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A famous Japanese movie monster is busy destroying a city when it receives an unexpected phone call. Even monsters need to have fun sometimes

Circa 1999 surrealist mixed media 16mm film noir based on script written using cutup methods.

Hyeena, infected with HIV, wants company. The girls Zebra and Impala are looking for a new home. Impala gets into trouble and Zebra defends the girls' right to say NO.

Pravda is a loner, but Pravda acts.

A yellow circle (the ‘laughing moon’) pops out of a black square, which breaks into several shapes of a puzzle. The shapes move and combine to create characters, vehicles and objects. Although there is no clear narrative as such, this cut-out animation has a fable-like quality. All the creations attempt to possess the moon, but it has a nature of its own and somehow none quite manage to get the better of it. A fabulous stimulus for creating your own cut-out animation.

Self-portrait With Johnny is a short animated film about a displaced person who gets lost in the 'Johnny' movies of the 1950's. Told from the point of view of his new wife. Self-portrait With Johnny is a tiny glimpse into the life of a post WWII European immigrant on the West Coast.

A Sephardic wedding, an Italian disco, the streets of Spain… This animated, interlocking triptych has lots of love and color.

Against the backdrop of Ipanema beach, one of the most beautiful and popular in the world, two apparently so different people have something in common!

Through pixilation a male centerfold attempts to embellish his features only to take on more than he can handle.

The life of a piñata may be poor, nasty, brutish, and short. A camera pans slowly down from a blue sky and a fluffy cloud to a tall leafy tree. Hanging from one branch is a piñata, a bright yellow donkey. The donkey opens its eyes when it hears children approaching. The donkey is pleased to see them until, to the strains of "La Cucaracha," five children start to whack it with sticks. The donkey is bewildered, and after a while, figures out how to pull itself up by the teeth out of the children's reach. Then an adult enters the frame, with a big stick. The donkey is frightened, and, involuntarily happens on a solution that just may save its life.

An animation that combines narrative experimentation with the abstraction of motion capture about two groups of misfit hackers in a city of traffic. They speak a language of advertising, corporate branding and self-help, while engaging in a battle to control traffic lights. The discovery that the entire social code is embedded in the access code that regulates traffic lights, begins a twisted ride of cultural espionage techniques. These techniques include surveillance cameras and costumes, as they attempt to untangle the social codes of characters caught in an endless rush hour. The project is a 3D animation using motion capture applied to non-human characters that took five years to produce.

A stop motion animation of a manikin head.

Short Animation.

An elf boy escapes lizardmen foot soldiers in this computer animated short.

Little Annie can't help getting into trouble for daydreaming in class.

This is a story about a country of "Sukima", a tranquil country that is in between the worlds. Porta, the hero in this story leisurely delivers parcels for everyone in town, riding on Robaroba, his partner. Will Porta be able to deliver important parcels safely? Zouzou, Kabakaba and variety of other characters are expected to be in the story. This is the first original animation of Ryoji Arai, the winner of Astrid Lindgren Award.

The naturalist lives in the city. Whenever he can, he jumps into his car and drives out into the country to relax amid the fields and hills, to play his flute and perhaps...

Short animated film about a tree in a park.

A stop-motion short film created by Yoshiro Kimura and Motosuke Kuroda.

A Stranger Comes to Town reworks animations from the Department of Homeland Security, combining them with stories from the border, impressions from the online game, World of Warcraft, and journeys via Google Earth to tell a tale of bodies moving through lands familiar and strange.

"LUZ OFERENDA (OFFERING LIGHT) is a quantum leap towards the future where sound and images are interconnected. Cutting-edge 3D computer animation fuses with dramatic music to create a journey that defies the imagination. A small whisper beckons you to return home, to the present, where the only true reality exists to offer your light. Acclaimed computer animator Beny Tchaicovsky's surrealistic, fantastical images."

A painter searches for a way into his lost garden – the only place where he can create his art. And when he finds it, it becomes a fetish. An exploration of the components of modern art that were fetishes for artists in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Adventure of a Japanese boy who wanders in France where the violence of a strange environment and strange language penetrate his mind and he starts to have incoherent illusions. What happens to the boy between illusions printed in him and tyrannically cruel reality? The work was animated with 6,000 wood block prints to express the gaps and shakes of megalomaniac illusions.

A day like any other at the hospital. Or is it? Something is making a noise.

