magic in a story about a young girl who misses her grandmother.
01 January 2017
NEF Animation (nefanimation.fr) and Fontevraud Abbey are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fontevraud International Writing Residency for Animated Film in October 2017.
