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NATO has attacked bridges in Yugoslavia. Capitalism against communism has not stood the test of history. War remains the unchangeable law of the world. People against people, continent against continent.

A new boy moves into Pekkle's town, and is trying his hardest to impress Lucy; however, Lucy isn't interested in him. Lucy makes Pekkle out to be a better swimmer than he really is, and the new boy challenges him to a swimming contest.

Part of the Operavox series.

In this animated short, Frank proves he’s no ordinary rabbit. He's a highly intelligent "wrabbit" with a philosophical world view that affords him great comfort. Unfortunately, his outlook is challenged when the farmer's carrots disappear.

The fat man is trying to get rid of the bees, only learning about the 'circle of life' in the end.

This film is meant to inspire an interest in reading, especially for those who have difficulties. Words act out their meaning: scare is scary, fun is fun, sob cries, etc. It's an adventure story for the film's two main characters: a "stick" man and his dog; a journey into the world of words.

Inspired by the 1917 ballet, PARADE, by Satie, Cocteau and Picasso, the film takes a childhood memory of loss and uses metaphoric allusions to create a different outcome.

A discarded cartoon character and some spilt ink combine and interact as if the cartoonist had drawn their actions. Discovering them, the cartoonist then joins in the interaction.

About the first friends, the birth of feelings and the first loss.

In this charming classic story, Harry runs away before bath time and plays outside until he changes into a black dog with white spots. Back home again, he must use all his wits and tricks to convince his family who he really is

Why do women and girls feel insecure about body image, and what thoughts tempt them towards eating disorders and other strange beauty rituals? Gorgeous follows the perils of cartoon character Hermoine the Modern Girl as she tackles plastic surgery, beauty therapy and bulimia in a feral fit of inadequacy. Undermined by her evil inner voice, otherwise known as Deirdre the Weird Fairy, Hermoine journeys from heavy chocolate biscuit abuse to tortuous treatment at the beauty salon, the boutique and the gym. After narrowly escaping the clutches of an out-of-control plastic surgeon, Hermoine finally rebels against Deidre’s obsession with eating behaviour and ‘beauty’ and proves that modern girls can stop feeling inadequate and regain their self-esteem.

An elderly man makes a very bad diet choice at the vending machine.

Bob is a drunk with the power of self-destruction, just before he goes to hell.

Jamie Maxfield's graduate thesis project in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts. A Silver Medal winner at the Student Academy Awards.

The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein is a 1992 short animated documentary directed by Joyce Borenstein about her father, the Canadian painter Sam Borenstein. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. In Canada, it was named best short documentary at the 12th Genie Awards.

An anthology exploration of the PCP Robot dimension.

This film consists of three parts: The first part is called: The Parrot and the grocer, which is based on the poems of Rumi's Masnavi. The second part is called "Entering the world of the puppets". This section is a combination of puppetry, animation, and live action, showing how to make a puppet movie in a musical, fantasy style. The third part: In this part called "The Jewel Mountain", the story of an evil and greedy jeweler is shown.

Stand-alone cartoon by Spümcø's John Kricfalusi.

This work features the salt marshes of Montpellier France, and uses computer graphics to create fantastical imagery.

Photos taken with pinhole camera, sky + clouds. Swirling animation like smoke against a black background.

Unless we put an end to the thoughtless exploitation of our natural resources there will be nothing left for anyone...

Another story about the all-conquering power of art. In the city there lived a boy who learned to play the violin. He was very talented. And at concerts after his performances, the audience stood up and applauded him. And three bandits were operating in the city, who had no idea what beautiful classical music was. The bandits robbed everything they could get their hands on. They ransacked the pockets of passers-by, took things out of apartments, unscrewed light bulbs from lanterns, and even ripped off telephone sets. And one day, when the violinist was returning from a concert, the bandits attacked him too. They demanded to give the boy's violin, but he flatly refused.

A young boy reads a spooky storybook by flashlight, as the story's sinister events begin to manifest around him.

The dinosaurs were headed for trouble. They ate nothing but junk food. They never brushed their teeth. They stayed up all night. And though they loved jumping off cliffs, they didn't like the landings much. The early mammals tried to warn them. "Keep that up and you'll all be extinct!" they said. But the dinosaurs just laughed... and over time, they evolved into birds.

A sexually frustrated dog humps everything in sight and gives a special surprise to the dinner guests.

A tense abstract animation with delicate line drawing. Contemporary musician Nakamura Shigenobu is in charge of the music used in the work.

Cheesecago, 30's ... The city is dominated by the goons of gangster Al Catone, an evil Neapolitan cat who got rich by smuggling cheese, taking control of the police and justice. Only a brave group of agents led by Elliot Mouse dare to face the "catsters" and try to stop the evil Alcatone.

Mickey and Minnie play the roles of Hansel and Gretel in a musical retelling of the classic fairy tale.

