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OVA adaptation of a manga by Watase Seizou.

A thick fog envelops the village. Under its cover, there are thefts, suicides, and infidelities. When the fog rises, people panic. They have forgotten to live in the light. The priests begin to create a new fog.

The Pride intercepts a message to Saw Boss declaring the Planet Kyros deadly to Monster Minds. A weapon there turns everything to crystal. Jayce leads everyone to the planet to find this weapon; but upon landing, he discovers it is a trap set by Saw Boss. The planet's bloodstone is being sucked dry of it's energy by a spider. Without the bloodstone's power the planet turns to crystal. Everyone is crystalized, except for Jayce who manages to stay one step ahead of the process. He destroys the spider and gives the bloodstone his strength to return the planet and people to normal.

Using a 1945 Charlie Parker song, American indie animator, George Griffin greets us with a dizzying dance of torn Pop Art images. Shreds of consumer culture flash before us, swayed and absorbed by the tempo and power of Parker's horn.

Two men in chairs by the open hearth; photos move in front of their heads.

The story is about how Yartygulak (a Turkmen tom thumb) taught two arrogant lazy parasites a lesson.

Puppet cartoon based on the fairy tale of the same name by Danish writer Jens Sigsgaard about a boy who was left all alone.

Animated documentary that collects the Christian tradition of the visit of the Three Wise Men to the manger where Jesus was born and adds elements typical of Puerto Rican national folklore.

A short animated film by Furukawa Taku.

Panos is one of the unluckiest men in the world. One day, while he was swimming in the lake, some villagers found his clothes on the shore and announced he had drowned.

An anthology of 8 and ¾ macabre and absurd jokes. Witty souls of the dead, genocidal animals, lethal sport performances, medical appointments. Each life ends with death, though in different ways.

Animation by John Mareda. These are ray traced images of hot air balloons floating over a lake. Watterberg’s Mesa software was used on a VAX 8600.

Using powerful imagery, black humour, and a liberal helping of appalling bad taste, the directors set out to draw people's attention to the state of British beaches.

Beach sand transforms into a lush tree-scattered landscape.

a Leszek Komorowski Cartoon

Schwartz reordered and combined angular contours, broken planes, and distorted proportions in her own pictorial structures in an homage to Picasso's style.

Living in a fictional world all their own, the machines of Survival Research Laboratories act out scenarios of perpetual torment, exasperating consumption, and tragic recognition

According to a Kazakh folk tale.

An old widower comes up with a plan to not spend Christmas alone.

A boy looks into a magical microscope and discovers a world of strange creatures. Upon seeing the boy's huge eye, the creatures begin to worship him. An ambitious evil emperor oppresses and forces the other creatures to build a tower so that he can get hold of the eye.

A puppy skips school to run a football game and learns a lesson.

In postwar Tokyo, while his mum works, Taichi spends his days alone and misses his dad who was killed in the war. Through his friendship with an old man who tends a seemingly dead cherry tree, Taichi learns about the tree and gradually becomes more positive. (Source: Treasures of the Heart)

Love between two people and other feelings that can influence it: selfishness, meanness, violence, envy of those around them.

A sheikh, from his airplane, sees a peasant walking with his llama through the deserts of Peru. The plane lands, and the sheikh proposes to the peasant that they exchange his plane for his humpless camel; the trade doesn't last long.

A cartoon elephant undone by his large feet

The conductor of a mosquito orchestra gets into a fight with a tuba-playing bear. Based on the story by Dmitriy Mamin-Sibiryak.

An evil plane dropped an atomic bomb, the bomb's name is Bo-Bo. Before falling to the ground, Bo-Bo discovers a butterfly that shows the beauty of the earth, he will understand that this beauty cannot be destroyed...

Short animation by Yoji Kuri

"The images mix fragments of the real and imaginary in a hermetic effort to express the [Breder's] quest for a visual text that is at once personal reflection and cultural criticism." - John Hanhardt, 1989

A harried husband is asked by his wife to put the family cat outside. He comes up with a novel solution to the problem.

