A Visual Poem

Surreal environments take center stage in this visual odyssey.

2024-06-21 | xx

The Nightwatchman

A nightwatchman who works at a pesticide plant manipulates chemicals (of which he treats a strange garden of marrow-like vines in his apartment) , causing evolution to accelerate, in this short illustrating the harmful effects of human interference with nature.

1993-01-01 | xx

3000 entries, 49 exits

A girl takes her own life and ends up stranded in Limbo. Upon arriving and seeing Death from afar, she wants to finish the job; but on the journey, she meets someone who will change her mind about wanting to live.

2025-12-01 | es

The SuperVips

A satire of modern society or perhaps just a funny tale for children, depending on your age, mood or liking. Recounting the adventures of the last in a line of Supermen, the film pokes fun at the processes that lie behind advertising, politics and our consumer society.

1968-10-31 | it

Allegro non troppo

The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than parody status would imply. In the context of this film, "Allegro non Troppo" means Not So Fast!, an interjection meaning "slow down" or "think before you act" and refers to the film's pessimistic view of Western progress (as opposed to the optimism of Disney's original).

1976-03-12 | it

Tripping the Rift: The Movie

What begins for Chode and crew as a routine mission to protect a pissed-off princess will soon become a filth- splattered saga of dismembered royalty, indestructible clown assassins and desperately horny housewives.

2008-03-25 | en

Tokyo 2001/10/21 22:32~22:41

A mother and son are eating sushi at a conveyer belt sushi bar in Tokyo. This film depicts their conversation using cutout animation.

2018-10-12 | ja

Death, Music, Catharsis (She Dreamt She Was a Bulldozer, She Dreamt She Was Alone in an Empty Field)

An existential odyssey through the unconscious.

2021-01-19 | en

Alice

A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare - no matter how twisted or odd that way must be. A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll’s novel "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland".

1988-08-03 | cs

The Ogre's Garden

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.

2019-02-12 | en

The Flat

A man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.

1968-01-01 | cs

Made in Japan

Short animation by Renzo and Sayoko Kinoshita satirizes in a non narrative way the 'economic animal' Japan and predicted the economic recession in the 70s

1972-01-01 | ja

Yellow Submarine

The wicked Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, eliminating all color and music. As the only survivor, the Lord Admiral escapes in the yellow submarine and journeys to Liverpool to enlist the help of the Beatles.

1968-07-17 | en

Everything Will Be OK

A series of dark and troubling events forces Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life… or lack thereof.

2006-01-10 | en

Rejected

A hilarious collection of animated television commercials that were rejected because of their creator's failing grip on sanity.

2000-07-25 | en

Great is the Mystery of Godliness

When an intergalactic space god shows up in the form of a German potato and turns your teeth into drunken, blathering idiots… it’s time to take the chicken and hit the fire escape. That is… unless you really dig having your domicile over run by dirty pots and pans.

2004-06-01 | de

.wszechświat

2022-10-26 | pl

Millennium Actress

Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.

2002-09-14 | ja

Can you see the sound

An absurd dystopia featuring our senses. About sound, sight and wagging tongues.

2021-05-25 | xx

Simulacra

Which image is real - the one staring at us from the mirror or the one standing in front of it? In hallways filled with illusions, a simulacrum behind the looking glass, he is trying to find out if he is looking at a stranger or a hidden part of himself.

2014-01-01 | hr