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A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of the most ambitious Czech animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.
Based on episodes of the series "Moomin Stories", the Moomins reminisce about the fondest moments of their lives. Moominpappa reminisces about his childhood; Moomintroll reminisces about how he, Sniff, and Snufkin set out to find out if Earth was truly threatened by a comet; and Moominmamma reminisces about the incredible visit of aliens from outer space.
The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall.
Svankmajer's music video for Hugh Cornwell's "Another Kind of Love."
It's fall. Mausi and Kilo want to fly a kite. Kilo claims that he has the prettier one. Competitive jealousy arises until the mishap is perfect: Mausi sails away on the kite as if on a flying carpet. Kilo proves to be a resourceful rescuer.
Animated short film based on Andersen's tale.
Animated short directed by Alexandra Schatz
What’s a star in a movie? A black dot in the film negative. In the nineteen eighties I enjoyed painting on 35mm blank film and painted a negative. That means every frame was painted in reverse color - black became white, blueish green became red, yellow was to be sort of blue. The result: all colors are on black background - like in the windows in old cathedrals. The music was improvised after the film was finished by Jasper van’t Hof, vocals by Eva Mattes. The film was premiered in competition at the Berlinale 1985.
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.
An old man remembers his brother from photographs, whom he only meets again in a late rubble world. This brother is a bomber pilot. The old man drives a wheelchair through a landscape that resembles the end of time.
The adventures of an old-fashioned master cabinet maker in Munich and the tiny red-haired goblin Pumuckl, who becomes visible to him when he gets stuck to the pot of glue in his workshop. The tiny creature is visible to nobody else and full of mischief, and hilarity ensues as objects are seen moving around and the elderly craftsman seems to be talking to thin air.
Side-walk musician tries to learn the guitar but keeps hitting a false note at the end. This, however, becomes his trademark as he is launched into the role of rock superstar, only to return to his former friend who manages to teach him to play correctly.
Willie, a sweet little woodworm, accidentally becomes a stowaway on Noah's Ark and Noah and the animals believe he is drilling holes into the wooden boat. Can Willie really be responsible?
An attempt to visualize a secret knowledge about the nature of man —a philo-clip—, through the use of structures of dissociated geometry and laser beams, with direct references to the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci and the work of Agrippa von Nettesheim.
A German Film Award winning short animation about endangered hedgehogs.
In the Bavarian village of Schladerbach, the kobold Hatschipuh and his comrades live, of whose existence only Grandpa Reiter is aware. When the building constructor Lederer builds himself a new mansion, the subterranean settlement of the kobolds gets destroyed, and Grandpa Reiter sees himself forced to move them into his barn. But this abode as well is soon threatened: Since the farm is no longer profitable, Father Reiter plans to sell it…
A man tells a strange tale about a hotel he once visited.
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.
A compilation of Disney animated shorts saluting cowboys and the Wild West.
A little fire breaks out in a man’s apartment. He panically tries to call the other inhabitants in the house for help, but nobody lets him speak. Instead he is being happily pulled from one apartment into the next one, making him more and more nervous. Eventually, he runs into the streets and gets into a big group of heady-with-victory football fans.
An attempt to bring texts from Dante's "Divine Comedy" to life. Nine episodes from the Inferno with a concluding episode from the Purgatorio.
Three rats live on the tracks of a subway station. They are doing splendidly - they live fat and full from the falling trash of the pedestrians. But the rats are seized by wanderlust and they want to sign on in a sailor's pub. Well, the journey to the wide world becomes a flop - no place for rats! Remorsefully they return to "their" subway...
The song of the sirens, sitting on the rocks, attracts to her kingdom sailors from beyond: Greeks, Vikings, Pirates ...
The Old Testament story of Joseph, who is sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers.
Hearts, painted on 35mm film.
A short animation film on Martin Luther and the origins of the Reformation, one told with wry humor and paper cut-outs.
A visual allegory connecting polynesian mythology with the notorious atom bomb testing.
The film was made in response to the assassination attempt on the Pope in Rome. The Vicar of Christ is kidnapped by his former lover and, because he gives the only answer to the crucial question, but the wrong one, she shoots him with a paintbrush.
Puppets play the story based on the famous children's song.
