Pings 2

A Cat and a Half

January 2003 •Russian

Film by Andrey Khrzhanovsky based on the works of Joseph Brodsky.

Meaning of Robots

March 2012 •English

This short film profiles the benevolent Mike Sullivan, who has been in the process of shooting a stop-motion robot sex film in his New York City apartment for the last ten years. Obsessed with the meticulous construction of the miniature robot porn stars, his apartment now overflows with thousands, leaving him only tiny paths to navigate and no place to film his epic.

Satie's "Parade"

November 2016 •Japanese

A Parade for three managers and four performers. Sketchy drawings in a neatly arranged palette, involving quotes from the French composer Erik Satie, set to the music of Parade performed by the Dutch Willem Breuker Kollektief.

Way of Giants

June 2016 •Portuguese

In a forest of giant trees, six-year-old Oquirá embarks on a quest to understand life.

Inner Workings

November 2016 •English

This is the story of the internal struggle between a man's Brain—a pragmatic protector who calculates his every move, and his Heart—a free-spirited adventurer who wants to let loose.

Why Elephants?

January 2012 •Croatian

A surrealist animated film.

Sun Knapping

April 2012 •French

HUBO

November 2009 •English

HUBO (KHR-3) is a walking humanoid robot with a life-size bipedal frame, developed by the KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) and was revealed January, 2005. HUBO, short form for "humanoid robot," has been paving the road in realizing a vision of fantasy to the real world.

Día de los muertos

April 2013 •English

A little girl gets taken to the land of the dead, where she learns the true meaning of the Mexican holiday, Dia de los Muertos

Shutter Shooter

September 2023 •Spanish

Etienne-Jules Marey, a French inventor who turned a gun into a camera. A hand-drawn hunter whose weapon, instead of firing ammunition, shoots photographs. Carlos, a Mexican wildlife photographer who used to be a real life hunter until he chose to get rid of all his guns. All come together in this poetic yet approachable animated documentary short film.

IIWA

September 2018 •Spanish

When a girl in the Wayuu tribe has her first menstruation, begins her transformation from girl to woman, locked up and isoleted by the rest of her family for at least a year, learning the most ancestral traditions of her Wayuu ethnic group.

Goodbye Jerome!

December 2021 •French

Having just arrived in paradise, Jerome sets out to find his wife Maryline. In the course of his search, he sinks into a surreal and colorful world in which no one seems to be able to help him.

Zoon

January 2022 •German

Residing in a dark swamp at the bottom of a nocturnal forest, a group of gleaming axolotls pursue lustful games. The creatures relish nuzzling one another and nibbling their companions’ limbs.

Caminandes: Llamigos

January 2016 •English

In this episode of the Caminandes cartoon series we learn to know our hero Koro even better! It's winter in Patagonia, food is getting scarce. Koro the Llama engages with Oti the pesky penguin in an epic fight over that last tasty berry. This short animation film was made with Blender and funded by the subscribers of the Blender Cloud platform. Already since 2007, Blender Institute successfully combines film and media production with improving a free and open source 3D creation pipeline.

Goggle Fishing Bear

January 1949 •English

Barney has a dive mask and swim fins to help with his pursuit of fish. First, though, he needs to get the anchor set, despite an overly helpful little seal. The seal acts like an inept hunting dog, leading Barney to a cave with an angry lobster, then an unfortunate encounter with a shark.

Leprechauns Gold

October 1949 •English

A song-filled Noveltoon featuring the antics of the Irish Leprechauns during their annual gold-washing ceremony. It depicts the wee people of Ireland who flavor its traditions with laughs and legend.

On the other side of the woods

June 2014 •

Fairytale full of light, magic and nostalgia. A clay doll awakens her surroundings that become a surreal world in constant flow of change. Shot with natural light the visible changes of daylight emphasize the passing of time in the film.

Pornography

April 2016 •French

Everything you always wanted to know about pornography (but were afraid to ask).

Tom in Couchland

July 2017 •English

A stoner dude is sucked into the couch and must battle crazy couch creatures in search of his remote.

But Milk Is Important

September 2012 •English

A man with social anxiety gets followed by a naive and clumsy creature. Terrified the man tries to escape, unaware that the creature is actually a helper with slightly unconventional methods.