The Other Side of the Mirror

Wormholes(en)

One of two short films created and produced by Spongebob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg at CalArts in 1992.

Un rêve au coin du feu(fr)

It is a short film made by Emile Reynaud

Third Interpolation(en)

Shapes projected onto an abstract environment. The movement and scale of the forms in the film is a beautiful equivalent of the dynamics of the soundtrack

Kobzar 2015(uk)

In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for Turkey and were executed by other Zaporizhian Sich Cossacks are reanimated as living dead at one cold night.

Shadow(ja)

Independent animation by Hayashi Seiichi.

One, Two, Tree(fr)

One day, a tree like any other jumps into a pair of boots and goes off for a walk inviting everyone it meets to follow.

Stone(ja)

Originally titled Stone No. 2, this is considered a seminal work of Japanese independent animation. Stones, houses and the surrounding natural landscape transform continuously.

Transparent Man(ja)

Independent animation by Shimamura Tatsuo.

The Five Minute Museum(en)

An experimental animation in which thousands of artifacts from the collections of small museums are brought to life in an animated history of human endeavor.

Way back to the Sea(ja)

The catfish can't get back to the sea. A big catfish is stuck on a riverbank, where he lives quietly with a little catfish in a boat packed with memories from back home.

00:08(ja)

This piece takes 8 seconds, and creates intervals between the frames, and then makes them bigger. It's about expansion and enlargement, not the passage of time. 8 seconds becomes that much more luxuriant.

The Predator Holiday Special(en)

In this stop-motion animated holiday short, the Predator tangles with his most formidable foes yet – Santa and his reindeer.

Crab Temple Omen(ja)

An early silhouette animated film by Hidehiko Okuda, Hakusan Kimura and Tomu Uchida. The original story is a Buddhist tale of a young lady who saved a crab (a spiritual being according to Japanese Buddhist faith) from being eaten, and was later saved from danger by the same crab.

The Magic Pen(ja)

A western occupation propaganda film in which a boy repairs a western style doll that comes to life and uses a magic pen to rebuild his bleak and war torn world into a happy place resembling western civilization.

Three Little Bears(ja)

A story of three little bears going on an adventure to find the lost little duck.

My Grandpa Is Hiding(fr)

A grandfather explains to his grandson that he'll have to take care of his flower garden after he dies. There follows a touching and poetic discussion about losing loved ones and on the marks they leave behind.

Empty Space(et)

An immense dissappointment. Instead of a puppy for her birthday she got a father…

Going Green(en)

Perfect Town(en)

Everybody aspires to be a citizen of Perfect Town – but display a deficiency or a flaw and you will be stripped of your superior status and forced to the rear of the interminable line of those clamouring to get in.

Love Me, Fear Me(en)

'What would you be willing to do for them to love you? '