Rainbow Dance

The Tartlet

January 1967 •French

Animal Sumo

December 1931 •Japanese

It’s sumo time! Plenty of animals come together for a rousing set of battles in the ring, but only one will prove victorious. Will it be the duck, the monkey, or maybe even the elephant that will win the day? Only time and skill will tell!

Photodiary '87

July 1987 •Japanese

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.

Orb

March 1973 •English

A compact, full-color cut-out animation as ephemeral as the colors swimming on the surface of a soap bubble. The eternal round shape, the orb (sun, moon, symbol of the whole self) balloons its inimitable and joyous course through scene after scene of celestial delight, fixing at last as the mystical globe encasing the lovers whose course it has paralleled throughout the film.

Once Upon a Time

January 1973 •English

We are first presented a cobweb castle, filled with the haunting doubts of the young protagonist. Spirits appear on the screen and are heard on the soundtrack. Gradually a female guide emerges and escorts the young man into an antechamber to another (and possibly higher) world.

Masquerade

January 1981 •English

For the first time I am animating hand-painted engraved cut-outs on a full-color background. The film is mood-filled: A duel scene in a snowy forest, obviously the morning after a masquerade ball. Harlequin lies dying, while Red Indian walks away with the wings of victory. The woman between them appears, cat-masked. The mask dissolves away. Her spirit passes into the face of the sun upon the sun upon the sun flower. But Harlequin cannot escape death. The blue world engulfs him.

Judgment! XX Angel Rabbie

January 2004 •Japanese

Humanity makes much progress through a combination of science and magic, until a large war breaks out. Many years later, the magical city of Sosarium (constructed on the Moon) sends an agent down to Earth to make sure history does not repeat itself as civilisation starts to rebuild itself. That agent is known as an Angel.

Oblio

November 2018 •Italian

"Cat and Mouse" at the Home

January 1983 •English

A spoof of "Tom and Jerry" cartoons.

Entrance

Invalid date •English

Someone who is unhappy with themselves falls into a deep void and finds a mysterious door.

Machine Story

July 1983 •English

This entertaining animated film surveys the history of machines, showing how the discovery of primitive tools led to the development of today’s space-age technology. A tribute to human ingenuity and creative genius.

Good Stock On The Dimension Floor: An Opera

March 2014 •English

A collectively made filmic opera in 35 parts. The Black and predominantly queer art collective, an evolving line up of poets and artists from across the world, abstracts and reimagines opera in any traditional conception. Set to hip-hop, blues, noise, R&B and electronica, the piece uses the voice (chanting, singing, screaming; written by poet and activist Dawn Lundy Martin) as its primary tool, verbalising centuries of alienation, vulnerability and protest in the global African diaspora through its disruptive libretto.

Liberty's Secret

November 2016 •English

The daughter of a preacher becomes the centerpiece for a conservative political campaign but finds herself falling in love with a woman.

The Fence

January 1967 •Russian

Two dogs react to each other at a fence.

The Cyclist

January 1968 •Russian

A cyclist goes for a ride racing all kinds of vehicles only to be passed by a centipede.

A Wedding in Hell

July 2015 •French

Rachelle his spending her vacations in the country. One night, as she is watching a silly reality tv wedding show, she decides to plan the most magical marriage.

God of Chaos

July 2019 •English

A mysterious cult performs an ancient ceremony, inviting an otherworldly power into their earthly realm.

Cracks

December 1975 •English

The one and a half minute short tells the story of a young girl making friends with imaginary crack creatures, formed by cracks in her bedroom wall, before encountering the unnerving "Crack Master".

Red Light Train

August 2020 •Polish

Young stewardess works in a luxury, long – distance train. Its destination is Paris. Travellers are mostly couples on their way to the capital of love. Stewardess becomes the unintentional witness of their quiet intimacy and intensive tenderness. Overwhelmed by her own loneliness and her burning need of love and being loved, she becomes to watch the lovers closely, in the more and more obsessive way.

Metamorphose

October 2018 •Japanese

When one butterfly falls, a wave is born from it, the wave becomes a bubble, and various lives are born and disappear.