Madagascar, a Journey Diary
Genres
Overview
Filmed like the travel journey of a Western traveler in search of Madagascar's customs. The pages turn, the drawings come to life, and the luxuriant landscapes of Madagascar appear one after another.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
12 min
Release Date
2010-01-24
Status
Released
Original Language
French
Vote Count
17
Vote Average
6.8
5.0
The Apple
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1963-05-21 | en
3.0
The Next Move
A film about a couple moving into their first home.
2006-10-27 | en
6.0
Trees
A Walt Disney short film.
1948-05-27 | en
7.3
The Gruffalo
The magical tale of a mouse who sets foot on a woodland adventure in search of a nut. Encountering predators who all wish to eat him - Fox, Owl and Snake - the brave mouse creates a terrifying, imaginary monster to frighten them away. But what will the mouse do when he meets this frightful monster for real?
2009-12-25 | en
0.0
Baby Quark
Tells the beginning of the story of Quark: His birth and how he is thrown out by his parents due to his malicious behaviour.
1987-12-02 | en
5.8
Nocturna Artificialia
Enigmatic, stop-motion, animated story of a man's day.
1979-01-01 | en
6.8
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff and toys from the child's head, leaving him without the top of his head for most of the film. The professor then teaches the lad about illusions and perspectives, the pursuit of an object through exploring a bank of drawers, divining an object, and the migration of forms. The child then brings out a box with a tarantula in it: the professor puts his "hands" into the box and describes what he feels. The boy receives a final lesson about animation and film making; then the professor gives him a brain and his own open-book hat.
1984-06-20 | en
6.5
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.
1988-01-01 | en
6.7
The Comb
A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.
1991-10-11 | en
6.5
Anamorphosis
The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This artistic technique, often used in the 16th- and 17th centuries, utilizes a method of visual distortion with which paintings, when viewed from different angles, mischievously revealed hidden symbols.
1993-04-09 | en
6.1
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?
Stop-motion animated short film with a white ball, a rabbit, and a girl, and a voice singing "Are We Still Married".
1992-08-31 | en
5.9
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods
Near an extraordinary chair with many legs, a hand is visible gripping an edge. The hand is weathered, the fingers cracked and scarred. The end of a rifle appears and a shot fires. The bullet is visible whirling through space; it caroms and then goes through a pine cone. A long spoon emerges from a drawer in the chair and stretches toward the hand. The bullet is on the spoon. Later, the hand holds the bullet between two fingers; another shot is fired.
1993-06-01 | en
6.8
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
Short animated film featuring the song "Can't Go Wrong Without You" by His Name Is Alive.
1993-12-31 | en
5.6
Frosty the Snowman
This short little cartoon is based on the popular song by Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson, first recorded in 1950 by Gene Autry as his followup to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
1951-12-23 | en
6.3
In Absentia
A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on her window. She sharpens pencils and writes on a page in a copy book. The pencil point often breaks under her fingers' force. She places broken points outside the window on the sill. A satanic figure is somewhere nearby, animated but of straw or clay, not flesh. She finishes her writing, tears the paper from the pad, folds it, places it in an envelope, and slips it through a slot. Is she writing to her husband? "Sweetheart, come."
2000-10-21 | en
5.8
The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow
The film centers on an unusual photograph dating back to the 1930s. An investigation of its particulars reveals a tapestry of secrets hidden in the details, and a tale of kidnapping and murder captured in a haunting moment.
2008-07-17 | en
6.0
Abigail
As the gap between a burning airplane and the ground gets smaller, one passenger has other things on his mind!
2005-01-01 | en
7.7
The Story of King Midas
A greedy King Midas is visited one day by a mysterious visitor who grants him the ability to turn all things he touches to gold. He learns his lesson when the food he tries to eat and his own daughter are turned to gold as well. The visitor reappears and offers him the opportunity to return to his old self, which he gladly does. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
1953-01-01 | en
6.4
The Calligrapher
With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink, thinks, then draws a straight line down the page in front of him, out of which sprout six more quill pens, each held by a hand. The calligrapher moves all the hands and pens in unison, drawing an elaborate feathered wing, which comes to live, peeling off the page, and, now a quill pen, slips in to his hand. He tucks it behind his left ear.
1991-01-01 | en
6.1
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.
2003-06-26 | en