Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion

A documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the legacy. The worlds oldest animation studio still making film with stop motion technique is Nukufilm located in Tallinn, Estland. Here we can follow the work in the studio which was founded in the Soviet era and has survived heavy censorship and global competition.

Philips Cavalcade

In this Puppetoon animated short film, a variety of music styles are heard as, in various locations, characters dance or sing.

The Best Popeye the Sailor Man Cartoons

Origami

Origami is a Japanese traditional art form of paper folding. This film explores the infinite possibilities of origami to bring life and wonder to the simplest material. Every aspect of the film is based on the skills and techniques used in actual origami art.

La Fille dans les nuages

The adventures of a young girl named Providence, who is entrusted with a magic quill that makes everything she writes come true. Faced with this incredible power, she has to choose between living her dreams and saving the world.

Cream Tease

A sexy summertime (snazzy) short.

Confessions of a Schoolboy

A young school boy finds his loins throbbing with desire after an erotic daydream.

Impossible Maladies

Aboard their cart, Dr. Rhubarb and assistant Cough travel from house to house to cure absurd diseases with their innovative remedies. Loosely inspired by 18th-century prints and cartoons about fear of disease and doctors, an exploration of the mystery of healing and thaumaturgy.

The Sleeping Beauty

Centuries ago in the past, the witch, who doesn't like Beauty, puts her to sleep, then flies throughout the castle spreading sleep powder, placing all into slumber. Eventually we flash forward to present time: A young hepcat in a convertible tries awakening Sleeping Beauty, and everyone in the castle, with some Big Band music. Will it work? A Puppetoon animated short film.

Sexy Fingers

Colorful and erotic animation with fingers as the protagonists.

Losing Touch

Searching for life in daily rituals, Losing Touch undertakes a shift in perception and presents the city as an ugly yet ecologically rich landscape. The film depicts the internal dialogue on coping with the grief and fear of ecological degradation, using the local streets of Berlin as a means to materialise and confront these emotions. As both the body and mind begin to wander, encounters with the landscape over a 24 hour period are transformed into an overstimulating and emotionally charged journey. Camcorder footage, film developed in beer and cyanotype create sensational and playful depictions of the surroundings, joining the rats scurrying on the ground and fleeing the night lights with the moths. Creatures of metal and flesh interact within and between the frames, coming together as an ugly yet vibrant community. Subverting the nature-culture dichotomy, a new image of nature is formed, not only as a romantic, distant place, but rather a dirty, omnipresent force.

The Little One and the Giant

This stop-motion animated short film draws us into a post-apocalyptic world through the eyes of a solitary hamster. Wandering through the ruins of once-thriving cities, he scavenges for objects, searches for water, and tries to care for the last surviving plants. One day, he stumbles upon a pair of binoculars. Through them, he spots a strange house covered in flowers, standing in the middle of the urban desert. Intrigued, he sets off to explore and discovers the Giant, a plant-like creature trapped inside its own overgrown sanctuary. Terrified of the outside world, the Giant dares not cross the walls of its home. Petit decides to help. Together, they embark on a journey that’s as simple as it is extraordinary: to make the Earth bloom again.

Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters - Predacons Rising

Autobots, Decepticons, Predaking and Predacons form an unlikely alliance to battle a resurrected Unicron.

Naked Island - We Drink Too Much

WE DRINK TOO MUCH. An unapologetic take on the vicious cycle of earning too little and consuming too much. Part of NAKED ISLAND, 15 super-short and incisive films created by some of Canada's top animators. Framed as “Public Service Alerts,” and produced by the National Film Board of Canada, this series blends the art of animation and advertising to promote self-reflection by dissent, satire and wit.

The Life Letter

A mail trip from battlefield to town, with a purpose of expressing one soldier's feelings.

Set in Stone

an intuiting of the core feelings of the Moses story relating to the current capitalistic global system all told through a hybrid of stop motion animation and live action.

Sun Dressed Woman

Sun Dressed Woman is a short film in experimental animation cinema, which narrates Liah's journey of inner search, which brings into her lived experiences the problems of being and the challenging task of existing. Accessing the memories of other lives and dimensions, she encounters ancestral beings, who help her reunite with her own consciousness.

Forbidden Valentine

An animated short about AI and true love.

Reality of Obsessive

Colt is obsessed with the rock band Speedy's Overdrive, to the point of hallucinating conversations with its frontman, Speedy. When he unexpectedly wins a contest to meet his idol, his excitement turns into inner conflict, forcing him to choose between his dream and his friends. As the long-awaited day arrives, Colt finally comes face to face with Speedy, but the encounter doesn’t go as he imagined, leading him to question everything he once believed.

Afterimages

A film-poem created for Counterclock Journal's 2023 Patchwork: Film x Poetry fellowship, featuring an original poem by Mackenzie Duan and animation by Evan Bode.