Movies: Cutout animation

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

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QUICK DREAM, subtitled "A Series of Exorcisms," is the result of this first assignment. As Mouris describes it, “This film is a series of visual experiments with magazine photograph cutouts that make moving collages; coloraid paper; Avery labels; wha...

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

"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 ...

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

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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....

This short piece is somewhat romantic, despite its title. We do see the ogre however. He inverts himself into the action throughout the film. As usual, the action is partly symbolic, partly surreal....

Dressed In Green Many of the youths recruited by the guerrillas in the Vaupés region were taken from their schools. This is the story of one of them. She tells about the days in the camps and how the experience only gives her a feeling of hatred an...

"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...

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What lies underneath the Ant Pile?...

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....

Roads is a story about the choices of woman who is searching for her future....

A collection of mechanical-biological hybrids from the artist's workshop and a variety of rules written on different boards, gathered in order to secure projects and for entertainment....

A square dances....

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

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...