Movies: Cutout animation

Animated story of a sad magician...

In order to win the hand of a princess, a man must defeat an evil dragon and claim its treasured magic stone. Upon his return, Baghdad has been invaded and he must use the stone to defeat his new enemy....

An animated adaptation of Poe's famous short story....

Award-winning cut-out animation making a full statement on bravado by using two empty words. Available in full at -- https://youtu.be/zJiyvyskYmQ...

A comical animated opera. A chicken leaves to get birch branches for sauna while the rooster stays to warm the sauna. On her way she sees a clear-watered well, a tired cow and other creatures that sing along "Finland's best animal actress" Elina Salo...

"The strangeness of this film is laced with carefully moulded apocalypses as the filmmaker explores a vision of life beyond death – the Elysian fields of Homer, Dante’s Purgatorio, de Chirico’s stitched plain. A moving single picture. Evolving the st...

Squares and other geometric shapes appear to "dance" along to music through their ever-changing movements....

The best animation compilation on this side of the thrift store! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtFTfsNnVdY...

Wimpy, a notoriously lousy boxer, after losing a big fight against beloved Cocky Goldstein decides to take experimental new surgeries to beat Cocky's ass...

Short experimental animation by Jules Engel...

"Mouris’s film, YOU’RE NOT REAL PRETTY BUT YOU’RE MINE…, built upon the strongest elements of QUICK DREAM, and added a pop music soundtrack. Mouris says, “I shot another 100 foot roll on classmate Jerry Strawbridge’s home animation stand, and edited ...

A nostalgia trip in the enigmatic labyrinth of the passed childhood....

This is a classing Jordan animation, primarily in B/W, with touches of color. Actually, the engraved art work was film on color negative, so that subtle variations in tone are recorded. The mood--enhanced by John Davis' original music--is dream-like....

A family pod of three dolphins navigates decay as an inevitable register while also having a secret ascension to a higher ground....

Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on static backgrounds to suggest travel and discovery....

A fly is treated to a portion of criticism....

Three women, three generations. This is a Chinese family without love in 1940s....

The protagonist dreams of a better life, and his dreams take the form of colorful magazines....

Emerging from the sea onto land an axolotl swims through complex terrain parallel to a man searching for an encounter with God....

A tiny baroque ode to fleeting darkness and pretty make-believes....