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Dizzy Gillespie's brilliant trumpet is making up to nightly mysteries in the gleam of the half-moon where two courting flamingos are dancing while a grumpy parrot wants peace and quiet for his night's sleep. This is the fourth and last short film in the Birdland series by Danish animator Jannik Hastrup.
Unfolding like a dream, TOTEM explores our evolving relationship to the animal world. Music and sound by Bruce Odland.
Unknown, but likely a part of the 'Colouring - Singings' series of children's animation.
A carefree boy meets a beautiful woman, a symbol of eternal love. Later, throughout his life, he searches for his boyish ideal in all women, but she is unattainable.
Not so long ago a childless couple lived beside the sea. Their monotonous life changes when, one day, a chest is washed up on the shore...
MS-DOS demoscene short film that showcases computer animation and music.
Paris in the 1880s. The Impressionists dominate the art scene but a brilliant new talent is about to emerge. Georges-Pierre Seurat, artist extraordinaire and father of Pointillism, creates a style so revolutionary that it anticipated, over one hundred years ago, techniques used today in television and digital imagery. Seurat is an animated tribute to this visionary painter.
The plot is based on the story of a boy who finds a wet toy puppy among the autumn leaves and begins to take care of it as if it were alive, which arouses the jealousy of his real dog.
In the film "Composition" the plot is not classically constructed but from a subjective emotional state of the filmmaker himself, a condition that includes memories and scenes of our everyday life that follow us in the form of a mix between poetry, humor and nostalgia. The Balkan atmosphere dominates but it all turns into a universal message of love where the man and everything dear around him merge into one.
X’mas wish-list that two brothers are writing is leading to them not wanting to share their desired toys once they get them for Christmas, so Santa Claus gives them one new toy, for both, for them two to share and play together with, so as to teach them a lesson in fellowship.
Rain Dance is a four-minute animation produced by Hill while an undergraduate student at Harvard University from 1988-1992; the exact date of the production is currently unidentified. Although little known, the film is representative of both Hill’s do-it yourself approach – employing character cutouts, strong, yet playful colors, and a narrative and technical simplicity rich with charm – and her jovial demeanor and inquisitive approach to life. The film is dedicated to Elijah Aron, Hill’s boyfriend throughout college. Aron remained close friends with Helen and her husband Paul Gailiunas, and was the godfather of their son Francis.
A film miniature to classical music. Chopin's nostalgic music illustrated in the film image with associations with the Polish countryside through poetics taken from 19th century painting. Fields of grain with flowering poppies, a country road with a ladder cart, a thatched cottage, a hearth, a well with a crane and a woman carrying a bucket of water. The images seamlessly intermingle with each other to create a highly evocative story about the passing and transience of moments filled with work from dawn to dusk.
A young girl, Alice, shares her feelings of love and envy regarding her crush, Elvin.
The Three Bears story with funny rhymes and songs featuring the voices of Pat Musick, Hal Rayle, Christina Schillinger and Marc Schillinger. This show originally debuted on the Disney Channel back in the early 90's. Clips from this video have over 6 million views on YouTube.
Animated short film presented at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 1998 by students from GOBELINS.
A fortune teller convinces the deceased in a cemetery in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico to cross the U.S. border.
A John Callahan Cartoon
Animator Phil Mulloy follows a simple maxim in hypothesizing the origins of writing: the crudest explanation is most likely the correct one.
A mouse bribes a cat.
During the summer, Santa takes time to inspect his reindeer. One of his top reindeer, Kringle, announces his retirement, revealing that his grandson, Kuppi, has been following in his hooves. Kuppi dreams of pulling Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve, but to earn his place, he must compete in a reindeer race during winter. The first ten reindeer to cross the finish line will earn the honor of leading Santa's sleigh on Christmas night.
Animation short.
Joe Fly is a stereoscopic 3D short film about a lazy, dreamy blue bottle fly who finds himself confronted with a nasty beetle, a giant mantis and a ghost. A recut version exists called Joe & Basket "Mostly Sports".
