A matchbox collection unites a lonely woman and her cat.
In the village of Dodoba, the frog Garo is murdered. A red toad, who is found next to the corpse, is responsible for the terrible crime. At the trial, he tries to defend himself, but the villagers do not believe in the innocence of the strange outsider.
Russian stop motion animation depicting the court of the Duke and Duchess as they mock and abuse the titular hero.
An agoraphobic man traps himself in an astronaut costume to avoid the disastrous consequences of his condition
Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster.
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Silent cartoon.
Two rival robotics companies in the future release their latest creations at a robotics convention, claiming each to be the latest and greatest in technological advances. Mega Stellar Company's release is a robot boy named Romie-O, while Super Solar Cybernetics has released a girl robot named Julie-8. Unforeseen to each of the company's creators, is how each of the advanced robots soon falls in love with the other.
Le Messager de la lumière
A nowhere man swimming with the Nowhere Stream seeks meaning in the virtual world and fails.When he gets a second chance, he finds that the answer was closer than initially expected.
Waiting to board the train, an old lady just wants to eat her cookies in peace, but hijinks ensue when a teenager on the platform next to her seems intent on sharing them, too.
Children are mysteriously falling ill at an orphanage. Candy Boy, the most valiant of the orphans, investigates, but the arrival of a new boarder complicates his inquiries.
Two best friends in their twenties gather around a Space Cake on Christmas Eve, hoping to revive the Christmas Spirit they long lost.
Zoo animals embark on a journey by train
Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
This is a classing Jordan animation, primarily in B/W, with touches of color. Actually, the engraved art work was film on color negative, so that subtle variations in tone are recorded. The mood--enhanced by John Davis' original music--is dream-like. It is both lyric and crackling, producing a kind of anticipatory tension. The scenes, in the usual Jordan manner, follow the surreal principle of placing objects and people where the ought not to be, and making movements that in the waking world are impossible. Each scene is a kind of drama from another world.
In an isolated mansion, a creature receives orders to carry out a sinister plan that will change the face of the world. Meanwhile, a desperate father is in search for his missing daughter.
In the vestibule of a hospital room, a young boy waits to see his dying mother. The clamor and spiralling movements of bodies around him intensify, forming a grotesque circus—a cacophonous circle that pushes the child back, depriving him of one final touch of his mother's hand. Using rotoscoped drawings suggestive of charcoal sketches, as well as 3D and object animation techniques, The Circus compels viewing with its unsettling realism. Colour is employed metaphorically to subtly express the promise and the memory of maternal affection. Nicolas Brault's highly personal film, suffused with poetic modesty, casts a poignantly sincere gaze on the heartbreak of a child facing the fearful, mysterious experience of his mother's death.
In a hotel hallway, the camera plunges into the microcosm of the hotel corridor carpet. Between crystal structures and inhabitants of this world, we see an American house dust mite at work.
The story of Frank, a different creature, born to the song "Singing in the rain", that goes in search of happiness.