
04 Feb 1987

The White Arena
Welcome to the circus arena, where all the characters are made of white paper.
I turned my gaze to the various events in daily life and made this filmic diary in a manner as if confessing my feelings. Of course, since I was making the film, I wanted to depict these feelings and events with tricky techniques. I used various methods to shoot photographs of a relative's wedding, the landscape I see from window of my house, commemorative travel photographs and the like frame-by-frame.
04 Feb 1987
Welcome to the circus arena, where all the characters are made of white paper.
01 Jan 1970
Dog racing is used as a metaphor for the futility of human existence.
05 Feb 1987
A story about a good boy and a shoemaker who wants to do his job, but faces many challenges because of his advanced age. This thoughtful old man takes care of birds, and his good deeds come back to him in caring neighborhood kids who are trying to help the man, making new orders. But will they perform a cobbler’s work well?
05 Feb 1989
About a fastidious beauty who could not decide who can become her husband. Her younger sisters decided get married, and Marussia still can not be determined. And no one knows how much more time she would remain alone with such a personality if a young man didn’t decide to conquer the impregnable girl...
01 Jan 1983
Augusta tries everything in order to make herself look beautiful.
01 Jan 2005
A teeny weenie bit of submission, a little diplomacy, a dose of patience, a touche of kindness, a spot of deceit, this is the cocktailthat allows Ponpon to overcome the endless ordeal that life amongst humans represents. From episode to episode, from one hazard to the next, from vague misunderstanding to sheer muddle, the same question remains: He escaped from Hell, but will he survive Paradise?
02 Nov 1999
Debbie goes to Hell after committing suicide. Once there, she finds herself in the middle of a power struggle. The Devil asks her to get his horns back so that he can regain control of his realm.
21 Mar 1970
This is an animated version of Yanase Takashi's picture book featuring the friendship between a mother dog, Muku-muku, who lost her puppy, and the baby lion Buru-buru, who lost her mother.
28 Jul 2023
Based on the Oz books by L. Frank Baum, the Tin Woodman wanders into an old cabin and rediscover's his own past.
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01 Jan 1935
Pioneer of silhouette animation, Lotte Reiniger, uses this technique in a retelling of the Greek legend in which the sculptor, Pygmalion, brings a statue to life.
03 Jan 1967
Mr Munnings is printing some posters advertising the Fire Brigade band's forthcoming concert. Captain Flack tells his men to put the posters up around town but where can they put them? Nick Fisher the bill poster helps them out.
01 Jan 1970
Courageous Cucumber travels and helps animals and birds.
01 Jan 1982
Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel and Fellini and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to a futurist junkyard where tin cans become animated police cars in a city of urban decay.
01 Jan 2008
Something's brewing on the desk. Battle is commencing. Will Kungfu Bunny always be invincible?
01 Mar 2021
A Marxist-Leninist-Maoist revision of the Allegory of the Cave, filled with talking animals who shall be late and bourgeois queens who would like to see you without a head, exactly as Plato intended.
31 Mar 2021
A Man's Cat observes and witnesses his descent into madness at the end of his seasonal depression during the last days of winter.
Documentary behind the making of the animated short film Dim.
04 Feb 1979
About the protection of nature, about the inhabitants of protected swamps.
08 Oct 2016
Roger plays the leading role in an stop motion animation series. He suffers an accident on set that leaves him out of the series. All is lost for him, until something unexpected will change his fate.