Trips and adventures of tram 28, through the work of its illustrious passenger. 28 by José Manuel Xavier, is a meeting between two poets and their city.

The written languages of birds come to life.

A group of outsiders, misfits, and weirdos meet and begin an unforgettable adventure, overcoming their differences and discovering how to coexist. The Big Movie is a collaborative effort by the 3DMM community, that's essentially a sketch comedy made out of joke movies. Someone comes up with a premise, like "If the Knight looks at someone, they fly up into the ceiling", and everyone comes up with variations on it. The Big Movie takes about twelve different premises and compiles, overlaps, intertwines, and otherwise serves them up hot and fast.

Based on the Book by: Sheila Walsh

A political satire musical from the creators of The Autocrats.

The beautifully crafted Blooming Ink Tale is created by painstakingly re-painting a white room, which tells the story of lovers' fantasies in human prints.

Two vultures isolated in the middle of an Arizona desert fight for the last bastion of food left which happens to be a rotting carcass.

One of the most important events in world history, seen through the eyes of a dancer.

A short animated meditation

In a flat world, a fencers' spar gets out of hand.

A spy story set in the middle of the Cold War in a Russian rocket launching center.

Surreal animation representing society's various rituals and practices.

A dark fable about a woman who kills herself with her imagination.

Colorful Polish avant-garde animation that follows liquid cats through an explosive background of color including an aquarium.

Two businessmen-turned-leathermen have fun together, beating each other to a pulp.

A curious baby is protected from an environment of temptation.

Gnursk and Biff are father and son practitioners of the ancient Bastroonk faith; a faith with several "peculiar" practices. The duo confront society, workplace safety, school dress code and the Supreme Court over the limits of religious freedoms and tolerance.

A Monster's Calling is a humorous animated film about the nature of personal anxieties, and body image. An "under-the-bed" monster wanders through a slumbering household, wreaking typical monster havoc. First a little girl, then an older brother, and finally the teenaged big sister. It's surprising, to both the monster and to us, what frightens each of them. A film without words.

He cried out from the rooftops of the world, "Do not be afraid: Open Wide the Doors to Christ." His name is John Paul II and now he's here in animated form in this EWTN exclusive. This dynamic animated biography traces the life of the former pontiff from his childhood to his election as Pope. The whole family will enjoy seeing the experiences which fashioned this shy and brilliant intellectual into one of the greatest popes in history.

Contains The Following Shorts:|The Tortoise And The Hare|Babes In The Woods|The Saga Of Windwagon Smith|The Goddess Of Spring|Toby Tortoise Returns|Paul Bunyan

Oedipus was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. He blinded himself after having fulfilled a prophecy saying he would kill his father and marry his mother. Two thousand years later : what if the oracle completely missed the point?

A child imagines whimsical fantasies about a secret family history from a most unlikely source.

The poet's dreams a maiden's bubbles through edifices of forest and eclectic contagion.

A photographer's violent confrontation with one of his involuntary subjects, a famous politician, is brilliantly related in a computer-animated homage to film noir and tabloid journalism.

Dawn. The only sound is the wind in the trees. A leaf falls gently through the air and lands in a still pool. Then, as if by magic, the birds appear. This beautifully drawn, meditative film is an ode to nature and the winged creatures who fill the woods with their little rituals, strange movements and beautiful sounds. For bird lovers and non-bird lovers alike, this closely observed, evocative film is like a soothing walk in the woods.

America had Charles Bukowski and Canada had Al Purdy, a hard-drinking, hard-living poet who wrote about bars, hockey and beer. In this vibrant and kinetic short film, Purdy reads his best-known poem (involving a beer, a bar, and a brawl) accompanied by a dizzying array of animation that perfectly captures the work's ironic tone and its exuberant evocation of alcohol, antagonism and Art.

Legs and shoes float across the screen in this short film by Yoriko Mizushiri.

Nari is the remarkable story of unsung artists Lakshmi and Viji Shankar—a mother and daughter duo who helped bring Indian music to the West in the 1970s though their collaborations with Ravi Shankar and George Harrison. This splendid, multi-generational mash-up features Sun Yunfan's visually vibrant animations, a plentiful offering from the Shankar family archives, and a live musical performance by filmmakers Gingger Shankar and Dave Liang. Nari triumphantly sings a rich and emotionally moving tribute to Lakshmi Shankar's important, yet unsung musical legacy in America.