Perpetual Motion

Strange places take shape in a torch’s beam of light and the sound of water droplets hitting the ground punctuates our footsteps. In the distance, we hear muffled music, where does it come from?

Two brothers talk about cars, Altoids, and mortality while birdwatching in the woods.

Year 2145. The discovery of gravitonium allows humans to increase their physical and brain capacities tenfold, leading to a wave of intergalactic exploration that has led to colonies across the universe. In touch with new forms of life, the humans created "The Alliance," a special unit in charge of the regulation of resources and intergalactic conflicts. But the Saurian race, aliens dependent upon gravitonium, jeopardize the balance in the universe. When The Alliance's Espérance ship is attacked, two Alliance Space Agents are tasked to secure the ship. On board, the future of all mankind is at stake.

Bambi is nibbling the grass, unaware of the upcoming encounter with Godzilla. Who will win when they finally meet? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

Rupert, a ten year old boy, falls hopelessly in love for the first time. When it all goes terribly wrong, he wishes never to experience heartache again. Turning to a book of magic, he invokes a spell to shield him from emotion forever.

Eric Leiser is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, animator, puppeteer, writer and holographer working in New York and born in California. This program is available on kinoscope.org

Izzy struggles with the decision to reconnect with an old friend. As she gives into her jealousy for her friend’s success, she makes a decision that her subconscious does not let her get away with so easily.

A short film made by Walt Disney in 1923.

LAND is a fluid series of formal land animation experiments based upon the imprint of landscapes in various locations and intuitive interpretations of those movements. Shot in New York, Thimble Islands Bear Island, Connecticut, Armstrong Redwoods, Sonoma County, California, Hastings, England. note* (part of the EYE Filmmuseum Permanent Collection)

Regeneration is a film about transformation. Starting in a dark place the character reaches toward the divine and breaks into the world of the spirit. Through this act representing an outstretched hand we see that the Holy Spirit represented as a dove is pursuing us even more urgently. The meeting of the two represents the freedom in flight found in trusting fully in the Holy Spirit and is completed with the return to the heart now fully regenerated.

While trying to survive the chaos of the first day of school, new friends get to know each other through baking for the Welcome to School Festival.

Po and Zhen battle over whose dumplings reign supreme.

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

Koko the clown encounters supernatural beings.

A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.

To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.

What words come to mind when you think of Liquid Television? Perhaps smart.. funny.. dramatic... maybe even weird. Liquid Television was THE show for "up-and-coming" animators to show what they got. Who said that cartoons had to be drawn by hand? This show combined computer animation, drawings by hand, paper cut-outs, and even live action to make something entertaining for the viewers

A police patrol is drawn into a vortex of fictional worlds, triggered by the extensive TV consumption of a little boy.

Line drawn animation journeying from individual cell through multiplication, growth and formation. The cycle rises and falls twice.

An ode to Norman McLaren from Mirai Mizue