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a Owe Gustafson Cartoon

An abstract computer-generated film. The image is of squares revolving in space around and through each other. Colors and forms multiply and divide against a beautiful symphonic score by George Kleinsinger.

A train's passengers tries to make the engine even faster, using very unique ways.

The animated story of the Hardibars and Mushamels—whimsical clay creatures who discover that gender stereotypes are not always accurate or useful.

ĀTMAN is a visual tour-de-force based on the idea of the subject at the centre of the circle created by camera positions (480 such positions). Shooting frame-by-frame the filmmaker set up an increasingly rapid circular motion. ĀTMAN is an early Buddhist deity often connected with destruction; the Japanese aspect is stressed by the devil mask of Hangan, from the Noh, and by using both Noh music and the general principle of acceleration often associated with Noh drama.

Charlie's doctor claims that Charlie is nervous, and suggests that he gets a pet fish to calm him down.

A timely storyline has planes menaced by flocks of Gooney birds! When a crazed hunter is hired to get rid of the birds, Chilly adopts one of the eggs left behind...

A chained man is freed by an accidental witness of the events.

A short film by Maria Lassnig.

A short stop-motion film by Bryan Michael Stoller at age 15.

Strolling with his master through a constantly shifting landscape of corridors and stairs, a beret capped canine discusses life, philosophy and his master.

A lonely man living in a large city buys a life-size sex doll. His relationship with his dream doll causes a certain reaction in the community. A bizarre adaption of Le Ballon Rouge.

A cartoon film about the whole heterogeneous mixture of Canada and Canadians, and the way the invisible adhesive called federalism makes it all cling together. That the dissenting voices are many is made amply evident, in English and French. But this animated message also shows that Canadians can laugh at themselves and work out their problems objectively.

This film was made in reaction to revanchism fear that Germany would reunite and seek revenge on Europe and the USSR for World War II. A disguised Nazi slips into the US zone of divided Germany. The Americans nurse him back to health as he plots how to reunite the Fatherland. His plans are ruined when he runs headlong into the Berlin Wall, erected by the USSR between East and West Berlin in 1961.

How young people were manipulated to join the war during the Imperial Era.

There was a bank robbery in Hoot's town and he is trying to get his horse Fester to come, but can't because someone stole his horse shoes.

Little bear and little Frost unleash a New Year's wind that spreads Christmas decorations around the world.

Animated biopic of mexican president Benito Juárez.

A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as it leaves the station sets the mesmerizing tone for the film's abstract panoramic survey of an Ozu-esque Japanese landscape of electrical power lines, passing trains, railroad tracks, and the gentle slope of obliquely peaked, uniform rooflines as Breer distills the essential geometry of Mount Fuji into a collage of acute angles and converging (and bifurcating) lines .

This animated short by Evelyn Lambart is a visual adaptation of the famous Aesop fable "The Lion and the Mouse," in which a mouse proves to a lion that the weak and small may be of help to those much mightier than themselves.

A naked man keeps himself busy throughout an infinite space.

The Hedgehog and the Bear decide to wipe the dust off the stars so their brightness won't fade out.

Charlie agrees to babysit his boss's dog while he's out of town.

Souvenirs, memories, nostalgia, alienation, the ephermal quality of life ...these are the subjects of this animated diary. The film is not made in the usual way (screenplay, storyboard) and was born at the moment when the author sat at his desk and began animating.

Calvin the elf can't stay out of trouble. He bungles the job of making toys for Santa to deliver because he can't pay attention to his work.

Jarnow regularizes a child's primitive sketch of a house into increasingly firmer architecture, showing how the same place might by rendered by different hands. Objects twist and turn, a drawing resolving into a wall painting, as the perspective shifts, boxes within boxes, until the viewer is back outside

A lyrical, musical story about flowers.

A man is sitting at the table eating. He is interrupted by the sound of the bell ringing at someone’s door. In his troubled mind he sees his childhood, the war, his parents in a Jewish ghetto and all possible forms of aggression, which he has experienced right up to this day…

A satirical film based on the folk joke of the same name about greedy and hypocritical church servants and the gluttony of ridiculously selfish people. True to popular folklore, greed is eventually punished.

The Pink Panther sells his cow for some beans and grows a large beanstalk, later facing a giant.

A baseball team from the fictional town of "Mudville" (the home team) is losing by two runs in its last inning. Both the team and its fans, a crowd of 5,000, believe that they can win if Casey, Mudville's star player, gets to bat.

One day, Wealth and Wisdom argued about which of them is more necessary for a person's happiness. Having tested the poor boy Tazshi, Wealth became convinced that Wisdom is above all riches.

A fire safety anime involving animals in an anime village. It teaches how to use electrical appliances and what to look out for so that electrical fires do not occur. The anime was commissioned by the Japan Insurance Association, as at the time Japan's economic miracle was rapidly changing the average life of a Japanese citizen. Families who used to live in a simple wooden home suddenly had the luxuries of TV, refrigerators, kotatsu, rice cookers, etc. Unfortunately the rapid progression left a gap of ignorance which led to many fires most commonly from leaving heat-generating products unattended as well as overloading sockets.

A geologist boy enters the underworld of the gnomes. Puppet cartoon about the magical properties of precious stones.

The Pink Panther unsuccessfully tries to make breakfast.

A film inspired by Aboriginal legends about the passing of the seasons

About a little boy who dreamed of feats and noble deeds, and how once he saved children from evil robbers.

The cowardly hare finds a gun becomes brave but arrogant and impudent.

An animated film based on an ancient Georgian fairy tale about a dragon that captured a spring and demanded a 'beautiful girl' in exchange for water every day. A brave knight defeated the dragon and returned the spring to the people. This is the content of the original tale, but the animated film also presents alternative versions of the events.

The space journey of the metal robot man Samodelkin. He sets off on the ship "Dream" to explore the rings of Saturn.

A film mocking the consumerist attitude towards life.

Film-parable about the significance of beauty in human life, about the need for a caring attitude towards nature.

An animated short film on the food industry.

The beetle travels through the remnants of pop culture left in space to the Earth.

The performance staged by the GAZTK Obraztsova.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

The Horthy regime marching into the idyll of childhood with peculiar religious processions, Second World War air-raid sirens tearing adolescence to shreds, socialism propped on the shoulders of Stakhanovists in the shadow of Rákosi banners, and the experience of the ‘most cheerful barrack’ of goulash communism within strict confines: this is the collective fate of generation N.

A short film by Dominique Rocher.

Volk and Zayats try themselves out at sports to varying results.

Bugs find himself in Camelot and is mistaken for a "dwagon" by Sir Elmer of Fudde.

A story about a small drummer in a great army.

The little dog Nero looks around inquisitively in a world that is still somewhat foreign to him. He doesn't really know who or what he is and wants to have everything he admires in others. Only when the fox intrudes does Nero come to his senses.

A today's schoolboy can become a large scientist that is waited by the great opening in the future, but for this purpose thinking of studies is needed already now.

A doll Timbu-Limbu takes his friends to the snowmill and frees the millmen from a malicious spell. Then starts a long-awaited snowfall.

As a hospital janitor the Pink Panther takes up first aid, to the disgust of the duty doctor.

A brave young cowboy, owner of a golden revolver, defeats bandits, and then... eats the weapon, which was made of chocolate.

An animation film for kids teaching them to love and protect nature. Based on the story "Čigānmeitēns Ringla".