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An animated short about recycling.

Water pollution spoils the canoe trip for an aware feline.

A hectic Christmas family get together.

The story is about a musician, the conflict is based on the confrontation of classical jazz and alternative music.

In ordinary Soviet cuisine, a slab of meat is chased by hands wanting to make minced meat out of it.

An adolescent frog takes an inadvertent trip to the garbage dump, where he finds frogs singing unfamiliar tunes. After a few misses, he picks up a banjo and finds his voice in his new neighborhood.

Experimental animation done with marker, ink, and crayon on paper

A young man suffering from insomnia cannot help but overhear a spider spinning improbable tales for his friends.

The system of curve mirrors ugly deforming human features. We laugh, seeing the reflection, not noticing that the ugliness becomes our essence.

A soft-drink mascot terrorises a family.

The men of the Emergency Brigade attend a piano concert by a famous pianist, but unfortunately they have to get down to work here too. As a result, the concert is cancelled and the audience is treated to the sound of a harp being bent.

An animated film in two parts, about the tragic fate of Estonian artist Ülo Sooster and about his work.

The atmosphere, sounds and sights of Soho Square on a summer's day.

Frogs, birds, lizards, a snake, alligators, and a lot of insects inhabit a pond; everyone's ready to eat. Two tenacious lizards catch the same fly, inciting a protracted tug-of-war.

The Mind's Eye is a compilation of experimental computer animations from when such technology was in its early infancy. The animations are from various studios, having been arranged in a sort of "2001" evolution-timeline theme, and set to synthesized music. These pioneering CGI projects later gave rise to films such as Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Antz, and Shrek.

The inhabitants of a Spanish village gather for the visit of a death defying tightrope walker. He comes with his own attractive aura of danger and drama, and the crowd are not disappointed. Animated in a sketchy style on paper, this film powerfully uses the graphic freedom of this technique to select and embellish, to swoop and wander around the village. Austere sound effects and an Albeniz guitar piece are used to heighten this charmingly modest drama in which ordinary things – a hammer driving a nail, a flock of birds wheeling in the sky – are given their due.

A fast food restaurant manager sexually harasses a young girl who works there. He looks like an ugly monster. Enraged, the girl grows super-sized and crushes the manager.

When the travelling circus comes to town, Maximiilian Mole meets Margaret Mouse, one of the acrobats, and it's love at first sight. Max is kind of clumsy so he doesn't believe that Margaret will even notice him, but unbeknownst to him, Margaret feels the same way. The circus manager does his best to keep them apart and Max almost gives up. But love is a mysterious thing and when a determined Max overcomes his shy nature and sails down a treacherous river, not even fate can keep them apart.

Based on the poems of G. Kruchkov and A. Usachev.

Rain Dance is a four-minute animation produced by Hill while an undergraduate student at Harvard University from 1988-1992; the exact date of the production is currently unidentified. Although little known, the film is representative of both Hill’s do-it yourself approach – employing character cutouts, strong, yet playful colors, and a narrative and technical simplicity rich with charm – and her jovial demeanor and inquisitive approach to life. The film is dedicated to Elijah Aron, Hill’s boyfriend throughout college. Aron remained close friends with Helen and her husband Paul Gailiunas, and was the godfather of their son Francis.

3D animation by Ignacio Pardo

Cartoon based on the moral that goods acquired without effort can easily be lost.

About a girl who chewed gum all the time.

The film is a praise of human willingness to take on the endless challenges of fate. The loaf of bread a prisoner receives each day is used to patch thousands of holes in the cell walls. They are inhabited by nerve-wracking busy insects that flit constantly from hole to hole. When the work is finished, the prisoner is unexpectedly transferred to another cell. The new loaf of bread held in his hands freezes dramatically halfway to his mouth: the walls of this cell are also strewn with thousands of holes.

It's Christmas season on the farm and everybody is getting ready for a big talent show. Scuddle Mutt and Clawdia dress up as elves and prepare to sing "Jolly Old St. Nicholas" when the Santa Claus makes an unexpected stop and mistakes the two for his own elves. Whisking them away, Santa's real elves are left behind to sing and dance in the show, while Scuddle Mutt and Clawdia are taken on a sleigh ride they'll never forget!

MS-DOS demoscene short film that showcases computer animation, art and music.

Animated film in which a cat chases a mouse from Earth to Heaven and Hell then back to Earth.

Stop-motion film about chaos, control, and destiny.

She's back - the lovable little elf who sleeps in a matchbox on the artist's desk: and of course her playmates, too, the comical mouse couple Fredrik and Ingolf. The trio are moving into the city. It's a mjor step for Circleen and the mice, and one which has its pros and cons. The city is a dangerous place, but it also has cute, amusing, cheeky playmates such as Sidse, whose family boasts a pirate, and Hassan's family, who introduce food-loving Ingolf to feta cheese and belly-dancing.

In Pieter Bruegel's painting, "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," the fall of the god, Icarus, passes unnoticed on earth. The farmers continue to work the land and the boats sail on. As William Carlos Williams later wrote in his poem of the same name, "a once mighty god becomes a little splash quite unnoticed." In Chris Sullivan's version, Icarus becomes Ray, an aging priest whose congregation is dwindling as fast as his sanity. As Ray's condition deteriorates, society fails to notice or care.

