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Sleep and death in a race for a sleeping woman. Stagnation, lifeless things, cycles, and the mystery of the moon.

A short film by Bärbel Neubauer.

The tiger is supposed to perform a daring circus trick but he’s too scared to go through with it.

Sloth wants to buy an ice cream cone. Unfortunately, he is way too slow and sleepy.

A short film by Bärbel Neubauer.

16-year-old Nadav is writing an explicit gay erotica and his mother Shari, a Fertility Botanist, is busy working and falling in love with a sexy carrot.

This is based on a true story- except for the parts that I made up. It was the summer I got fleas. The summer of small sticky Istanbul alleys, tooting of distant big ships, loud street sellers, and piss stink stronger than the morning sun. It was the summer of my first kiss.

Among Lotte Reiniger's commissioned pieces are several advertising films for the Julius Pinschewer agency, including: "Das Geheimnis der Marquisin" (The Secret of the Marquise) for Nivea skin cream and "Die Barcarole" (The Barcarole) for Pralinés Mauxion dessert. Other pieces commissioned by Pinschewer (e.g. a commercial for ink) are considered lost. "Die Barcarole" is an unusual take on the "Romeo and Juliet" theme, with the suitors arriving in Venetian gondolas (a barcarole is a musical piece whose measure is designed to resemble the swaying of a gondola).

Haunted by a little thing, a man gets driven to the edge.

Every day the shoes from the shoe rack have new adventures. Today, the rubber boots Buddel and Torf tell the other shoes about their experience on a rainy day with a huge dark puddle in the playground, and what trick the unicorn rubber boots Chunk and Tuva used to take away their fear of getting thoroughly dirty … Episode three of the popular KiKA series.

The film comprises a barrage of images of Kurdish activists, journalists and fighters – mostly women – facing the camera, often smiling. Scored to rapid electronic music, this visual onslaught echoes the sensory overload of contemporary media. While the similarity of portraits, whose low resolution raises its own political questions, encourages instant parsing, the sight of young women in uniform slows down our perception, inviting us to interrogate the meaning of these smiles and poses.

In the city of “Evia” several residents are infected with light. A girl discovers what appears to be the host. She befriends it, feeds it and houses it, to the disapproval of the other residents. They want to drive the host away. A persecution begins…

An animated series for adults starring the signs of the Zodiac. Leo eats his friends, Virgo succumbs to "shopping mall madness", and Taurus has an affair with a giant cow. The readings were done by two New York astrologers (found on the Internet). Believers in astrology will find Lucky Stars as reliable as their favorite horoscopes while scoffing skeptics will have their fun as well. The amusing characters and absurd situations portray astrology as an entertaining game of careers, money, luck and love.

The Contr-contras are the very last of the ancients and true inhabitants of Gdansk. They are a perfect cross-breed of Germans and Slavonians: slim, beautiful, powerful, and tall (up to 5 metres). Because their species has been safeguarded, they live in a zoo. The Contr-contra couple, Rita and Stan, have a baby. From the beginning, the child causes trouble. In the end, it turns out to be an ambassador of the devil and persuades its parents, Rita and Stan, to take drugs. After having beaten them up, the child gives its parents to Brother Lucifer.

A film about cave drawings from 1990.

A German Film Award silver medal winning short animation.

A little man, with a mark of defeat, experiences an unreal dream of love. But he is misjudged as a toy and soon the dream bursts in disruptive jealousy and unsettled self-awareness. But the dream continues in a world where love means torture and to neglect life a virtue.

Short animated film

Ashnikko in a monster truck and a squad of develish beasts ride towards the sunset to battle the angelic overlord robots.

A fly, taken with humanity, decides that it would be best if all flies were wiped out.

An fisherman is fishing peacefully by the sea, when all of a sudden the world around him disintegrates.

Cherry Bone is a documentary animation and tells the story of a Russian-jewish family that immigrates to Germany in the mid-90s. The director of the film starts a conversation with her parents who made the move in their forties and recalls her own version of the past events.

A poem about a child's dreamlike fantasies where she meets herself in different shapes.

In the film, glass shards, screws, wires, and other elements from a toolbox are used to create an original play.

Time has forgotten Belmont, population zero. Even a red light can’t halt the train that sees no need to stop there.

An anthropomorphic rat repeatedly wakes up in its bed, leaves, presumably goes about its life, and returns back home in the evening. All we are offered by way of context is a single, hand-drawn shot of the rat’s proletarian room.

Abstract film set to electronic music.

East German animated propaganda short. One night, Flora the Cow and Jolanthe the Pig arrive in the village by truck. It is quiet everywhere, with the only noise coming from the pigsty. The residents are unhappy with their accommodation, they don't want to be in individual pens and demand sociability, cleanliness and self-service. Flora and Jolanthe want to help them. They demonstrate how the barn needs to be rebuilt. Everyone gets to work and tears down the pens. Flora and Jolanthe have brought along a vacuum feeding system, and when the conversion is finished, they can even take in pigs from smaller neighboring pens. Everyone is happy and the sociable pig life can begin. While the newly formed pig choir sings the final song, Flora drives the truck back to town and Jolanthe, wearing a white coat, operates the new feed mixer.

