School of Fine Arts

Контуры

January 1981 •Russian

Glare

January 1981 •Russian

The flames in the fireplace create whimsical reflections, creating a New Year's mood in the house.

All the Cats Join In

August 1946 •English

A hep teen hears a tune on the jukebox at the malt shop and calls his girl; She rounds up a crowd and soon the whole place is jumping.

Our Perpetual Now

October 2020 •Spanish

The story of a man who edits with his memories a last conversation to say goodbye to the woman he loved.

Walls

June 1988 •Polish

An animated short film from 1987 that deals with the incarceration of a man in a dark cell from where there is no escape.

New Janko the Musician

June 1961 •Polish

In the modern village of the future, everything is mechanized, but the dreams of the village musician remain the same. He wants to become an artist. Thanks to the fact that an Art Nouveau goddess gave him a helping hand, Janko Muzykant saves his life and escapes from the village on a Pegasus.

Puleng

November 2004 •English

On a small Kalahari farm things look bleak. It hasn't rained for ages and the well has run dry and the residents are just about hanging on with what little they have. As the farmers' daughter prepares to gamble on the final few seeds they have left something appears on the horizon which could be the salvation they have been praying for.

The Tale of How

March 2006 •English

This lavishly embellished, comically operetta CGI fantasy story takes place in the Indian Ocean, where a flock of “piranha birds” has settled on the back of an octopus. When an octopus is starved, it feeds on birds on its back, but because it is already threatened with extinction, they decide to send a bottle across the sea with a call for help.

Trigger Happy

January 1997 •English

“Trigger Happy” was made with hundreds of objects found on the streets and sidewalks of New York. It began as an attempt to make an animated ballet, but as I was shooting the dance turned rowdy, into more of a nocturnal revel. It was shot on a lightbox with high-contrast film. The backlight silhouetted the objects, making them into graphic icons of themselves. The resulting film is a negative, which turned the objects white and the background black as asphalt. It makes the dance almost phantasmagoric. The trigger I was happy about was on the camera, but the title also fits the velocity of the imagery. Much of the animation happens by the rapid replacement of one object with another. It’s the afterimage in your eyes that animates the difference between the shapes, as one is replaced by another, and another… The music by Shay Lynch perfectly captures the idea of dancing in the streets.” —Jeffrey Noyes Scher

Giant Steps

January 2001 •English

2-minute animation film to music by John Coltrane.

The Passengers of Ursa Major

October 1943 •French

A futuristic cruise ship with a crew of robots is ready to take its first flight. A boy follows his curious dog on board of the ship, but then the ship takes off. The robots sees the boy as a blind passenger and try to get him off the flying ship.

Milk of Amnesia

January 1992 •English

A six minute short made in New York City by Jeffrey Noyes Scher.

Sientje

November 2000 •Dutch

A simplistically rendered girl screams and cries, and her environment changes to reflect her thoughts and mood.

Sortie de Bain

January 1994 •French

Just before supper, Daddy asks his young daughter to take her bath, which is not as easy as pie.

Tuk-Tuk

January 1993 •Russian

A mysterious knock in an instant destroys the usual life that four lonely, calm people lead.

A Short Love Story in Stop Motion

April 2008 •English

Short film by director Carlos Lascano.

Curriculum vitae

January 1987 •Czech

An artistic animated short showing the life in secondary school.

Spin

January 2002 •English

An interactive flash animation from Dutch digital artist Han Hoogerbrugge.

The Dog Who Was a Cat Inside

November 2002 •English

A dog has a cat inside him. The two fight to get on, with one's desires always getting in the way of the other's. However the conflict cannot go on forever and the two learn the hard way to find common ground and work out something for themselves.

Wind Along the Coast

March 2003 •Russian

A lyrical and funny story about the hard life of a village on the coast suffering from the high winds.