
06 May 2008

About Stepan the Blacksmith
The tale of the blacksmith Stepan, who returned the Moon, the Stars and the Sun to people.

Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally looking up. A man enters a room, a woman smiles. He sits, another man sits and smokes. The cat stretches. There are close-ups of each. The light is dim; a filter accentuates red. A bare foot stands on a satin sheet. A woman disrobes. She pets the cat. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.
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06 May 2008

The tale of the blacksmith Stepan, who returned the Moon, the Stars and the Sun to people.

18 Nov 2012

Your first date becomes your worst nightmare...

11 Apr 1953

A boy is by an accident a member of a crew that is going to travel to the moon.

01 Jan 1945

An mutoscope motion picture installation commissioned for the 86th anniversary of the Guggenheim museum. Later preserved and turned into a short film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

01 Jan 1988

Using Baseball as a metaphor, this film explores the world of William Blake.

22 Oct 2019

Vincent, an artist with unresolved inner demons, meets a mysterious girl who helps him come to terms with his creative legacy… and eventual death.

01 Mar 2007

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01 Jan 2004

An interview with 'Tex Avery'.

01 Jan 1996

A double-length holiday cartoon plus a Christmas bonus.

16 May 2009

Two cops portrayed by Michelin Men chase an armed Ronald McDonald through the streets of a fictionalized, stylized city.

24 Dec 1937

On a dark and stormy night, four bored ghosts decide to have some fun by calling the Ajax Ghost Exterminators.

25 Mar 1995

In this clever satire of toxic men, a cartoon pickup artist is violently torn apart by the women he targets, seen only through his own one-sided, ridiculously misogynistic point of view. Don Hertzfeldt's first student film, he plays the part of a mentally unwell animator who's losing his grip within his own movie; an idea he'd later revisit in other early "meta" shorts "Genre" and "Rejected". Despite being produced at the age of 18 and not intended for exhibition, HBO named it "The World's Funniest Cartoon" in 1998.

10 Jan 2006

A series of dark and troubling events forces Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life… or lack thereof.

10 Oct 1996

In Don Hertzfeldt's second student film, a hapless cartoon character is dragged through a spectrum of cinematic situations by his frustrated animator.

09 Oct 1997

Lily and Jim are interviewed about their disastrous blind date.

25 Jul 2000

A hilarious collection of animated television commercials that were rejected because of their creator's failing grip on sanity.

21 Jan 2005

Evolution on Earth over the course of a billion years.

02 Oct 1991

This story is full of images and context, even though it is a simple story about a crocodile that ate a disagreeable man, it turns out that also addresses the problem of property and economic principles. Of course, all this is done to give a humorous effect, denouncing the social order, which may be contrary to the common sense.

01 Jan 1994

A modern fairy tale about a girl who is looking for her lost soul. First love, jealousy, death – everything can be found in this fantastic animation movie. Julia's fiance died tragically. Having grieved a little, Julia decided to get married again. But the dead bridegroom returned for Julia's soul. In order to save her soul, the girl had to go to the other world.

17 Sep 2003

Mirai Mizue set up a camera over a water tray with an illuminated white background (presumably an animation table) and experimented with the flow of aqueous ink over the surface of the water using stop motion animation techniques.