Moto Perpetuo

A Doonesbury Special

November 1977 •English

Garry Trudeau's classic characters (Mike Doonesbury, Zonker, etc.) examine how their lifestyles, priorities, and concerns have changed since the end of their idealistic college days in the 1960s. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Crossed Destinies - A Short Film About Climate Change

November 2023 •Portuguese

A papercut stopmotion animation in which human Travelers from 2053 travel 30 years into the past to warn "foundlings" of the future that awaits them. The story follows Jonah and his Traveler, learning about the possible chaotic future that could happen if such measures are not applied.

Teacups

February 2023 •English

For almost half a century, Don Ritchie would approach people contemplating suicide at the edge of a cliff near his home. Teacups explores Don’s surreal interactions with hundreds of suicidal individuals and his journey to reconcile the suicide of his best friend.

Nemosyne

June 2020 •English

In a not so distant future, humans can upload their individual consciousness to a sentient machine after they have died. This allows them one final day on earth to rebuild their memories through the eyes of a bionic vessel.

Pulcinella

January 1973 •Italian

Oscar nominated animated short from 1973. Pulcinella dreams himself into a wild nightmare of a dream that leads us through an abstract world.

Mi

October 2022 •English

In this surreal odyssey, a young boy walks through a series of doors opening up visions of the past and future. “Mi,” made by Masayoshi Nakamura and Zak Engel, is beautifully animated, vibrating with color, shape and possibility. Emerging from abstract geometric landscapes, we lock in on a boy with his father embracing in the middle of a rainy forest. Soon they are descending to the bottom of a lake to discover a hidden city. There, the boy enters a door and finds himself walking through his father’s memories, or maybe it’s his own future, or somehow both.

The Witch

January 2011 •Spanish

The old witch from the forest is looking for love in several wrong places.

Barking Island

January 2010 •French

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, 1910. There are too many stray dogs on the streets, so the government decides to deport thousands of them on a desert island, off the coast of the city.

Roubada!

July 2000 •Portuguese

Mad in Xpain

October 2020 •English

In a post-apocalyptic Spain different tribes survive, struggling to take control of the only existing sustenance: a red wine of negligible quality. (A sequel to Made in Spain, 2016.)

Runaway

April 2013 •English

Runaway is an animated short film about a misunderstanding between a man named Stanley and his treasured 1950s refrigerator, named Chillie.

Wild Love

November 2018 •French

While on a romantic getaway, Alan and Beverly cause a fatal accident. This crime won't remain unpunished...

Hardrocks

March 2024 •French

During the Palaeolithic, humanity is going through a glacial period that threatened survival. Only a happy coincidence could allow humans to live...

Paranoia

August 2010 •English

On a late night train travelling across India, a young man starts to let his nerves get the better of him as he becomes convinced that the shadowy man sitting opposite him is someone who intends to blow up the train with a suitcase bomb.

The Fourfold

June 2020 •Mongolian

Based on the shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, this is a testament to the need to reclaim the ideas of animism for planetary health and non-human materialities.

Dokidoki Gakuen Kessen!! Youki Daimashiro

September 1988 •Japanese

Four heroes set out to rescue girls taken by ayakashi.

Feet of Song

January 1988 •English

Joyful, androgynous forms shimmy across the screen to the sound of world-beat music.

The Public Voice

January 1988 •Danish

A short Surrealist animation from Denmark which begins with a zoom into a Paul Delvaux painting, then reverses the process by pulling back from a continually changing picture.

Formic

November 2009 •German

A guy on a skateboard, an ant and a revenge.

Little Human

January 2023 •English

Little Human is the third part of my ‘Cyprus Collage Stories’ series. Stop motion collage mixes up with old and new film in order to tell the imaginary adventures of a very popular Cypriot weaving pattern called ‘little human’. This anthropomorphic design which looks like something between a knight and a spaceman begins a journey to find his real home out of the weaving fabric.