What happened to mankind? They stopped being afraid of ghosts and now a family of ghosts is afraid themselves. And if that was not enough, a disco is planned to be build above their crypt
Little Katrinchen the hen is looking for a nesting place. She escapes an encounter with a fox unscathed by convincing him she's still too thin. A little dog helps her find a safe hiding place. Once the chicks have hatched, the fox reappears. This time, the little hens, with long red rushes in their beaks, chase him away, pretending to be fox-eaters. The chicken thief is finally driven off by the little dog, who proudly displays the fox's tail as a trophy of victory.
Egon arrives. Rather, Egon arrives late. If he had arrived on time, the situation which had made his arrival unwelcome, would not have occured. He would have been welcomed and this farce would not have been able to take place...
On a lonely island, where Odysseus has to serve the nymph Calypso, he remembers his great adventures: the glorious victory over Troy; the curse of the sea god Poseidon, whose son he overpowered; the wrestling with Circe, the Lotophagi, the Sirens with their enticing death song and the battle with the bloodthirsty Scylla. Penelope, his wife, meanwhile fights against intrusive suitors who want to kill Odysseus. Athena sends him his son as a savior, who defeats Proteus, Poseidon's vassal. Odysseus is able to free himself from Calypso. Disguised as a beggar, he returns home, punishes the suitors who are after his money and is reunited with Penelope.
A piece of lint from a Beethoven fan's record collection sticks to the clothes of a bank robber. Inspector Koschonsky finds the lint and solves the case using a chain of evidence consisting of lint, musical notes, and sounds.
The folk song "Between mountain and deep, deep valley..." is illustrated. Two hares think the hunter has shot them dead. When they realize that this is not the case, they happily hop away.
An author describes the story of his planned film to his producer. He sends "Lisa and Harry—she East, he West" into space. While the two are in space, the last world war breaks out, causing the Earth to regress. The letter to the producer is never sent...
A beetle flees from a bird. There is no hiding place where it is safe from its pursuer. It hides in a dark crevice where the bird's beak cannot reach. The beetle laughs at the bird. It has not yet realized that it is sitting in the space between the earth and the sole of a man's shoe.
A man tries his hardest to turn a large winged screw. He succeeds. The picture opens with a crack: the screw is stuck in the back of a huge woman who begins to dance. The little man jumps away in horror.
A circus portal takes us to a dreamlike world of colorful clowns and trapeze artists.
Animator Thomas Stellmach's first cartoon, produced at the Academy of Art in Kassel.
Film collage on the theme of painters and models.
Animated short film
A little mouse is struggling terribly to bring in her harvest. She has overestimated her strength, the load is too heavy. He suspiciously refuses any help, but has to realize that others think more selflessly, because they have secretly grabbed the load and pushed it along. Together with her helpers, the mouse celebrates the harvest festival.
In the year 2047 Ray City has become the refuge for a totally infested world. Max Maker is sent via a landspeeder! to search the jungle for survivors of the nuclear disaster. But what he finds are 'nuclear zombies', which prey on fresh human flesh…
A talking man and a scratching female artist.
A raindrop falls from a leaf and seeps into the earth. Within, it is permeated by beauty, cruelty, happiness and sadness.
Drawn portraits of a man with a beard.
Sisyphus has been condemned by Zeus to roll a stone up the mountain. With difficulty he moves it upwards, the colossus regularly rolls back. Sisyphus ages, the stone weathers. They are attuned to each other. Sisyphus accidentally pushes too hard and the stone rolls over the hilltop into the abyss. Sisyphus misses the stone.
Animated short directed by Michael Schaack.
Second of four "musical arabesks".
A fisherman waits on the quay for prey. But when a fish finally bites, unusual things start to happen...
Based on a true incident involving a fatal riot at a Brussels football stadium, Spectators explores the behavior of crowds and the manipulation of the masses. At once ambiguous and deeply revealing, the film captures the emotional state of an audience gradually losing control.
Inspired by a visit to the mines of Falun, the film depicts dreamlike movements through a fictional mine, composed of images from several ore mines in Sweden and Germany.
The theme of "David and Goliath" is varied through colors, structures and shades in a kind of workshop film. Collage-like graphic elements, materials and different fabrics are used to allow form, color and structure to be experienced in their correspondence to each other and to movement and music.
Computer animated short film showcasing the work of the German CGI software firm Mental Images GmbH.