It's almost Christmas and there isn't any snow! The magical musical advetnture begins when Mumfie rescues an injured Snowbird as he and his friends, Scarecrow and Pinkey the flying pig,travel to the North Pole to bring home a white Christmas.

With fast changing visuals and moods, an artist presents his family's twentieth-century story.

The animation is about a small German village in a rainy day, and visualises the miraculous moment when all of a sudden time has been stopped.

The story is a celebration of the cleverness and wit of the simple peasant Čupera, who triumphs not only over the demon of alcohol, but also over the bureaucratically persistent and thorough devil. The hell that the farmer goes through during the withdrawal process is stylized as a shantytown, a galley with a prison and a dehumanized night club.

A 1990s claymation animation short created by Thomas R. Smith as a personal project of his.

A digitally engineered life form struggles with a belligerant operating system. In a skewed look at human/computer relations a belligerent digital light blinds our hero into desperate measures. The only way to stop the incomprehensible blinding pain is to opt for physical disablement. Meticulously hand-made on Silicon Graphics computers and Alias-Wavefront software.

A family witnesses the transformation of their garbage into a monster.

Haruko, a girl with psychic powers who can communicate with inorganic matter, wakes up one morning to the call of someone, and as she is invited, she arrives at an abandoned apartment building from the 30s of the Showa era, where countless "mononoke" have lived.

An animated opera version of "Goldfish". In this modernised version of the fairy tale of the Goldilocks, everything is absurdly modern - turned upside down. It's the story of a man who lives underwater and a fish who lives above the water in the air and can grant people's wishes. The man catches the fish and starts wanting all sorts of things, but...

A portrayal of Shakespeare's darkest villain Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and his unquenchable thirst for the throne.

An absurd animated vision of a civilization taking over Earth, served with a side order of extremely wry sarcasm.

A tale about a Cossack named Khvesko, who came across a hut, where rich people were nicely treated and full-fed. He was taken for a poor traveler and was offered only a glass of water. In fact, Khvesko was a real Cossack hetman, who protected the poor from rich and powerful men.

Science fiction computer animation.

People try to "improve" the classic Venus sculpture.

Attack of the Hungry, Hungry Nipples features exactly what the title implies, two absurd creatures who absurdly challenge the Richard Nixon Bat by repeatedly screaming the absurd phrase, "You suck someting."

This narrated computer animation, with an original musical score, illuminates cellular mitosis. DNA self-replicates; chromosomes divide into two daughter cells; but it begins with a hormone entering the nucleus of a cell.

Real images and superimposed drawings create a synthesis full of vibrant suggestions about the absurd, complex, and beautiful aspects of our planet.

A diary-like collection of short film clips lasting two to three minutes, created using single-frame recording techniques at the animation table using various techniques, some of which involve phase animation.

The two brothers saved the divine turtle and were helped by the divine turtle. With their intelligence and ingenuity, they learned how to build a stilt house to protect themselves.

On the way to school, a boy is confronted by an enormous man whose hand grabs hold of his school bag and tosses it into the air. The hand pushes him towards a huge padlock, then forces him to enter through the keyhole: the schoolboy is imprisoned in a hazardous lock factory. Like all the other children inside, he finds himself forced to operate a high-speed punch press. Struggling to follow the movements of the machine, he makes a mistake and cuts off a finger. He then tries to run away, but is pursued by menacing metal lock parts. In fleeing, the boy falls and passes out. We see his memories of his playmates, the songs he played on his flute and his loving, attentive mother. But reality is more tragic. Recaptured, he finds himself back at the factory polishing locks. He starts to cough up blood after inhaling iron particles which will prove lethal: the child dies on the job.

An Easter tale starring P.J. Funnybunny

One morning a shirt gets up, gets ready and meticulously dresses the person that will wear it that day.

This short tells about Hank, an honest worker in ‘Joesville, at the wrong side of the Mississippi’. Hank works at a building site, and all his colleagues are stealing stuff, but he won’t.

A white horse and his cowboy are riding into an old Western Towm in the hot Utah desert. The locals return from a hanging and are looking for more trouble. A shootout seems inevitable, but.... This film is a drawn hommage to the traditional Western and to the horror movie, creating a whole new genre: the drawn horror western parody.

An animation film about a clarinet and a trumpet that meet, clash, compete, compromise and harmonize.

A re-telling of the annunciation story which blurs the sacred and the profane. The film combines many different optical film techniques with an exploration of drawing the human body which breeds Mickey Mouse with Michelangelo.

The brightest artifact of the schizoteric wave of the 90s, where the hypnotist Kashpirovsky raises the dead from the cemetery.

One morning a man see in his coffee cup a world of ancient ritual scenes. After that, he goes to his job...

Six hundred years ago in the desert, Abdullah thinks himself the happiest shoemaker in the world. He has a very special knowledge about women and shoes. But the story takes a surprising turn for both Abdullah and us. A humorous animation film for adults based on traditional Middle East story-telling. A mix of traditional animation and arabic calligraphy is here used to focus on a delicate subject.