Spruce

Papercutting

A musical film in the style of Belarusian vycinanka based on the song of the folk band Troitsa. The old man and woman have become quite old and would like to marry their son before they die. So they send him to find a bride.

More Mice Than Brains

Silent cartoon.

NLOOPS

Video art by Vibeke Sorensen made at Calarts in 1989

Things to Come

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Neptune Nonsense

Felix is feeding his various pets: a bird, two dogs, and a goldfish. But Annabelle the goldfish is unhappy; she's lonely. Felix sets out to catch her a friend. The fish drag him underwater. After a bit of searching, he finds a goldfish, but the fish cries for help, and Felix finds himself on trial before King Neptune. He's accused of wanting to eat the fish, but after he explains himself, Neptune gives him a fish from the fish orphanage, and everyone lives happily.

Four Inseparable Cockroaches and a Cricket

A musical cartoon about how a lonely old man wanted to get rid of the cockroaches infesting his home.

Corp.

Ambition, labour exploitation, environmental pollution, human degradation, surplus value, corruption and much much more can be found in the amazing world of the free market.

Cerulia

Cerulia comes back home to bid her final farewell, but her childhood memories and grandparents presence would not let her go.

Blocks

A group of puppets in a handmade world encounter a giant visitor with an unexpected surprise.

Columbus Docks To The Shore

Self-confident and eccentric Columbus lands on the American shore in the 20th century.

When The Animals Talked

Reverend Faulkner relates the role of folk tales and church spirituals as "underground" and subtle protest within the slave community. He recounts Simon Brown's remembrances of his bondage and Reconstruction.

Blind Date

During her first date with Bas, Bodine quickly hides her thick glasses. She better shouldn't have done that.

The Phantom Ship

Film about a ghost ship. There is no dialogue, just music and a choir.

Prometheus

TreatsforBeasts

This short film begins with the character Chauncey (a puppet made of sex toys resembling a mouth and hands with a sock for a body) rolling around in a babies’ rolling chair and watching obscure cartoons and shows on TV. They have satirical, comedic, religious, and disturbing overtones... but to Chauncey and his Dad, this is normal. After a while of the cartoons and Chauncey eating a sausage and then throwing it up, the cartoons inspire Chauncey to ask a series of philosophical questions to his Dad. The questions involve what happens after death, the meaning of life, and Chances asking about his identity and why he’s different.

Moonlight Gravity

One day, many trees fall. Some of them die; some of them still breathe. At night, one tree stump dreams. It grows again against gravity. However, it is not strong enough to reach the sky. Its dream moves to the moon. And pieces of moonlight on the moon free themselves and fly over and over…

Toy Tumor

A horrific version of the classic children's film.

Bad Exorcist: Christmas Eve

Boner and his crew must rescue Santa on Christmas Eve when a demon determined to steal all of his presents raids a school assembly and kidnaps him.

Chirp-1 Quantel

Abstract video art created in 1979. Video and audio by Dean Winkler, Glenn Van Alstyne, Tom Lucke, Elaine Lewis, and Brian Aitchison. Chirp-1 / Quantel was created in two separate effects passes: At the RPI Video Synthesizer Lab an old porno tape (on stock that was donated to us) was processed using an analog Serge modular music synthesizer to sequence the sounds and control the colorization of an analog Hern video synthesizer. The sounds are also inserted into the video, which are the stripes you see, changing with frequency. The tape from the first pass was taken to EUE Video and used to seed an analog feedback loop around a Quantel 5000 digital effects device.

Happy Go Ducky

The Easter bunny brings an egg for Tom and Jerry that hatches into the little duckling. He keeps getting into water he shouldn't: the aquarium, water cooler, bathtub, sink, as the boys keep rescuing it. They try to give the duck back to the Easter bunny - no go. They leave it in the pond at the park and think they're home free, until the duckling brings his friends home.