Click, click. Tip, tip, tip… Tip, tip. A young woman seeks spirituality and tranquility in the web. Bit by bit she dives into the absurd realm of screensavers and desktop backgrounds until merging with the uncanny operating system named “OS Love”.

Female ejaculation in a (animated) nutshell.

Animated short film

Lurking in the grass has paid off for the fox. The narrator’s apprehensive voice takes us to an island where a battle for survival rages among creatures feathered and furry. After all, a bear is only cute if you’re not a rabbit. The animation resembles landscape shots from animal documentaries—but instead of Smokey the Bear we’re served pointed humor, instead of glossy nature, the images are rampant with sprawling absurdity.

A skinny, young girl spends her time alone feeding pigeons in the park. But even they fly away from her. Suddenly, she gets company. But the beanpole feels uneasy about the new companionship, so she sets about going to a specialist for parasites.

Henkel ad by Pinschewer.

The story about a man, who lost his dreams and a whale, who kept them safe. But the world turned upside down and the sea became a desert. And the whale had to go to sleep in the sky. Would the man be able to find his dreams again? Would he ever feel the joy of being one with the world? The philosophical tale of someone, who like Jonah, lost his way and was rescued by a whale.

Three minutes stretch on endlessly as a man loses his last nerves fighting a one sided conflict.

An animated poem represents life in a form of zebra, that is full of rules, changes and contrasts. Girl which is tired of permanent changes and instability trying to catch zebra in order to stop the volatility of our being.

A mixed-media animation in which artist Julie grapples with her imposter syndrome by coming into conflict with her newly developed werewolf personality, who would rather spend time with her band than focus on work. Now the two sides are at odds, as Julie's work deadline falls on the same day as her band's gig! Will she manage to be there for her friends by accepting her wilder side?

Two retro-gaming special agents go on a nearly impossible mission to retrieve a CD-ROM from a space station orbiting the earth.

A poetic journey through Kira's seventh birthday, where memories of loss are softened by the unwavering hope and companionship of her loyal dog, Curly Joe.

I saw one the other day that looked like you. I quickly realized it couldn't be you - but he moved like you. Ran his fingers through his hair like you. And carried the same rucksack in the same poor condition. So I decided to follow your not-you around a bit.

For women who experience domestic violence, a women's shelter often is the only way out. This documentary short film is intended to give a small insight into this shelter and yet preserve its anonymity.

The cat has an especially delicious recipe: Mouse Soup.

“The woman is the man's servant”, she grew up with this sentence from her father, Lenia Friedrich's great-grandfather. How much has this way of thinking changed from today, where can you still discover parallels? Her hands testify to her hard work as a housewife, for which she certainly rarely received recognition. Of course, there was never any monetary reward for this, the father was the breadwinner of the family, although she did the reproductive work in silence. Especially the quiet work in the background, which makes it possible to maintain the entire society, Lenia Friedrich would like to put in the foreground.

It's laundry day in 1942.

A 5 minute animation on the nature of addiction.

Individual elements from a carrier of visual information have been isolated and used to construct alternative visual reagents. Repetition is administered as a binder to tame the wild particles in motion, achieving a golden ratio in the mind's eye.

One day, a little mole discovers that all of the other animals have a friend of their same species to play with, but the mole is all alone and very sad. To make matters worse, all the food is starting to rebel. A fat earthworm escapes in a hurry, right under the mole's nose. The hunt inside the tunnels begins! Finally the earthworm is caught, but just as the mole is about to bite down, he realises that it's not an earthworm but another mole's tail. Now that they've found each other, there's a happy ending under the molehill.

Three baby birds, one big challenge—their first flight! But as the frogs begin their peculiar performance, the sky turns into a whirlwind of improvisatio — some birds twirl, some hover, and others just hope for the best.

The characters of this animation are little creatures looking like people without faces, clothes or emotions. They swim between strange islands and discover new lands lighting their way with drifting eyeballs.

Who’s hiding behind the windows of the neighbouring flat? Who hasn’t closed their curtains? And who’s lurking at the school gates in the next village? Let’s skedaddle, so that we don’t meet them! An animated poem about how mistrust of others is drilled into us from childhood.

In his multimedia practice, Berlin-based artist Oliver Laric responds to the internet as a mass medium with deep and wide cultural reach, exploring how images have been created, circulated, and repeated both in our time and across history. In the latest installment of the New Media Series, the Museum presents Untitled, 2014-2015, a video work that examines the art of animation and transformation.

The mythical mountain of Monte Adrion (Biokovo) shows us pictures from your life.

A dystopian and darkly whimsical animated short, unfolding in fragmented vignettes where characters collide – each caught in their own rhythm of time.

The squirrel mother is busy gathering her nuts, so she doesn't have any time to look after her kids.