Scratch and Crow is a student film by Helen Hill made at the California Institute of the Arts. It is filled with vivid color and a light sense of humor. It is also a poetic and spiritual homage to animals and the human soul

A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.

Initially commissioned to accompany a Danish production of Alban Berg’s LULU, Lewis Klahr’s cut-out animation refigures the opera's themes in a torrent of images. With an ever-inventive approach to color and symbol, Klahr distills the title character's moral predicament, along with a great many of German Expressionism’s characteristic motifs, in the span of a pop song.

Many hundreds of years ago, Siegfried snatched his invisibility cloak from the dwarf Alberich. Understandable that this is not good to speak Siegfried. But he always likes to tell how it happened. And also of all the other dangerous adventures of Siegfried. How he defeated the dragon and became almost invulnerable, there would not have been a small linden leaf. The kidnapping of Brunhild from Iceland and why Hagen von Tronje became Siegfried's mortal enemy. And of course Gunther's betrayal of Siegfried. And one question Alberich still has to this day: what really happened to the treasure of the Nibelung? Is he still lying on the bottom of the Rhine?

Anna, the witch girl, has one short leg and one long leg and is therefore only called the hobble witch. Anna trains until she is far superior to all the others in both running and sneaking races. When she even reaches the end of the world and outwits two clumsy giants who do not want any creature to escape from this terrible place alive, she realises that she can be proud of herself.

John R. Dilworth's 2nd professional film, this short film was inspired by the romantic comedies of early Woody Allen. Shot on 35mm, it was animated and colored by hand using 'cels'.

Joe and his friends are watching Playing Tennis.

Two very bored shadowy characters try to think of something to do--and end up playing "Shadow Puppets."

Edvard sees a girl on the beach. He is captivated and dreams of her…

After World War III, the world is devastated and life has become difficult. Soryong and Saeng spend their days playing Street Fighter II and fighting each other at the arcades, until one day Chun Li appears before them in real life and reveals that the 2 friends are the only ones that can stop Bison from taking over the world.

Kids recycle household objects to make a miniature city.

A cartoon based on the fairy tale by S. Voronin. About the love of a luminary to a watch-ballerina, who stood on one table. The ballerina was as beautiful as a butterfly and as light as a breeze, that's how the young luminary thought about her and often told her about his love. But the flirtatious ballerina only laughed and said that she could not love him because he had no heart. And one day the ballerina became ill and dying she told the luminary that she loved him too. The master came, wound the clock, the ballerina revived and was the same old gaggle, thinking only of herself. What does she care about a poor young man in love? The main thing is that she lives and enjoys life…

Mr. Bill from Saturday Night Live becomes President in this theatrical short created by Walter Williams that preceded Ernest Rides Again!

A modern fable about a king who disappears from his castle.

To intercede for his son Christian, William Tell goes to the city is in jail. On the road falls into an ice cave where you see the Ice Warrior presents him with three arrows: the Truth, and of Deception who concedes nothing. William refuses to bow before the evil Governor and this forces him to shoot an apple placed on the head of Christian.

A factory worker takes a break and creates stop motion art. This episode: Three Billy Goats Gruff.

An American family stays overnight at a mansion run by a mysterious woman, but not all is as it seems and the eldest child uncovers the mystery behind the mansions hauntings.

History of the Main Complaint is the sixth film [of a] series and is based on twenty-one drawings. It was made shortly after the establishment in South Africa of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, headed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. It was set up to conduct a series of public hearings into abuses of human rights perpetrated during the apartheid era. The hearings, in which individuals told their stories of personal suffering, were held in order to make reparation for abuse and in the hope of creating reconciliation between peoples. The underlying theme of this film is a (self) recognition of white responsibility. This is played out through a 'medical' investigation into the body of Soho Eckstein, the white property-developing magnate and greedy-capitalist protagonist of most of the preceding films, which provides the starting point for a revelation of conscience. (tate.org.uk)

The time: New Year's Eve, late 1800s. The place: Gatineau Valley, Quebec. A group of loggers, working in an isolated winter camp, yearn to celebrate New Year's Eve with their loved ones. But the river is frozen, the sky is dark, and swirling snow makes travelling treacherous. If the men want to see their families, their only choice is to make a pact with the devil to ride in a flying canoe. While pacts with the devil are the stuff of legends from another time, the cautionary tale of The Flying Canoe has a resonance for modern life. Original music and bold animation preserve the spirit of this well-known Quebec legend derived from La Chasse-galerie, first published in 1891 by Honoré Beaugrand. Hand-drawn animation scanned and coloured on computer.

After not having much luck in a circus, three animal friends try to find jobs and residence at a very exclusive zoo.

A children's musical VHS about a magical girl and her family who move the Earth and encounter issues transitions to a life that isn't focused on magic.

Švankmajer demonstrates the darkly humorous approach to life and politics which the Czech authorities at one time regarded as so subversive that they banned him from film-making for eight years.

A short created by John R. Dilworth involving the daily lives of a yellow man and a purple cat.

Animated film about the life of the 45th Yokozuna, Wakanohana Kanji I.

Deals with the childhood fears of having your tongue stick to a frozen pipe in the winter.