Beyond Space

Little Dinosaurs

A five-year-old Scottish boy discusses the best way for a group of small dinosaurs to stop a big dinosaur from picking on them. The boy's short discussion with his father is brought to life using a mix of 2D and 3D computer-generated animation.

Space Travel According to John

In this soap-powder animation, ten-year-old John theorises on the miracle of space travel and speculates as to what the future might have in store.

Styx

A man is shot, only to find he has bigger things to worry about crossing the river to death.

The Radical

This beautiful short, commissioned by UCLan’s Creative Innovation Zone, is an intricate hand-drawn journey through the life of a local activist, George Dewhurst. An ordinary working man from Blackburn, George was charged with High Treason, shortly after The Peterloo Massacre in August 1819, for speaking at a gathering of workers in Burnley. Narrated by one of George's descendants, 8-year-old Monty Speed, this beautiful animated montage depicts events in George's life in the year 1819, following a quest by descendants to uncover his grave and raise awareness of his story.

Cats

Short hand drawn representation of a cat

Un Ogre

An ogre, it is me it is you : the insatiable hunger devouring the child within us. That request, in some drawings, very simply, what we, the people of ogres, we will do.

Birthday Night

The Night had her birthday, and gave a party to which she invited Dima, a little boy so afraid of the dark that he could never sleep when the light was out.

The Spacefarer's Lament

An animated short film about an astronaut lost in outer space.

Onion

A short animation based on the poem "Onion" by Wislawa Szymborska.

Die Erfindung des Kabeljaus

Animated short film

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 Secret of the Ice Flower

The first time Scam tries to cast a spell, he accidentally shoots his great-grandfathers wand deep into the Valley of the Green Peas, where he meets Cheat who changes Scams whole worldview. The two friends return with a different and even more magic wand than the one great-grandfather has been using his entire life. But when Scam once again tries to cast a spell, something goes wrong and he loses grandfather. Cheats good mood inspires Scam to invent a myth about his great-grandfather. Finally Scam has to fight his inheritance to save Cheat and give the entire Valley of the Green Peas a magic show they'll never forget!

Sunday

Expelled from the machine-week for incompetence, Sunday meets a mysterious alter ego that takes him on a contemplative stroll. At the end of a dreamlike inner journey, Sunday returns to the machine to reinvent it.

La Saint-festin

Hurrah! Tomorrow is the 40th of November. It's Saint Feast Day, the great celebration of ogres, so hurry up now if you have not caught a child yet. And good hunting!

On a beau être bête, on a faim quand même

Short film.

Dark Dark Woods

Young princess Maria has had about enough of her royal life – it’s all lesson, responsibilities and duties on top of each other, every hour of every day. Overwhelmed, Maria is swept away on an adventure into the monster-filled dark, dark woods.

Less Than Human

In the aftermath of a zombie outbreak, zombies are cured and exiled to secluded camps. There has been talk about rehabilitating post-zombies back into society. Steve, the journalist reporting on the case, thinks the zombies still pose a threat to society. He ventures into one of these camps to prove to the world that rehabilitation is out the question.

Urbanissimo

A comic allegory in which a runaway "city" on legs matches wits with a wily farmer. A farmer has an encounter with a runaway "city" (which devours its environs). He deserts his rural home for the imagined joys of urban life.

Orca

A toy orca from childhood appears in our heroes' life. Now it looks like a big real mammal with a defined mission: to lead the heroine from her everyday life to an adventure she was waiting for.

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