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A parable about the human pursuit of the absolute, which often takes the form of a brutal rat race, inspired by Jacek Gaj's copperplate engraving Ladders. Its characters climb higher and higher, trying to reach a colorful mirage that appears from time to time. The goal will never be achieved, as successive "ladders" will only allow them to pass the next levels of their journey. What remains is the toil of Sisyphean wandering.
Carl and Francis are definitely the circus acts.
A young woman murdered, a police investigation, an highly improbable motive. But Inspector Q does not give up and a deranged killer finds the police net closing around him.
A camera-eye is aimed at David Lynch's back while in Hanover a second one records the internet-stream, which connects the continents. a third one shoots parallely Agnieszka Jurek. she is interviewing Mr. Lynch.
In 1869, a woman whose "can-do" attitude had shaped her life was instrumental in making Wyoming the first state to allow women to vote, then became the first woman to hold public office in the United States.
An American pilot in the war falls asleep in his plane. His dream mixes up with reality.
Accidentally born to ducks, a dragon, as large as he is unassuming, suddenly becomes a media star. But wrongly considered by man as a ferocious monster, he soon finds himself lost in the urban jungle.
SEPTEMBER 11, 1973 - SANTIAGO. SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 - NEW YORK CITY. The terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City forever scarred the trust of the American people. On the same date, 28 years before, the US-supported military overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende ushered in 17 years of autocratic rule under dictator Augusto Pinochet, leaving more than 3,000 dead and countless victims of torture.
Musical animated short film that plays on root language. Short animation premiered at ResFest 2000.
The Demented Cartoon Movie! is a 2001 Flash cartoon written, directed, drawn, animated, created, recorded, conceived of, responsibility claimed, filmed, edited, converted to standard transport elephant zucchini format and converted back again by Brian Kendall.
Today there are more reasons than ever for families to explore and celebrate diversity. Our ever-expanding world is full of differences in abilities, socioeconomic backgrounds, family structures, religious faiths, interests and cultures. This documentary introduces your family to children who are not only celebrating how they are unique, but who are also learning from and appreciating the differences in others.
Pimp My Boat is a hilarious parody of the popular TV series Pimp My Ride. We meet host Bubs and his gang on the Belle-Côte wharf. Their mission: to customize the boat belonging to Albény, an old fisherman. Culture shock ensues as Acadian traditions collide with global pop culture. Urban imagery invades the countryside in the unique musical landscape of les Acadiens.
Sand-animated adaptation of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.
When Abuela Grillo (Grandmother Grasshopper) sings, it rains.
A mutant hero, a virtual bank heist. A digital action thriller. A three fingered virus is let loose on a computer system with the express purpose of erasing a student loan.
'Symphony' portrays a sentient creature trying to escape from a reality of being swept away and assimilated into the mainstream, regardless of its own will. The topic of this abstractedly crafted animation applies to anything that struggles to be free. It can be a phenomenon occurring deep within the mind, or an individual confronting the standardized masses. There is no concrete answer to these questions; the only role I play is to showcase reality. The solution and conclusion of the story is open for interpretation.
A man who has just lost a job opportunity finds a wallet. But... what would have happened if he hadn't seen it, or if he decided to return it to its owner, or if he kept the money?
After his spaceship crashes, an astronaut finds himself on a mysterious metal planet. What he doesn’t know is that inside the planet is a mechanical clock – the heart of the universe. And it has stopped...
A fetus goes absolutely ham. Graduation films HKU 2006
A creepy British hostel. Half-cooked chicken. A filmmaker's first kiss. The unfortunately true story of the filmmaker's first kiss with a stranger he met overseas.
Solely in black and white watercolors, the OVA follows a woman who awakes in a deserted town with no memories and no clothing. The story continues to show how she regains these memories of who she was and her mission in the town with the help of a voice that speaks directly to her thoughts via her earring. Her name is Agarta, the Devourer of Dragons, and her mission is to destroy the dragons that plague the consciousness of humans in return for her own long past memories.
Made at the Royal College of Art in the last year of my MA using Photoshop mainly. I'd been watching cartoons and silent comedy shorts from the 20's and felt like doing some character animation.
We depicting the never ending cycle of construction and demolition in the human consumption. It was exhibited at re-constructed disaster area in Kobe.
A wolf takes in a little girl.
A 25-minute animated film without words based on the picture book by Peter Collington. The traditional nativity characters feature in the story but the setting is contemporary and the plot, touching and original.
An “epic” adventure and a magical environmental fairy tale. Amy Lockhart uses cutouts, drawings and collage (captured and manipulated as digital multi-plane animation) to conjure up her whimsical world. This film was made as part of the second edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.
The film centers on an unusual photograph dating back to the 1930s. An investigation of its particulars reveals a tapestry of secrets hidden in the details, and a tale of kidnapping and murder captured in a haunting moment.
A socially awkward girl uses the local swimming pool as a wormhole into fantasy. She dives underwater where she imagines herself as a marine creature, alternately graceful and predatory. (As described by Simon Sellars, 2008) Created as part of the SBS series "Swim Between the Flags" in 2002.
