Technique

Puppet Animation

261–279 of 279 films

  • You came for the zombies, but you stayed for the characters. ParaNorman, the second film from LAIKA Studios, is full of lovably unique characters whose distinctive stop-motion puppets were built by hand with belly-movers, metal armatures, guitar-tuning devices, and more.

    • Documentary
    • Making of
  • by Alex Morelli

    The official teaser and the theme video of the 33th edition of the Bellaria FF on the international documentary scene. An ordinary tourist sunbathing will be surprised by the changing scenography.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Bath House

    2014 16+ 14 min

    by Niki Lindroth von Bahr

    Six characters meet in a bath house. The pedant bath house manager, a couple with a strange way of communicating and a gang with shady intentions. Something goes wrong.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Non-narrative
  • Automatic Fitness

    2015 Adults 21 min

    by Alejandra Tomei, Alberto Couceiro

    A labyrinthine poetry on the human automatism. A reflection about our daily relationship with money and time. It’s an animated tragicomedy, which plays with the concept of an all-permeating acceleration.

    • Comedy
    • Sci-Fi
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Astrale

    2017 Adults 12 min

    by Bérénice Motais de Narbonne

    Magda is a 13-year-old girl who can leave her body at night through astral projection. She travels her inner world, meets various beings and wonders about her own identity and sexuality.

  • The beloved Coraline – fearless, independent, curious – had nine different outfits, all of which gave animators unique opportunities to bring her to life. Explore Coraline’s closet in this behind-the-scenes featurette for LAIKA’s Oscar-nominated stop-motion classic.

    • Making of
    • Family
    • Fantasy
  • An Interrupted Spectacle

    2012 Adults 9 min

    by Christophe Gautry, Arnaud Demuynck

    Carried away by the sound of a languishing barrel organ and the purr of a cat, the poet closes his eyes and gets into a mysterious dream. Inspired by the life and the poems of Stéphane Mallarmé.

  • After

    2018 Adults 5 min

    by Matouš Valchář

    What will be after death? A lot of people thinking about this question. A lot of groups have very different opinion but majority of tham have one thing similar. Almost all religions are convinced that they are right. I wrote this movie, with my friend Karel Vžtrovsků, in time when we were slowly breaking out of the Christian prison in our minds, where we grew up and where we were imprisoned for a long time.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • After the End

    2015 Adults 11 min

    by Sam Southward

    For Rene Fustercluck, life was bad, the Apocalypse was awful and then Gordon arrived. ‘After the End’ explores the possibility that the only thing worse than being the last man on earth, is being the second to last man on earth.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Sci-Fi
    • Experimental
  • Above and Below

    2016 Adults 10 min

    by Liron Narunsky, Oved Poran

    A tale of an old shaman, a spiritual leader of a primitive tribe on her deathbed. She will bid farewell to her tribe in a mystical ritual and will be buried in a ceremonial burial preceded by a feast in her honour.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Abyssus abyssum invocat

    2012 Adults 9 min

    by Wes Simpkins

    Abyssus Abyssum Invocat is a short film that utilizes stop-motion animation and live-action puppetry to create a darkly comic meditation on capital punishment and religion.

    • Drama
    • Horror
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Ab Ovo

    2013 16+ 5 min

    by Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi

    The film shows a new life waking up as well as the anxiety that accompanies the transformation of a female body which loses its former shape responding to the internal force affecting it. Ab Ovo is an extremely visual animation that illustrates the power of fertility lying dormant in every woman.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • A Lost One

    2019 16+ 4 min

    by Marie Clerc, Marie CLERC

    After losing for the umpteenth time one of his socks, Thierry decides to sequester the one he has, to find the missing.

    • Comedy
    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • A Love Story

    2016 16+ 7 min

    by Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara

    Two characters, cocooned in their love, who go on a heartbreaking journey of self-discovery in this experimental, BAFTA-winning short film.

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • A DATE

    2019 16+ 1 min

    by Michaela Mihalyi, Michaela Mihályi

    A very short stop-motion film about a menstrual tampon preparing for a date.

    • Comedy
    • Romance
    • Experimental
  • 6:1

    2018 4+ 3 min

    by Sergei Ryabov

    An inseparable girl and cat are on a long journey, playing checkers. The girl keeps winning, until the cat gets a lucky break.

    • Comedy
    • Family