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The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, presented as a game. In front of the nervous citizens the leaders of the world powers play 'Olleke Bolleke' on the globe. The earth apparently cannot withstand this violence and the consequences are left to the imagination.
Animating the 1973 painting by Marie-Louise Ekman, exactly what the title indicates but much bolder.
An animated film for adults about a performance put on at a fair by the famous Punch, Pulcinella, and Petrushka.
A young woman who yearns to become a concert pianist is rescued from a sleazy cabaret by a mysterious cat burglar with whom she falls in love.
Animated short film
A journey through the fears and ghosts of Portuguese popular culture
About how a boy and his grandfather are looking for a missing dream.
A short film by Paul & Gaëtan Brizzi.
An educational film about proper hygiene.
Before she became royalty, Diana Frances Spencer led a simpler life as a child of an aristocratic family. Her experiences in adolescence, from her studies at Riddlesworth Hall to witnessing the separation of her parents, set a course for the storied life of the People’s Princess.
NO NO NOOKY TV posits sexuality to be a social construct in a "sex-text" of satiric graphic representation of "dirty pictures." Made on an Amiga Computer and shot in 16mm film, NO NO NOOKY TV confronts the feminist controversy around sexuality with electronic language, pixels and interface. Even the monitor is eroticized in this film/video hybrid that points fun at romance, sexuality, and love in our post-industrial age. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.
An animated user’s guide to Soviet children’s analog game, which suddenly turns into an experimental animation à la abstract films by Hans Richter or Walter Ruttmann.
One of the moralities of the trio of authors Milos Macourek, Adolf Born and Jaroslav Doubrava. It deals with the topic of implacability of human optimism and fantasy. In a sad manner it tells us a humorous story of a man living double life: one of a beaten little clerk, humiliated by his arrogant boss, imperious wife and misbehaved descendant; the other of a spoiled hero of a dream empire full of beautiful and tender women, flowers and fantastic figures. From artistic point of view is the film based on Adolf Born's lithographs.
With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy are defended. For the first time, a whole series of important Spanish directors meet to make a children's film.
Michel Gagné's Sheridan college film presents us with some cute animation of a rabbit and a butterfly. All is not as it seems. The film gives us an early look at this brilliant animators visual efx style.
How rudeness turn modern man into a Neanderthal.
Based on Ukrainian fairytale "Болтливая баба", movie tells us about an ordinary man who found treasure, but his wife was too chatty that she told about it to the whole village.
A fairy tale about how capricious Maryana ordered to have a Firebird living with her.
Short film.
The sixth episode of the first season on Care Bears.
An approximation to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by experimental animation artist José Castillo.
Short animation made by Anno in his uni days
Based on Georgian folk proverbs.
A visual allegory connecting polynesian mythology with the notorious atom bomb testing.
A sometimes harsh, sometimes goofy look at the routines that give our lives form.
Star Street is a Dutch children's cartoon that was popular both in Benelux and in the United Kingdom. The protagonists were pink big-nosed creatures comically fashioned after horoscopes of the western zodiac and was set on a small star-shaped planet in the outer reaches of the universe. The antagonists were green blobbish creatures known appropriately as blobs governed by an even larger pink blob creature, Momo the Glutton. The cartoon's premise was somewhat similar to The Smurfs and The Care Bears.
A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.
The story of Small and Large Rabbit. Made after a 1925 lithograph by Nils von Dardel.
The short film was awarded the Special Prize at the First Shanghai International Animation Film Festival in 1988.
First film in the Blind Justice documentary animation series about women and the law. The film traces the Aristotelian concept of all men being created equal and the exclusion of women from this concept.
Four short films directed by Kubo Kiriko.
In the second half of the eighties, this film was shown in cinemas as a full-length series of well-known fairy tales with popular characters: Puppy, Mike the cat, Křemílek and Vochomůrka, Dorotka, Kreček and Brundibári.
An animated short film.
An animated fable centered around a backyard pond shown intermittently in live-action scenes.
The first animated short film to feature Varga's clumsy claymation character Augusta.
The story concerns Jennifer, a green witch who was especially known for her green thumb - "her garden made her the most famous witch in all of witchdom."
A film about cave drawings from 1990.
The story of a young woman's journey through life represented by the London Underground.
A little fire breaks out in a man’s apartment. He panically tries to call the other inhabitants in the house for help, but nobody lets him speak. Instead he is being happily pulled from one apartment into the next one, making him more and more nervous. Eventually, he runs into the streets and gets into a big group of heady-with-victory football fans.
The satirical puppet film for adults consists of two stories."Picnic" tells the story of a merry feast of animals in an apartment that they left in a disgraceful state, similar to some people who enjoy outdoor activities. "Taste" is about different reactions to a blooming rose. A dog wakes up to its scent, a rooster crows in surprise, a pig turns away, and a ram devours the stem and leaves of the rose.
Inspired by a visit to the mines of Falun, the film depicts dreamlike movements through a fictional mine, composed of images from several ore mines in Sweden and Germany.
3D terrain animation created at JPL, circa 1989 - a follow-up to their prior film LA the Movie. The version that appears on the Computer Animation Festival Volume 1.0 VHS / Computer Animation Adventure DVD has the opening monologue cut.
Animated short film, based on the classic Hans Christian Andersen story, about the little girl born from a flower.
One day, the boy who loved mischief more than anything else in the world came to the wizard in the castle. Just before that, he took the teddy bear from the girl, threw it at her, and also slipped a beetle into her candy wrapper. How will the boy behave now? Will they let him go home? After all, here everything becomes known about his past pranks.
A dirge-like hula song illustrates humanity's woes. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
Animation short.
A shepherd’s son befriends a dragon, who is more inclined to compose poetry than attack the frightened villagers.
After a kind of big bang, a character is constructed from elements scattered on the ground, then starts to walk and builds a city.
This Easter, Billy has plans to help PJ find his first Easter egg. Dolly helps but Jeffy wants to catch the Easter Bunny. When he does, the entire family is surprised, even Sam. In the end, PJ is happy and the day is another wonderful Family Circus Easter.
At a crossroads in a village, an old water pump stands as a testament to the passage of time.
A computer-animated juggler.
Set in an unspecified Third World country, this animated film, based on a short story by Enver Carim, suggests that "top priority" means different things to governments and to the governed. A drought-stricken family maintains a long and desperate vigil for a cloud of dust on the horizon signalling the arrival of irrigation pipes and pump. They are rewarded with a military convoy instead. Its top priority is a border war with a neighboring state, not pipes for the life-saving water the family must have.
A character closely resembling then-mayor Ed Koch sings a variation on the "Theme from 'New York, New York'" in an entirely clay-animated film depicting a variety of locations and celebrities associated with New York City. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.
Animated poster on an environmental theme.
Little Sunshine loses his way home, but luckily, a flock of Fireflies discovers him and volunteers to take him back to his Mother, the Sun.