Technique

Paint On Glass Animation

1–20 of 36 films

  • Wild life

    2011 16+ 14 min

    by Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis

    A film about the beauty of the prairie, the pangs of homesickness and the folly of living dangerously out of context.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Non-narrative
  • by Thomas Corriveau

    The severed head of a choreographer is held captive by an eagle on a desert island. With a dazzling mastery of drawing and painting, this animated short unexpectedly takes us into the sensitive world of an artist madly in love with dance.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • The Wave of Life

    2020 Adults 8 min

    by Ondřej Nový

    This metaphoric story made using various natural materials is set at the seaside. Its director was inspired by the words of a friend dying of cancer: ‘Our life is like a wave of the sea hitting the shore and we are the drops thrown by the waves on the ground.’ The film was his graduate project at the Graphic College Jihlava.

  • The Tree

    2016 All audiences 15 min

    by Lucie Sunková

    Lucie Sunková’s short film The Tree is a metaphorical story about the parallels in lives of people and trees, a lyrical poem about birth and death, about the flow of our time and the nature surrounding us, a parable about parenthood and crossing the boundaries of a human (not only) life. It is a story about relations, seeming hopelessness and a happy promise. Used paint-on-glass technique, a pure poetic means of expression ideal for a story like this, forms another metaphoric layer of the film withs its laboriousness and graphic style.

  • The Raven

    2000 Adults 5 min

    by Lucie Sunková

    Lucie Sunková chose an unusual and very laborious technology of animation on glass for her graduation film. The well-known poem by Edgar Allan Poe became the starting point for a small, sad story of one night.

  • The Portrait

    2002 Adults 8 min

    by Lucie Sunková

    The film tells the story of a poor painter in need. He is pursued by his landlady demanding the rent and also a strange dream about a painting come-to-life that can save him.

  • The Physics of Sorrow

    2019 Adults 27 min

    by Theodore Ushev

    The Physics of Sorrow is a potent portrait of a dislocated generation struggling to find home as they shift through everchanging personal and geographic landscapes.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Bio-pic
  • The Man Who Planted Trees

    1987 7+ 31 min

    by Frédéric Back

    The story of a shepherd’s single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
  • The Full Story

    2019 16+ 8 min

    by Daisy Jacobs, Christopher Wilder

    Toby’s was a generation seized by divorce. As he shows an estate agent round his childhood home, we hurtle back through time, in search of the full story. Why do close ties break and loved ones leave? And what do you do when your family’s gone?

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
  • The Collector

    1971 Adults 2 min

    by Milan Blažeković

    He is the Collector. He enthusiastically collects butterflies. His only goal in life is – collection. However, one more copy is missing. He goes hunting. He found that last specimen to complete his collection. The hunt begins.

    • Experimental
    • Fantasy
    • Tragicomedy
  • The Battle of San Romano

    2017 Adults 2 min

    by Georges Schwizgebel

    A movement within a painting, which begins with the savagery of a battle and comes to a halt in a rendition of a masterpiece of the 15th Century; The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Sweet Like Lemons

    2023 16+ 5 min

    by Jenny Jokela

    Sweet Like Lemons (2023) is a visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on. The title is a play on the saying “when life gives you lemons make lemonade”, only in this case there is no lemonade to be made but the lemons still taste sweeter than what you left behind.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Song of Songs

    2010 Adults 4 min

    by Urte Budinaite

    Painted animation film about woman and man having a vital fight about the empty pack of milk.

    • Drama
  • SELFIES

    2018 Adults 4 min

    by Claudius Gentinetta

    In a veritable firework display of digital self-portraits, hundreds of quaint, embarrassing and dreadfully disturbing selfies were arranged in a unique short film composition. Single photos, artistically reworked, consolidate to form a ghastly grin that outshines the abyss of human existence.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Rubik

    2016 16+ 4 min

    by Xenia Smirnov

    It’s a normal day in a communal apartment. Someone is reading, someone else is ironing. A child runs down the corridor. Then suddenly the room quakes; everything changes and life is turned upside down.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Romance

    2011 16+ 7 min

    by Georges Schwizgebel

    While on an airplane, a traveller’s spirit plunges into a dream world. Here, under the influence of the unknown, the logic of his desires prevails, and a romantic saga takes shape. This animated film by Georges Schwizgebel masterfully transports us into a swirling world. Set to the twists and turns of a Rachmaninoff scherzo, Romance exuberantly marries music and movement, erasing the boundary between dreams and reality.

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Experimental
  • Red Shoes

    2021 Adults 14 min

    by Anna Podskalská

    The village party has begun and Róza hasn’t been invited to dance. Suddenly, an unknown stranger appears, inviting Róza to dance, giving her a pair of red shoes. Róza starts to dance with great passion, quickly becoming the centre of attention. Soon after, she realizes she can’t control the shoes, as the shoes are controlling her…

  • Play

    2006 16+ 4 min

    by Georges Schwizgebel

    A visual and musical game which builds and destroys itself according to the vivacious rhythm of Serge Prokofiev’s Scherzo to Piano Concerto No. 2.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Pinball

    2013 Adults 7 min

    by Suzan Pitt

    Think of PINBALL as a spinning flying saucer which lands in your yard, performs, and then flies away to the sound of film flapping in a projector…The film visualizes George Antheil’s 1952 revision of “Ballet Mecanique” using trigger fast cutting, painted imagery and sound effects. It might be described as “visual music”. Let loose from narrative confines, PINBALL is an intense abstraction of animated paintings by Suzan Pitt.

    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative