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There is no need to be a mathematician to appreciate this film which puts in images a part of Fernand Lemay's theory. For this Quebec scientist, it is the segment and not the point that is non-dimensional. From this new approach result dimensions and situations in infinite number that this film reconstitutes into an extraordinary spectacle. At once an artistic work and a mathematical test, Dimension Soleil provides proof that, once again, the beautiful is not foreign to the essential structures of being.

Hoot Kloot is determined to win the reelection of the town sheriff by land slide, but his competitor Crazywolf makes that difficult.

A man is pursued by aggressive advertising images. he finds himself in a labyrinth of advertisements from where he escapes and subsequently ends up in advertising heaven. There an ironic fate awaits him...

Ignored by her class, Miss Nelson mysteriously disappears one day, and the poisonous "Miss Swamp" takes over the class. The students suddenly realize they really like Miss Nelson and a search begins to find her.

Tondo introduces the cosmic formalism that was the primary theme of Al Jarnow's independent films. An infinite gridscape alternates with vibrating etchings, spirograms and other surreal realities.

In which Volk and Zayats go skydiving!

Staying in a motel, the Pink Panther decides to practice his trumpet playing, while annoying the man next door in the motel.

A constantly meowing alley cat keeps the Pink Panther awake.

If there are many photos taken at different times and places, and the same person appears in each photo, then by taking stop-motion pictures of those photos, it will become an animation of the same person moving. It would be fun to force the person to move. Furthermore, the large differences in the elements of each photo must produce something intense. The trigger for making this work was when I noticed that there were many photos of one person that gave me such expectations.

A witty animation tackling the school woes of kids forced to tame their thoughts.

Animated short film promoting the Andean Pact, which was formed by the Cartagena agreement (1969) by a group of countries in the Andean area, appealing to South American unity as the basis for the region's development.

Based on the philosophical fairy tale “Dandelion Boy and Three Keys” by Alexander Sharov about the meaning of life and about the boy to whom the gnomes gave three keys. He had to manage them correctly and open the right lock.

A Hungarian animation made in 1972 by Háy Ágnes

Pancho and El Toro meet a friendly, singing Japanese beetle...the only one in Japan with a black belt in Karate. Toro tries to catch him for his supper, but is only given repeat lessons in the martial art.

A humorous account of the pioneering journey of Lady Frances Simpson, along with her piano, from England to Manitoba.

A fairy tale for little ones about the adventures of a kitten artist.

Cartoon for kids about a little elephant - the only striped elephant in the jungle. He is walking in the jungle and very much wants to find a friend.

Petunia lectures Joe on the importance of warnings about dangerous currents, whilst he is distracted by something at sea.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.

In this animated short from the Canada Vignette series, the camera explores, in exquisite detail, the daily hunt, fishing scenes and children at play as etched in black on an ivory Inuit pipe.

Witty lecture about the creation of a book. First, paper production was presented in an accessible and fun way, and then the work of the printing house was told.

It all depends on your perspective. Created for Sesame Street.

The donkey laughs at the zebra and giraffe because of their patterned skins. He tells them that they are wearing pajamas. In the end, he laughs at the tiger, but loses his skin.

The film is about friendly and smart inhabitants of the desert.

On a clearing in a large forest, grandfather Vjest and his three grandsons live in harmony, keeping ablaze the hearth where Svarožić, the protector of the house lives. However, their shrewd enemy the Witch abodes in the swamp...

An amusing story about the origins of statehood of the Slavic tribes on the Vistula. The Slavs’ calm lives are disturbed by strange and violent monsters, which destroy everything they see. On the ruins and ashes, a white eagle is born, the symbol of a rising nation.

It's winter and The Blue Racer is looking for a place to stay. He comes across a cabin that's perfect except for a bear that wants it for himself.

Beckett cycles through a limited number of drawings, but adds new information to each drawing every time we see it, giving the sense of a world that is infinitely rich and also obviously contained tightly within the edges of the paper. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

A tale of intolerance and where it all ends, told in an animated cartoon about a king and his kingdom, and bigotry that had its day. The illustrations and dialogue are light and amusing, but that does not mask the moral of the story: that unless we tolerate individual differences--even the king's nervous twitch--peace may only come when all are behind bars.

The Bongo Pest Control Agency gets a call for an ant problem, so the Aardvark intercedes to take care of the call himself.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

Parody of fictional heroes such as Fantomas and Zorro, told through still photographs.

The little donkey shows everyone that anyone can succeed, regardless of the doubts of those around them.

A funny parody on comedies and horror films. A scientist tries to kidnap the beautiful wife of a dandy.

An animated short consisting of 4 segments: bowl, garden, theatre, marble game. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Harvard Film Archive in 2015.

The tone is lyrical, the voices are real, the bodies are sketchy: A couple talks at the phone and in bed (a casanova and his victim). "You helped me, you made me strong, but you can't blame me for anything. When somebody loves so blindly, they pay with their life."

A child tells the nativity story to his dog on Christmas Eve.

A cocky man plays skittles and tries different methods to throw the ball. But then he goes berserk when he starts losing.

Film by Tanaami Keiichi.

A fisherman once caught a talking golden fish. He gave him his freedom and was allowed to make a wish in return. He asked for a boat, but this was not enough for his wife, who demanded a house. Driven by his wife's greed, the fisherman demanded more and more until he had lost all the wealth he had gained.

Short animated by György Kovásznai and musicalized by the popular song "Ça ira" that illustrates through paintings, the events that made up the french revolution and its multiple founders.

This cartoon is based on a humorous Ukrainian folk song about how wives decided to sell their disgraced husbands. One wife wants to get rid of the reveler, the other - from the drunkard, the young woman is tired of the old man, the worker is lazy, and the tall - the husband is too small in stature.

The shipwrecked Blue Racer spots an island and also spots two mischievous leprechauns giving the fast blue snake hard time.

One of Nick Park's earliest works, Archie's Concrete Nightmare was shot on standard 8mm film and submitted to a BBC young animator film competition. The short didn’t win, but it did air on national TV on BBC2 in 1975.

A warning against the harmful effects of smoking cigarettes on the lungs of a smoker. A parody of a health education film made in Antonisz's non-camera animation technique.

A day in the life of an anthropomorphic bullet.

Abstract animation by Krzysztof Kiwerski, in which what appears to be some sort of maze-like mechanism produces sentient orb-beings that fall into a lattice of cells. Sometimes these orbs encounter one another, producing unforeseen consequences.

An ingenious, witty essay on making filmed, photographed, drawn, painted, and Xeroxed images move. Reverberating between multi-media versions of the same events, playing with disjunctions between figure and ground, HEAD is a 'trickfilm' meditation on portraiture; the animator, as actor, lives through his drawings, which in turn become actors who influence his own self-image. An insider's diary on the process of creation, HEAD is a brilliant encyclopedic exploration of the circular relationship between the animator and his creation, of the nature of animated illusion itself.

Volk desperately tries to get onto a cruise ship to get Zayats.

By giving letters and words a human spirit and character, an attempt has been made in an unusual way to clarify certain concepts and conditions of modern man.

A little crane flies to Africa with other cranes. He likes it there very much, but later he realizes that he is only a stranger there and returns home.

In this short film by animator Evelyn Lambart, a handsome frog courts and wins a mouse for his bride. The colourful animation does full justice to the events that take place during and after the wedding breakfast. Sung by Derek Lamb to lute accompaniment.