
24 Oct 2024

No One Is an Island
Through an animated conversation, scientists explore if everyone can live well without harming the environment and reveal how hope and creativity can inspire change.
A shy young price seeks solace in overeating rather than attempt courtship. Until he begins to suffer from severe stomach pains. A peculiar doctor advises him to drink the waters of a magical spring every day. But it is a thousand leagues from the palace. The prince must go there alone, on foot, otherwise the water will lose its powers to cure him.
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24 Oct 2024
Through an animated conversation, scientists explore if everyone can live well without harming the environment and reveal how hope and creativity can inspire change.
27 Jan 1990
Stick-figure animation makes for a witty genre send-up of the Western.
27 Jan 1999
Edgar Allan Poe’s ill-fated hero meets his double.
27 Apr 1968
Short animation by Al Jarnow based on the work of British poet Edward Lear. Made at NYU.
01 Jan 1966
This short film for kids offers a lesson in proportions in which simple actions achieve surprising results. A man wants a door in a wall. He draws a rectangle and, presto! There is an opening. In the same way, he conjures up furniture. If too high or too low, the raising or lowering of a finger puts everything right.
01 Sep 2015
Transformed into a salmon, an Indigenous street artist travels through decayed urban landscapes to the forests of long ago, in this sublime mixed animation.
05 Sep 2024
When every global citizen is mandated to participate in a program that tracks their CO2 emissions, it makes little impression. Until they discover what happens when their designated quota has been reached.
28 Jun 2013
In a family with a mother, father, two daughters, and a bulldog, the dog is neglected and taken for granted. It seeks peace under the dining table but is ignored. Eventually, the dog is banished, and a family discussion may be its final humiliation.
22 Mar 1961
2ⁿ is a story about the exponential growth of numbers raised to powers. Part of the Mathematica Peep Shows, one of five films made to accompany the Mathematica: A World of Numbers and Beyond exhibition at the California Museum of Science and Industry and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
07 Mar 2015
One doesn't know where to go but has to move forward. He has to go to his goal.Always transforming himself, his heart and mind drift and run towards the goal when he finds it.
21 Jun 2020
Helping the little fishing boats and the members of this out-port community is the Lighthouse Man's pride and joy. When the town develops and "outgrows" his analog ways, his sense of purpose is lost and, even worse, he feels like a nuisance in his own home. He gives up his role... But, will the town and its people need him again?
26 Sep 2003
Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Set in a relocation camp in the summer of 1943, this film chronicles the journey of an American family torn apart by a forced and unjust incarceration, a father's decision that challenges his son to find strength, and ultimately his son's triumph through courage, sacrifice and the All-American game of baseball.
01 Aug 1930
An abstract ballet set to "I've Never Seen a Smile Like Yours".
27 May 2022
A Hispanic teen builds the confidence to tell his traditional Latin American family that he wants to shift careers and become an actor, much to their disapproval. As the conversation goes south, tensions rise, chaos ensues, and true colours are shown as the fabric of the once tight-knit family begins to tear.
01 Nov 2015
It should have been just another day, but Ruben’s scheduled meeting with Dave is making him nervous. Fearful imaginings haunt his morning. He forgets to lock his door, misses the bus and when he enters the office he sees a deer waiting for him.
22 Mar 1974
The second animated work from filmmaker, sculptor and painter Jerzy Kalina. Using multi-plane techniques mixed with paper animation and coloured grains (an element found in his first film, ...i stała się światłość, W trawie is a fantastical exploration of the world beneath our feet.
01 Jan 1958
A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.
01 Jul 1956
On a winter's night a bear, a fox and a squirrel seek refuge from the cold. They are drawn by the hearths in the homes of two woodcutters. One man treats them poorly, while the other welcomes them.
01 Jan 1956
A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.
07 Mar 2015
In the evening of a village festival, a young boy named Bunroku goes to the festival with his friend and visits a clog shop on the way. There he learns an old superstition about the fox.