The Time Monsters(1959)

Dilution(en)

Dilution is an experimental short film that explores the transit between resistance and (di)ssolution, between holding and releasing and a path towards obsessive repetition. They are layers, exposed pores, matter that oscillates between remaining or disappearing. The sound is not a background, but a puncture: friction, tearing, water that drags what still persists. A sensorial testimony of what refuses to vanish completely.

The Exploits of Moominpappa – Adventures of a Young Moomin(fi)

A beautiful summer day in Moomin Valley. Suddenly, a wasp stings Moomintroll, who falls ill and has to stay in bed. To cheer him up, Moominpappa recounts his youthful adventures; his misunderstood childhood, escape from an orphanage and his historic meeting with the inventor Hodgkins.

Rennyo and His Mother(ja)

Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular the Honganji lineage that had a slump in its fortunes during the Middle Ages. According to the legend, his motivation was a pivotal childhood incident at the age of six when his mother summoned him and told him about his destiny to revive the fortunes of the Honganji school to which he was the next in line. She then mysteriously disappeared from the temple. Taking her words to heart, from a background of great poverty and hardship, at the age of 16 he set out to spread the word across the land.

Por una maleza.(es)

The Moustache(fi)

This town is too small for the both of them. And for their moustache.

Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas(en)

Shaun's seasonal excitement turns to dismay when a farmhouse raid to get bigger stockings for the flock inadvertently leads to Timmy going missing. Can Shaun get Timmy back before he becomes someone else’s present?

Stille Nacht I: Dramolet(en)

A magnet moves on a floor. A moth beats against a window. A doll child watches the magnet; threads of metal filings gather around the magnet.

Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods(en)

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.

Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You(en)

Short animated film featuring the song "Can't Go Wrong Without You" by His Name Is Alive.

The Tin Woods(en)

Based on the Oz books by L. Frank Baum, the Tin Woodman wanders into an old cabin and rediscover's his own past.

A Christmas Dream(cs)

Christmas has arrived. As a little girl and her parents enter the room, the little girl finds all kinds of toys under the Christmas Tree. She immediately throws her old doll aside and starts playing with her new dolls. But that night she has a dream. Or maybe it isn't a dream?

The Hunter(en)

In this stop motion sand animation, a lone hunter undertakes a search for a missing boy deep in the snow covered mountains. THE HUNTER premiered at SXSW in 2012, has featured in competition at over 50 international festivals and won several awards including the AFI/ AACTA in 2013.

The disobedient carnation(es)

A carnation planted on the moon is banished for not to flourish. Once in exile, thanks to the care and affection of a child, the flowers bloom.

Trees(en)

An animated short film about two boys playing football, when John kicks it too hard it goes to the trees, and Robert must collect it.

Matiz(pt)

The Werepig(es)

A teenager turns into a pig and must escape from his pork-craving relatives.

Dancing Beer Bottles(en)

Circa 1963 - 1975. This is possibly test footage or something for a beer commercial, or something for a variety show of some sort. Dennis Muren animated it with replacement animation. The same technique that was used with George Pal's Puppetoons and the animation of the title character with The Beast From Hollow Mountain (1956). In fact, this technique is used today from Tim Burton to Laika.

Junk World(ja)

1,042 years before JUNK HEAD, a robot named Robin escorts a human commander on a mission to the underground city of Carp Bar.

No Monsters Allowed(en)

A young girl gets so scared by the horror movie her older brother watches that she can’t sleep at night. Worse, the creatures from the film torment her, and she has to find a way to get through the night in this dialogue-free stop-motion film

Everybody Goes to the Hospital(en)

'Everybody Goes to the Hospital' is an animated exploration of a true physical, psychological, and familial trauma.