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A video for the song by Isao Bitou that was featured in Minna no Uta program.

In a world where communication has grown into big business, the lack of it between individuals is almost a paradox. We live in tight little compartments that are not easily penetrated. Individual differences are regarded with suspicion or scorn. This animated film parodies the human condition in a few quick, colourful sketches, amusingly, without words, yet leaving food for thought.

Somewhere along the coast, the little red soldiers Xiaohong and Xiaolong were standing guard. Three spies disguised as People's Liberation Army came to ask them for directions. So, Xiaolong went back to report the letter, and Xiaohong climbed to the horn of the horn where the enemy was going first. While fighting the enemy, she blew the conch to call the police. The People's Liberation Army and the militia arrived in time and wiped out the enemy agents.

A microfilm camera rendered the data into a 16mm film. It was a very painful experience at the time, because an adequate technology for making films with a computer was not yet developed.

A Rodolfo de Luca and Estela Saenz de Mendez's animation short film.

A crushed fly. An outline of organic forms, an illusory trip. (Filmform)

The town of Dryland has been without rain for five months. Daniel the cloud, in charge of delivering rain to the town, is on holiday and no one can find him. A delegation of citizens go to Professor Balthazar for help. He invents a cloud tracer and sets out to find Daniel.

Is this ball made of a green thread or something else?

Where will this door take me?

A visceral computer piece using retinal afterimages to make compelling special distortions.

This particular love song is an ironic, oftentimes caustic, commentary on the terror and pain of love, from a child's desperate attempts at closeness with his parents to an adult's relationship with a cruel and isolating world. Animated boldly with a paint brush and black ink, the action, like a continual dance, throbs to the rhythms of a five-string banjo. Shapes change, are metamorphosed, in an emotional roller-coaster trip through the subconscious.

This rare homemade movie by Joyce Randall depicts Artist, Sculptor, Doll Maker, Greer Lankton in an impossible number of positions, time lapsed. She manages to cover every square inch of the room before the film is done. Greer's friends often mention that she used to like to tie herself up in knots and stay in contorted positions, as well as sit in unusual poses that demonstrate her flexibility, so she and her sister created this home movie on VHS.

Based on the continuity of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is a ride through space and light.

Short animated film.

Short animated film.

Super-8 film by Ricardo Jabardo.

Together is a biting political critique disguised as playful animation

An experimental video work accompanied by music from Patti Smith.

Cuban animation by Hugo Alea, based on the song by Teresita Fernandez

Two neighboring fields are inhabited by two black and white individuals. The problem is, they cannot be seen...

A line – drawn directly onto the film by Urs Graf. A film that makes no explicit statements, but in which one can (optionally) have an experience – for other lines/images/words. The continuous dissolution of the content always leads back to the medium (the line). Experiencing the medium as a medium allows one to more consciously find access to the meaning behind other lines/images/words.

Somersaulter-Moats and Somersaulter's first independently produced film is a surreal meditation on a childhood phobia. At once humorous, playful and twistedly obsessive, The Silverfish King follows a narrator as he describes an early fascination with a cartoon character that morphed into an irrational fixation. Following the twists and turns of logic and accompanied by idiosyncratic doodles, The Silverfish King is reminiscent of the stories of Gogol, Poe and Kafka.

A fairy tale about a kind and thoughtful elephant who never forgot anyone and never hurt anyone.

Silhouette animation with pet frog.

A man moves against a strong wind. It turns out that he is walking on a tight rope.With a great effort, he finally hits a high platform. There are a lot of people on it. The wind comes from their mouths. He joins the crowd to make a wind against the next one who goes on the rope.

In this sociologically inspired cartoon examining children’s drawings and stories, the imagination-rich pictures of kindergarteners are gradually replaced by drawings done by primary school pupils that envision a fully automated (robotized) everyday life in the spirit of modern technological development. With the passage of the years, teens on the brink of adulthood – keeping their feet firmly on the ground – exhibit a grey, conformist worldview. As one of the boys puts it: “I’m going to be a footballer, or a doctor, or a grocery store deputy manager.”

A Possible Possum short.

Educational film on animation techniques, as told from a Martian telecast by a Martian presenter -- demonstrating ink and paint on cels, stop motion (model, object, plasticine, pixilation), cutouts, and “filmography” (motion graphics).

Animated football.

Animation short.

An animation produced by Frank Bresee.

A short film by Roger Beaurin.

An independent animation.

The fourth film by a member of the '2nd generation' of computer filmmakers, artists who do their own programming. Abstract imagery includes some hand drawings. Synthesizer soundtrack. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

the First 3D-polygonal short film with a story line

An animated short film based on the poem Barbara by Jacques Prevert about the effects of war on humanity.

An animation shown on Sex Toons.

Animated short.

Dialogue is based on a poem, which is absurd, erotic and poetic. (Filmform)

Annie Mae starts her day with fanciful looks out her window, and then reality sets in.

A half-horse, half-man pursues a young woman who turns herself into the same figure. Using a spare animation style, Straiton deals with a mythological subject that reveals his personal sense of humour. A beautiful film, set to original music, that is stunning in its simplicity.

A play on the colour, form and movement of two simple figures: a flower and a star. The effect is gay and lively, a constant surprise, but the movement has a mathematical precision as multiples of the figures form sets or ensembles, forming and reforming on the screen in absorbing, piquant harmony.

A BAFTA award nominated animation showing what biophysics and biochemistry now perceive as the facts of life concerning evolution and the genetically determining factor of the DNA molecules.

A Rodolfo de Luca and Estela Saenz de Mendez's animation short film.

"The MERKABAH is the Vehicle Of Light that comes from the vision of the Prophet Ezekiel. This animated film is a meditation on this vision based on a dream I had in Dec., 1972. This animation was produced at California Institute of the Arts in the Spring of 1973 under the mentorship of Jules Engel. It was made with luminous pigments on jet black paper." -D. Pies

Animated film about a turkey that will not be fried.

Animated short film showing a hammer stymied by a nail that won't be hammered down.

Experimental film by Hans Esselius.

An unexpected place for Maxi Cat tailor-made fishing.

One dog eats another dog. Another dog eats that one, etc

Constantly changing forms, a plains landscape. One of two films based on David and Diana's life in their house in Colorado, which had just burned down. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

A Super8 of desecrating and captivating animation, made by one of the greatest representatives of the Italian "art film".

Phosphene features colorful negatives of erotic imagery. Scenes in the film display flashes of sexual intercourse and vibrant inkblots (similar to those seen in Inkaboos). During the creation of this film, Byron was fascinated with the degenerated images in old film footage. He went on to obtain pornographic films shot in 8mm. He photographed individual frames using a still camera with high magnification and further exaggerated the grain and the contrast. Prints of these frames were re-photographed on kodalith negatives and then fastened like animation cels. Colored gels were placed beneath the kodaliths on a light box and the sequences re-animated. The film was screened at the 9th Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1971; however, it was nearly rejected due to its erotic imagery. The music in this film is from the Grateful Dead song, “Viola Lee Blues”, and can also be heard in Fotogrammar. -Chicago Film Archives

Anti-communism animated short film released after Argentina's last military coup in 1976.