Movies: Cutout animation

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

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....

We aren't only created with free will, but also with responsibility. The responsibility to listen to our gut feelings, follow our intuition, the wise part of us. According to the old definition, a magician is a wise person. So we can all be magicians...

Documentary on industrial lubrification....

We hear the distant ring of Saturn....

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

Short experimental animation by Jules Engel...

A series of vaudeville acts inserted in images of reality, meant to demonstrate the ephemeral nature of all things....

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

One person makes the long and difficult journey towards finding their own beauty. In trying to mimic the beauty of others around them, they repeatedly fail at their attempts to be something they're not. Only when they muster the courage to look inwar...

In the middle of the forest, a bonfire will define the fate of Fayna, a young, colorless girl....

A short surreal animation created with fashion magazine clippings and sound collages....

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