Legacy takes the audience on a rapid-fire journey through the evolution of the world, starting with a cosmic bang, evolving through billions of years of plants, animals and the creation of natural resources, ending with man and his bounty – “sitting on his world contemplating his coconut”. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
A generational trauma through the lens of an Asian American teenager through food and poetry.
A five-minute film for The Disney-MGM Studios combining live-action and animation. Mickey Mouse recalls his first big audition and subsequent filmmaking career.
Deus ex Machina
How long has it been since she lost control of her body? She is completely tapped out and finds herself wishing that she could just shed her body.
The tale of the blacksmith Stepan, who returned the Moon, the Stars and the Sun to people.
Villainous Vector must figure out how to get off the moon and return to Earth.
Naive, pretty and pretensious Tasiko will get angry at her friend and runs in forest, where she finds herself face-to-face with a wolf. Her loyal friends will save her from the trouble.
It's hunting season, as well as Eda's 25th birthday. As a present, her father offers her an apartment under seizure.
Bodney Brooks, a twelve year old master of computer controlled puppetry, decides to arrange a surprise birthday party for his Gran in an attempt to get back into his family’s good books. But, as ever in Bodney’s world, things don’t quite go to plan.
The last habitants of a village refuse to let themselves sink into oblivion.
Everyone of us has got at least one irrational fear ... in the case of Figaro Pho, he has them all.
Lee’s anxiety builds and inconveniences push them over the edge of their own imagined catastrophes.
In Tijuana, Mexico, Gabriel is a man who once had a normal and happy life alongside his family. He now seeks revenge for the murder of his son at the hands of a group of vampires that roam the city at night, stalking its inhabitants. Gabriel's days blur into one another as he tries to track down the murderers he calls "leeches", without knowing that his revenge will bring serious consequences for his wife and himself.
Animators and urban planners both create worlds, but Czech stop motion specialist Jiří Barta's ingenious paper cut-out short punctures the stifling architecture of communist housing. Skilled hands blueprint an apartment tower standardized specifications. Envelopes contain the elements of each home. Family dwellings, bachelor pads, scholarly studies and artist studios: different social configurations are permitted but restrained to the same uniform box. A dystopian revision of the REAR WINDOW scenario, THE DESIGN's darkly comic social critique still has teeth.
In one depot, two trams lived together. All day long, they traveled around the city, filling the streets with cheerful clatter, and they were happy. But in life, nothing lasts forever.
One day, unexpectedly, a girl loses the colored freckles covering her body. She and her boyfriends will try to recover the color disappeared from their lives.
Loose impressionistic brushstrokes sketch a series of portraits of two faces, one male and one female, while the verse on the soundtrack tells the tale of both one and a thousand relationships.
Killed in war, a man must overcome the various obstacles he encounters in limbo to save his life and thus meet his son, about to be born.
A loving mother must give the ultimate sacrifice to save her family from a supernatural force bent on tearing their world apart.