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Freeze frame: the most absurd technique since the invention of the moving image. Through an elaborate process of duplicating the same image over and over again, it creates the illusion of stillness. In this stop-motion film, identical figures try to perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice, like archivists. The repetitive movements reanimate the animals captured inside the blocks.
In ‘The Secret of Balthasar Castle’, the first cinematic adventure of the Europa-Park mascots, Ed, Edda and their friends have to solve the riddle of the mysterious castle. The five friends encounter and master some exciting situations as the adventurous treasure hunt takes them through the mysterious catacombs of Balthasar Castle. It’s no question that Ed, Edda, Eurofant, Böckli and Louis have to show a lot of courage here, as only together can they decipher the great secret.
In a small village at the end of the world, a letter carrier works with a very special professional attitude: he prefers to replace the mail he is supposed to deliver with letters he has written himself. The villagers love these letters because they make everyone laugh, from the clochard to the policeman, from the fat lady to the priest, and even the grumpy landlord likes this mail. But then the head post office finds out about the matter...
Story loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Bottle Imp".
Short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.
Quasimodo grew up under the protection of the Abbott of Notre Dame. He never left the church, because people did not like him and he did not like people, until he saw the pretty gypsy Esmeralda dancing one day. Quasimodo decided to be there for her always.
Green was the symbol of recognition among the supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi. This documentary-collage illustrates with animated blogs and tweets the story of democracy under fire and the dramatic events before and after the 2009 presidential elections in Iran.
When Mimi, a loyal scrappy mongrel, is alarmingly separated from Evi, her owner, she will stop at nothing to get back to her mistress. Mimi is a dog from a painting. Leaping out of her picture and into the real world, she recruits the proud dog Harold, a lover of art, and leaps with him back into the fully alive world of paintings. Travelling together through the dizzying history of painting, from Da Vinci to Marc, the two will have to be brave and smart in their race against time - for, all around them, these artworks are gradually disappearing. Mimi and Harold make their way to Mimis painter, to convince her to pick up her palette again and bring the endangered paintings back to life!
Mouse doesn't have any idea what treasure awaits him when he stumbles across an abandoned box on Monday morning. It is then Croc who makes it his own. Then there are Moggy, Dachshund, Frog, Snail and Porker who get possession of it as well - only to find that the box cannot be possessed, or at least not in the way they thought.
He is thrilled about his brand new "Video 3000" VCR. Unfortunately the stupid thing doesn't work - or does it?
Animated short based on a children's book by Benno Pludra. Winter has enchanted the city and harbour. Only boatman is boring, no one plays with him. Captain Putt Bräsing has an insight with his little dog and entrusts him Uwe, Jochen and Katrinchen to frolic around. The children go on a research trip to the beach.
A look at the life of a woman with an autoimmune disease.
A device consisting of a clock, a pendulum, a faucet and a bucket enacts a series of events whenever the clock chimes.
A compilation of Disney animated shorts saluting cowboys and the Wild West.
Experimental short film by Oskar Fischinger. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.
So, my dad was a secret agent? Imagine Zoe Straneks surprise when she finds out her dad didn’t work at Starbucks, but used to be an intergalactic agent, protecting our planet against Alien invasions. So when Ulav, her dads old partner and weird comedic alien, tells her this, she decides to step into her father's footsteps. Together with her new alien bestie and her best friends Quigley and Rock, she protects our planet from General Gore, the ultimate badass alien, in memory of her beloved father.
A composite portrait of the human body assembled from details captured by close-up photography of over five hundred men and women of all ages and from all over the world.
A early puppet animation by Ferdinand Diehl
Film adaptation of the folk tale "The Hare and the Hedgehog": A slow but shrewd hedgehog challenges an equally nimble and snooty hare to a race in a field [filmportal].
Pioneer of silhouette animation, Lotte Reiniger, uses this technique in a retelling of the Greek legend in which the sculptor, Pygmalion, brings a statue to life.
A long time ago, there lived a tailor in Selva who was highly regarded for his good work. However, he was a crook who often cheated his customers. This is what happened to Hans, a carver, whose wedding suit turned out to be too small because the mayor's son was dressed in the fabric he had taken. Then Rübezahl intervened. The magic power of the mountain spirit caused all the cloth, which the tailor had wrongly acquired, to dissolve into nothing. Some people, including dignitaries, stood there in their underwear and the tailor felt the wrath of those who had been cheated. Hans received a new suit and shoes from Rübezahl and was now able to marry his Marie.
It's late in the evening. A man leaves a building, lights a cigarette and smokes it in one drag. He casually flicks the stub away – everything as always. Only this time... all the cigarette butts in the city become alive.
An autobiographical film about my childhood in Syria, the war and my escape from it. My childhood was happy but unusual: my mother raised me as a girl. When I became a teenager I was buoyed up by the energy of youth and a desire to change the world. Then the war broke out and I had to leave everything behind.
They say that love is blind and there must be some truth in it, because in this comic tale, a good-looking frog falls for the velvety skin of an imitation lady-frog that graces a pair of slippers belonging to the farmer's wife. But their happiness is short-lived, because real frogs can't really fall in love with imitation frogs... can they?
