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An animated Raeside cartoon from 1990. The depletion of the earth's ozone layer.

Twenty minutes of inventive puppet animation, it was finished in January 1996. The story, taken from an Icelandic saga, tells of the adventures in Norway of Hreidar, a "big, ugly and slowwitted" Icelander. Hreidar wants to meet King Magnus, whom he impresses with his enormous strength and candid behavior; then he has a fight with a soldier of another king, Harald, and kills him.

Fun short movie about wolf, goat and cabbage.

Zbigniew Rybczinski's video experiments set to classical music pieces.

An anthology exploration of the PCP Robot dimension.

Your favorite crotch powered super hero must stop a fiendish plot to turn all the worlds entertainers into Elvis impersonators.

Super 8mm color stop motion animated film with hand painting of painted collages of vampires from throughout 1960’s and 70’s advertising.

On one of the city’s main streets, on a high column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt. Every passerby was very much admired by the majestic statue.

Stop motion animation by Andres Mäd. Selected for the 100 year of Norwegian animated film collection

Hand drawn cartoon from a series of animated shorts for Soviet television

A live-action, stop-motion story of a one glove coming up against a gang full of mobster gloves. This used lost gloves the filmmaker collected with help from friends, and wire-and-putty armatures were built to put in the gloves and was filmed near campus. Caroline Leaf, was J. Liu's teacher at the time of production.

Hands are magical. You can draw with them, grasp the reigns of a carousal, and reach out to be called up.

A struggling painter has trouble finding inspiration for his latest study.

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

The children cage the birds without realizing they hold the balance in the forest. Without birds pests come to the children's homes.

Programme presenting 4 adventures of Pic Pic and Andre.

Inspired by a bad fall on a patch of black ice (that ultimately resulted in Brakhage's need for eye surgery), the filmmaker gives us something of a dreamlike descent through the fear and refractions of closed-eye vision regarding such an event.

Short animated film presented at Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy in 1993 by the students of GOBELINS, l'école de l'image.

The famous detective Leato and his faithful friend and assistant Theophan the cat are fighting a brave battle against criminals, witches, and werewolves. They always manage to emerge victorious from the most dangerous and confusing situations.

A shocking film about antipersonnel land mines and a barbarous complacency. Every year hundreds of men, women and children are wounded or killed by antipersonnel land mines. My Child, My Land denounces the use of this hideous weapon. It particularly denounces the complicity of the industrialized nations. If such a horror exists, it is because someone has invented it, and someone else has manufactured it. Can we imagine such barbarity behind the faces of our neighbour? our father? ourselves? This hard-hitting animation film demands that we ask ourselves these questions.

Picture thousands of hens stacked layer upon layer, aisle after aisle, endlessly producing. Like an assembly line. Their food, water and supplements are delivered mechanically, their eggs gathered by conveyor belt. With no instinct left in this sterile environment, the poor stressed-out birds are led through their paces by an inspirational video of a model hen. Then, one day, a technologist accidentally slips in the wrong cassette and the monitor shows a good mother hen surrounded by her happy brood. Realizing they have been duped and exploited, the whole hen house rises up in revolt. But it's not that easy to escape the system, and soon the hens end up served to customers in a fast-food restaurant. When food is manufactured with the sole goal of maximizing profits, how does it affect those who consume it? This animated short contains a surprising answer. An animated film without words.

In 1955 Count Basie and his Orchestra immortalized Vernon Duke's "April in Paris". In this animated short by Danish animation legend Jannik Hastrup an old lady, a cat and two birds in love experience the wonderful and love inducing spring in Paris set to the tones of Vernon Duke's classic jazz piece.

An Oscar nominated cartoon about underestimating those appearing small and weak.

A view from inside the isolation and perceptual distortion of senile dementia.

What could possibly tempt the tastebuds of an anthropomorphized bull and his tiny duck-like friend? A severed hand! Dee-lish! But be careful - we've heard that baked hand causes heartburn!

A few vibrations of a tango dance announce the performance of an uneasy love story.

Abstract animation assembled from newspapers.

Images of the sea and clouds seen from the top of the mountain, the candles of the Tibetan temple, etc., and a chaotic psychedelic animation are juxtaposed.

In this, the second part of the Geona series, the complex ecosystem of planet Geona is discovered.

The Norfins are in for a delightful surprise when a charming alien with magical powers drops in for a visit.

"The Five Suns" tells how Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca create heaven and earth, journey to the underworld to create humans and find sustenance for them, and finally create the sun and the moon. Like all creation stories, this one provides mythic answers to life's most perplexing questions and offers an ethical vision of how we should live.

