Search Results for "cutout animation"

A small mole is looking for a fallen star in the night forest where everyone else seem to have already found their own treasures.

Conquerors land on a newly discovered planet and try to colonize and explore a new discovered planet.

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

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, producing an image that is a mixture of unexplainable fact (Why is Harpo Marx playing a harp in the middle of a battlefield?) with inexplicable act (Why is there a battlefield?). It is a black comedy, a fantasy that mocks death ... a parabolic parable.

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 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 animation, with black silhouetted characters performing the action against backlit backdrops in striking colors.

An absurd animated vision of a civilization taking over Earth, served with a side order of extremely wry sarcasm.

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

We hear the distant ring of Saturn.

Film shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"), who wants a mate, yet has difficulties getting one.

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

ALEXANDER THE GRAPE, an unfinished cut-paper animated short from Jim Henson from 1965, relates the fable of a young grape with big ambitions who learns that it is better to accept yourself than to try to be something you are not. The short was reconstructed from film and audio elements; images from Jim’s storyboard fill in missing segments of the animation.

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

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

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

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

Documentary on industrial lubrification.

An ancient was looking for the plum blossom in the snow storm during the trip.

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Walking down the street or sitting on a commuter train, few of us can resist the siren song of that small, illuminated device in our pockets. Through a carefully choreographed collision of hand-made sculptural collages and ink and paint animation, In the Shallows, by first-time NFB filmmaker Arash Akhgari, takes us on a deep dive into the shallow and fragmented world of news, entertainment and ads, where we can easily drown in the dangerous allure of mass media intoxication.