Such diverse modes of expression as dance, music, poetic narration and images drawn directly on film combine to tell the story of a letter and the joy it carries to its destination. In French, with English sub-titles.

A stray kitten was brought from the street to the castle where noble gentlemen lived, and began to get familiar to social manners. A few years later he's already acting like a human being. But is it possible to change the essence of an animal?

An DNA Productions Short

By scratching the surface of a polaroid photograph before the emulsion dries, the work abstracts the interior space of the frame. Positioned as if being locked inside the frame, the mobility of the subject becomes accentuated.

As a brave couple demonstrates, the narrator uses quotes, examples and advice to help us all reach the highest heights in the art of kissing.

Animated short showing us a day in the life of a mosquito.

A ballad about the love of a girl and a young man taken to distant lands for war. The animation is created in an original way from lace motifs as a tribute to the Slovak textile artist Elena Hollá-Holéczyová, who is featured in the film.

A parable about an evil dragon who has captured the “magic light”, without which people are forced to live in darkness. Mother Earth gives birth to three sons-heroes, who one by one set out to bring light to people. But the insidious dragon exposes the heroes to temptations, from which they themselves turn into monsters...

Using the constellation as a motif, the heavens and the earth, metamorphose all the creatures.

Scenes of a big city follow one another and turn into alienated settings using grafitti painting and rap music.

Kunz, the poor day laborer who is richly blessed with children, discovers the secret of the cave in the Simeliberg while collecting wood. Robbers keep their looted treasures there. Kunz takes some of it from time to time so that he can put a little more on the table for his family. Kunz's rich, stingy and suspicious neighbor discovers the secret of the treasure cave. His greed blinds him so much that he runs into his misfortune.

This showreel of animation illustrates the scope of filmmaker Jon Coley's stop-motion technique, and was used to show to film companies in the hope of gaining further work. Sequences include Sacrifice to the Great God 'Moore', Attack of the Serpent (which features a part-live-action sequence with the filmmaker), and In the Shadow of Punchinello. Coley worked on these sequences under the supervision of the legendary fantasy animation filmmaker Ray Harryhausen.

It is Christmas Eve and Fireman Sam is very busy. Between getting Trevor out of the snow and rescuing Sarah and James from an icy pond, he has to find a Christmas tree and bring it back to the town.

Experimental short film

Titles, a crocodile crossed with Big Ben roams the UK.

In Adieu bipède (1987), Hébert turned to performance, using the scratching technique for the scenes with dancing and music. He used the same technique in La Lettre d'amour (1988).

A lesbian/feminist aesthetic proposing the connection between touch and sight to be the basis for a new cinema. The film explores the tactile child nature within the adult woman filmmaker, the connection between sexuality and filmmaking, and the scientific analysis of the sense of touch.

Performed by the dancers of Eccentric Motions and students of Pooh Kaye on the streets of Soho, New York.

A meditation upon the redemptive power of Christ's crucifixion. The film employs a variety of styles including animation, newsreel footage, hand painted footage, live-action and optical effects. The soundtrack is composed of a wide variety of music including Gregorian chant, Kodaly, Liszt and electronic music.

The vibrant images of this beautifully illustrated animation film will captivate all audiences, and will be particularly useful in the classroom to teachers of art and language arts. In this original fable the world loses its colours when a trout, obsessed by the beauty of the rainbow, steals it from the sky.

Set to Vivaldi’s ‘Winter’ the film uses continuous animation of Leonardo’s sketch book drawings to catch and follow Leonardo’s deep and integrated exploration of both ‘art’ and ‘science’ His numerous inventions, from flying machines to rockets; his study of both aerial and linear perspective: his botanical and anatomical studies are all covered: welded together in one continual flowing action which symbolises the Master’s own single-minded sense of universal purpose.

About the importance of preserving forests.

A skeleton invites us into its home to demonstrate its acrobatic prowess. Created by the Ohio State University Computer Graphics Research Group.

Set in the city of Tokyo, overrun by its machines, which have been turned into robots of all shapes and sizes by a robotic magician, the titular Red Neck.