The Quack Infantry Troop

The Dowager's Feast

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

Fantasia

The Crow and the Squirrel

The Crow and the Squirrel provides a beautiful lesson in communication and compassion.

Pro and Con

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

The Dowager's Idyll

2001 Joan C. Gratz animated short

Liminal Park

A dark dark amusement park. Gradually, the rides begin to move.

Rain Boy

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.

Perfect City: The Bravest Kid

A game of cat and mouse reaches intense heights in this child's nightmarish journey.

Never Say Pink Furry Die

Can she get to the wedding in time in this claymation short?

Willy

Fourteen year old Leander is being teased by the other boys at school because he thinks his willy is too small. The teasing gets worse when he falls in love with Martina who is helping him with his geometry homework. As a result the boys play a game in the changing room and use their protractor triangle from geometry to measure completely different things...

A Duras Penas

At Sea

AT SEA is a visceral and poetic short film that blends docu-style realism with narrative fiction, following a group of faceless sailors navigating the unpredictable seas of Greece. Through the fragmented memories of an unreliable narrator, the film weaves together a non-linear story that shifts in mood with each chapter, offering a fresh perspective on the sea. Based on true events… almost.

Poo Down Hill Up

Bird poo fell in love with the hill but the hill is taken away high above the clouds. Poo is devastated. But then, a triangular telescope falls from the sky and it's showing what the hill is seeing.

Fat Hamster

The male hamster wants to eat, but his female mate doesn't want him to be fat.

Invisible

In the woods is a company where animals work. One worker, the chameleon, is hurt by the ridicule from his colleagues. Can they come to understand each other?

Pariah the Red Man

Pariah is chained to a rock on a strip that hangs in space. The rock thinks he's there to help. Pariah thinks otherwise.

Winter Star

It's winter but my heart and the classroom are hot. Unexpectedly I got my hands on a star fruit, but I never told anyone about the taste.

Varnagel

A former guerrilla fighter seeks vengeance on a squadron of Swedish soldiers during the Scanian War 1678.

Little Sahara

Those who do not know the Sahara think there is only sand in the desert. But in the desert there are children who play and draw and make movies, and who would like to not have to think about the war. In the desert there's a European colony, an occupied country called Western Sahara, where there are thousands of Sahrawi refugees living a hard life in exile. "Little Sahara" tells their story, the story of a supportive, resilient people who try to thrive and grow in the Hamada, where everything has a hard time growing.

Zepo

Time ago, a winter morning, a little girl went out looking for firewood, she went away from home and came across a blood trail... she followed it.