Creation
2026 · 7m · Hungary
Directed by Béla Klingl
Genres: animation, experimental, fantasy
Tones: contemplative, surreal, whimsical
A canvas comes alive as playful abstract forms are created, each carrying its own human narrative, in a fantastical meditation on creation itself.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Creation is exactly the kind of formally ambitious abstraction that usually puts me to sleep, but Klingl's refusal to choose between pure formalism and narrative—letting human stories live inside geometric forms—actually earns its conceptual reach instead of just performing it.
This is the rare animated essay that understands its own lineage: the dialectic between abstract expressionism and humanist storytelling, executed with the kind of compositional restraint and editing precision that suggests a filmmaker thinking in frames rather than concepts.
The decision to let each form carry a discrete human story rather than impose a unified narrative creates a kind of modular emotional logic that transforms what could've been mannered concept-art into something that actually lands—it's in that structural choice where the film finds its soul.
Festivals
- Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2026, Vimeo Staff Pick Award for a Short Film