Five Small Stories

Demmo descends deep into his building's maintenance level in order to restore power to his aprtment. Will he ever finish his Dark Void for Playstation 3 video review?

3-D is a hand-painted experimental short film by Riley Hogan. Acrylic paint, ink and scratching were used to animate on clear Super 8mm film leader.

Once upon a time there was a paper boat, who lived in an abandoned toy store, that embarks on the journey of his life.

Eike Granford discovers what happens to good men who do bad things.

This bizarre parody of the animated religious children’s show Davey and Goliath uses actors but looks like Claymation because of the stop motion, distorted voices, giant prosthetic ears and hair and sets that make Pee-Wee’s Playhouse look realistic. Davey’s father whips him with a belt for saying that he saw a bear, though he really did see a bear, while his sister looks on in glee. His dog Goliath, actually a leopard-skin footrest with a grotesque tail, tries to help but gets whipped too. Oedipal dream sequences and Davey’s revenge are also highlights in this unforgettable and darkly hilarious suburban nightmare.

The Big Bad Wolf torments Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs.

Penguins dance and play in Antarctica.

Cookies, pastries, and other desserts have a parade.

Musical instruments are the stars of a romantic fable set in the Land of Symphony and the Isle of Jazz, two islands separated by the Sea of Discord. The violin princess and the saxophone prince fall in love, but must meet secretly in order to avoid the wrath of their parents, the Symphony queen and the Jazz king. The queen finds the boy saxophone on her island, attempting to woo her daughter. She has him locked in the metronome, but the young lover manages to send a note - in fact, several musical notes on sheet music - that conveys the message that he has been imprisoned. The Isle of Jazz declares war by blasting musical notes across the sea. The only thing that can bring peace and harmony to the Sea of Discord is love.

A kitten runs off to be a robber with a dog.

A colony of nymph babies bathe and play in a river.

A robin is shot so the woodland community holds a trial to investigate.

Pluto accidentally hatches a bunch of chickens and looks after them until the hen returns.

From the makers of Hardware Wars comes an all puppet remake of Plan 9 From Outer Space.

PAMON are magical and mysterious creatures who can move the hair on their head however they wish, and communicate using their chest hair. This tale takes a peek at an ordinary day for the PAMON.

The catfish can't get back to the sea. A big catfish is stuck on a riverbank, where he lives quietly with a little catfish in a boat packed with memories from back home.

This piece takes 8 seconds, and creates intervals between the frames, and then makes them bigger. It's about expansion and enlargement, not the passage of time. 8 seconds becomes that much more luxuriant.

The story of the first nuclear power plant 100% made in Switzerland… but also the last.

A humble paintbrush assumes unprecedented powers in this bravura display of eye-popping, mind-bending, and body-morphing ingenuity.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.