Mr. Plastimime

Perpetual Motion

Part of Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.

Yoshichiro Salutes

We should never forget our manners no matter how much we may excel in martial arts. Learn lessons from Yoshichiro's failure.

The Vanished World of Gloves

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel and Fellini and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to a futurist junkyard where tin cans become animated police cars in a city of urban decay.

The Infinite

Animation inspired by the poem “The Infinite” by Giacomo Leopardi.

Strange Fish

Blind evolution. Seemingly arbitrary stages of the evolution in black-and-white drawings on rough paper.

Lindy Hop

Short film with original footage taken from the internet, reprocessed into vertical stripes with three frame blocks of positive black & white alternating with high-contrast negative.

Paper Players' War

A Blue Soldier and a Yellow Soldier play a board game trying to outwit each other, struggling for control over a piece of land. The Farmer who belongs to the land is not allowed to play and must pick a side. As the fighting escalates, what side does she choose?

The Shooting Gallery

The only film to be both conceived and directed by Miroslav Štěpánek, using folk art from old market shooting galleries as the basis for a totalitarian parable.

How the Telephone Talks

"All sounds travel in waves much the same as ripples in water." Educational film produced by Bray Studios New York, which was the dominant animation studio based in the United States in the years surrounding World War I.

The Merry Circus

Trnka brings to life a surrealist circus of tightrope-walking fish, musical monkeys, balancing bears, and high-flying acrobatics in this whimsical feat of cutout animation made in collaboration with leading Czech painters of the era.

When Winter Comes

When snow comes, winter sports are back and all the animals rush to the frozen lake.

Kontrol-Eskape

Little Red Riding Hood

A classic Soviet, black-and-white, animated film by the sisters Brumberg, "grandmothers of the Russian animation". Its plot differs slightly from the original fairy tale.

Ko-Ko's Hot Dog

Max and Dave Fliescher are eating hot dogs in their animation studio and begin drawing. The hot dog becomes a "real" dog, and it and Ko-Ko the Clown alarmingly end up inside a Gas Chamber.

Attaque nocturne

The film existed only in Jacque’s memory because all that remained were the two cardboard thief characters. Jacques called upon his memories to recreate the decor and the characters with a decorator. The operator then filmed frame by frame to reconstruct the film.

La Ballerine

When Agnès Varda was preparing the film Jacquot de Nantes in 1990, she was able to shoot in the small apartment where Jacques was raised. While emptying the attic, Agnès found pieces of 9.5 mm film, dry and folded, almost broken and two small cardboard figures. The film was impossible to project and the film had to be remade. Showing the pieces of film to Jacques he immediately identified La Ballerine. A student from the Fine Arts School of Nantes therefore redrew each shot, frame by frame, on blank 16 mm film.

Carmen

Silhouette film. Based on Bizet’s opera “Carmen”.

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

Taken from The Arabian Nights, a wicked sorcerer and the beautiful prince Achmed battle one against the other during a series of wondrous adventures.

Bambi Meets Godzilla

A deer, disillusioned by the consumerism that defines his life. A lizard, ostracized from society, forever wandering. A chance meeting in the middle of a field. Who will survive? And who will transcend existence? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

Missing Halloween: 10 Years Later

A very short animation to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Missing Halloween.