A Cautionary Tail

El Mono relojero is a 1938 Argentine animated short film directed by Quirino Cristiani. It is the only film from this director that exists up to this day, since all his other productions (including the first two animated feature films, El Apóstol (1917) and Sin dejar rastros (1918), as well as the first animated film with sound, Peludópolis (1931)) were lost in a series of fires at the facilities where the negatives and copies were stored.

Soviet cartoon, The Dog and the Cat, from Lev Atamanov.

A young llama named Koro discovers that the grass is always greener on the other side (of the fence).

Koro wants to get to the other side of the road.

Student film using stop-motion. Originally shot on 16mm.

Stop motion animation film using clay, originally shot in 16mm for San Diego radio station 91X.

Stop motion cereal commercial parody using 16mm. Foam and clay puppet, with found objects as props. Don't you want some Raunchies Cereal?!

Silent cartoon.

Silent cartoon.

A patchwork of the first animated movies from the collections of La Cinémathèque française : Stroboscopic Discs (1833), Zoetropes (since 1867), Reynaud's Praxinoscope (1878-1879), plates of Muybridge and Anschütz (1880-1890), an unseen Marey's chronophotography (1889), Chromolithographs films (since 1897), including one inspired by the second Georges Méliès' film, "Une séance de prestidigitation" (1896), with a photographic version, unseen until now.

Music: Carl Stone. Colored pen-and-ink drawings, like topological maps of biomorphic objects, grow and evolve from the red star. Once the master image is formed, this continuously throbbing, pulsating sight is used to ring changes based on years of optical work. Music and picture work together to create a mood of ecstatic tranquility. The bright colors, beautiful music, surprise at the end, etc. make this a good film for young children. Awards: Sinking Creek Film & Video Festival, 1973; Washington National Student Film Festival, 1974; Brooklyn Independent Filmmakers Exposition, 1974; Vanguard Int'l Competition of Electronic Music for Film, 1974; Humboldt Film Festival, 1974. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

A collection of unrelated sequences featuring people in various situations.

A now-extinct species of cat spends its last minutes on Earth before destruction.

Nieto shows an audience how to construct animation.

A man interviews people. Michael Dudok de Wit graduated from the West Surrey College of Art with this film.

"In an effort to explore the flexibility of Telidon, Canada's videotex system, Pierre Moretti, animation artist from the National Film Board, used, in the graphic mode, the geometric figures which form the basis for Telidon's picture description instructions. Thus he created this short animated film."

An insight into Joel's life and his illness, with its ups and downs.

We all live in closets. Sometimes we get so used to being there that we no longer realize it, but what would happen if one day we decided to venture out into what awaits us?

Genpal: tu amigo genético

The Sound of Music engages with the deep-rooted sexual and class-based politics of a seemingly arbitrary and violent culture.