Snooze Reel

Through a series of obscene animations, the work of iconoclast animator Teruhiko "King Terry" Yumura lampoons a range of cultural icons and taboos: California bodybuilding culture, onanism, hyperviolent cinema, marital bliss, and more. Soundtracked entirely by American funk/soul, each short matches the inherent depravity of its subject matter with an equally crude style, from fake commercials to slice-of-life stories and pornographic picaresques.

A forgotten lasagna mutates into a monster.

The fumes emanating from a traffic jam make everybody, and every animal, cough.

Three men shipwrecked on a desolate island are granted a helpful gift by a mermaid, only to misuse it entirely.

A short film on how militarism takes over art.

In 1995, Italy annihilates Libya, which destroys Israel. Africa bombs Germany, which in turn attacks France. Luxembourg conquers England. Sweden, Monte Carlo and Switzerland immolate themselves.The Russians decide to liquidate the Americans, who unleash their nuclear fleet, leaving only two continents on the verge of World War IV.

Dog racing is used as a metaphor for the futility of human existence.

An animated adaptation of Flann O’ Brien’s acclaimed 1941 novel in Irish. A biting satire on the highly popular Gaeltacht autobiographies of the time and widely regarded as one of the greatest Irish-language novels of the 20th century.

Bearded contract employee goes on a "giant bouquet of flowers" planet and prefers friendship with the robot because all inhabitants are creepy psychos.

Two guys run a cartoon character for President.

An animation film about a clarinet and a trumpet that meet, clash, compete, compromise and harmonize.

This combined film (black and white drawings of human hands and objects) is a parable on power and the motives affecting modern society.

A marching band of Germans, Italians, and Japanese march through the streets of swastika-motif Nutziland, serenading "Der Fuehrer's Face." Donald Duck, not living in the region by choice, struggles to make do with disgusting Nazi food rations and then with his day of toil at a Nazi artillery factory. After a nervous breakdown, Donald awakens to find that his experience was in fact a nightmare.

A hilarious collection of animated television commercials that were rejected because of their creator's failing grip on sanity.

A satirical take on dentistry.

It's just another day at the Granite Hotel.

A Pop Art extravaganza by Fred Mogubgub from the late-1960s, innovative in the use of the quick cut, this film is a parade of pop icons of its time. Features a pre-Playboy, pre-N. O. W. Gloria Steinem.

A king hides an embarrassing secret - and it causes him to execute every barber who cuts his hair.

Bill Plympton's gothic '50s high-school comedy about a love-triangle that goes terribly wrong. Two murdered teens return from the grave, then go to their prom to get revenge.

Animators and urban planners both create worlds, but Czech stop motion specialist Jiří Barta's ingenious paper cut-out short punctures the stifling architecture of communist housing. Skilled hands blueprint an apartment tower standardized specifications. Envelopes contain the elements of each home. Family dwellings, bachelor pads, scholarly studies and artist studios: different social configurations are permitted but restrained to the same uniform box. A dystopian revision of the REAR WINDOW scenario, THE DESIGN's darkly comic social critique still has teeth.