Number Rap #17

Greed and hierarchy in the Caribbean reefs.

A stop motion film about an oddball felted character who slips through floors into the past and the deepest parts of his psyche in his pursuit of self-understanding.

Sonja lives a lonely life as a fishmonger, more at ease with her fish than her customers, until one day a delivery man turns up who looks like a rainbow trout.

Manny has moved to a new school, and it's not easy to fit in. After wishing he had more friends, Manny finds a mysterious collar and puts it on Rufus, the family dog. Suddenly, Rufus turns into a boy! Manny's not sure what to do, so he enrolls Rufus in school. When the other students notice Rufus's silly dog antics -- chasing squirrels, eating without utensils, asking for belly rubs, and catching a soccer ball with his mouth -- he immediately becomes the most popular kid around. Manny is jealous of his new best friend but eventually learns that a dog's loyalty to his owner always comes first.

A black sheep attempts to eulogize her mother with a story about pigeons.

Gale, disheartened pastry chef struggling with burnout, reaches her breaking point one morning during the daily work grind alone.

In the timeless world of fairy tales, villains and victims are visited by a vengeful fairy who offers to shift the balance of power.

A tribute to all life drawing models, and to the passion of the craft; exploring form, figure, life and all that lies within.

Opening its eyes, the moon that fell to the depths of the sea was met with complete darkness. Will the moon be able to return to its home in the sky?

A short segment of the feature film Melody Time, re-released as a separate entity five years afterwards.

Emily and Elizabeth are two peculiar sisters. They’re recluted from the world and became piano virtuosos.

A ten-year-old boy who hates his little brother is punished by his mother and has to spend an afternoon with a scary old man. The boy will learn a lesson about life when he discovers the old man’s terrible secret.

Tayra and I grew up on a beach in the north east of Brazil. We were inseparable. The sea breeze brings me back happy memories.

A melodramatic story that takes place in a nostalgic spring day in 1937. A concert of a famous singer on the seafront becomes a tragedy that will shake the lives of four women and show that there is more than coincidence connecting these four characters

Let Doctor Devious and the wise men take you on a journey to cyberspace. As you travel through, take a hold and feel the incomprehensible power, relax… Reach for the alpha state where your subconscious resides.

To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is the foreground. Behind the lines, a triangle appears, then patterns of multiple triangles. Their movements reflect the music's rhythm. Behind the barrier of the black lines, the triangle moves, jumps, and takes on multiple shapes. In contrast with the blue and the black, the triangles are warm: orange, red, yellow. The black lines bend, swirl into a vortex, then disappear. The triangle pulsates and a set of many of them rises.

Junior and Pudgy slip away from Betty Boop's care to go hunting with a pop-gun.

Alfalfa tries to back out of a fight by pretending to be incapacitated.

While Alfalfa was away at military school, his letters to his friends back home bragged about how he was a star football player. Now that he's back home, he has to prove it.

Alfalfa and Butch are competing in an amateur radio contest, and Butch tries to fix it so that he will win.