Take Out is a story loop of delivery people being killed for witnessing the previous delivery person’s death. The only person unknowingly in the know is a hermit kettle man, thanks to his clairvoyant TV.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
Country
Take Out is a story loop of delivery people being killed for witnessing the previous delivery person’s death. The only person unknowingly in the know is a hermit kettle man, thanks to his clairvoyant TV.
Music video.
Walruses overcome the challenges of climate change and oral hygiene to find true love
Spring 1976, 5-year-old Swallow is abandoned at a public boarding preschool in central Beijing. When the persimmons are ripe, Swallow masters how to cry, but doesn’t forget how to fly.
A sleeping superhero is abruptly awoken by an emergency phone call in need of his expertise—a monster is invading the city. In the morning rush that ensues, our hero equips himself with the gear needed to save the day. As he and the monster begin to face-off, it’s only then that he realizes he is woefully ill-equipped with the wrong suit. He is bewildered. Our hero is wearing his wife’s magic girl costume and he has no idea how to use it…
Stuck / Giphy commission.
Director Don Hertzfeldt joins moderator Miguel Penabella (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a discussion of his films ME and It’s Such a Beautiful Day. They discuss his time as a UCSB student and his early interest in animation, as well as the development of his new film. Hertzfeldt also shares insights into his influences from silent cinema, and his thematic interests in deep time and memory across his work.
A meditation on blind evolution.
Bringing a make-believe world to life through stop-frame animation takes a large and talented team! See how all the pieces come together to make a stop-frame animation scene.
Inspired by Desert Island Comics, the iconic Brooklyn shop now indefinitely closed, this cut paper animation speaks to the connective power of comic books.
Et tu doggy? Synchronicity strikes in the American Midwest.
From his dark days in Communist Czechoslovakia through brighter times in the United States, animator Paul Fierlinger has navigated through life with dogs as his co-pilot.
Grandpa and grandson street sellers sell stars in a town near the shore. One night, they run out of stars…
A mysterious box arriving at the door disturbs Salini’s peaceful routine leaving her paralysed and obsessed with discovering the contents of the box. I poured so much of myself into this project and have fallen in love with stop motion as well as the weird and wonderful world that Salini lives in during this process. The patience and care needed to create it has taught me a lot about the gentleness and love that we owe to ourselves and each other.
On an isolated cacti farm, three stressed out birds ask a cowgirl to help put a stop to the elusive Ax-Man.
God makes soup. The soup is (somewhat) intelligent life. Existential chaos ensues.
In this terrifying tale of childhood brutality, just watch how the lead character’s face changes from a pockfaced villain to a scared kid as he wrestles with his anger and doubt, and surely you’ll remember a time when you did something wrong and knew you couldn’t stop yourself.
Everyone who enters a crime scene leaves something behind and takes something away. “Something Left, Something Taken” is a 10 minute animated dark comedy about a vacationing couple’s encounter with a man they believe to be the Zodiac Killer.
Buster Moon and his friends must persuade reclusive rock star Clay Calloway to join them for the opening of a new show.