Animation

Nostalgic yet dark, sexy but absurd, this lovely and unique animation about a young Hong Kong girl, her oft-absent lover and a jealous octopus slowly wraps its tentacles around you.

Animated minimalism is used to maximum effect in this gorgeous and bizarre short student work from Israel.

70′s-era hand-drawn animation about an aging inventor’s struggle to find his way home

40 years ago a 14-year old Beatle fan edged his way in to see John Lennon and recorded this exchange covering topics still eerily relevant today.

Tragic story of a dog’s trail through abusive owners told through a series of cascading flip books

A dark, animated fantasy pulled off with style and panache. The Musicians of this cat-town have disappeared, sacrificed to the infernal Cat Piano. Our world-weary hero must fight to get them back.

This student work captures the fluidity and vibrancy of the artist’s own family in conversation through a unique sketch and watercolor animation style.

The humorous requests received at a photographic archive are the fodder for this splendid animation.

A girl from a strange family falls prey to her doppelgänger in this surreal animation that resulted from a collaborative script by John Malkovich for Sony.

A dung beetle sets out to roll his prized find back along the long road home.

A short film by the acclaimed Ivan Maximov examines imprisonment in cute and humorous ways

This surreal, design-inspired film, blends live-action and animation to illustrate the emotions of new love and heartbreak.

Two elderly women relive their youth with a laugh and a wince as a series of dramatic events unfold in this classic Oscar-winning animation.

Bisignanoanimation uses a multitude of techniques to illustrate a humorous narrative account of one boy’s fear of AIDS circa 80′s America.—A Sundance 10/10 film: now online

Haunting, but humorous piece focusing on a weary inter-dimensional traveler as he struggles with isolation on a remote world he dubs “Oasis”—A Sundance 10/10 film: currently offline

This chillingly simple animation of Gabor Barabas poem “The Spider” cracks into the depths of the human cycle in a sharp three minutes. The Spider shows us the contradictions of life—love and death, beauty and indifference.

Love inspires, but the fear of losing love causes an animator to obsessively record the moments he and his love share. An innovative mix of live-action and flipbook animation.

A gorgeous experimental animation, JumpTrumpRumpBump brings together recycling, a little girl, escaped convict animals and Jazz.

The isolated world of two sisters is shattered when a visitor arrives to their island threatening to break their discordant harmony.

In this minimalistic animation out of the Czech Republic, a young lady indulges in the joys of people-watching at an outdoor café, but she is being watched too.

One day, Gerald wakes up as a woman… The adventures of a man transformed into woman and who discovers a new life in a new body.

How to break up in 64 easy steps, as told from the insightful, dry humor of Lev and his lo-tech Tales of Mere Existence animated series.

Simple ink animation of a child’s imaginative journey across the surreal landscape of her grandmother.

An orphaned child overcomes her fear of her evil caretaker to exact a much-deserved revenge.

A moving tale of a daughter, an absent father, and the ties we share that surpass time or logic