A Guest from Elsewhere

When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.

Three survivors fight to escape a monstrous alternate universe with only one key to get out.

DEO A reimagining of Deo Gratias (ca. 1497) by Johannes Ockeghem. A Film by Eric Leiser. Animation by Eric Leiser. Composed by Pauline Kim Harris and Spencer Topel Deo is an acoustic-electronic transcription of Johannes Ockeghem’s stunning Deo Gratias devised as a complement to Ambient Chaconne. Notable as a 36-part canon, Ockeghem evokes singing of angels in heaven via an innovation on a traditional canon, using this ancient musical device as a kind of acoustic feedback delay. In essence, our Deo expands this idea of delays to a canon of thousands, in an ever expanding and infinite soundscape, where the melodies eventually dissolve into resonance.

In a typical day at swim practice our protagonist is bombarded by the whistling of her eccentric coach, the majesty of the older swimmers, the horror of getting her period, and naughty recordings on her teammate’s cellphone. All while, the protagonist comes to understand herself and her body.

The Captain continues his journey through the many wormholes. Running into many of the paths laid out before him. Where will he end up?

Nyosha is a ten year old girl. She dreams of buying a pair of shoes during the reality of a pitiless war. She believes that because of her shoes, she will stay alive.A range of animation techniques brings together the dream and the reality and tells Nyosha's story.

A young girl and her pet duck tell the story of the time they were stuck on an airplane over Christmas, haunted by an omni-present Santa Claus.

On Halloween night, a little girl receives a spooky visit.

Peter Press has been living with a press for 20 years and has completed his squaring process. But an incident forces him to remove his press and to take on a different Shape. This will go up against his beliefs and endanger his entrance to paradise. He starts a journey where he discovers that the Other Shape is the last trace of his individuality.

A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.

A police officer has a wild night

Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.

Autobots, Decepticons, Predaking and Predacons form an unlikely alliance to battle a resurrected Unicron.

Planet Kathigana and it’s inhabitants, the Kathigas, have been ravaged by war at the hands of the evil Anadaîn. The Anadaîn are treacherous beings with overwhelming powers hell-bent on eradicating everything in their path. Kedjorian, a revered Kathiga hero has been assigned to protect a sacred emissary, a messenger who possesses the map to the Raiven, the legendary weapon that could end the war. Kedjorian’s ship is shot down and forces him to crash land in the outskirts of Kathigana, a region overrun with Anadaîn forces. Despite being gravely injured, Kedjorian must fight with everything he’s got to protect the emissary and the map from a very powerful Andaîn grunt. Kedjorian confronts the troubling notion that he must give everything, including his own life, to protect a weapon that may or may not exist…

When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for. Ponyo is a curious, energetic young creature who yearns to be human, but even as she causes chaos around the house, her father, a powerful sorcerer, schemes to return Ponyo to the sea.

Courageous Cucumber travels and helps animals and birds.

A reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Penelope, ”the most faithful of wives”, who waited 20 years for her husband Odysseus to return from The Trojan War. In this animation, the two of them are presented in a more modern setting. While Odysseus is busy exploring the universe in his space rocket, Penelope is stuck at home, taking care of the children, showing how traditional gender roles say men should work, while women stay at home.

Danju sets out to save his muse from an evil power determined to break his spirit once and for all. This film was created as an entry for Bricks In Motion's annual animation competition (BRAWL), and won 5th place out of 150+ entries.

A seemingly perfect first date is interrupted by a couple's dating app that has doubts about anything but less than 100% compatibility. When two new-found lovers start questioning their compatibility over a simple card game due to a dating app's involvement, they struggle to keep a lid on their emotions as their future seems to play out in front of their very eyes. Is this app just a tech gimmick, or does it reflect so much more? With the question, do we all have a pre-planned excavated path looming over our heads? Their decisions seem to be influenced by the possible future instead of the present. Ella finds herself wondering what would happen if she just stepped out of the trampled path and into her own

Classic restored cartoons from the 1930's produced by the Van Beuren Studio.