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The signal film with abstract effect features the figure of a runner holding the Olympic torch made up of pixel dots on checkered paper.

In the city of Havana in 1964, Papolo, son of a free slave, decides to give a Christmas toy to his sister. He discovers the city and its inhabitants but also the worrying forest. He will get involved in different situations confronting the reality of those times.

An amusing and clever exploration of an artist's struggle to find his own style and vision, despite disapproval of that vision from people in power.

An excerpt from Kurt Schwitters' "Ursonate" (Sontata in primitive sounds) parades across the screen thanks to a Remington typewriter.

After Mark d'Oliveira and Bill Jarcho met each other while attending Emerson College, they collaborated on a nine-minute animated film, "The Taming", which won a student Oscar in 1981. A clay animated film about a circus janitor that fantasies of being a lion tamer.

Animated short.

Scratched lines and shapes bloat around this footage of an unknown businessman, sometimes forming hats, clown noses, arrows, etc. He becomes a kind of pawn in my cruel little game. Sound is a musicbox which helps lift this once painfully boring footage to the level of high art. –H. M.

A bizarre look at the Dracula legend.

An abstract animation film in which a series of shapes rotate and evolve into other forms producing an illusion of depth. Colour, texture and superimposed images undergo structural variations. - MIFF

This animated film about blind prejudice is based on a short story by Canadian author Wilma Riley. Mrs. Cherwak is Polish and owns a cow. Mrs. Meuser is a German with entrenched notions of cleanliness. She does not appreciate the cow's inevitable by-product. The film describes their conflict and its curious resolution over coffee and mincemeat pie. While the author chose to write about the Germans and the Poles she grew up with on the outskirts of Regina, the situation she describes could apply anywhere in the world.

Leopold the Cat is going to the country house. The mice are trying to ruin his vacation.

In search of whiskey, a drunken hallucinogenic hobo is confronted by anthropomorphic bottles of booze who sing and dance for him.

A film about cave drawings from 1990.

The legend about Jurat and Kastytis. It was a long time ago, even when the most important among the gods was the god Perkunas, and the goddess Jurate lived at the bottom of the Baltic Sea in an amber castle. In a small village on the seashore lived a handsome and strong fisherman, Kastytis. Once he caught fish of the royal kingdom with his nets. Jurate sent her mermaids to warn Kastytis not to muddy the Baltic waters and not to frighten the fish...

Incredible ideas from an inventor.

Animation short.

Scratched lines and shapes float around this footage of a military spokesperson

An fisherman is fishing peacefully by the sea, when all of a sudden the world around him disintegrates.

Candy commercial. With lyrics like, "chewy, delicious, bigger than your finger," or was it "bigger than you figure"? Anyway, I designed and directed this commercial right after Ruthless People. A number of very talented animators working at Playhouse Pictures did the animation. The product never took off-- it was like chewing gum, but you swallowed it.

Short animated film. Plot unknown.

This 1982 image was based on the Italian comic book "Altri Mondi" by Andrea Romoli. This is a six-minute pilot for the series "Spaceship Sagittarius".

At the change of seasons, Planty comes to life. He is attacked by a bumble bee.

One egg gives birth to two chicks, one black and one white. The two chicks are cultivated into gladiatorial killers.

USA, 1981, colour, sound, 7 min.

The last of the good white men, uncovered by the colour killer, tries to escape from his assailant who inexorably colours all the black and white on his way.

An enchanting tale from Africa about five children made of wax. They are industrious, loving, and they feel no pain. But because they are wax, they can only go outside in the cool of darkness. One child, however, determines to see the world by day.

Set in an abandoned ocean liner pier on the Hudson River, New York City circa 1984 dancers interact with graffiti, abandoned objects and the crumbling architecture.

An Computer Animated Short

Fragments of images emerge from the empty space, and before you know it, a heavy wall surface is built. If you break through it, a flood of light will overflow.

Life and paintings of the Uruguayan artist during his American period in New York.

This fast-paced and entertaining animated film is about water and the demands placed on our waterways by agriculture, industry, and urban life. An army of droplets, led by The Chief, shows what happens to water from the time it falls as rain until it reaches its destination.

Based on an oriental parable about two neighbors - a good one and an envious one.

Beginner Book Video When The Cat in the Hat was published in 1957 as the first Beginner Book, it revolutionized reading. Today, Beginner Books are still revolutionary - and just as much fun! Now new generations can enjoy Dr. Seuss' unpredictable humor in these great DVD's. Three classic Dr. Seuss stories: Dr. Seuss' ABC I Can Read With My Eyes Shut Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?

The super-powered trio of Sky, Earth, and Typhoon attempt to rescue Princess Lanka from the King of Evil with the help of young Ae-ri.

This is the opening animation of URACON III.

A man with a black flag in his hands leads a large group of people. The masses obey the leader's commands despite the fact that he is leading them into an abyss. However, the flag he carries is tied to a tree and from the collapsing table only the leader is saved, climbing the flag.

A loose adaptation of Aesop's fables. The project consisted of short films that would serve as a supplement to the children's programming block on the channel in question.

Among Robertson’s most accomplished animated works is this collage film inspired by her struggles with binge eating and obsessive magazine collecting. Ronald Reagan is referenced in the playfully militarized jelly beans that were his favorite candy.

Kids rapping about the number 7.

In this first of Lulu Keating's films, she animates photos she's accumulated that celebrate her extroverted spirit.

A mysterious man enters the night bar. There is no one inside except for a bartender and a black cat. Alcohol and imagination from noir comics will do their job.

Also known as Atomic Dragons, this film animation confronts the environmental issue of atomic waste. Faced with the long life of atomic waste, where the devil shall we store it?

During walks around Stanley Park in Montreal, the director became, for several months, the attentive witness of a number of events, gestures, encounters, brief, fleeting moments, privileged moments . Result of this long observation, Félicité depicts the incessant change of the seasons, making us discover, through the eyes of the artist and her magnificent pastel drawings, nature as an object of emotion and its influence on the world of man.

An Animated Short Film by Pacific Data Images.

An animation film that illustrates how closely eye and ear are linked, and how one acts on the other. The film is divided into three sections--game, conflict and flirtation--that repeat themselves without seeming to do so. This illusion is created by the sound track, which varies and colours the action. A film without words.

A boy's exciting journey to school

On a day off, people escape from mind-numbing television and the dusty city to the almost-extinct natural world.

Computer animation and footage from NASA space missions explain how our solar system evolved and the place Earth has within the system.

A street artist draws pictures on the pavement in Paris, begging for money. After a rain all his paintings are erased so he starts all over.

Learn about the body's most important line of defense- the immune system. This film reviews the immune system's various components, showing how they defend the body against invading bacteria and viruses, and also explains what happens when the immune system is not functioning properly. Important factors contributing to the maintenance of a healthy immune system are also discussed. Animation shows how the body stays well, fights disease and heals injuries. Sometimes antibiotics or immunization are needed. Also explains AIDS.

A puppet fairy tale about a meeting between children and the once from the sky.