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Marsha McDevitt, Thuy N. Tran, Kevin Reagh & Marla Schweppe — Chimera ISEA Symposium Archives: [FISEA 1988]

Canadian poet Earle Birney indulges his love of trains in this performance of his sound poem To Swindon from London by Britrail. In fluent "trainish," he interprets the experience of excursions by rail. Imagination sparked by the rhythm of wheels and the clink of couplings, Birney hums, hisses and hoots his way through archival footage of vintage trains and the English countryside. A must for language, animation and train buffs.

Early computer animation produced at Ohio State University. This has appeared in a number of computer graphics compilations, sometimes shortened and/or with different music. Here it is in its pristine entirety.

The players in the Mouse Hockey League know that they must be quick and play by the rules to win the precious and delicious Cheddar Cup.

How together the vegetables got rid of the evil goat.

A 1982 animated sci-fi adventure that still resonates today. The world is running out of energy - war looms between the 2 superpowers. A mysterious Black Planet is discovered in the universe. Secret Agents Freddy Fairweather and Marigold Muffet set out on hair-raising adventures that take them under the sea, across the country, and into outer space to find a secret formula which could well decide which side will land on the Black Planet first.

Three times before my conception, I should have been allowed to take a look at the world. Twice I was allowed to refuse to be born and wait for another time. The third time, I had to let myself be carried out. I can remember fragments of the trial trip that resulted in my birth. I wanted to travel to Germany on a steamboat. Using authentic visual material—mainly photos—the film describes this trip to Germany in 1938.

UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film. Charcoal etching animation of manhole covers.

Two men, each holding one end of a rope, perform an intricate dance on, in, and through a square figure.

Plasticine animation film, which has received honorary diplomas, diplomas and commemorative awards from the Jelgava City Culture Department at the 29th Kurzeme area amateur film screening in Jelgava. The film focuses on the importance of the environment and the quality of education in the learning process and children's personal development.

Cebolinha, while enthusiastically proclaiming that the day was fantastic, gets accidentally splashed with water by Magali. Undeterred, he heads to the playground to continue his declaration, only to be hit by a ball thrown by another boy. Undeterred once again, he tries yet another time to express his opinion about the day but ends up being chased by a dog. Still not giving up, he attempts once more, but this time he accidentally falls into a hole. Determined to make his point, he constructs a fort to ensure he can confidently assert that the day is wonderful. However, just as he finishes speaking, the fort collapses on top of him, leaving him dissatisfied once again.

If Frankenstein's Monster is to the dark side of science, King Kong is to the Great Depression, Alien Invaders (like The Blob and The Thing) is to the Communist Threat, Godzilla is to the bomb, and The Milpitas Monster and Hedorah the Smog Monster are to pollution. Now, this robotic dinosaur made of various technological devices from Japan is to Japanese consumerism and possibly globalization!

Guédé is an 8-year-old boy. He lives with his family in a hamlet in the Ivorian countryside and is bored. He flees and arrives in town, in Abidjan, where he survives with other “street children”. Then he grows up, becomes an adult and… always dreams of going somewhere else.

A child sleepwalks into the forest. A black vastness inhabited by night creatures throbs and chirps, croaks and gurgles. As she wades deeper into the shimmering night, the real forest and the imaginary one dissolve into each other. Apparitions and phantoms begin their nocturnal dance. The atmosphere becomes charged and witches come shrieking to life. When the fear of the night reaches its peak, the moon rises and the final lunacy begins. An animated film about a child's reaction to the mysteries and magic of the night. Film without words.

Serata Paperino is a special-movie produced in 1988 by Walt Disney Television Italy, directed and written by Aurelio Castelfranchi, Antonella Condò and Cecilia Valmarana. It was broadcasted for the first time on Rai 1 on 1988, Easter day, and was regularly re-proposed until 1996.

How change, in friends and environment, can be faced.

Hedgehog, Goat, and Rabbit teach Piggy the consequences of lazy selfishness after being targeted by a crippled wolf.

Octopus-like puppets cut out of foam rubber are the central characters in this delightful underwater fantasy with its message about ecology and conservation. Two Grotoceans sent on a special mission find all kinds of surprises awaiting them as they roam the sea in search of treasure. Film without words.

A young architect, under the guidance of an old teacher, builds a beautiful building. Wanting to try his hand at a big business, he leaves the master teacher and accepts the invitation of a rich ruler. Fate returns the experienced hero to his origins.

An animation about the Bucharest Printers' Strike that took place in December 1918.

A crotchety old man unexpectedly finds friendship, he meets dog, loses dog, and finds dog. All done in clay animation

Motion studies of humans and animals with an emphasis on single skins and musculature.

A story inspired by the graphic record of national artist Ľudovít Fulla.

A fairy tale about a witch who helped mushroom pickers and punished an evil sorcerer.

About a bird that envied others for everything until it acquired a strange tail, feathers, beak and wings. After that he stopped being himself, his own people didn't recognize him and he almost fell prey to a hungry fox.

6 children sit in front of the classroom and constantly gossip. When one of them is absent for three days due to a cold, the rest remain quiet as they don't want to leave the other child out from day-to-day gossip.

Short film.

A young woman who yearns to become a concert pianist is rescued from a sleazy cabaret by a mysterious cat burglar with whom she falls in love.

Short film by Pierre Barletta.

Four women discuss their housing situations. None of them would describe themselves as homeless - after all they've never slept out on the street. However, as they listen to each other's stories, they begin to understand that homelessness is something they've all experienced. The film analyses the inadequacies of housing policies and examines the political thinking that lies behind them.

Sometimes there's more than one bandit, and little fellows can be pretty mean!

An imaginative account of an elderly artist's temporary creative crisis.

An animated short film about a pineapple playing a guitar.

Read-along and sing-along for preschoolers.

Animated short about animals that have a rock & roll party after the pet store closes for the night

Made as one of a four part series exploring different aspects of women and the law, on which all the women animators involved researched and worked as a group, before then making individual films, each quite different in content, tone and style. Based on the real life experiences of Josie O Dwyer, the film uses her voice as commentary, taken from hours of taped conversation with the filmmaker. Different styles of drawing convey her emotions and the devastating effects detention and imprisonment have on young girls put away 'for their own protection'.

A trio of pandas help a pair of human kids in a race to recover the pieces of a pyramid of power before a cosmic villain does.

The story of a disgruntled man who fights the constraints and barriers of a walled-in society, one bent on following "The Law".

Tells the story of an impoverished young man who dreams/​fantasizes/​hallucinates about his adventures in a post-holocaust Sydney of the future, where all is polluted and survival depends upon the theft of oxygen.

Colorful impression for the youngest spectators explaining the differences between the circle and the ball, and showing the possibility of turning the circle into an ellipse.

A story about a dwarf-like prince with a tuft of hair on his head, able to give intelligence to the one he loves. Based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault.

A study of loneliness and passing away.

Created for Walt Disney Educational by Sunwest Production and distributed to Schools

Another animation demo reel from Cranston/Csuri Productions, circa 1985. Mostly "flying logo" commercials and TV station IDs, but also a few experimental bits that might be recognizable from various computer animation compilations.

Second part of the short film Facundo. A humorous description of the capital, its architecture, and its inhabitants is made through an animated drawing.

A surrealist story about a block of flats that one day went on a journey. The unexpected journey of the monumental building is watched by astonished people, a train passes in the distance, a small yellow Fiat is rolling along the road, an airplane flies across the sky, and the block moves rhythmically through the green, idyllic landscape.