Forlorn fish express their alienation through song, a pair of pigeons visit a zoo without animals, and a lonely fox has an enigmatic encounter with the new rabbit next door—welcome to the startlingly surreal, delicately bittersweet world of Swedish stop-motion animator Niki Lindroth von Bahr, whose hyper-detailed miniatures are at once uncanny and strikingly lifelike. Though they star a menagerie of anthropomorphic animals, these wondrously strange and captivating existential fables explore modern malaise with a piercing poignancy that is all too human.
Directed by Niki Lindroth von Bahr • 2010 • Sweden
One day, Tord accidentally walks in to the apartment next to his own. Another person named Tord lives there, he has just moved in.
Directed by Niki Lindroth von Bahr • 2014 • Sweden
Six characters meet in a bath house. The pedant bath house manager, a couple with a strange way of communicating and a gang with shady intentions. Something goes wrong.
Directed by Niki Lindroth von Bahr • 2017 • Sweden
A dark musical enacted in a modern marketplace, situated next to a large freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues, portrayed as animals, deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalyps...
Directed by Niki Lindroth von Bahr • 2019 • Sweden
Starring Linnéa Wikblad, Staffan Westerberg, Arja Saijonmaa
A lullaby before the great disaster. Two pigeons visit a zoo without animals, a snail measures his blood pressure at the doctor, in the CERN laboratory something has gone terribly wrong...