Three experts provide deep insights into a highly explosive topic. However, it is doubtful whether expert number four will be invited again.
The little, prickly hegdehog is very sad. Nobody wants to dance with him because of his prickly spikes. So he decides to go to the hairdresser and get a curly hairdo. Although he looks very pretty, he is not able to protect himself. When the fox tries to catch him, his friends save him.
Because Dummling has a good heart, fate leads him to a princess waiting for rescue.
Two flocks of sheep are searching for companionship. But their shepherds, being at odds with each other, do everything to keep them separated.
More extreme than South Park, Rout City takes us to a similar experience - fasten your seat-belts...
Laura gets the chance to fly to China with her family. Her mother is supposed to give a concert with Chinese musician to celebrate the New Year.
A colony of cockroaches feasts on the food in an old refrigerator, while a lone roach stands guard outside. When a man discovers the infestation and tries to destroy them all, the brave little roach defends himself and his fellows.
The little people emerging from the optical film projector activated by a fly accompany the audience through key milestones in a century of film history. Which classic films can you recognize in the film?
A little girl finds the whole world in a leaf.
A commercial for Stollwerck chocolate.
A wicked giant attempts to steal all of the instruments from a small town.
Tells the day of a boy who doesn’t excel in sports, and his gym instructor who simply has to make this day a living hell for him.
What do we burn when our world is already on fire? A woman running from a terrible relationship finds herself eye to eye with a chicken. They share a moment, a cigarette and a desire to burn down everything around them to soothe their respective wounds. A painted flight of fancy about the elation that comes with breaking out of a cycle of pain.
Somewhere in an unknown land of turtles, an old turtle wants to see the world. After hearing a cancan record she wants to dance and decides to take a ship to Europe - to Paris. Once there, she learns how to do the cancan, wears sequinned dresses, stiletto-heeled shoes and net stockings. She loses these wonderful things on her journey home but she still has her memories and the zest for life.
Based on the historical land survey by Carl Friedrich Gauss and Christian Ludwig Gerling, ‘Maps of Wilderness’ explores the limits of measurability. Precise tools encounter weather, distance and that which cannot be fully captured. Analogue animation techniques and a text by Daniela Danz are the starting points for new perspectives by seven female artists.
An obsolete prince wants to read the newspaper. A resolute princess wants to fetch wood. And a thoughtful dragon is looking for a useful birthday present for his grandmother. In the end, everything is different than expected.
It's midnight. A smattering of moonlight falls upon the forest floor. Two mechanical snails move slowly through the darkness. They confront one another and briefly take the measure each other’s powers before uniting in love play. With mounting ecstasy, their transparent bodies begin to glow, but just before climax a dark shadow looms over them...
Entertaining Dadaist experimental short, similar to Man Ray's work, full of shifting geometric shapes, stock footage of seagulls, flying eyeballs, and glaring floating heads.
What is a Lost Place? The idyll of a white mountain landscape whose silence is broken by a wolf chase after its prey? Or is it the man-made world with its search for resources, pleasure and security? Who is intruding on whom? Who is disturbing whom? In Lost Places (Heile Welt), a wolf goes on the prowl.
A cuckoo falls in love with a beautiful robin. The only thing that’s holding him back is... his cuckoo clock.
German propaganda film that mocks the expansion of the British colonies in South Africa, Egypt, India and Jamaica. The film is true to a more serious tone than the stocky British John Bull becomes a giant squid that sends out its tentacles all over the world, and so triggers an attack by German submarines, aircraft and an airship. "The mammal" is an interesting example of early German animated film.
A family of urban foxes embarks on an adventure-filled day-trip to the countryside, after one of its cubs asks to see where he was born.
What remains, unedited, of the first episode of a serial by several hands, subject to a form of supervision-control by Fischinger. It opens with an extremely happy image (a "creative hand" which subsequently returns from time to time) — with shading and movements which appear to have been achieved by the use of the Rotoscope — characters who evoke the commedia dell’arte, in a somewhat joyless tone, but visually dramatic and with echoes of "caligarism". Enno Patalas would like to visit the other surviving episodes, better to understand the spirit of the operation conceived by Louis Seel, designer emeritus and the inspiration of the project. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.
A yellow and blue day in the life of a little child.
A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The figure vanishes and the process begins again with a new pattern, each cycle lasting one or two seconds. The complete figures are drawn in a vaguely Art Deco style and could be said to resemble any number of things, an ear, a harp, panpipes, a grand piano with trombones, and so on, only highly stylized. The tone is playful and hypnotic.
Night has to trick the mother of the missing child into sleeping to save her soul.
Short stop motion animation by Franz Winzentsen.
The steak has been marinating for a few days now. The pan is heated. Franc's stomach is rumbling. But Liza's co-workers surprise her with a birthday party. Will she be home on time?
A diver swims through a deep cave. He encounters a group of swimmers, among whom he finds his reflection. After penetrating it, he is able to emerge from the depths.
"Stichprobe" takes us into the microscopic world of an ordinary household carpet, where the paths of two tiny creatures — a mosquito and a dust mite — cross
Mauxion ad by Pinschewer.