The Fable of the Mischievous Cat

Grundy the Meat Man(en)

A bizarre local food vendor helps cure two friends of their hunger pain.

Untitled(en)

Untitled is a collage film that combines the image and sound of Takashi Makino, the music of Lawrence English and the automatic writing text of Esperanza Collado, produced between March and June 2020, when the first attack of the coronavirus shook the world.

A Grandma's Goldfish(ja)

On the night of one day, the passage had become a quiet river just like a mirror. This story is a tale in which the goldfish which grew old, and the grandma of dementia go down the river of memory.

Shishigari(ja)

A gift from the gods of the mountains. Deep in the northern mountains, there are people who have been living with the blessings of the mountains. A boy, who is coming of age, journeys into the mountains for his first hunt. He must find the "Kuroshishi." The mountain is a world where life and death are divided by a paper-thin line. Sometimes, nature will show its fangs...

In the Waves(en)

A tie-dye fabric animation that narrates the beginning of life from a microscopic perspective.

PLANT BOY(en)

A teenager is resurrected as a plant-headed zombie, searching to find his past happiness and humanity. How long will it all last though, knowing that life may change again when the sun goes away?

MANANG(en)

Two cousins rediscover the mysteries of their missing aunt's golden teapot.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit(en)

For the first time in nearly 95 years, Oswald stars in an all-new hand-drawn short from Walt Disney Animation Studios in celebration of Disney 100 Years of Wonder!

Love(en)

LOVE is a short film describing affection in 3 different chapters, through an impact on a distant solar system.

The Naive Man From Lolliland(en)

A Naive man from the Lolliland leaves a generous tip, but the currency is not to the restaurant's standards.

Love From Outta Space(th)

A man finds an alien in his backyard, and the alien helps him understand about relationships.

Simple Destiny Abstractions(en)

A short creation by Douglass Crockwell that can be found on the Unseen Cinema box set.

¿Dónde está mi corazón?(es)

Kitten(en)

Kitten Smith is the biggest country singer you’ve never heard of. Living in his own imagination, he struggles to connect with others and the realities of his semi-vagrant lifestyle. But that hasn’t stopped him from pursuing his big dreams of becoming the next Hank Williams - performing to an audience of none in shopping malls, parking lots, and karaoke booths. That is, until his music finally lands with one other person, Rose, who sees and hears him for exactly who he is.

The Bear That Couldn't Sleep(en)

Barney's settling in for the winter. But water leaks, a loose shutter, a noisy fire, a teakettle left on, and some stray embers all get in the way, and Barney also locks himself out. And that's just the beginning.

Thermogenesis(en)

"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.

Eternal Flame(ja)

In the pitch darkness a man cannot see anything. Only light source is a light lit with a match by someone else. The light is lit and put out. This repeats sometime and eventually the man makes up his mind.

Smile.mp4(en)

'Smile.mp4' is a heartwarming Malayalam Short Film that seamlessly blends the contrasting styles of French New Wave (fluid) and Classic Hollywood filmmaking (static) to tell a poignant tale of change and acceptance. Just as these two distinct cinematic approaches converge in this short film, so do the lives of Diya and George, illustrating that harmony can exist even between seemingly disparate elements.

Sea Wolf(ka)

Arsena got tired of being a farmer, decided to go to Batumi and start working on a ship. Arriving in Batumi, he encounters a film crew that urgently needs a rescuer. But Arsena can't adjust to the restless life of the film crew, he misses the village, and when this "experienced sailor" almost drowns at sea because he doesn't know how to swim, he has no choice but to return home.

Canned Fishing(en)

Spanky and Alfalfa plot to play hooky so they can go fishing, by pretending that Alfalfa is sick and Spanky should stay with him while the parents are away. But Spanky's mom, knowing the truth, turns the tables by insisting they also watch Spanky's little brother. But taking care of little brother turns out to be more difficult than they expected.