The kids of the cul-de-sac believe they are being invaded by aliens.
John, a famous rockstar, dies accidently during a concert and wakes up in nirvana. There he has to face his wishes and deeds...
The short describes a day in the life of Slowking, from wake up to sleep.
The tale of Walter, a rookie secret agent faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase.
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This is the story of a toad named Baz, who has suddenly, for no good reason which is apparent, disappears. As Baz is gone, the story of the theories put forth to his possible plight is told by his friend Daz, whose "mates call him Dazza" and who tells the story as he thinks it went. Daz tells the audience that he knows not where Daz went, only that he disappeared "like a fart in a fan factory" and that since he's disappeared, nobody around knows what happened to him. In this short film, Daz tells us his theories on what may have happened...
Probably the most widely-viewed of Douglas’s computer-animated creations is the haunting THE WHITEHOUSE (1998/2000), in which skeletal ‘spirits’ engage in a variety of activities (including dancing around a fire, playing the cello, watching television, kissing, conversing via reversed English tracts, and -- more ominously -- wielding firearms, torturing and tossing a blind- folded prisoner out of a black helicopter, etc.) in and around a doorless, windowless ‘white house’ which is slowly engulfed in rising flood waters.
A marvellous example of extreme animation. Jacob Bauming shows us a whirling dervish of sensory overload, with a tenuous connection to snazzy “aquatics,” using them as a trigger for his wild and manic imagination. This film was made as part of the first edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.
"The story of Oedipus, in 8 minutes, performed by vegetables, in the tradition of Ben Hur. A sword and salad epic, in classic CinemaScope. Featuring a Potato, a Tomato, Broccoli, Garlic, and Billy Dee Williams as the Bartender."
One of the numerous Cartoon Netweork animated shorts that aired as part of the Cartoon Network Groovies segments, based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Quick Draw McGraw.
Sophie learns she has a rare fatal neuron disease. As her condition deteriorates she experiences sensory hallucinations up until her final days when she can no longer even distinguish between life and death.
When a strange woolen man comes to the aid of a hapless bank-robber the ensuing crime spree prompts this urgent appeal for help from the forces for law and order.
Słonko is an average guy who earns a living by appearing daily in the weather forecast. He is responsible for the place on the map where it is supposed to be sunny. Nothing special, in other words, he acts as a backdrop. And so it has been every day for several years. He is fed up with this monotony and boring job, he wants something more from life. One day, he decides to break out of this gray reality. A coincidence causes the Sun to jump from the screen into the interior of a "black box." There, he finds a surreal world full of metal, cables, and electronic components. It turns out that the Sun is not alone in the TV. The escape begins. ..
Hello Kitty and her friends tell 5 different fairytales together. Robin Penguin, Hello Mother Goose, The Ugly Quackling, Pinocchio Penguin, and Little Red Bunny Hood!
A little girl dreams of exploring space with her cat.
He, the early riser, and she, the early worker, meet only for a kiss goodbye. It's raining. The great ship sinks slowly but surely. The men do their work, the kind of work where there is no room for haste and only one mistake is made. In such a life, the last cigarette is part of an unbroken chain. Temake, the night dentist, falls asleep and dreams that he will not. It is raining. The evening kiss of farewell approaches.
Of the many unrealized projects Yang developed in the wake of Yi Yi, the one that came the closest to fruition was an ambitious animated martial arts movie inspired by his lifelong love of graphic novels and his friendship with Jackie Chan. Though production on The Wind was halted after Yang’s death, this brief assembly of completed scenes offers a glimpse of what might have been. Courtesy of the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute. – Film at Lincoln Center
An animation based on the beginning of the film L'Atalante by Jean Vigo.
Set in the year 2088, it depicts a dark future in which humans have been transformed into the "Guilstein," creatures with no human souls in them... Based on a manga by Tamaki Hisao.
Hykade's third and final part of The Country Trilogy. The once dead father of "We Lived in Grass" returns. "I give you the runt," he says. "But you take care of it and you kill it next year."
In a story similar to C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Splash and his sister Coral have long-awaited the return of the great whale King, but when young Splash lets a secret slip, the evil squid Krakken sets a trap! Using state of the art computer animation, Kingdom Under the Sea is a drama of great beauty and a message of great depth that your family will want to watch over and over again!
A political satire musical from the creators of The Autocrats.
Bob the Tomato tries to bring the Bible story of Abraham and Sarah and their wait for a promised son to life, but when spitting camels and a film crew of zany French peas get involved, everyone?s patience is tested! Will Bob pull everything together in time to teach a lesson? Whether they?re waiting on a promise from God or cookies from mom, kids will learn that while being patient is never easy, the reward is always worth the wait! Features the nationally-syndicated radio host Delilah as the voice of Sarah.
One day, Sayuri's family tells her it is time for her to strike.
In the days leading up to Christmas, Toot visits his Aunt Peg to celebrate her 100th birthday, while Puddle stays home with their young cousin Opal to get ready for Christmas.