Movies: Cutout animation

Two duelling birds get the urge to change their plumage. A blue jay wants to be decked out in the green of cedar, and a loon dons the burnished red of oak leaves, but neither bird foresees the consequences of vanity....

An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica....

Hare enlists four brave friends to help him reclaim his home from the wily Fox....

The way bureaucracy works is told by men in the frames....

Based on a poem by Samuil Marshak about an incredibly absent-minded man from Leningrad....

Suicidal poet Archy tries to end his life by jumping off a bridge, but awakens to find he has assumed the life of a cockroach and has become a part of a community of creatures living in a newspaper office. He also discovers that he can still write po...

In this episodic animated fantasy from France, an art teacher interprets a series of six fairy tales (each involving a prince or princess) with the help of two precocious students. Princes and Princesses was created using a special style of cutout an...

A third world child pursues the dream of freedom but becomes a victim of exploitation....

70-year-old Timo makes the most of his short ride to work. Speeding up on a bicycle ends up in a ditch, but the adrenaline rush leaves a feeling of pleasure....

In a white lace universe, three inventors create machines which are both pretty and useful. Unfortunately people do not understand them......

Edge of Alchemy is the third film in a trilogy examining the psychological terrain of women's inner worlds. In this handmade film, assembled from over 6,000 collages, the actors Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor are lifted from their early silent featur...

Documentary on industrial lubrification....

The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs....

This animated short is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited panorama of the sky, grouping, regrouping or colliding like the stylized burst of some atomic chain r...

A cut-out animation musical adaptation of the Irish mythological epic Táin Bó Cúailnge....

The story of the evolution of life on Earth in animated form....

Three artists struggling against the grid of society find spiritual renewal....

This short animation by artist and animator Evelyn Lambart offers a wordless plea for the right of all living creatures to a clean, unpolluted environment. With rich colour and intricate animated motion, the film features birds, butterflies and other...

In this animated environmental parable, we find a people living in harmony with nature, until carelessness leads to the ravens' revenge. We follow a boy's courageous journey to the spirit world to find the only one who can save his village from the r...

Three parallel stories depict the everyday insanity of the German capital, between motion and gridlock, the ticking clock and money trouble....