Movies: Paul Driessen

This animated short film is about a guy who is about to eat a soft-boiled egg. As he's cracking the egg, he can hear a voice coming from within--telling him to STOP! Every time he hits the egg, someone from within the egg yells at him....

Short animation telling three stories - of a man at home, a boat at sea and a bird. All three are seen simultaneously via a split screen and occasionally coincide....

A medieval writer attracts the attention of Death itself while he writes his stories. Soon Death enters a tale he is creating and attempts to kill his main protagonist....

Theatrical short made for Canadian Tire Corporation, Ltd....

The daily horror in your mailbox. The best headlines of a popular tabloid, collected and presented for your edification....

Sunshine Brownstone is home to an enthusiastic elephant named Gene, his pal Balloon, and an assortment of strange characters. The residents of Sunshine Brownstone help us learn about a special theme each episode, but we won't learn very much... oops!...

A deceptively simple film, The Same Old Story is over almost before it has begun. A story within a story within a story, its effect is jarring, ambiguous and lingering. The film speaks of fear, which is as old as humanity and as new as today. An anim...

Three stories of people in distress that interlock....

This short animated fable stars witches, cloaked riders and other Gothic characters, in a tale about the hungry natural world. Here the artist plays cat's cradle with ideas, especially the notion that one thing leads to another and that lives lead fr...

During Christmastime, a bum discovers a magical box....

John Bailey carelessly ignite a fire in the forest but with his imagination and a little help from a new friend, he is able to put the blaze and win back the favours of the forest inhabitants....

Although only a couple of minutes long, this animated short makes the point that oxygen is the stuff of life whether on land, in the air or water, but that it is becoming scarcer as man-made pollutants crowd it out. This is a film without words in wh...

Through a series of family snapshots, we are introduced to a family. The accompanying captions comment on everyday scenes featuring uncles, aunts and in-laws....

Uncles and aunts and otherwise related people. Revealing snapshots of their lives and times. As long as they hold out, a series to be continued…...

Complex, short animation film that divides the screen into eight small windows. To the music of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and with appropriate colours, seasonal stories are told in the small frames. Every now and then, the isolated events cross thei...

A short made for the surprise dinner in honor of 50 years Nico Crama as filmmaker. A knight defies hideous dangers to save a princess. Rearranged and slightly modified version of Oh What a Knight from 1982....

Seven brothers Grimm, all dressed similarly in a raincoat and hat, walk the street at night. One by one, they see something, which makes them invent a fairy tale....

Directed by Paul Driessen....

A knight braves various dangers in order to rescue a damsel in distress....

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