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Tom Joe, a kite maker, recreates the folklore of Asian kites by illustrating magnificent stories from China, Japan and Polynesia.

Depicts two alternative future worlds. Shows one that is overpopulated, dirty, regimented, diseased, and inhabited by deprived individuals who must fight for scarce food, and another world where inhabitants have small families and enjoy a plentiful world of harmony, learning and beauty. No narration.

the first procedural computer animated short film.

An Andrzej Krauze Cartoon

A painter falls in love with a woman he painted, until he paints himself into the painting, and his oilpaint-self and the woman begin an affair from which a child is born.

Expect the unexpected in this unusual short that combines live action and animation.

Animated interpretations of two poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: “Perishing Bird” by D.G. Jones, and “Mon école” by Sylvain Garneau.

An animated film exploring modern urban life.

Short animation about a sample without value.

This film appears to focus on the female body in an artistic and colorful manner through the use of superimposition and flashes of repeated scenes. The film begins with two females in the nude, chatting, smoking, and eating saltines. Other scenes include two females in the nude and in a variety of positions: slouching, standing, sitting, etc. They are displayed in many colors and patterns, purple in one scene and polka dots the next. At one point, the women appear to be colorful cutouts moving jaggedly around the screen. In this film and in Hexagrams, Byron re-uses some of the same film scenes to create original content. Festival of Cyclists was created using a film technique invented with a Bell and Howell Film 16mm camera. In this technique, a short loop of film is repeatedly printed onto the camera roll. Byron wrote and published an article in Filmmaker's Newsletter about the technique. In 1972, Festival of Cyclists was shown at the 10th Ann Arbor Film Festival.

Stop-motion recording of a pillow being folded and crumpled.

Children, like adults, have days that go wrong. This film shows how one little girl overcomes the day's frustrations by diving into an underwater fantasy where she spends time with her friend, the lady octopus. After playing many wonderful games together, the little girl re-enters the world of reality feeling fine and refreshed.

In his early experimental short Karma (カルマ, 1977), Aihara uses water as his central motif. The film is hand drawn and appears to be shot on 16mm using a blue filter. At first we can only see tiny specks on the screen, coming and going like snow flurries. The specks gradually grow larger and take the shape of bubbles, then even larger into rivulets of water on a transparent surface.

An incident from the early days of Québec's quiet revolution, tailor-made for the cartoonist. It is the story of a Montréal commuter train, a unilingual ticket collector and a bilingual passenger. The passenger appears on screen himself to describe his bid to have tickets requested in French as well as in English. What ensued, and how even the railway president became involved, is illustrated with wit and humor.

The four seasons

Hens ask Rex to investigate the case of their missing eggs. The dog catches a fox red-handed. He follows the traces of the fugitive. It turns out that the fox breeds chicks in its cave. Rex finds the pit and frees the chicks.

An unlucky hunter falls into the trap of dreams and misses his long-awaited hunt.

A procession of fantastic creatures from the worlds of H. Bosch, R. Crumb and T. Dine.

Henrika, a cow who longs to see the city, gets her wish - and- more when she rides an old raft down one of Holland's most picturesque canals - to adventure.

A man carries with him a wonderful flower which arouses the curiosity and the mistrust of the medical profession, the army and the police. Only women and children dare to breathe its fragrance.

One morning, Tom’s dad the vet has had enough of it and goes fishing. Little Tom decides to replace him in his job at the zoo. When a lion is in urgent need of an ice-cream, Tom sets out to buy it, but he leaves his things in the cage. The guards think he was eaten by the lion and overall panic follows. Luckily, Professor Balthazar is here.

One, Two, Three is a collection of three vignettes, entitled “The Shower,” “The Bird” and “The Machine.” They each place a doughy, confused man into a frustrating situation.

An animated experimental short film using charcoal and pastels to create Cubist and Art Deco-inspired designs evoking the curiosity, grace and beauty of two cats in constant motion.

An animated presentation of ten different themes with titles: Free Creativity, A n s, 69, Productivity, Autobiography, Shooting, Tyranny, Technobureaucracy, Investment and Rotation. The main "heroes" of the short stories are objects that are part of human everyday life.

Serbian folk music and some traditional design being animated.

Adults believe that children dream of toys - robots, spaceships, dolls... The fantasy film on this topic is, in fact, a touching animation of the 70s.

Gore's second solo film, DREAM OF THE SPHINX is highly representative of his fluid, expressive line work and characteristic traversals through space. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with CalArts and iotaCenter in 2009.

16mm short from 1978. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Experimental animation film about the adventures of a little bunny.

Claymation Animation Workshop Student Film of an absurd chorus of dancing fruits, ending with one banana "splitting" from the scene.

Directed by David Bishop.

One of two Georgian animated films from Two Novels.

An overweight sports fan runs a race to the finish...

An animation film depicting the life of a certain Nina Polanski, who could be any woman. She marries amidst much fanfare and photo-snapping, and settles into a domestic routine of cooking, washing dishes, ironing, and babies. Eventually she becomes the very machines she uses every day, until one day she walks into the woods and takes back her old self.

A film animation experiment in metaphoric imagery. This is a surrealistic garden where the earth seethes with strange, unusual shapes and activity, accelerated in movement, compressed in time. Insect-like creatures dart under and over the sand with elusive swiftness; Picasso-like faces stare momentarily upward, mutate, and disappear; wilted blossoms become suddenly animated. What happens on the screen is punctuated and accompanied by synthetic sound effects.

A leak in the roof ends up causing mayhem.

A short film by Gérard Collin.

The formidable clubfoot bear is mistaken for the authorities. A satirical cartoon based on the poems of Nikolai Nekrasov.

The nine sisters of light want to make the world a more beautiful and cheerful place and sing their song as they work. This enrages the Son of Darkness. He darkens the sun so that eternal night may reign, but the sisters want to free the sun.

A puppet animation based on the folk tale Kaguyahime.

An animated film about a waiter, a chef, and the customers.

An animated short subject on how, if man does not want to respect objects, those objects will rise up in revolt.

"Peter [from Keats' The Snowy Day] is having a birthday party, and he's asked all of his friends to come. But Amy is a special friend because she's a girl, so Peter decides to send her a special invitation. When he rushes out in a thunderstorm to mail it, he bumps smack into Amy herself and knocks her to the ground. Will she come to his party now?"

A man tries to fall asleep, but is beset by increasingly elaborate nightmares.

This frenetic, abstract work, created during Beams’s MacDowell residency, pairs direct rubbings of baby grand piano keys with Super8 footage of the process and a manipulated piano soundtrack.

A swift moving assortment of moving images. Filmed from a color TV monitor that was computer controlled.

A captivating, upside-down version of George and the Dragon and the history of Wales. Steely George is no match for a fiery Welsh ‘mam’.

Polish short featuring two young boys exploring a colourful world

A man's face appears on the screen with his eyes covered by a black strip. After a while, the strip covers his mouth, and when it covers his eyes again the man begins to say something.

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop.

Short funny animation about a irritating spider and a man who is reading the newspaper. He catches the spider and flushes her through the toilet. But the big arms from the spider comes out of the toilet, catches the man and pulls him also through the toilet

Puiul is a short animated art Romanian movie without dialogue.