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A cartoon film drawn, devised and directed by GERALD SCARFE : a series of sketches recording Scarfe's personal impressions of Los Angeles on a six-week visit, and featuring many of the best-known American folk heroes, from history, from Hollywood, and from contemporary life. http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1973-10-06#at-20.15
Story of a young girl and boy and a picture-dog that comes to life.
It’s Lava Fish Day and something’s not right. Time to take a ride in the Chopper Chopper.
The travelogue is mobilised again by animator Lesley Keen in Burrellesque, commissioned for Glasgow’s European Capital of Culture 1990 programme. Drifting through Glasgow’s Pollok Park towards the Burrell Collection as seasons shift, Keen’s 35mm film convenes with the spiritual life of the artefacts held therein. These objects break out as kaleidoscopic visions, ripped from their place of origin; escapees pointing to Scotland’s own history of cultural extraction.
Following the end of a stormy love affair, Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka enlists in the First World War. After suffering serious injuries in battle, he experiences a series of memories and visions as medics transport him through the forests of the Russian front. Playful and imaginative, I'm OK explores the wounds of heartbreak and trauma. Inspired by the life and art of Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980).
In the future, technology may change, but the patterns and routines of daily life stay constant, until we disrupt them. A short animation by Matthias Hoegg.
Set in the near future. Ex police officer J.B. Fitzgerald is combated by a government influenced by corrupt police officers, corporations and power-hungry political whoremongers.
Human extinction is almost impossible to imagine, but the notion is never far away in environmental debates. This animation takes an insect eye view to explore these deeply troubling themes with wit and generosity.
Macropolis is the story of two toys discarded from a factory production line. Coming to life, they rebel and chase the factory delivery van in the hope of rejoining their friends. Lost in the unfamiliar, urban big city, they are overwhelmed by the challenge ahead. By reinterpreting the world that now surrounds them, through their unique perspectives, they begin to play with littered everyday objects to find their way back. Shot using a unique mix of stop-motion animation and time-lapse photography on the streets of Belfast, MACROPOLIS is a modern-day fable with a striking visual appearance.
After a couple of drinks, a girl admits to her best friend that she’s always wanted to know what it feels like to be kissed by a girl. But how will they feel, and has their friendship been altered forever? After the After Party is part of the Words First series of spoken word animations, commissioned to celebrate the finalists of the 2022 BBC Words First talent development scheme.
Designed with young audiences in mind, this award-winning animated film (created with labor-intensive stop-motion techniques) brings Kenneth Grahame's classic children's book to life. When the villainous Weasel and his crew of thugs kidnap an unsuspecting Toad and send an impostor to take over Toad Hall, Badger, Rat and Mole aren't fooled. But can they figure out a way to save their friend before it's too late?
A woman tells her story. She can't sleep. She works in a sushi shop in a seaside city. We see fishing boats arrive, fish sorted and sold at market, then chopped and boxed at the factory. At her shop, live fish swim in tanks. She's tired. She tries various methods to break her insomnia, none are successful. Late one night, two weeks into her ordeal, she rides her motor scooter at top speed into a realm of discovery. Will sleep and insight be of help? BAFTA winner
A.T Shank & Son have a bad day at the parlor when a falling boulder flattens their hearse. Emotional and literal pitfalls lie in wait for the odd couple as they make their way cross country with just a coffin for company. This short animated caper puts the fun back into funeral as their journey and relationship unravel on an epic scale.
Animated short film
Dave is a little boy zombie who, after a terrible disaster, is forced into an unfriendly world where he has to fight to survive.
"Monsters Down Under" is the third film of Dinosauria Volume 2, and the eighth of my Dinosauria Animated Series overall. The film explores the bizarre and alien world of Early Cretaceous Australia.
Regeneration is a film about transformation. Starting in a dark place the character reaches toward the divine and breaks into the world of the spirit. Through this act representing an outstretched hand we see that the Holy Spirit represented as a dove is pursuing us even more urgently. The meeting of the two represents the freedom in flight found in trusting fully in the Holy Spirit and is completed with the return to the heart now fully regenerated.
Animated film which parodies Shakespeare's tragic romance using Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin caricatures.
With the screen split asymmetrically, one part in positive, the other negative, the film documents the evolution of simple celled organic forms into chains of cells then more complex images from tribal cultures and contemporary modernist concepts. The images react, interpenetrate, perhaps attack, absorb and separate, until a final symbiosis (or redemption?) is achieved.
Three friends embark on a new adventure in a strange town, but when a manipulative new member joins their gang, their loyalty is torn apart with terrifying consequences.
A patch of land in Derby, UK, is adopted by an ex-NHS Psychiatric Nurse and transformed by a cyclical system of recovery. A poetic portrait of a place, the people who support it, and that it supports.
Pib auditions to be a contestant on The X Factor with Pog as Simon Cowell. But When Pog gives Pib negative feedback, Pib decides to retaliate.
Lucy thinks her brother, Luka, is broken. His obsessive, infuriating arrangements of sugar cubes and thimbles prove it. Lucy thinks he should be fixed, but not in the way she imagines.
One of the greatest personalities of modern times. The life of a statesman who has helped to make the new map of Europe.
On a small Kalahari farm things look bleak. It hasn't rained for ages and the well has run dry and the residents are just about hanging on with what little they have. As the farmers' daughter prepares to gamble on the final few seeds they have left something appears on the horizon which could be the salvation they have been praying for.
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A group of friends struggle to maintain their relationships under the strain of an economic downturn.
