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A teenage projectionist's fever dream.

A man on a beach, aims a gun at his head. The shoot only grazes his forehead, leaving a scar. As he walks along the streets, he notices scars on other people’s heads. Those who aim, those who are aimed at. Who are they, who are they shooting?

It is the time when riot police buses were parked in front of university gates, and the campus was under the surveillance of police officers in disguise. After a protesting student commits suicide by throwing oneself out of the library building, the police install mosquito nets on the library windows.

The beautiful Pacific Northwest - "it gives my mind ease!"

The engineer sitting behind his desk in his studio is tormented by visions and hallucinations, much like St. Anthony the Hermit once was. Women, apparitions, creatures, and skeletons from the paintings of Bosch and Dali appear. In the drawings he creates, there are more and more mechanical insects and birds, and finally, with the help of a computer, he manages to construct combat aircraft. He begins to control them. Explosions ring out. They are accompanied by the demonic laughter of the demiurge...

John Davis' student Film Project from 1983 (SMU) starring the late great Tom Alexander and some stop-motion aliens and robots.

Animation short about weather.

Citazioni is inspired by the painting "The Hell of Musicians" by Hieronymus Bosch.

Animation for an unrealized visual album by Supersempfft, previously unreleased.

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

In Joe Laudati's award-winning student short, "Ten Thousand Demons" (1985) a young man is dealing with a problem: divorced parents! He escapes into the art of stop motion monster animation. You will see how stop-motion models are made and how they start out as drawings, get baked (which can stink up the place), and acting it out before animating.

World hunger: this partly animated film points out the connections between surplus and famine. It shows a game of chance being played across continents and down the centuries. Meanwhile, a young shop assistant in a supermarket demonstrates the links between past and present, international and local events. A trip round the world offers a fresh insight into the use of food as a commodity and as a weapon, and into what we can do about it.

CG animation.

An elephant wishes she was a different color.

Recurring nuclear nightmares.

Computer animated short from the perspective of a spider.

Animated short with live-action intro.

A Short film about a cow that doesn't want to eat grass.

A passionate monologue about sexuality as imagined by a Venezuelan drag queen.

Three chefs compete to create the perfect frog-based dish on St. Patrick's Day

On how the dog was created

An astronomical love story.

Creatively inspired, but the puppet can’t seem to execute his ideas. After repeatedly revising, he finds himself dominated by his creation instead. A creative beginning results in an unexpected ending. The subjective “human” becomes the object.

Imaginary digital universes created using the automapping process (which is repeatedly mapping an animated sequence onto itself).

Channel 4 and S4C commissioned the Quartet in 1987 and immediately the first film Prelude won the Rank Award for Best Production on Film at the Celtic Film Festival. Classical quartet form was the musical starting point which was combined with a desire to experiment with the relationships between music and painting, and between paint and illustration. It was seen on Channel 4 and S4C as a full length TV programme

Short animation by Reiko Yokosuka.

Charcoal drawings depict the bleak world of the worker. Pastel drawings illustrate his dreams. Oftentimes, they are dreams created by the media. Are they tailored to his real needs? Or his pocketbook? This film comments indirectly on the impact of publicity and its power to develop appetites that cannot be satisfied.

A biker discovered a strange machine in a box abandoned on the side of the road. After that, he had a shockingly unforgettable night.

An animated story about a farm girl whose father will not allow her to keep a stray puppy until an event occurs that makes him reverse his decision.

an Animated Short Film about Waddles

The alphabet is brought to life in a montage of songs, film footage and animation. A friendly giraffe animates each letter of the alphabet which are accompanied by clips of animals furnished by the National Geographic Society.

"My TV Dictionary: The Drill" is one of several video works Breder created by re-editing recorded footage from cable television movies. This video conveys the violent and sexist subtext of the 24/7 stream of cable television "and thus becomes a potent metaphor for our times" - Jon Hanhardt, 1987

Super 8 veiled film, scratched by hand, coloured with solvent inks and synchronised to Ravel's "Bolero".

The adventures of a rag doll named Mistress Bangwell Putt.

Children's program from the 80s. Kento Girubāto & Jun Marī's song "After the Fight"

AIDS information campaign aimed at young people. The animated film tells how to protect yourself from AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.

"Retrospectively, I could say that this work, realized collectively, was an essay of animation cinema, a clip with no other pretension than the pleasure of associating images to a song of the group Gang of Four. Our bias for the graphic framework was to take into account the rhythm and the sound atmosphere of the song, a few key words from the text and the images filmed during the concert."

Animated short about a cat and a dog and a car.

Foofur and his friends rival with a woman named Mrs. Amelia Escrow and her pet Chihuahua named Pepe. Foofur with his gang occupies a mansion, in 32 Maple Street, which is also his birthplace. Mrs. Escrow does everything to sell the estate, but fails.

A film composed only of abstract images animated with black litho pencil on paper. Inspired by a quote from Burning Souls by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel: "I'm trying to imagine my grandfather on the train taking him far away."

Katura receives a mysterious key from her grandmother, who instructs her to go across the forest to attend a Halloween ball at the castle. Along the way, Katura encounters witches and ghouls, a missing prince and a shapeshifting cat.

1989 computer animation produced by IBM.

Kids build a donkey, a rocket, and a fortress out of snow.

A jazzy, graffiti-inspired, sci-fi noir drawn directly onto film.

3 Tales from the Care Bears - Approx 30 minutes (1986) "The Trouble With Timothy" "The Best Prize of All" (featuring the Care Bear Cousins) "Being Brave is Best"