This video serves as a beginner’s guide to the very famous and influential Czech animator Jiří Trnka. His films include The Hand, The Czech Year, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Old Czech Legends, and Cybernetic Grandma.
- Film about animation
Technique
Puppet Animation
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Go behind the scenes with the real people that voiced your favourite Creature Comforts characters. Nick Park’s Creature Comforts took the classic documentary style and applied it to the lives of wild animals and pets, matching a cast of clay characters with human voices to charming effect. Originating from Nick’s 1989 Academy Award®-winning short film, Creature Comforts was unique for using unscripted vox-pop interviews with the British public in a stop motion series that has become an Aardman classic.
- Film about animation
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Lotte Reiniger applies her charming cutout animation technique to this early advertisement for the Nivea skin care company.
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One of Lotte Reiniger’s final films is an animated retelling of the biblical parable of the prodigal son.
- Drama
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In this colorful stop-motion animation with a satirical edge, a carnival of animals—including a frog, a chameleon, and a bird—compete in a wild wrestling match.
- Action
- Comedy
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In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s unwavering devotion to his home annoys a quartet of insatiable beasts. Together, they march off towards Hedgehog’s home and spark a tense and prickly standoff. Based on the classic story by Branko Ćopić and exquisitely directed by Eva Cvijanović, Hedgehog’s Home is a warm and universal tale for young and old that reminds us there truly is no place like home.
- Comedy
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No peeking, please! Modern life has isolated us and made us somewhat detached. The Good Old Swing Octopus comes to the rescue! Emerging from the depths of the sea, it brings life to our jaded city souls.
- Experimental
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Steve is the star attraction of a zoo where he, a human, is on full display for a crowd of animal visitors to marvel at. Longing for more in life, Steve dreams of finding a companion. Suddenly one day, he gets his first opportunity to escape his cage. Will he find his dream companion that he’s so desperately been longing for?
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An ageing couple Aniela and Konstanty lead a quiet life together. She gives herself over to knitting while he eagerly works on some invention. Although their everyday life seems extremely well-organized there is something deeply lacking.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Fantasy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Shot in real nature, in the tropical rainforests of Mexico and Peru, this film captures the eternal dance of life and death as experienced by magical creatures of porcelain – animals, birds, insects and flowers – fragile and resilient at the same time.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
- Fantasy
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I present you: Wilfried and Maria, a Love Story. Maybe the word love is too farfetched. Without a happy ending and only the birth of their bodies as beginning. So it’s not a story. And represents a bounding between the two characters, which is sadly untrue. I present you: Wilfried & Maria.
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While camping in the woods Nelson discovers the true meaning of dualism.
- Music video
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Experimental
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Welcome is a stop motion animation about a man who tries to befriend his new neighbour by baking her cookies. It doesn’t go as planned.
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Romance
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Waste Away is a surreal stop motion short about a homeless woman who becomes pregnant with a fish. The responsibility of motherhood gives her the strength to fight for survival, while the forces of nature threaten to overtake her
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Soldiers in a war wait for information via a fax machine.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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What price would you put on your health? Ben is about to find out…
- Horror
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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Hope, perdition, memory. A symbolic story about three stages of human life, shown on the example of the history of one woman.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
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Three dark types come into a bar and meet there a strange barkeeper who tell them the prodigious truth that they are only dolls in a film. He persuades them to come with him to the storyboard to take her destiny in her own hands – of course not without ulterior motives.
- Comedy
- Western
- Experimental
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A film about (local) patriotism, tourism and emigration. The girl lives in a gray, isolated country, enclosed by a huge wall. She has never travelled anywhere, but all her life she has dreamt of leaving forever for a perfect world called “Abroad”.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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A nephew recalls the sometimes-lonely and often-eccentric life of his uncle.
- Drama
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
