The Bomb

Filmmakers use archival footage and animation to explore the culture surrounding nuclear weapons, the fascination they inspire and the perverse appeal they still exert.

2017-06-10 | en

A Night Story

Once upon a time, a mother would no longer be available. Animated film in black and white about how unreal it is to lose a close relative. And parents wish they could say to their children that all fairy tales end well.

2005-01-29 | sv

Scanning of Modulations

Eye-popping digital moving image work with an equally arresting soundtrack from noise music heavies.

2001-11-20 | ja

Son of the White Mare

A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors' lost kingdom.

1981-10-22 | hu

La Maison en Petits Cubes

La Maison en Petits Cubes tells the story of a grandfather's memories as he adds more blocks to his house to stem the flooding waters.

2008-06-10 | ja

Photodiary '87

I turned my gaze to the various events in daily life and made this filmic diary in a manner as if confessing my feelings. Of course, since I was making the film, I wanted to depict these feelings and events with tricky techniques. I used various methods to shoot photographs of a relative's wedding, the landscape I see from window of my house, commemorative travel photographs and the like frame-by-frame.

1987-07-26 | ja

Rectangle & Rectangles

This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker programmed a computer to coordinate a highly complex operation involving an electronic beam of light, colour filters and a camera. This animation film, without words, is designed to expose the power of the cinematic medium, and to illustrate the abstract nature of time.

1984-01-01 | en

Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

2019-11-03 | en

60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was screened one time only on a purpose-built 20x12 meter public cinema screen in the Port of Tallinn, Estonia, on 22 December 2011. A special projector was constructed for the event which allowed the actual filmstrip to be burnt at the same time as the film was shown.

2011-12-22 | en

Gondora

A short movie about a guy living in his own world.

1997-12-05 | ja

Fantaisie érotique

1936-01-01 | cs

Eva and the Grasshopper

Mary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee, falls in love with the seductive Eva, who is busy becoming a revue star. When Eva fails and loses her money, Armand tries to help her out.

1927-06-10 | xx

Carmen

Silhouette film. Based on Bizet’s opera “Carmen”.

1934-06-10 | de

When Winter Comes

When snow comes, winter sports are back and all the animals rush to the frozen lake.

1924-04-21 | en

Little Red Riding Hood

A classic Soviet, black-and-white, animated film by the sisters Brumberg, "grandmothers of the Russian animation". Its plot differs slightly from the original fairy tale.

1937-03-21 | ru

Vincent

Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams that annoy his mother.

1982-10-01 | en

Lost Utopia

The story of Adam and Eve with jazzy music. Short experimental animation without words.

2007-01-01 | ja

69SEC

This is a story of love seen from a square, in which a couple gets united, separated and rearranged again. A special kind of puzzle.

2016-11-20 | fr

Perpetual Motion

Part of Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.

1920-10-02 | en

Bambi Meets Godzilla

Bambi is nibbling the grass, unaware of the upcoming encounter with Godzilla. Who will win when they finally meet? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

1969-07-10 | en