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Short, to the point cartoon about the generation gap.

A film commissioned and conceived by the artist Eduardo Paolozzi using drawings and photocopies provided by him. A non-narrative film focusing on Paolozzi's themes about modern man.

Short film.

John R. Dilworth's 1985 student film. A simple animation of a man smoking a cigarette, which generates a strange angry cloud of smoke.

Three stories about Zebra, Horse and Sloth.

A range of drawing techniques are used to explore themes of domestic alienation and romantic fantasy about housewives, hoovering, bingo halls and a cat. The film's idiosyncratic humour increases the impact of a film 'ultimately... about coming to terms with obsession, desperation and personal fear'.

This animated short features Leonard, a 6-year-old boy with the unusual hobby of collecting sounds. Transforming household noises around him into exciting fantasies, he creates an adventure story for his older brother in which knights chase away monsters and perform other daring deeds.

A first-person account of the difficult life of a stray hound.

Impressed by the proud caterpillar's boast that she will turn into a butterfly when she grows up, a polliwog determines to watch the caterpillar very carefully and turn into a butterfly too.

In this musical adventure, Alvin develops an alter ego after Brittany rejects his offer to the Valentine Ball. In a dream state, he becomes a dashing Don Juan, the Valentine heartbreaker extraordinaire CAPTAIN CHIPMUNK. Brittany is quickly won over and eagerly accepts his offer to the Valentine Ball. Hilarious consequences follow when Alvin wakes up at the dance and realizes he’s not the dashing debonair Captain Chipmunk.

A breton movie about dreams.

Computer animated short from the perspective of a dolphin.

Alcoholism is the subject of this animated film. Stark line drawings portray the vicious cycle of drinking and family break-up, as the head of a family drinks to forget the drudgery of his life. The consequences are disastrous. A film without words in which images speak volumes.

1988 short directed by Dennis Pies

Among the penguins living on a rocky island there was one who went on his own ways. He dreamed of rising into the air. After one of the unsuccessful attempts, he dropped into the water and caught a gold fish that turned him into a balloon for his wishes. Fascinated by the plane, he asked the fish to become a great machine. He flew around the world. He introduced confusion on air routes and disrupted the work of radars. Tired he returned to the island and fell like a dead man. After waking up, he happily joined the other penguins.

In this parable, a hungry fox hunts for his dinner one night in the jungle. Nearby is a tiger who is also pondering his next meal. The tiger catches the fox, but the cunning fox manages to outwit the proud tiger. This striking film uses cutouts and actors in masks to tell its tale. It will stimulate discussion on leadership qualities, such as brain versus brawn, on values and on conflict resolution.

Through the hourglass, which metaphorically represents the unstoppable flow of movement, that is, the cycle of life, the individual is first represented, and then, through collectivism and the structural symbiosis of individuals, the entire humanity is marked within the closed circle of life, called existence.

An anti-war, short humorously but seriously depicting and criticizing the contempt Ronald Reagan had for people and nations. Through the combination of animation and still photography, we see the former President physiognomically trapped by his own words in this ironic transformation of his nose.

My Melody stars in the re-created story of Little Red Riding Hood.

A film that races away at turbo speed and seems to end as we expect — as a surprise.

The queen of the black market is my grandmother, as I imagined her in the post-war period, but also her favorite coffee pot, which escaped from my grandmother and mysteriously survived violent attacks.

Animation short

In this historical look at Goofy's ancestors, we dig deeper and ungangle the roots of his family tree.

The civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala are described by the children of those country through their words and drawings, based on their experiences in their home countries and the refugee camps. This film was adapted from an exhibition entitled Disrupted Lives which was organized by Linda Dale and sponsored by INTER-PARES and CUSO.

Animated short about how bureaucracy damages a person's soul.

Every culture has its own idea of how the world began, from a really big bang, to a duck’s egg, to the tears of a god.

Like the boy who caught and caged birds, he was turned into a bird by a forest fairy and finally learned to be compassionate.

UCLA Animation Workshop rotoscoped pen-drawn animation intercut with color stop-motion and photo stills of a bicycle road race.

A spoof of "The In Crowd."

Margaret Thatcher gives the audience a lecture whilst being wooed by a miner in Bob Godfrey's remake of his classic earlier cartoon Polygamous Polonius.

Short film.

A piano player is trying to find the one and only true note. He finds it.

Singer Cyndee Peters recalls a childhood memory.

Through clever stylistic composition, this experimental film shows that everything is interdependent, even in the arts, and that, inevitably, both the artist and the viewer are being manipulated.

A village barber cuts all children's hair with the same comb. The boy Guguta dreams of learning to cut his own hair.

On the wedding day, a group of boys kidnap the bride. Her husband moves to the rescue.

A day off allows us a break from routine existence, but it also prepares us for re-entering the workaday world. In this animated film, people relaxing on a beach are constantly being reminded of tragic events happening elsewhere. By the end of the day they are able to return to the real world and continue to "function."

Animated images of the Tasmanian tiger are depicted in different environments: a zoo, suburbia and bushland, as local people recall their sightings of this now extinct animal.

An animated feature adapted of Brother Ox Cartoons' (牛哥漫畫).

Hands / flicker / morphing animation suggests sexual organs in a frantic dance.

The story of Small and Large Rabbit. Made after a 1925 lithograph by Nils von Dardel.

A bureaucratic chaos caused by an ink shortage.

A series of metamorphosing images criticise a society in which dulled minds feed on tabloid scandal. Focuses on the 'shapeless workers fuelling the fires with the bodies of their own kind'. As the workers seek sexual release, the muddy pictures give way to line drawings of the erotic landscape: curves, valleys and mounds becoming the sexual act itself, are whipped up into a charcoal frenzy of chaotic abstract images of frustration. The end brings release and a return to calm.

A little boy on vacation at the seaside meets an invisible girl who takes him to her world.

We can see a trough and dirty pigs around it. Another pig (clean and polite) approaches the trough. Other pigs react with aggression and do not want it at the trough. The animal decides to get dirty. Then, the pig is greeted with a smile and accepted at the trough.

A film about the Battle of Okinawa during the last days of World War II.

Produced for "Gebocon I", a convention organized by Fanroad magazine, an anime/manga/doujin magazine in the 80s and 90s.

Catholic film that tells the story of how the Virgin of Guadalupe miraculously appeared to Juan Diego.

One day at a holiday home for the disabled in Hammerdal, Jämtland, depicted in clay animation and with authentic sound from the home that the film tells about. Various episodes show everyday events and relationships between the old ones who have lent their voices and characters to the movie figures. The film shows how an ordinary day looks like meals, mail delivery, card games and visits to the Salvation Army. In the end, the real people compare and comment on their characters.

Cut-out animation alternated with text collages.

An NTSC space opera.

"Am I the story I sell myself?" Fragmented memories of a chance meeting are dissected and rehashed.

This original video animation summarizes the entire TV series.

A love triangle between three very different people. Has interjections of anime, a child sized mannequin, and lots of strange goings on throughout. Hard to pinpoint exactly what it's all about.