A basic sex education film designed for young engaged couples.
Long time ago the world of nature was perceived as full of magic and mystical creatures. The film tells the old times stories taken from anonymous writer from Alexandria. In time the stories were swollen by developing Christian culture and some of their dark magical aspects got lost. Visually inspired by Grimms' Fairy Tales and the illustration style of children's books. It reminds us about the dangerous and mysterious side of nature.
Short experimental animated film by by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt
A moving depiction of the alternative human and animal perspectives on the implications of climate change.
"LIMINAL" is an animated student short film where we follow a little creature trying to find an end to his monotony, isolation, and loneliness.
Beneath the banal magnolia floors of Lamin'8, mysterious forces are afoot. When occult scientists summon the essence of infinity into existence, chaos is unleashed into the world above. It's up to Alan, a keen-to-impress intern, to contain the shape-shifting orb, the literal agent of change, before it destroys the office and scuppers his chances of securing the much-coveted Summer Placement and become a real-life adult.
Hercules was a man of great endurance and strength, honored in his Greek tale. Hera, Queen of the Gods, is jealous of Hercules and his father Zeus. When Hercules is boastful and brash, Hera inflicts him with a terrible fate. Hera tricks him into blind destructiveness then forces him to atone for his actions. Hercules admits his faults and takes on the famous Labours of Hercules.
Freda the cleaner takes the lid off the Town Hall in this animated film about the services provided by local authorities, and illustrates what life would be like without them. As Freda's vacuum cleaner transforms itself into a 'hoovercopter' and flies over the city, she explains the structure of the local authority and the relationship between voter, council and central government.
Concert footage from Wings' 1972/73 European tour combine with the animated antics of a family of mice living beneath the venue's stage.
About a personal experience of claustrophobia and how to deal with it. When you can't have another cup of coffee or another brandy because you just gotta get on the plane. And there you are. And suddenly there's a flight attendant saying "good morning".
A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.
Scottish animators Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson star in and co-direct this inventive documentary. Albeit framed as a film for Will’s mother, we too are invited to witness how Will deals with the grief of his mother’s cancer. The duo work on their animations and face the frustrations of trying to make this documentary. Whilst alone, Will turns to DOM, the animated cat that lives on his laptop screen.
Cockadoodledoo!
Just an everyday space hoarder dealing with an everyday space pest.
A visual précis of the annual report of chemicals giant ICI
//_sleeper is a short animation set in a dying, industrial town both familiar and unfamiliar. This is neither future nor past, but rather somewhere lost. Somewhere other. The film uses a mix of 2D and CG animation to explore what happens to a lonely figure when a mysterious anomaly appears on the fringes of the landscape. It aims to capture the strange sense of ennui, loss and anxiety that feels appropriate for our times.
In this brightly coloured animation, Prince Cosmos and Princess Solitaire, bored with their palace lifestyle, decide to go and stay on a desert island in a giant's timeshare.
The story follows Spudling, a sheltered character whose parent runs the factory manufacturing light for the city's inhabitants. When finally granted permission to follow their parent into work for one day, Spudling discovers the secret of what is really powering their world...
An animated short film about the man escapes the island.
Opening with John falling to his death out of a bedroom window we follow the story back, as loving husband Guy plays squash away from home regularly. One weekend he has a conference but, returning from a cancelled flight he finds his wife Linda in bed with John leading to his sudden demise. However from the perspective of the other players is this really the full picture?
"The Frog Prince" was one of several adaptations of Brothers Grimm fairytales that Lotte Reiniger made in London between 1953 and 1955: others include "The Gallant Little Tailor", "Hänsel and Gretel", "Sleeping Beauty", "Snow White and Rose Red" and "The Three Wishes".
An eventful train journey arises into Pussy Willow. A resident is needing assistance to help his girlfriend - luckily his fellow train passengers are at hand to help.
Chris Shepherd directs a short animation in tribute to Joe Orton (Entertaining Mr Sloane, Loot) to mark the 50th anniversary of his death. Joe Orton would write letters of complaint using the pseudonym of Edna Welthorpe. Using this persona, Orton would wind up companies, vicars and even ridicule his own plays. In this short we see what mayhem ensues when Edna writes to Smedley Jams and Littlewood home catalogue service.
When a group of boys accidentally kills a bird, Navid tries to suppress his feelings of guilt in order to remain part of the group.
Not all fairy tales end the way we expect. Alzhemier Research charity promotional film.
The Magic Riddle is a 1991 Australian animated feature film directed and written by Yoram Gross. The film's plot features elements of famous fairytales including Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Little Red Riding Hood and Pinocchio. Robyn Moore provides the voice of Cindy and various other characters.
Lola, a first year university student, struggles to adjust to her adorable but unusual roommate - Silence.
The Gorillaz members enter the Spirit House for a mind trip.
Cinderella lived with her stepmother and her two stepsisters. They were very mean to Cinderella, making her work all day cleaning, sewing, and cooking. She tried her best to make them happy. Cinderella's stepmother, was cold, cruel, and jealous of Cinderella's charm and beauty.
Murdoc gets pooped on by a bird
Based on the play of the same name by Aeschylus , it retells the myth of Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods to benefit mankind, and as a result was crucified atop a mountain.
When British goblins are thrust into society, chaos unfolds as they wreak havoc over TV broadcasts, Milton Keynes, and soon: the world.
Follow Mr. Toad as he purchases a motor car, and his pals Ratty, Badger, and Mole are forced to come to his rescue after a series of misadventures, as well as a brush with the law.