A French animated short film delves into a family living in Harlem's black ghetto, where a girl faces the choice between freedom and death. Features music by Johnny Otis.
A Man's Cat observes and witnesses his descent into madness at the end of his seasonal depression during the last days of winter.
Mysterious lifeforms “Happy Bogeys” appear and change shape and form. Do their mysterious words and actions mean anything? This little gem makes you feel happy.
A burst of cheer and refreshment that it seems perfectly suited to a late July afternoon.
A Marxist-Leninist-Maoist revision of the Allegory of the Cave, filled with talking animals who shall be late and bourgeois queens who would like to see you without a head, exactly as Plato intended.
A vulnerable boy works very hard to escape from a stark reality. He surrounds himself by a world of toys and games but as the truth starts to emerge his refuge might turn out to be a trap.
A lonely boy meets a peculiar being growing flowers. As friendship and respect grows between them, it will be put at risk by the conflict over their values.
Journey of a man's visit to an all-male sex club bathhouse.
A stranger enters a town that has been evacuated because of an unexploded bomb. Meanwhile the inhabitants are watching through telescopes and are getting restless at the stranger’s antics.
A snowman comes to life in this charming and playful stop motion short. In danger of melting once spring rolls around, the snowman eventually departs for an icier climate, perhaps to return next winter.
Based on a short story Konstantin Paustovsky, Alexey Karaev uses a paint-on-glass animation technique to tell the story of those that pass the days in an old house.
A friendly moose lets an insect hitch a ride on his antlers. But the moose is soon taken advantage of, as more and more forest creatures (including a bear!) take up residence in his antlers. How can the moose get rid of these unwanted guests? Based on a Dr. Seuss story.
A small creature travels through a well, hanging on a bubble and encountering various other strange life-forms.
people are leaving a town by the order of military. but a Little boy doesn't want to follow them. he wants to complete his own mission but...
Jules Engel's Accident (1973) is a two-fold work of lithography and experimental animation to equally assert this awareness in the history of art, cinema, and experimental animation. Aside from a surface language of animal locomotion, the primacy of the frame as a principle of timing acceleration, deceleration and variation is fulfilled in the collective Muybridge, Engel and Deleuze. (stephenherbert.co.uk)
Run Wrake's iconic meathead character - first established in 1994's "Jukebox" bobs his head to PIL through the streets of NYC.
Short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.
Montage of crazy stream of consciousness imagery from Run Wrake - mixing animation and live action.
Directed and animated by Run Wrake, a one minute illustration of Paul Merton's words on Sudoku commissioned by the BBC for the Radio 4 website.
Irina Evteeva’s debut quickly became a kind of manifesto for the one-room experimental studio: it defines classification by interweaving animation, appropriated footage, feature and documentary to form a unique whole, a film that rushes backwards into the future, thereby re-inventing Futurism. Mayakovskiy is the star; his occasional presence holds together a film driven by the sound, the beat, of his poetry. Evteeva develops a dramatic structure of flaring, fading, being from light: violin strings become rays, quivering dull yellow spots, pictures. The plot assails the material from which it derives energy from material. History, growling and roaring, finds its form.