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Opening animation for URACON II.

A pointillist world embraces and integrates the movement of bees, stars and atoms, Kandinsky’s continuum of point to line to plane.

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

A very early example of fractal-generated terrain.

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

I started to explore fractals and the Mandelbrot set soon after I read about them in A.K. Dewdney's article in the August, 1985 issue of Scientific American. The concept of infinite recursion is still fascinating to me: The deeper you look, the more complicated the forms become. Philip Brazer approached me with music that he thought would work with my animated sequences. His music sets these fractals in a haunting, floating stasis that I never want to leave.

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.

From Worldcat: A young boy is lonely in his new neighborhood until he converts a shoebox into a magic diorama and sees his old friends trick-or-treating. Adapted from the story of the same title by Ezra Jack Keats. For elementary grades.

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

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.

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”

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

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

Boys buy an aeroplane and fly to the United States.

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.

Letters of the alphabet come to life to teach the ABCs to young children.

About a cheerful autumn holiday in a Moldavian village.

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.

An animated UK public information film which explains what to do if you see somebody in trouble on a visit to coastal areas.

Wolke in Hosen

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.

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.

Animation by Jeff Wein

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

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.

Animated film about magical bears that dance.

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!

Art film on the topic of environmental devastation.

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

Computer animated short featuring two little blob creatures.

Panorama of authoritarianism and oppression, through three characters who move in sync with the musical score.

This stereoscopic 3D animation shows the pressure distribution obtained from a full 3D simulation of the flow inside a gas turbine.

Two children see a hat blown away by the breeze that lands at the top of a tall tree.

The fantasy is that generals will stop fighting and start growing flowers.

An episode of the series featuring the "compa" Clodomiro, who talks about capitalism in a didactic way.

Short by Copper Giloth

From one room to another, through space, the new threads from New Jersey.

An elaborately detailed, colorful, and humorous animation.

A ringing sound breaks into a woman's sleep. The sinister telephone becomes tangled in its own cord and plunges into dreamlike oblivion. As no one answers the call, nothing will ever come of it, and it will remain an enigma, cloaked in anonymity and nothingness.

Mushrooms are deceiving. They can play tricks with your head. In this animation film, mushrooms are a powerful metaphor. Their metamorphosis suggests that life is a vast "food chain." If this is indeed our reality, can we, the consumers, escape being consumed? A film that serves up a riveting "plat du jour.

This animated film carries a positive message about the importance of helping others. Friends of the Family centres around a sister and brother who awaken each morning to a secure and comfortable environment where all their needs are taken care of. When plans to collect for UNICEF are discussed over breakfast, the boy questions the reasons for doing so. A sweep of the animator's brush sends the children into a world they have never before seen, a world without even the necessities of life. Through the experience, they realize the purpose of raising funds for foreign aid and at the same time learn how children can make a worthwhile contribution to their brothers and sisters around the world.

Characters on different parts of a female body point us in various directions as we follow along.

This colourful stop-motion animation utilises Essendon Airport drummer Paul Fletcher's collection of dolls and nick-nacks.

All the images in this film, dedicated to painting, are strewn with blows and incisions in the colored matter. Between attraction and repulsion, a fight is engaged at the accelerated rhythm of a drum solo.

Having dutifully served their lord for decades, two nuns find out that ecstasy does not only come from above.

4 linked racing series episodes including Demolition Duel and Battle of the Giants

Released as part of the "Comic Strip" video lineup. Contains "The Fish Tank" and "Sark to the Rescue."

Emphasizes the uppercase alphabet and beginning sounds in seven short segments using original music, animation, puppets and live action.