The Visible Compendium

A lonely kid who lives in the countryside meets a strange boy who has a ragged umbrella over his head and there is always rain pouring over him. The rain boy is dazzled by the other kid's boots and offers three wishes in exchange for them.

Basking in a theatres lights, a realm of dust particles dances in unison. One sprite suddenly gets the chance to be centre stage…

A powerful, emotional and sometimes humorous look at the daily life of a prison inmate and a corrections officer.

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

An old man ends up taming the mouse he wanted to get rid of.

A descent into the maelstrom of anguish that tormented Arthur Lipsett, a famed Canadian experimental filmmaker who died at 49. A diary transmuted into a clash of images and sounds charting a prodigious frenzy of creation, a tableau depicting an artist’s dizzying descent into depression and madness: with LIPSETT DIARIES, Theodore Ushev renews his filmmaking aesthetic and explores what happens when genius is on a first-name basis with madness.

For René Fustercluck, life was bad, the Apocalypse was awful, and then Gordon arrived.

Popeye's snoring is keeping his resident mouse awake. The mouse fights back.

Bugs is provoked by a pack of foxhounds and their hunters stampeding over his hole, so he gets out his Halloween costume from last year (a fox suit) and sets out to lead the dogs on a merry chase. The stupidest of the dogs, whose objective is to cut a fox's tail off, becomes his main victim; Bugs tricks him into chasing a train instead. He eventually tricks the dog pack into running off a cliff, but the stupid dog ends up with Bugs' tail.

A clip in the Science Please! collection, Slippery Ice! uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain why we slip on ice.

Have you ever woken in the night unable to move, certain that you are not alone? This is an experimental documentary examining what happens when dreams leak into waking life. It is about what is real, what is not, and if it even matters.

A short creation by Douglass Crockwell that can be found on the Unseen Cinema box set.

Puppet animation of Bert Ambrose and His Orchestra performing. A Puppetoon animated short film.

In Ub Iwerks' The Frog Pond, many frogs are singing and having a good time until a big bully frog takes some food and basically orders a house built on his lily pond.

Betty Boop goes to work on the subway (Trample 'Em R.R. Co.); Pudgy the Pup follows her and gets more ride than he bargained for.

A bullied schoolboy takes drastic measures against his tormenter, summoning an ancient being in the woods using a spellbound book passed down through the generations of his family.

Click, click. Tip, tip, tip… Tip, tip. A young woman seeks spirituality and tranquility in the web. Bit by bit she dives into the absurd realm of screensavers and desktop backgrounds until merging with the uncanny operating system named “OS Love”.

Rosie is a 12-year-old girl whose ugliness makes her the laughing stock of almost all her classmates and the victim of incessant bullying. One day, she is saved from a fresh attack by a one-eyed crow. Following the bird into a strange, dark forest, she meets a witch who will grant her dearest wish.

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