In an empty room, a chair and an easel appear. One by one, paintings and drawings are composed on the easel, slip off, and slide up the walls. Coats and a coat rack appear. Then a bed comes up from the floor. A mattress materializes, a bedspread and pillows, too. Other features of the room appear. By the end, it's a bedroom at Arles, as painted by Vincent Van Gogh.

A crooning rat with an accoutrement of gifts tries to woo the lady of the lair - a cat no less. Will he succeed where others failed, thanks to his loving ballad?

Experimental animation

A bat tells his story. He lives near a Mayan temple in a cave with bats of nine different pitches. His mother cares for him, teaching him to echo for worms. But all is not idyllic: his brother dies learning to fly; not everyone gets along (babies can be attacked by bats of other pitches). After three years, his sexual urge materializes, and he mates with many females. God speaks to him from time to time, giving solace and advice. Drinking water, finding worms, and enjoying sex bring happiness. But extinction may loom for his species, and regardless of his wish to live forever, death does await.

The Mr. Men and Little Misses are going on an alphabet treasure hunt field trip on the Misterland Bus to see what things they can find to make up all the letters of the alphabet.

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

A spoiled rich kid wants to break his piggy bank with a large hammer.

Short by Koji Yamamura

Animated short film.

Mimi and Dada and the great artist representing the 20th century, Mr. An adventure to recover the artwork from the conspiracy of an art lover called 'Doremi'.

A man tells his child an unusual bedtime story.

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

In 1994, Caroline Leaf accepted the Sir Allen Sewell Fellowship to give a series of studio workshops and lectures to animation students at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in Brisbane. In this film she talks about her work and demonstrates such techniques as sand animation, paint and cut-out animation and scratch animation.

"In '(ab)NORMAL' the relationship spectrum, from paranoid avoidance to smothering and overwhelming attention, is traced through four pixilated sketches." - Toronto International Film Festival

The newlyweds have settled into a hotel where they will spend their wedding night. The night's pleasures are interrupted by ghosts, and the emergency brigade is called.

Ikkkey makes bizarre changes to his body's attributes to gain attention

A sinister flying pod crashes to Earth and unleashes a giant mechanical roach that attacks the city.

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

An elegant, visual interpretation of Jacob Gade's Tango Jalousie from 1925, which axpresses passionately the drama of jealousy. An elderly violinist strikes the tune and he dances over the screen as a young man. People meet, hearts on fire, rejection and defeat, maturity and tranquility.

In 1999, Tabaimo exhibited her undergraduate thesis work, Japanese Kitchen and was awarded the prestigious Kirin Contemporary Award, marking the beginning of her international career.

In Don Hertzfeldt's second student film, a hapless cartoon character is dragged through a spectrum of cinematic situations by his frustrated animator.

It's the dead of night in an huge restaurant when two wood-winds battle for the attentions of a shy but eager string instrument.

Drawing, literally, from the story of Daniel and Belshazzar, William Kentridge's film Weighing… and Wanting re-examines the legacy of Belshazzar's message in post-apartheid South Africa. While the political climate shared by Belshazzar's kingdom and apartheid-era South Africa is striking – in both, a ruling civilization relegates whole populations to subhuman status – Kentridge sets the scene of his film after the South African rule of oppression has been replaced by the ascent of the African National Congress. Left in the frame of apartheid's collapse is Kentridge's charcoal creation, Soho Eckstein, a former apartheid profiteer and businessman, contemplating the works of his own hand in the dissolution of love and in the building of industry.

Silke just loves water. She loves to bathe and to swim like a fish. As a matter of fact, she only feels fit and well when she is in the water. This is because she has an eczema which makes her skin itch. Her father and mother are worried about her and take her to the doctor. But strange things happen, and a dolphin, a dog and an old, long ago deceased pirate-grandfather emerges in the story. This is because Silk is not like other children - especially not when she hears the song from the sea.

Created especially for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, "La Divina Iliade" emerges as a unique artistic work that combines visual sensitivity with musicality. The video presents a collection of paintings created by a young 22-year-old Venezuelan artist, whose illustrations capture the essence of the cosmic balance of sexual energies and the search for the "I AM". With the soundtrack by Brunello de Napoli, the work transforms into an immersive experience that invites the viewer to reflect on the invisible forces that shape the universe. The simplicity of the images, combined with the depth of the music, creates a silent dialogue that transcends words, inviting the audience to an introspective and spiritual journey.

Televisions are noble, wild creatures living an idyllic lifestyle in their natural mountain habitat. They gambol and graze freely, entertaining each other with their vividly colourful visual displays. But what if they were rounded up and herded into the cities? If they were sold and rented out to anyone with the cash and desire for a video visual thrill? If their wild natural beauty was held captive and controlled by the push of a remote control button?