The Duckling Saved the Day

Indian and Cowboy are about to set off on a magnificent cruise on a luxury liner, but they have made a big mistake. They completely forgot that today is the first day of school! Goodbye tropical islands, our friends are back at their desks in school listening as the teacher drones on and on.

Dad irons. Child tidies up. Mum breathes out.

Video Weavings is a link between the modern (video) and the ancient (weaving) technologies. Video Weavings are based on poetic mathematical rhymes, or algorithms, visualized in real time on the warp and weft of video's horizontal and vertical scanning electron beams, color phosphors, plasma cells, and LCD pixels.

Abstract computer animation set to autoharp solo music composed and performed by Jordan Belson

The story of four children from around the world who try to rescue the sun from an evil sorcerer.

The map of an American city goes on a quest across the world to find oil in order to feed its body, made of streets, highways and freeways.

Three young orphans team up with the Frankenstein Monster to battle a Wolfman in their small mountain community.

Stop-motion animation illustrates nature-themed poetry.

An introverted man creates a pillow friend in his hotel room to ease his loneliness but this new friendship is short-lived when the maid makes the bedding again and again.

First Indian animated film in color, based on a tale from the Buddhist Jatakas.

A bear cub who has trouble sleeping during winter sneaks out of the house and makes a new friend.

A legendary and friendly creature named Nessie lives happily in a small pond with her friend MacQuack, a rubber duck. When a rich developer takes the pond and land surrounding it to build a miniature golf course, Nessie is forced to search for a new home.

One of several short films. Claymation that follows the misadventures of a mad anthropomorphic frog chef, often facing mishaps and disaster in his kitchen.

A stop motion animated 16mm film combining the Wizard of Oz and the hunt for Bin Laden, with music by V. Vale and Jad Fair.

Day by day, a strange figure chases an officer worker in this scribbling, textural animation. Is the creature as horrifying as it seems?

A poem about a person with jelly for a head.

Lee’s anxiety builds and inconveniences push them over the edge of their own imagined catastrophes.

An extraterrestrial tries in vain to establish contact with scientists on Earth. Unfortunately the first human he meets is Akimych the forester who doesn't believe in miracles.

For the multimedia exhibition Tangenten I (Tangents I), Dammbeck and co-organizer, sculptor and painter Frieder Heinze had planned to collaborate on a film that would combine non-camera animation with 35mm footage of a train ride between the two Dresden districts of Radebeul and Pieschen. When the exhibition was banned in 1978, Heinze turned to other projects, but Dammbeck continued working on the film by himself. Metamorphoses I—the first experimental film ever to be shown publicly in East Germany—marks the filmic beginning of Dammbeck’s long-term art project the Herakles-Konzept (Hercules Concept).

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