Far beyond the mountains of this and the next world lies Haunting Hamlet, a place the sun prefers to shun and where day and night merge into one. Here times move so slowly it almost stands still and most of the villagers have time to kill. But among them is a boy who has no time to spare. His name is... Adolfo.
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Feeling misplaced and trapped in an environment where he doesn't belong, he dreams of doing what he always wanted. This is the story of the crow who wore a suit and worked in an office.
"A film version of a videotape. In it my drawings are animated and colorized by using computers. Walter Wright and Richard Froeman were on the computers. John Godfrey helped with the video editing. I did the sound score. The original tape was done on 2" high-band color videotape, two computers, a Paik-Abe video-synthesizer, with studio chroma-keying and multi-generation video editing." A version of Computer Graphics #1, one of Emshwiller's very first video works.
An incident from the early days of Québec's quiet revolution, tailor-made for the cartoonist. It is the story of a Montréal commuter train, a unilingual ticket collector and a bilingual passenger. The passenger appears on screen himself to describe his bid to have tickets requested in French as well as in English. What ensued, and how even the railway president became involved, is illustrated with wit and humor.
A man with an umbrella emerges from his grave to be momentarily reunited with his lost loved one.
Manivald is a fox in his early 30s. He is still living at home with his mother. One day a young hot wolf called Toomas comes to fix the washing machine. A love triangle develops between the three of them. Things get out of hand and Manivald realizes that it is time to move out.
A brilliant scientist travels through various dimensions and realms in search of his lost love.
This story is based on an ancient northern legend according to which the souls of the drowned people turn into sea animals. The Hunter steals a seal-girl’s skin, so she can’t turn back into an animal. She becomes his wife, but often she glances at the sea.
Even though Sam's father is hardly ever home because he is often away on business trips, he is able to connect with his son by teaching him how to pack a suitcase.
Due to professional and personal problems, Dr Zodiac loses himself to childhood obsession with circus and eventually escapes from humanity altogether.
Perihelion is a sort of animated tone poem. It is a short film that toes the line between narrative and non-narrative, essentially having no real beginning, middle or end.
Manchester, 1990. On a troubled estate, Alice is roped into babysitting for her neighbour, whose children claim to feed a nightly visitor from Hell. Between gangland tensions, local superstition and drug withdrawal, Alice must decide whether to abandon her new wards or stay the night.
A farmer has computerised his farm but hasn't counted on bugs in the system ... and the cow wants to jump over the church.
Morning outflow and evening inflow of the sea change a tide of life of the coastal small town.
A parable about the fragility of relationships. Love is sought, found, tested, lost...
A psychopathic husband tries to feed his nonexistent family.
While enjoying a date in a park, a man carelessly tosses an empty bottle onto the ground. His selfish littering promptly summons an imposing figure wearing a white hockey mask. The gruesome events that follow tell an admonishing tale about the importance of preserving the outdoors and defending the environment from the ugly menace of litter. The short was made for the tve YouTube Relay project, but wasn't included because it's too violent.
A collage of five people from different cultures living in Switzerland. They reflect on life by looking at their origins. The liveliness and diversity of life can be divined.