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A henpecked husband gets a welcomed surprise when he adds too much detergent to the laundry and out pops a beautiful woman made of soap suds.

An animator draws a rat then a cat, who proceed to chase each other through the animator's constantly-changing backgrounds and animation styles.

A nostalgic serviceman battling against the recruits of today.

"Narrative Information is an exhibition of four of my short story computer-video sculptures. Abortion, language, relationships, and war are my subject matter. I endeavor to get the viewer involved in my interplay between the simple and the complex, between the child and adult narrative viewpoints, and between the image and the technology that produces it all wrapped up in my simmering dark humor." -CFG

An Animated Short Film by Glen Entis

During the course of drawing, in a classroom, a little boy gets carried away by his imagination.

An animated allegory densely packed with fast-moving images, this film is about fear. A dissenter masks his true colours. Chameleon-like, he blends in with his surroundings. Because he lacks the courage to act on his beliefs, he cheats himself and others. He dies as he has lived, unnoticed.

When a housewife's girlfriends take her to a male strip club for her birthday, she brings back more than memories.

An elderly man living in an old tenement house has to move to a new apartment building. Despite its many amenities, he feels terrible there, like a bird in a cage or a plant transplanted to a new location.

A day at the beach.

Schoolchildren animate a series of Olympic events.

A young boy learns the value of formal education when he quits school to find a job.

A Computer Animated Short

A man’s naïvely drawn tattoos and grotesque body art – at the intersection of profane and sacred, of folklore and high culture – come to life.

This superbly animated science film traces the evolution of North America from the Earth's geophysical beginnings, through the genesis of the first living organisms, right up to the arrival of humans. Radiant colours and smooth-flowing animation evoke sizzling lava rivers, oceans bursting with life, and freezing ice ages. The film provides an excellent view of the time frame within which these remarkable events took place and highlights the fact that, relatively speaking, we are newcomers to Planet Earth.

A seashell belonging to a northern moon snail twists and turns 360 degrees in multiple wooden homemade contraptions and through contact sheets at a progressively rapid pace, before finally synthesizing the gnomic growth of the spiral shell and exploring the phenomena of virtual and real space and time. Directed by Al Jarnow.

At a crossroads in a village, an old water pump stands as a testament to the passage of time.

A man recalls his life's story while on a train.

A collection of vignettes animated by Ehrlich’s young students, with connecting segments by Ehrlich.

Starting in 1985, Montañez Ortiz begins a series of what he calls “digital/laser/videos”; he makes a large number of these “arresting, provocative and suggestive” works

In this animated short, friendly characters are busy preparing for a party. While a cook takes care of the final preparations, they see themselves parachuted into an unusual setting. At first disoriented by the strangeness of the place, the characters quickly overcome their apprehension to set off to discover the various objects that inhabit them. This wordless film was produced on the occasion of the NFB's 50th anniversary and was created using 3D animation software.

Accompanied by a happy, marching soundtrack, this experimental animation inter-cuts spinning childhood toys with brooding violence and military force. The sly critique extends to film itself, where the hand-drawn time code mimics the digital precision of video.

Commercial film for the Tallinn Department Store (Tallinna Kaubamaja) from 1989.

A story about a concrete housing estate where the lack of trees and greenery prevents birds from living.

A stranger promises to one greedy man to fulfill his every wish. And he desires to be able to turn everything he touches into gold.

Space Adventure is a 1989 sci-fi action brickfilm by Christian Stage. It was filmed in Norway and shot on Super 8 film, with all effects being achieved in-camera. Pre-production took place in 1983, the production occurred from 1984 to 1988, and the post-production was done in 1989. Upon completing the film, Stage created a preliminary soundtrack, and began sending the film to European TV stations and to The LEGO Group, to see if anyone was interested in doing anything with it. LEGO declined, with their stated reason being that it was too violent. The Children's Channel UK took interest, and created a new, more professional soundtrack. They added new voice acting, and allowed Stage to choose the music. The film was aired on The Children's Channel, and later also on SVT in Sweden and NRK in Norway.

The first 12 minutes would later be released as "Fountain of Dreams"

We are put in a world where television has complete power. "Flaming Arrow", the hero of the film, is the only one among the masses of TV dependent people who still knows genuine feelings. We feel with him. He takes up the fight against the power of the media. He meets with the same problems as we do: to recognize what is reality and what is film.

A fox manipulates a bear and a wolf to steal their food, framing each to the other.

Renzo Kinoshita's animated self-portrait.

The dreamy images map the basic phases of human life: childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age.

Short animation movie by Valerie Swanson on Charley Booker's song "Charley's Boogie Woogie"

They're the most "street-wise" kids on the block. Hip-hop is their style, breakdance is the way they move, and rap is their beat. Their dream? To get a rap band together and really make it big. Through "The Hop Line," The Street Frogs can earn money and meet the coolest DeeJay in town, Typhoon Toad. The Street Frogs hop to their jobs as gas station attendants to buy "The Crate" - a treasured convertible to take the cool dudes cruising on The Pond. In "Typhoon Take Off," The Street Frogs win the opportunity to be the guest disc jockeys on radio station WRIB.

A 1988 Bafta nominated short film by British animator Karen Watson. The film uses mixed media animation and unconventional narrative to explore the issues of domestic violence and child abuse from within the confines of the patriarchal family unit.

Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy help teach good energy conservation habits.

Animated film about the impact of bombs on flowers and vice versa. A good example of the possibilities of animated films to turn reality upside down so that new aspects emerge.

Surreal philosophical animation from Russia

Background visuals from the hybrid laserdisc/CG arcade game "Star Rider." This is the source footage, without the telemetry, rear-view display or game graphics overlaid.

An animated short about a very woman problem.

In this lofty film created with painting technique, only one of the galloping horses can triumph.

Acerbically humorous short about the ‘military olympics’ where competition is a matter of life or death.

Crates fall onto the road from a moving truck, attracting the attention of two boys. One of the crates has a butterfly painted on it, which suddenly begins to fly. The boys run after it and end up in a shed where an old locomotive is parked. The younger boy climbs aboard and drives away. The older boy sets off after him on a handcar. They meet a stationmaster who informs them that another train is about to arrive on the same track as the locomotive. To avoid a disaster, he switches the points. The train is stopped. The boys say goodbye to the stationmaster and drive off towards the shed.

The Flower reflects the director's experience of living in a totalitarian communist state and pays homage to Trnka’s film Ruka, The Hand, made 3 years before the Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968.

A 5-minute look at a room through photography and animation.

Computer animated short featuring salt and pepper.

A trio of picture books explain the structure of stories.

A hand-drawn cell-animation, made in 1988 after the author spent two years in Korea— This is the second part of the "Korean Trilogy".