About
Frame-by-frame obsession against the machine.
We have zero interest in sterile algorithms, slick corporate CGI, or glossy focus-group entertainment. flip is an independent, wandering platform celebrating the beautiful delirium of DIY animation. Built by obsessives, for obsessives.
To us, animation isn't just an industry; it’s a stubborn, tactile fever dream. It’s locking yourself in a dim room for six months, spilling cold coffee on lightboxes, bending armature wire at 3 AM, and burning through thousands of hand-drawn frames just to make three minutes of pure, kinetic reality come alive at 24 frames per second.
The Nomadic Screen
Rather than staying locked in one corner of the city, flip travels across Berlin’s independent, art-house cinemas. We turn neighborhood projection rooms into dark laboratories for experimental shorts, unpolished pencil tests, jagged stop-motion, micro-budget visions, and midnight hallucinations that mainstream festivals overlook.Our Code
DIY over polish: If your paper is torn, your tape is peeling, or your frame-rate stutters, turn the volume up and project it anyway.
Radical independence: No corporate sponsors dictating taste. No gatekeeping.
Community in the dark: Pulling independent creators out of solitary bedrooms and putting them in front of a live, collective audience.
Got a short that refuses to play it safe? Check our Submissions page or meet us at the next screening.