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  • little british orphan

    2024 Adults 1 min

    by Joe Kady

    Explore the heartwarming journey of a little British orphan with Mummy Joe, filled with resilience and hope in this charming animation.

    • Tragicomedy
  • Comme des garcons

    2018 Adults 1 min

    by Ilan Rubin

    Beauty Papers Magazine X Comme Des Garçons X

    • Abstract
    • Non-narrative
  • Tory Burch “Happy Times!”

    2018 All audiences 1 min

    by Jen Campbell Studio, Lena Greene

    A playful animated commercial celebrating the joy of fashion and self-expression through vibrant illustrations, whimsical characters, and colorful visual storytelling inspired by the Tory Burch brand.

    • Non-narrative
  • by Lena Greene

    The filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield, best known for the documentaries Generation Wealth (2018) and The Queen of Versailles (2012), has been poking at the ugly underbelly of consumerism for more than 25 years. Through her unsparing lens, the latest incarnation of the American dream has been revealed in all its blingy, exploitative glory, particularly when it comes to its toll on women and girls. In an interview with Topic recorded in late November of 2018, Greenfield talks about the major themes running through her work, and what she calls "the ultimate cost, and degradation, of capitalism."

    • Documentary
  • by Amy Kravitz

    In this presentation, experimental animator and educator Amy Kravitz discussed the process of creating, embracing, fragmenting, abandoning, shattering, and obscuring narratives to find what feels genuine and truthful.

    • Film about animation
  • Old Man

    2012 Adults 5 min

    by Leah Shore

    For more then 20 years Charles Manson has refused to communicate to the outside world. Until now. These are actual never before heard phone conversations between Canadian best selling author Marlin Marynick and Charles Manson.

    • Bio-pic
  • No Place Like Home #2

    1999 Adults 6 min

    by Karen Yasinsky

    Over the course of these two stop-motion films, made by Karen Yasinsky in 1999, a woman—with the help of a pair of ruby-red slippers—delves into her fantasies and confronts good and evil before returning safely to the reality of her life.

    • Drama
  • Launch

    2021 All audiences 3 min

    by Leah Shore

    An animated outer-space odyssey puts Einstein’s theory of relativity to the test.

    • Drama
  • Joy Street

    1995 Adults 24 min

    by Suzan Pitt

    Entirely hand-painted, JOY STREET is the ambitious, astonishing story of a woman’s journey from suicidal despair to personal renewal with the help of an unlikely spirit guide. Using a Fulbright scholar award, Pitt traveled to remote rainforest regions of Mexico and Guatemala to create paintings of the nearly extinct patches of remaining virgin forest, which were later animated for the film. The music was composed by Roy Nathanson and the Jazz Passengers, with the title song recorded by Debbie Harry.

    • Drama
  • Jefferson Circus Songs

    1973 All audiences 19 min

    by Suzan Pitt

    In a fantasy world, life-size cardboard animations interact with children clad in clown wigs, monkey masks, and princess costumes. Together, they host a carnival of surreal goings-on.

    • Abstract
    • Fantasy
  • It Was a Dark and Silly Night

    2008 All audiences 5 min

    by Steven-Charles Jaffe

    Unexpected guests crash a children’s cemetery party in this humorously macabre adaptation of a Neil Gaiman story, animated in typically ghoulish style by cartoonist Gahan Wilson.

    • Comedy
  • I Love You So Much

    2014 Adults 3 min

    by Leah Shore

    Pillow talk takes a surreal turn in a shape-shifting blend of live action and animation.

    • Drama
  • The Hat

    1964 All audiences 18 min

    by Faith Hubley, John Hubley

    Two soldiers, voiced by Dizzy Gillespie and Dudley Moore, patrol the border between their countries. One of them drops his hat, and a dialogue (and an improvised jazz duet) about the possibility of peace through world law ensues.

    • Drama
  • Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People

    1984 All audiences 10 min

    by Ayoka Chenzira

    This brash, inventive cartoon musical—a landmark of independent animation—satirizes Eurocentric beauty standards while celebrating the natural beauty of Black hair.

    • Drama
    • Musical
  • TRICHOTILLOMANIA!

    2021 Adults 4 min

    by Kelly Schiesswohl

    The story of one girl's Google-search-gone-wrong to find out why she can't stop pulling out her hair.

    • Tragicomedy
  • by Evan Chester

    This video serves as an introduction to Yugoslavian animation. I discuss mostly the short films of Zagreb Film, but also TV shows such as Professor Balthazar.

  • by Evan Chester

    This video serves as beginner’s guide to the world of Czechoslovakian animation. I discuss filmmakers such as Jiří Barta, Jan Švankmajer, Jiří Trnka, and Karel Zeman.

  • by Steven Subotnick

    My films are abstract in the way that I use improvisation, intuition, and experimentation as methods of development. But my films are also emotional responses to ideas, materials, images, and sounds. In that sense, even my most visually abstract films have a human presence in them'.

  • by Andy Bailey

    Welcome to my channel! In addition to making flipbooks, I am a stop-motion animator and have worked on movies like ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link, and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget. I fell in love with animation as a kid and have been doing it ever since.

    • Film about animation