An exchange to Rotterdam seems tougher than anticipated.
This short re-tells the real life tale of the director as an exchange student in Rotterdam. Upon his arrival, he quickly develops a rivalry with his roommate's cat. This coupled with the trials of the city and art school will prove this exchange to be tougher than expected.
Maya Thao
01 Jan 1933
Len Lye scraped together enough funding and borrowed equipment to produce a two-minute short featuring his self-made monkey, singing and dancing to 'Peanut Vendor', a 1931 jazz hit for Red Nichols. The two foot high monkey had bolted, moveable joints and some 50 interchangeable mouths to convey the singing. To get the movements right, Lye filmed his new wife, Jane, a prize-winning rumba dancer.
01 Jan 1939
Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.
12 May 1994
In the 40's, after the Spanish Civil War, many republicans defeated by the nationalist forces of Franco found refuge on the bordering mountains in the north of Portugal. Some saw them as brigands, others gave them shelter and helped them on the sly to police forces of Salazar. They were... the Outlaws.
05 Jan 1987
A 20 minute masterpiece with no dialogue necessary. A King of the Forest gathers elves, sprites, and other assorted woodland spirits for a night of festivities. The spirits frolic, dance, drink, and romance. Conflicts arise and are resolved. The puppetry here is top-notch, and the rear-projections of fire and water add an extra depth to the magical world. A trip to a mysterious and happy world.
07 Aug 1985
This cartoon is directed against the brutality of professional Boxing. In parody form it ridiculed unworthy methods and means used to achieve victory.
20 Apr 2023
The horror of Jen's teenage past catches up with her when she takes her autistic son to a birthday party in her hometown.
01 Jan 1969
This animated short is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited panorama of the sky, grouping, regrouping or colliding like the stylized burst of some atomic chain reaction. The dance is set to the musical cadences of Bach, played by pianist Glenn Gould.
07 Feb 2013
We are in 2012, life goes on. Children are born, people die and things happen in between. Nevertheless, this society has its strange particularity, it has never known laughter. In this world, nobody has ever laughed. Neither humor nor derision exist. Until a psychoanalyst meets a patient with a strange illness.
01 Jan 1953
Norman McLaren instructs Grant Munro on the movements he is to make. The film technique for Two Bagatelles is pixillation, where the actor is animated frame by frame, as in the film Neighbours/Voisins.
17 Feb 2012
A comedy about a chaotic morning in a family with kids, and a mother who is determined that it's best to take care of everything herself.
05 Nov 2020
After her mother's death, Kim finds solace in wearing her mother's old sweater. However, the sweater begins to itch and even hurt her, but she still can't bring herself to take it off.
27 Nov 2015
A short four-minute concept film unveiled in surprise at Studio SHAFT's 40th anniversary event in winter 2015, Madogatari. The first animated Puella Magi Madoka Magica work since Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion, it features the return of the full Madoka Magica cast and staff.
01 May 1994
A man's life changes when he gets a hairpiece. Oscar nominated short film
16 Oct 1998
This film illustrates the life of the film director, Shui-Bo Wang in The People's Republic of China. We learn of the life of the director in his own words and images from a child steeped in the values of Chinese communism exemplified by Chairman Mao, to a young man striving to live up to those ideals both as an artist and a soldier.
06 Mar 2004
A cat named Lorenzo is dismayed to discover that his tail has developed a personality of its own.
08 Sep 2016
First to Like - First to Die. A short horror with a humorous touch.
25 Dec 2013
Rabbit and Deer are living happily and careless until their friendship is put to the test by Deer's new obsession to find the formula for the 3rd dimension. After an unexpected accident Deer finds himself in a new world, unknown to him. Separated by dimensions the two characters have to find the way back to each other.
16 Feb 2005
An animated short film about a man struggling against the storm. Suddenly he discovers that not everybody is affected by the wind...
01 Jul 2012
The animation tells the story about a gloomy rainy season, a boy who accidentally met a little fox. There are two worlds, one is a humid but oppressive city, the other is bright and natural but needs water.
10 Mar 2008
"Slow" is the story of a traffic safety worker who is accidentally caught in a newspaper photograph — and his life is changed forever.