Dull Hope

My First Crush(en)

Using interviews with people about their first experiences with love, this short film uses animal counterparts to tell their tales of humor and heartache.

The Wrong Trousers(en)

Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal.

A Close Shave(en)

Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.

Cymatic Cocoon(en)

This film explores cymatics and telepathy among twins

Outside the Lines(nl)

Three young queer people share their experiences on what it’s like to deviate from the straight cis-norm. Throughout the film, painful experiences make room for a more positive perspective, such as the overwhelming sense of connection with millions of other queer individuals worldwide or the freedom that arises as one can relinquish certain expectations. This so-called ‘queer-joy’ is being discovered, providing inspiring and moving insights.

Psychedelic Heimbold(en)

A surrealist animation of the Sarah Lawrence College art building.

Prelude 14(en)

Prelude 14 begins in deep brilliant red which darkens into deeper reds and lavender shapes, disrupted by a variety of colors settling into browns and grays and shapes most rock-like, all of which is then shot-thru with sufficient yellow to break up all hard-edge form and give a molten aspect to the mixtures of shapes.

Streamlined Greta Green(en)

In a world wherein cars act like humans, Junior wants to be a taxi, but his mother wants him to grow up to be a nice touring car like his father. Mom doesn't know that Junior sometimes skips school and ventures into the city to ride in traffic, drink hi-test gas, and race trains.

Dog Daze(en)

A series of gags at a dog show, including a stage revue. A dog gets into a trunk of roller skates and crashes through the stage show.

Desejo Expõe Suas Orbras (Desire's Exhibition)(pt)

With the aim of finding Desire, so-and-so performs a ritual to go down in the depths of himself.

No. 10(en)

16 mm, color, 3:35 or 10 min. Study for No. 11. "An exposition of Buddhism and the Kaballah in the form of a collage. The final scene shows Agaric mushrooms growing on the moon while the Hero and Heroine row by on a cerebrum."

The Last of the Mohicans(en)

An animated version of James Fenimore Cooper's classic wilderness adventure during the French and Indian War in colonial America. Hawkeye is in his prime as the famous scout who rescues the daughters of the Commander of a frontier fort. Produced by Burbank Films Australia.

Cabaret Kadne(en)

Otto and Lola, two cabaret artists, fill their lives with their passion: acting.

Antagonia(en)

The film is an abstract allegory, showing two penguins with different ideas abot sea creatures that are their food or their shadows, depending on the perspective. Basically, sense-twisting animation.

The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film(en)

The original 54-minute documentary, as broadcast by Channel Four on 20 June 1984, after which the animated links by the Quay Brothers were recompiled as a separate short.

Paint Showers(en)

Cosmos of paint unleash a storm of color.

Tiare Peatra(pt)

James and the Giant Peach(en)

When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.

Bermuda Triangle(pl)

The box from the film strip becomes an arbitrary plot of action relating to the mysterious phenomena taking place in the Bermuda Triangle. Experimental short by Jerzy Kalina.

Moving Aweigh(en)

Popeye and Shorty help Olive move. Unfortunately, they start by running into a police car, and keep running afoul of the officer.