Technique

Mixed media

1–20 of 850 films

  • The Secret of the Marquise

    1922 All audiences 3 min

    by Lotte Reiniger

    Lotte Reiniger applies her charming cutout animation technique to this early advertisement for the Nivea skin care company.

    • No genre
  • 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
  • My Mother Resents Me

    2019 All audiences 6 min

    by Victoria Linares Villegas

    A film essay in which Victoria Linares Villegas, an only daughter, tries to understand her relationship with her mother by parsing through old photographs and new footage, looking at her relationship with her mother and her mother's relationship with her own mother.

    • Family
    • Drama
  • Mynarski Death Plummet

    2014 Adults 8 min

    by Matthew Rankin

    The fatal fall to Earth of heroic World War II pilot Andrew Mynarski is rendered with white-hot expressionist intensity in this stroboscopic collage of live action and animation.

    • Action
  • The Magic Horse

    1953 Middle Childhood (6-9 yrs) 10 min

    by Lotte Reiniger

    Prince Achmed goes for a ride on a flying horse.

    • Fantasy
  • Life on the CAPS: Parts 1&2

    2018 Adults 41 min

    by Meriem Bennani

    Meriem Bennani conjures an immersive augmented-reality world in the first two parts of a trilogy that issues a wild, up-to-the-minute commentary on diasporic cultures and the West’s dystopian immigration policies. A talking crocodile named Fiona acts as our guide though the CAPS, an island refugee camp in a future where teleportation has replaced airplanes.

    • 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
  • 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
  • Journey to the Beginning of Time

    1955 All audiences 86 min

    by Karel Zeman

    One day a young boy finds a fossil of trilobite. Together with his three friends they set off on an adventurous journey through prehistory, up to the beginning of time.

    • Action
    • Family
    • Adventure
  • 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
  • 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
  • Parmelia

    2024 Adults 2 min

    by Tereza Burianová

    Were we equals, or were some of us just using others? This non-narrative film explores the possibilities of textile materials and techniques in conjunction with the moving image. A musical composition by the artistic duo Nadváha is stitched by the repetitive sound of a sewing machine.

    • Non-narrative
  • My Amazing Film

    2025 Adults 11 min

    by Adam Zahradník

    Individual schizophrenically narrated episodes take us through the instrumentalisation of life by creating pulp (mirroring the film itself) and personifying a machine. The film is rooted in the director’s infinite hatred of computers and, in a deeper sense, explores the boundaries of resistance in the digital age.

    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • The Flying Coffer

    1922 All audiences 9 min

    by Lotte Reiniger

    A poor young fisherman tries to rescue the Emperor of China's daughter.

    • Drama
  • DR. DOLITTLE: LION’S DEN: German Version

    1923 All audiences 11 min

    by Lotte Reiniger

    The animals of Africa pitch in to help Dr. Dolittle tend to a troop of ailing gorillas, orangutans, and baboons.

    • Adventure
  • Dr. Dolittle: A Trip to Africa

    1923 All audiences 12 min

    by Lotte Reiniger

    Hugh Lofting’s beloved children’s-book character ventures to Africa in order to cure a band of sick monkeys.

    • Adventure
  • Dad’s Dead

    2002 Adults 6 min

    by Chris Shepherd

    Our narrator looks fondly back at his childhood in Liverpool and the antics of his best friend Johnno. Well known for being a showman and a keen one for joking and the like, Johnno starts to change for the worse after he announced that his father has died.

    • Drama
  • The Alphabet

    1968 Adults 4 min

    by David Lynch

    This experimental short film presents a sick woman's nightmare involving living representations of the alphabet.

    • Horror
    • Experimental
  • Archeo 29

    2010 Adults 9 min

    by Vladislav Knežević

    Vladislav Knežević takes archive photos from an illustrated entertainment magazine of 1929 as the basis for his experimental-animated film, thus creating an associative, yet disturbing “film journal”.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental