Movies: Cutout animation

One of Klahr's masterpieces, Altair is an 8 minute collage color -noir culled from late-40s pages of Cosmopolitan, which induces a sense of claustrophobia and dread through its use of Stravinsky's The Firebird....

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....

This short, cut-out animation was made by elementary school children at Clark School in St. Louis, MO....

After the adoption of a very unusual pet by this girls mom, she will have to come to terms with living with a seagull named Espanhola....

In this cut-out animation, a college student discovers her identity after traveling to her remote West Virginia hometown to work in a discount superstore....

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 boy, along with his companion, explores a secret passage....

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...

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An animated horror/sci-fi anthology reminiscent of The Twilight Zone, viewers who enjoy the dark and mysterious will find themselves enjoying this short film....

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Colour cut-out animation inspired by the shape of snowflakes and touched with the airy magic of these fragile designs. While music tinkles invitingly, snowflakes roll and whirl, pulse and glitter, shining with the many hues of twinkling lights. Made ...

A square dances....

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

German propaganda film that mocks the expansion of the British colonies in South Africa, Egypt, India and Jamaica. The film is true to a more serious tone than the stocky British John Bull becomes a giant squid that sends out its tentacles all over t...

A surrealistic fantasy based on the 15th century woodcuts of the dance of the dead. A film experiment that deals with the photoreality and the surrealism of life. A collage-animation that cuts up photos and newsreel film and reassembles them, produci...