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The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

December 1965 •English

Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively squiggle.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising-

Invalid date •Japanese

Katnip Kollege

June 1938 •English

At the Katnip Kollege, we see a roomful of cats taking a course in Swingology. Everyone swings except Johnny, who can't cut it and has to sit in the dunce chair. Miss Kitty Bright tells him to look her up when he learns how to swing. Finally, listening to the pendulum clock at night, Johnny gets the beat. He rushes out to where everyone is playing and sings "Easy As Rollin' Off a Log" to Kitty Bright. She joins in; he grabs a trumpet for an instrumental break, with the complete band. They both fall off a log; she covers him with kisses.

Homeless Hare

February 1950 •English

A construction worker destroys Bugs' home with a steam shovel and refuses to repair the damage.

Daffy Duck & Egghead

January 1938 •English

Daffy taunts a hunter in Tex Avery's classic, meta short.

Aos

December 1964 •Japanese

An abstract animation about people and organs of the body in and out of drawers.

In the Aftermath

January 1988 •English

In a radiation-soaked wasteland, two surviving soldiers, Frank and Goose, search for essential supplies amid the rubble. After a violent confrontation, Frank is haunted by visions of an angelic young girl holding a giant egg, herself a refugee from another world altogether. Could the egg be the key to saving both their world?

The Astronauts

January 1959 •French

An inventor builds a homemade spacecraft, and uses it to have various adventures, including peeping at women, visiting ‘human’ planets, and becoming involved in intergalactic warfare.

The Last Theft

January 1987 •Czech

A man breaks into a large, seemingly abandoned old house to plunder the gold received. But the house is really abandoned?

Time Out

May 1985 •Estonian

An anxious cat, immediately engaged in a flurry of stressful morning activities, works himself into a nervous breakdown.

The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer

June 2003 •English

For the past 40 years, Jan Svankmajer (Faust, Conspirators of Pleasure) has been hailed as one of cinema's most consistently surprising, wildly imaginative, and remarkable surrealists of our time. Utilizing a delirious combination of puppets, humans, stop-motion animation, and live action, Svankmajer's films conjure up a dreamlike universe that is at once dark, macabre, witty, and perversely visceral. KimStim (and Kino) is proud to to offer this collection of remarkable short works from an artist that has mesmerized audiences the world over and has inspired filmmakers from the Brothers Quay to Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam.

The Noise of Licking

May 2016 •Hungarian

Animated short about a voyeur cat, a woman with excessive love for her plants, and a peculiar visitor in a fur hat. Based on the short story 'Megbocsátás' by Ádám Bodor.

The Return of John Frum

May 2010 •German

John Frum, Messiah of Polynesian Cargo Cults, returns as an astronaut and businessman to the postindustrial wasteland of the financial-service-economy. Embarking on a "conquest of the useless" things get confused and what begins as a journey becomes a trip beyond the boundaries of so called logic and meaning. Realised in beautifully crafted animation and innovatively rendered background art, the telling of this story is thick with atmosphere and celebrates a renaissance of the unconscious freed from the technocratic shackles of our times.

It's Such a Beautiful Day

August 2012 •English

Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche.

Breakfast on the Grass

August 1987 •Estonian

Several episodes, each focusing on a different figure. Towards the end they all come together to replicate the famous painting by Édouard Manet that provides the title.

Sizmara

January 1983 •Georgian

The king, tormented by nightmares, seeks for the best dream to be able to sleep peacefully.

Umbra

September 2010 •English

An explorer adventures into an unknown world, yet it seems that he has been there before.

Psychedelic Heimbold

August 2023 •English

A surrealist animation of the Sarah Lawrence College art building.

Alois Nebel

September 2011 •Czech

A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland. The end of the eighties in the twentieth century. Alois Nebel works as a dis­patcher at the small railway station in Bílý Potok, a remote village on the Czech–Polish border. He's a loner, who prefers old timetables to people, and he finds the loneliness of the station tranquil – except when the fog rolls in. Then he hallucinates, sees trains from the last hundred years pass through the station. They bring ghosts and shadows from the dark past of Central Eu­rope. Alois can’t get rid of these nightmares and eventually ends up in sanatorium. In the sanatorium, he gets to know The Mute, a man carrying an old photograph who was arrested by the police after crossing the border. No one knows why he came to Bílý Potok or who he’s looking for, but it is his past that propels Alois on his journey…

Tuesday

September 2001 •English

On a magical Tuesday night, a group of frogs take off on a journey through the nearby neighborhood.