Strange Fish

La Costante di Archimede

Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie Mouse, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.

"Beyond Noh" rhythmically animates 3,475 individual masks from all over the world, beginning with the distinctive masks of the Japanese Noh theater and continuing on a cultural journey through ritual, utility, deviance, and politics.

Falls from heights, jumps straight, zigzag lines and deep banality ... Between the real and the imaginary, welcome to "Plato". Film created in ENSAD (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Decoratif) by Léonard Cohen, nothing to do with the Canadian singer.

We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures bounce around on the now white background.

An adaptation of the The Ugly Duckling.

Tora-chan and Miike are working on the side of a tuna steamship and manage to run afoul of the short-tempered captain. But the captain makes plenty of trouble on his own!

Porky Pig and Daffy Duck owe an outrageous sum to the Broken Arms Hotel. The manager thwarts their efforts to escape without paying their bill.

Ever seen a snake with a moustache? The Middle East was as much an ideological as a physical battleground in the Second World War. In the midst of the conflict Halas & Batchelor were commissioned by the British Government to make four cartoons featuring a young boy Abu and his mule. They were intended to demonstrate in simple visual terms that Britain was a stout friend and the Axis powers a pernicious evil.

To avoid galactic war, the treatment of a frozen planet and it's people must be decided.

A 5 minute, 2D, straight-ahead animated film by Bruce Bickford.

a Sad Man sits alone in his house longing for company.

There it stands, the house, drawn in pencil. It begins to fall apart. Bricks come loose from the wall, the front door falls off its hinges and walls break away. Everything sinks into endless nothingness.

Johnny Racković - Belgrade writer and artist, faced with the fact that he lost his mother, and then almost his own life, transforms into an animated hero from hell who is searching for his own sanity. The moment he begins to see the rules of transformation, the perspective of the whole story changes. And that new perspective will reveal to him that the whole world is threatened by the outbreak of a general plague and that he has become... KING OF NOTHING.

Conceived, drawn and animated live by a team of patients from a psychiatric clinic, this achievement presents, in the eyes of its author, less interest on a purely cinematographic level than on that of human experience. It is the disturbing wordless story of a woman and a man living in a strange setting where objects are endowed with life that they have chosen to tell us through this theater of shadow puppets in cut out figurines. Their characters will know a tragic fate since carried in the air by balloons, they will finally be devoured by a horrible dragon.

An obsessive, genius programmer sacrifices everything in his personal and professional life to build a computer of unprecedented power.

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

In this film several objects make paintings on an empty canvas, which all turn into photos and films.

In this first Merrie Melodie short, things are hopping at a certain Mexican café. And then Foxy walks in and the customers go really wild.