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Using a smudge-and-click pastel animation technique, traces the history of a life from cradle to grave.

How a penguin from the South Pole and a bear cub from the North became friends.

Short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto

I made this film while experimenting with a home made rotoscope. It was drawn on index cards. It's a sort of valentine to film, to life and to Xavier Cugat too. The original 16mm negative was lost when my lab at the time closed suddenly. Boy, I don't miss film at all. (JS)

Smoking is a harmful and addictive habit. It doesn't lead to anything good, as the cartoon clearly demonstrates.

Dream Land is a one-year ink painting project by GAO Chun-fu. Every night, in the late hours, GAO captures the busy and chaotic state with ink painting. Applying the flowing technique, he paints the images and illusions emerging from deep within. The spontaneous gathering and scattering of water and ink reflect the artist’s internal breathing as well as the passing of time.

Based on Heinrich Heine’s poem, this film traces humanity’s longing for beauty and fulfilment, as expressed through a song about the legendary island of Bimini and its magical well whose waters revive a person’s strength and youth.

A story about little animals.

Short animation

Animated short film by Francois Aubry

Invocation originated as a sequence within the documentary Orpheus Through the Ages made by Pelicula Films to accompany Orpheus and Eurydice. It was designed to illustrate the Ancient Greek myth of the Creation of the world. It was shot on 16mm and subsequently enlarged onto 35mm for festival screenings. The techniques employed were a test run for those which ultimately were used within Ra; the Path of the Sun God. Two versions exist; one with narration and one without.

The fun adventures of Choko the stork and Boko the frog are full of rivalry. They cheat on each other all the time, but there's a strong bond between them. Maybe one day they will be friends.

The adventures of the water sprites, creatures living in Lake Goplo, whose fur is coveted by Goplana. The beavers come to the rescue of the water sprites, and Goplana and her henchmen receive their just punishment.

A horror movie takes place in the microcosm of grass. When magnified, the world of plants, insects and wild animals appears to be full of cruelty and unimaginable shapes. A change of scale would be enough to make a man tremble with fear for his life.

A short film warning people against rumor mongering. Rumors can make a mountain out of a molehill.

About an old dog who came to the aid of the boy Niko in difficult times.

Two acquaintances meet. One gives another a beautifully packaged gift. The recipient of the gift remembers not particularly flattering relationships in the past. This makes him treat the gift with distrust. Instead of opening it, he decides to throw it in the trash. But at this moment, he meets another friend and gives his gift to him. But this guy gives him another package, and the problem remains the same.

Instruction in the animation technique.

The concept of visual music is explored in this quirky collage of imagery animated directly onto the celluloid surface of 16mm film. In the spirit of Dada, there are recurring themes that include graphic abstraction, mechanical rhythms and the absurd.

Tweety, the forest elf, is convinced that life would stop without him. But he has to learn the hard way: it's good to know your place in the world.

A man brings a small plant into his home and cares for it.

There is a wind blowing. In a hut near the sea lives a woman. The scenes in the animation keep changing; her body becomes a landscape, her breasts become the arses of 2 horses, etc. The scenes are filled with longing and an idea of passion, like in a dream.

The story is about how friendship helped the guys grow fruit trees in the desert.

A man is so scared that he dares not go out, but with the help of a cat and a bird he dares to go out in the dark.

Augusta watches sport on the television, mimicking the activities in a strange fashion.

A cinematic 'Rorschach' test for defining the concept "Feminism."

A satirical transformation of popular fairy tale motifs.

Michel Gagné's Sheridan college film presents us with some cute animation of a rabbit and a butterfly. All is not as it seems. The film gives us an early look at this brilliant animators visual efx style.

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An animated film based on Janusz Korczak's novel King Matt the First, telling the story of a king who was constantly patronized and reprimanded by his courtiers, whose name was used for selfish purposes by his ministers, and who eventually fled the palace to fight in the war as a simple soldier.

Deconstructs the representation of AIDS in the popular media where distortion and misrepresentation amount to a "snow job" promoting increased homophobia, sexual discrimination and repression of gays.

A short animated film by Furukawa Taku

Kakuei Kakkun Tanaka is a superhero who hangs out with his friends. In his misadventures, he becomes prime minister of Japan, visits New York and prevents a nuclear war.

A man in a dentist chair finds himself helpless in the clutches of a schizophrenic kleptomaniac.

Based on drawings by Ildar Urmanche, the cartoon tells the story about actor who gives people experience of grief and happiness.

A tyrant, to escape boredom, decides to paint his entire kingdom blue. But things don't go exactly as he had planned.

First edition of an animated newsreel containing - in the manner of newsreels - the latest news from the country and the world: "Polish economy in the grip of krill", "Oil spill in Karlin", "U-25 mystery deciphered", "Sensational-secession photoplasticon liquidated", "Situation in space".

A man goes ride to ride at a fair following a woman with a red balloon.

About the funny adventures of four friends - Raccoon, Mole, Bunny and Bear.

The wise poor man who found the money tried to save it. To do this, he had to outwit the greedy gentleman, as well as Khveska, his too talkative wife.

A live-action educational short film which reuses clips from Disney's animated films.

Animated paper cut-outs. An amusing interpretation of the traditional Yorkshire circular song. A man goes courting on Ilkla Moor without his hat, catches his death of cold, dies, is buried, gets eaten by worms, the worms are eaten by ducks, and the ducks are, finally, eaten by the man's friends.

The individual's fear of the environment is described. In order to walk down the street, the main character needs to confront himself and the things that surround him.

Computer animation. A sentient lighter and cigarette engage in forbidden love.

A deceptively simple film, The Same Old Story is over almost before it has begun. A story within a story within a story, its effect is jarring, ambiguous and lingering. The film speaks of fear, which is as old as humanity and as new as today. An animated film in which reality and fantasy overlap dangerously.

A boy wishes on a Christmas Star and finds out that his wish is granted.

"Leiberg embarks on a search for the interaction between painting and improvised music, tinkering with sound collages sets language and sounds against each other (...) Leiberg works with real-movie sequences and uses his pictorial color and form vocabulary as a design element in the film. He primarily uses the resulting films in their capacity as a depot of moving light images in order to project them onto the bodies of dancers in the performances. (Christoph Tannert in "Gegenbilder", p. 39f;)

Animated film with several bizarre scenes.

Yellow drops don't want to play with a red ball at first, but they make a good flower together.

A minimalist adaptation of Seizo Watase's manga of the same name. It contains 5 stories of slow paced vignettes of romance whose only dialogue lies within the "oldies" being played as background music.

"I am soon tired of hearing about safe sex. I'll not catch AIDS!," a young voice says at the beginning of this animation film which applies especially to young people aged 14-18 years. In a humorous way the film tells about safe sex when you use a condom, but also that safe sex can be practiced in many ways without a condom.

Based on a Moldovan folk tale. About how a greedy devil tried to trick a peasant.

Hardworking ants re-educate the lazy cockchafer.