Sagebrush Sadie

Maraschino Ruby

June 2022 •English

Misty Luggins sets a trap for the Bad Guys, but they were already caught and in custody for another crime; stealing a push pop... allegedly.

The ErlKing

January 2003 •English

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.

Night Light

November 2016 •English

This is a classing Jordan animation, primarily in B/W, with touches of color. Actually, the engraved art work was film on color negative, so that subtle variations in tone are recorded. The mood--enhanced by John Davis' original music--is dream-like. It is both lyric and crackling, producing a kind of anticipatory tension. The scenes, in the usual Jordan manner, follow the surreal principle of placing objects and people where the ought not to be, and making movements that in the waking world are impossible. Each scene is a kind of drama from another world.

Women's Letters

May 2014 •French

Ideas

June 2024 •English

A series of random interconnected segments of a what goes through ones mind.

Summer Ghost

November 2021 •Japanese

An urban legend says that lighting fireworks at an abandoned airfield will beckon the "summer ghost," a spirit that can answer any question. Three teenagers, Tomoya, Aoi, and Ryo, each have their own reason to show up one day. When a ghost named Ayane appears, she reveals she is only visible to those "who are about to touch their death." Compelled by the ghost and her message, Tomoya begins regularly visiting the airfield to uncover the true purpose of her visits.

Who Will Comfort Toffle?

July 2023 •Swedish

The lonely Toffle learns to overcome his fears when he needs to rescue the Miffle from the Groke.

Fantasia

June 2022 •English

Escape

April 2017 •English

After crash landing on a desolate planet, a lone space explorer must find a way to make her new home habitable. Using innovation, grit and courage, she casts out the darkness in this new land.

Minion Scouts

August 2019 •English

When Margo, Agnes and Edith return from Badger Scout camp, three of the Minions are entranced by the girls' merit badges. Their own attempt at scout camp results in attracting a bear, eating poison berries and eventually blowing up a dam, creating a massive flood. But, when they arrive back home, the girls share their badges, encouraging the rest of the Minions to try their hand at scouting.

Guard Dog Global Jam

March 2011 •

COMBO

December 2009 •

Street artist Blu animates large-scale creatures as they crawl across an abandoned Argentine cityscape.

The Frog

October 1969 •English

A Mighty Heroes short.

Flower

January 2009 •English

A painterly tale set in an industrialized wasteland, Gul is a young girl caught in an abusive struggle between survival and compassion. A mother's final breath pushes her to relive the past and stumble forth to determine her future.

Jing Hua

June 2019 •English

A martial artist named Jing Hua stands in front of the grave of her deceased master. She exerts her frustration by performing kung fu; creating the world around her as it is made of water colors and ink. As her pain and sorrow at the loss of a loved one climaxes through the appearance of dripping ink, Jing Hua learns to accept the fate of her master as she becomes tired, but undefeated.

Growth Vitamin

June 1988 •Russian

The teacher at school made a scientific experiment - he put two rats in different cages. One of the rats was given carrots containing vitamin of growth, and the other did not feed. Time passed, and the rat, to whom nothing was given, became thicker than the rat that was fed. It turned out that one student from pity fed another rat.

Simulacra

January 2014 •Croatian

Which image is real - the one staring at us from the mirror or the one standing in front of it? In hallways filled with illusions, a simulacrum behind the looking glass, he is trying to find out if he is looking at a stranger or a hidden part of himself.

The Albatross

January 1998 •English

A ship sets sail on an epic voyage through malignant natural and supernatural elements from which one man alone survives. An adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustrated by19th Century wood engravings which are animated by scratching directly into the surface of color filmstock. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with its message of ecological redemption has a curiously contemporary resonance, but it is at the level of the mythic that the poem has lasting relevance; for this epic tale of extraordinary events simply mirrors the struggle that each human being faces on their own in his or her life. -VDB

Bloody Date

May 2006 •Japanese

Your first date becomes your worst nightmare...

Snack Attack

September 2012 •English

Waiting to board the train, an old lady just wants to eat her cookies in peace, but hijinks ensue when a teenager on the platform next to her seems intent on sharing them, too.