Squeaky-clean Manchester United soccer-player Ryan Giggs starts behaving coarsely and creating public disturbances. To make things worse, he signs for arch-rivals Manchester City just before the Cup Final. Unknown to his adoring public, he has been kidnapped by crooked City boss Reggie Backhander, who has been creating experimental clones of great British footballers, but adding ape DNA to increase their strength and aggression. With the Cup Final underway, Giggsy escapes, rejoins United, and has to face... himself.
A TV with a mind of its own and a man determined to stop it. Nothing is at it seems as the plasticine starts to fly - just don't get too close to the screen. A fantastical clay animation treat. The jazzy score and trench-coat wearing protagonist in this claymation short promise film noir. But it soon becomes apparent that the room for rent has something more sinister lurking in it to explain its availability and lack of furnishing. When the supernatural being attacks the man and his oversized revolver, he has more to worry about than his brain rotting from too much TV.
It's Christmas season on the farm and everybody is getting ready for a big talent show. Scuddle Mutt and Clawdia dress up as elves and prepare to sing "Jolly Old St. Nicholas" when the Santa Claus makes an unexpected stop and mistakes the two for his own elves. Whisking them away, Santa's real elves are left behind to sing and dance in the show, while Scuddle Mutt and Clawdia are taken on a sleigh ride they'll never forget!
Boris The Dog is a short animated film that features the animation skills of Bill Davis who has done animation for Sesame Street for over two decades.
A joke about fishing.
Grandfather Evlampy raised his sons: the eldest, Ivan, is a blacksmith, the second, Stepan is a carpenter, the third, Timofey is a baker, and the youngest Fedotka... bought a harmonica, and walks and plays. Grandfather Evlampy decided that there was not enough mistress in their house. Moreover, the eldest three sons liked the neighbor's girl Agafya. And Evlampy went to Vasily, Agafya's father, to woo his sons.…
Appeal against consumerism. Three 1 minute shorts.
An experimental collage of archives and animation, dedicated to the director's journey with his friends.
Depiction of the ugly side of Australian life.
Surrealist animation involving a nightmarish hairdresser's.
A short fast paced cut-out animation. It tells the story of Diane and Bob, the last two surviving Martians on Mars.
This jazzy little film, which pairs Sally Cruikshank’s psychedelic style with Betty Carter’s groovy singing, is a creative exploration of what thinking and dreaming look like.
Graduation film from the RCA animation course, animated with paint on glass
Painted animation featuring scenes from a bordello.
Part 1 of the Operavox series.
The cartoon tells about the era of the 80s, when the authorities often dealt with the unwanted with the hands of psychiatrists.
When you have a hole in the top of your head from which your thoughts cascade it doesn't pay to think too hard. The bigger the thought, the more it hurts as Arnold soon discovers.
The animator is making his first film in his basement, when he discovers that the character is becoming more real than he is, and has a mind of its own!
Basically Mr. Nobody for the Flash generation.
In a western-style setting, two robots stand off against one another.
The National Fire Protection Association's Sparky the Fire Dog visits kids at a playground to teach them all about staying safe with fire through the alphabet, where each tip has a letter associated.
Acknowledging Len Lye, Lomas has created a vibrant, naturally kinetic and textural world of colourful geometric shapes going flatstick. (NZFF 1998 programme)
Stop motion claymation short featuring a family of cavemen.
A zombie couple lived happily together under the soil of a graveyard. The zombie wife said she would cook them a delicious meal. But that dish was zombie soup. A fantastic and nonsensical film.
Mike Cachuela's CAL ARTS Freshman Film.
A film from the "Impressions" series, made using cartoon and cut-out animation techniques. Three paintings by Pablo Picasso: "Self-Portrait," "Weeping Woman," "Guernica," and his sketches for the painting "Guernica" inspired the author of the film to create an extremely evocative film story about the cruelty of war and despair.
How the cockerel bruised the hen's eye.
Nanna is the most successful topless dancer at a gentleman's club. Jealous of her tremendous accomplishments, a battle ensues with another dancer. Nanna wins in the end, proving it's not the size of the tips that matter.