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A bear tries to catch a fly with disastrous results.

1988 short directed by Dennis Pies

Apartment… factory… apartment… factory. All days are monochrome, similar. What happens when a man suddenly meets a friend he hasn’t seen in a long time.

An computer animated short film. The humanoid figures were quite cutting-edge for the time.

A very short animation drawn on tracing paper with a brush pen and coloured pencil. “This work was inspired by an impressive dream. In the dream, I took a dictionary that printed flip-books in the corner from a book shelf, and when I returned it, the book had disappeared.”[Yuko Asano]

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

Short animation film in which a male and female dancer move in front of and behind a square frame using stop-motion.

A Korean animated movie about a boy and his alien friend possessing supernatural powers.

The adventures of a 12-year-old girl named Sandy and her koala friends, Blinky and Pinky, who are from the extra-dimensional realm of Koalawalla Land.

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

Small rips and tears progress with stunning rhythm to the ultimate split of our world. The imagery has a delicate sketchy quality that resonates against a subtle soundtrack to create an overwhelming mood between laughter and tears.

The "local boogeyman" tells stories of Halloween as it used to be in rural Ontario.

A rapid-fire look at life in the city through the eyes of a confused, overwhelmed man.

Karate Kat betrays the myth of a graceful feline in his half-hour animated series. First aired on The Comic Strip in the late '80s, The Aristokratic Kapers follows a martial arts expert who heads the McClaw Detective Agency. The crime-fighting fur ball must contend with a trio of evil-doing misfits: Sumo Cat, Burglar Cat, and Mafia Cat. Karate Kat is joined by other lively characters like Meow-Baby, Katmandu, and Cat Gut. Using his sixth sense and somewhat questionable physical prowess, Kat takes the view on a series of misadventures.

Hey, gang! What did Tarzan say when he saw the elephants coming? "Here come the elephants!" Oh no...

Two best friends who get separated have to cross a river to find each other

This fully animated study in movement and perception employs the point of view of a frog as a basis for this “minimalist cartoon”

Reporter Egon Ryś accidentally meets Scarecrow. He decides to give him a ride to the scarecrow convention, seeing it as a good topic for an article. The chairman of the meeting, Beelzebub, states that no one is afraid of them anymore, so they should start helping people instead of scaring them. Most of the ghosts are delighted with this idea, but the nobleman Boruta is opposed. He decides to sabotage his colleagues' activities.

Plants can't walk. Plants don't talk. Plants can't see. Plants don't have legs.

A truly canine Christmas adventure with Milroy, a loveable klutzy pup, who is adopted by Santa and Mrs. Claus

Shells create intricate patterns in this short stop-motion animation.

Boys buy an aeroplane and fly to the United States.

Kaspar is drowning. Several people who want to save him rush forward. Some of them are filled with good will, others are pumped up with pretentiousness. They are all equally inefficient in this satirical animated film about public spiritedness.

An allegorical film that takes place in a utopian society which has faced the prospect that complete annihilation is an ever present possibility. Cork, an innocent bird-like creature, in a militaristic world that is dominated by high fasion and flashy billboards is befriended by the not too trustworthy bad boy named Vouku. Vouku’s tendency toward violent entertainment and vehicular homicide only serve to increase Cork’s angst. After a trip to the game their attitudes are changed by a vision of angels dancing at a ho-down on the head of a needle.

You Take Care Now, an early student film, is a perfect exemplar of Ann Marie Fleming's idiosyncratic vision and stands as one of her signature works. Made on 16mm, and incorporating found footage, original material, animation, and processed images (Vancouver's groundbreaking avant-garde cinema of the 1970s is a decided influence here), Fleming's film offers a visually dazzling, emotionally wrenching, oddly humorous account of two profound personal traumas.

Merry Mother Goose - Approx 30 minutes (1986, reissued in 1990) "Merry Mother Goose" "Mrs. Mooley" "There's No Such Thing as a Dragon" (by Jack Kent)

When wonders of nature - dazzling metamorphoses of living creatures and the beauty of it all - astound us, we are often captured by mysterious inner functions, mechanisms and principles, as well as what we can see

An animated film about the appropriateness of new technology and its effects on people. The case in point revolves around a bank whose human tellers find themselves unemployed when they are replaced by electronic tellers. A mild-mannered client of the bank is overwhelmed and humiliated by his first encounter with the dispassionate computer.

A New Year's story about a little girl's friendship with a carousel lion.

An artist’s hectic day-to-day life revolves around the telephone, straight out of the artist's drawing board. In less than five minutes, we've experienced a day jam-packed with little incidents.

An animation by the students of Laboratorio Lanterna Magica.

Light Pharmacy: 4.1 is part of a series of 'film haiku' concerned primarily with the reflection and refraction of sunlight, and dream representation.---AGN "A surreal fantasy - almost a homage to Maya Deren. Nigrin has a fine feeling for imagery and pacing."---William Sloan, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 1988.

Goofy explains how to avoid making common consumer errors and get the best value for one's money by setting priorities, comparing prices, and looking for sales.

Join the fun with Punky and her pals Cherie, Margaux and Allen, her guardian Henry, her cuddly dog Brandon and a very special secret friend called Glomer. Glomer is no ordinary creature. But folks from magical villages rarely are! The fun really starts when Punky tries to explain Glomer's antics to a puzzled Henry. And it's not easy for Punky to explain Glomer's walking through solid walls, flying through the air, or transporting people anywhere in the world with a blink of an eye!

While preparing for a party, a couple encounters a pink butterfly born from the branches of a heavenly cherry blossom.

Art film on the topic of environmental devastation.

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

A comedic Iraqi cartoon about the war with Iran.

Cartoon about a person who wants to break out of the framework around him - sometimes it's no use fighting back.

A dark creature turns up in a city and starts turning everything it touches black.

About animals in the zoo and returning them home.

The piece is composed of four movements, imitating classical sonata form, and features photographs of walls, gravel roads, etc., which are likened to musical scales. At the climax, the photographs are shredded into pieces and their colors are changed by adding paint, creating a dazzling "visual music."

A scientific report about a bizarre, new creature and its life cycle, told from a child's point of view. On one level it is amusing, on another, the new creature can be seen as a symbol of healing the fragmentation of living with and within different worlds.

Rabbit, Squirrel and Monkey help Bear realize that if you want to enjoy the fruits of your labor, you must know how to sow.

Titles for a Channel 4 project that didn't get aired. Released later on YouTube.

A young girl, Grace, bemoans her plain looks