The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself.
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The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself.
The spirits of life and death go for a drive in this darkly humorous fantasia featuring an original score by Quincy Jones.
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.
The caliph of Baghdad is transformed into a stork by his wicked uncle in this adaptation of a tale by Wilhelm Hauff.
The classic story of a poor young tailor who comes into possession of a lamp containing a wish-granting genie is brought to life through Lotte Reiniger’s enchanting silhouette animation.
Widely believed to be the very first animated feature film, Lotte Reiniger’s astonishing 1926 adaptation of tales from “One Thousand and One Nights” uses striking silhouette cutouts and gorgeous color tinting to bring to life the story of an Arabian prince who is whisked away on a flying horse to an enchanted land where he tangles with an evil sorcerer, rescues a princess, and joins forces with none other than Aladdin. Painstakingly composed frame by frame by Reiniger over the course of three years, this landmark work is both an enchanting storybook saga and a retina-delighting triumph of visual imagination.
Some time ago, on a winter morning, a little girl went out looking for firewood, she went far away from home and came across a blood trail... she followed it.
From out of the universe, a little boy is born with a quest for a voyage to planet Earth. During his journey, he comes to an absurd small town where a mysterious funeral is happening. With curiosity, the boy attends the funeral to see who is the dead one.
house thinks thought, has realization. landscape in translation
Soldiers in a war wait for information via a fax machine.
A whimsical illustration of the poem Walking Grainy by Henri Michaux. While reciting the poem, Francois Vogel “walks grainy” on the stairs of Montmartre, in Paris.
Poetical portrayal of evolution and devolution, ageing and yet also constant regeneration of an anonymous city sphere. It gives life to static matter by the means of hyperlapse.
Conflicting layers of animation reveal glimpses into the ecological and economic histories of an American landscape.
A boy is leaving home, going through the city and becoming part of the annoying atmosphere all around the street and the people.
Music video to “Sakurajima” by Under the Reefs Orchestra
When the observed and the observer switch places, at what point do we take responsibility? You Had to Be There is the first video from the band’s upcoming album “Tulipomania” “Dreaming of Sleep”. In this clip, the authors use, among other things, photo and newspaper clippings for animation.
When money talks, who is listening? A torrent of tattered animated objects and shredded collage excavates the headlines as the death knell sounds for the status quo in this mournful dirge. The animation was created frame by frame and includes stop-motion objects as well as collages on thousands of individual sheets of black paper.
Tom is living in a world where he doesn’t feel that he belongs, torn between staying or searching for a better place. On his last day, Tom decides to give all of his plants away to the ones he loves, without knowing that they already have a secret plan for him.
In the world’s most secret capital, the crowd watches a spectacle while a disaster threatens to wipe out the city.
Why bother dragging around one’s shadow? A man agrees to a pact with a magician and swaps his shadow for riches. He soon discovers that the absence of a shadow can be a humiliating handicap. After fleeing to the far corners of the earth, he ends up in Bali, in a theatre of shadow puppets, where he discovers the true worth of shadows.