Charlie, a little boy with ridiculous big teeth, always hides behind his scarf to avoid his bully classmates. But one day, his scarf flies away into the forest, and pushes him to start on a magical journey!
A sewing dummy turns on itself. Her white dress then reveals her different layers of colors. It then returns to a stationary state.
QUICK DREAM, subtitled "A Series of Exorcisms," is the result of this first assignment. As Mouris describes it, “This film is a series of visual experiments with magazine photograph cutouts that make moving collages; coloraid paper; Avery labels; whatever I could think of that might animate. It became the seedbed for everything that followed,” most notably FRANK FILM. As part of the project, the students’ films were subject to a round of guest criticism from artists and filmmakers Robert Breer and Red Grooms, who, as Mouris describes it, “praised our work and encouraged us to continue.” (Yale Film Archive)
It's business as usual for the mutant denizens of a dystopia not entirely unlike our own in this beguiling stop-motion fantasia.
The hero, Rambutan, fights against a rival inside an old convertible launched at high speed. His opponent manages to rush him out of the vehicle and then bends over the hero's girlfriend who desperately resists by kicking him in the face. Meanwhile, Rambutan catches up with the car running. He throws himself on his enemy and gets rid of him then kisses his girlfriend. The rival arises again, separates the two lovers and he and Rambutan fight again. The cycle resumes.
A small white fish enters the frame and is eaten by a larger one, then the latter is in turn eaten by an even larger fish... At the end, only a huge white fish remains which seems to shrink in size. swimming towards the bottom of the screen. He leaves the frame and the cycle resumes.
An octopus goes up an escalator placed in the water.
Bobo-kun is a fire demon who eats coal continuously.
The universe of strange and colorful creatures that are born, eat, are eaten... and are reborn indefinitely on the screen.
The story of evolution, from the first aquatic organisms to modern man (and woman).
A young bored man relives his past thanks to his new neighbor clumsiness.
This humorous animated short offers one possible answer to the philosophical question: what would life be like if I had never lived? The first half of the film follows a man from his conception to his funeral, focusing on the effect his life has on the people and events around him. The second half looks again at the same people and events, except now the man is not there - he had never been born. The differences will surprise you!
A climate change horror story.
An exploration into the shared experiences of community, immigration, and diversity that is based on the true story of one building.
At the very heart of a funfair stuck in time, a man goes in search of his loved one. This painful journey between joy caught under the stone and the deafening silence of solitude, will make him face the truth.
Left to their own devices in the middle of summer, Malo and Zoe try with all their might to attract their mother's elusive attention.
A colourful "fountain performance".
Droopy pursues a rude customer for a tip
A gift from the gods of the mountains. Deep in the northern mountains, there are people who have been living with the blessings of the mountains. A boy, who is coming of age, journeys into the mountains for his first hunt. He must find the "Kuroshishi." The mountain is a world where life and death are divided by a paper-thin line. Sometimes, nature will show its fangs...
A grand-mother replaces her old companion robot by a more recent one. But things won’t go as expected…