Love

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

Do you remember your first love? Your first kiss? Do you remember anything?

Music is the shortcut into your crush’s heart in this short and sweet BAFTA nominee

Simple, fresh animation about the complex relationship between a cat and mouse.

A parking attendent serves up free compliments to a world in need of a little gratitude and understanding

A brief yet inventive 16mm short highlights our hero’s journey into the cinema screen in order to save the starlet he loves.

A lonely man struggles to keep a big secret living in his small apartment.

A harsh breakup served up with a side of brutal honesty and a walking, singing heart that will have you saying, “That’s so true.”

A pair of window mannequins play out a calamitous scene of love on a small stage.

Two star-crossed octopuses put their tentacles on the line to save each other from a tasty demise.

Jason is a depressed office boy, but through the window he sees the girl who might change all that. With blank paper and a sharpie he endeavors to let her know.

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

It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

A young, amateur magician gets his chance to make an impression on an attractive new neighbor when a gig for his father’s birthday party opens up.—A Sundance 10/10 film: currently offline

Quirky, romantic micro-budget film is the winner of Youtube’s Project Direct 2008

A splendid 60 second tale of love and loss showcasing cutting-edge anime techniques by the director of the Kill Bill animated sequence

This pro-level CG animation revolves around the remarkable romance of a scrappy street rat and a lovely lab rat, with plenty of action inbetween. However it is done in a decidedly un-Pixar way.

Possibly “the finest low-budget vampire beach movie of all time.”

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.

Tale of a glorious, renowned dance couple, seeking to recapture the lost magic now that the man is in a wheelchair.

A ton of festival kudo’s have poured in for this special effects-laden, post-apocalyptic, zombie-film. That is probably because of its twist—it is actually quite sweet.

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.

Crippled with chiropractic problems, this sad, young fellow with big dreams struggles to meet that perfect someone that just fits.

Quirky and often evasive story about fighting the inner self told using a slew of different storytelling techniques.

Winner of the MTVU Decemberists’ Green Screen Challenge, this short follows a young lady’s unnatural obsession with an old TV set.