Forgetfulness

Hedgehog's Home

January 2017 •Croatian

In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is at once admired, respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s unwavering devotion to his home annoys and mystifies a quartet of insatiable beasts: a cunning fox, an angry wolf, a gluttonous bear and a muddy boar. Together, the haughty brutes march off towards Hedgehog’s home to see just what is so precious about this “castle, shiny and huge.” What they find amazes them and sparks a tense and prickly standoff.

The Spring Night

May 1976 •Russian

A spring night is a poetic film which is based on the motives of the poem by V. Lugovsky. The film is devoted to the theme of fidelity to the battle traditions of revolutionary past, to the theme of human happiness the sense of it in the battle for high ideals.

Two Faces

January 1968 •English

Loose impressionistic brushstrokes sketch a series of portraits of two faces, one male and one female, while the verse on the soundtrack tells the tale of both one and a thousand relationships.

Hop Along Hang On

September 2021 •English

Rose the rabbit seeks her way home in this poetic story of reclamation, recovery, and reconciliation.

Luna Tune

January 1979 •English

A short 1979 sand animation celebrating women's spirituality with 80-year-old lesbian poet Elsa Gidlow reading her work "What If."

The Wings

January 2019 •English

A kinetic typography animation set to a reading of the poem "The Wings" by Sebastian Fox.

Autumn

January 1982 •Russian

The third film of the biographical cycle based on Pushkin's drawings and texts.

The Poet: Becoming

October 1988 •Kyrgyz

An evocative animated film on the life and works of the great Kyrgyz poet Alykul Osmonov.

Inocencia

May 2025 •Spanish

Window Horses

March 2017 •English

Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather be in Paris. She lives at home with her over-protective Chinese grandparents and has never been anywhere by herself. Once in Iran, she finds herself in the company of poets and Persians, all who tell her stories that force her to confront her past; the Iranian father she assumed abandoned her and the nature of Poetry itself. It’s about building bridges between cultural and generational divides. It’s about being curious. Staying open. And finding your own voice through the magic of poetry. Rosie goes on an unwitting journey of forgiveness, reconciliation, and perhaps above all, understanding, through learning about her father’s past, her own cultural identity, and her responsibility to it.

Dog Years

August 2023 •English

An animated poem about a dog, her human, and the consequences of a nasty habit.

Ozymandias

August 2023 •English

Ozymandias recites Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem of the same name. Selected AI-generated images and text-to-speech narration - with their vutlure-like generative methods, and already rapidly-dating aesthetics - are placed in parallel to the poem's explorations of legacy, decay, futility, and the future.

Lines

February 2021 •English

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.

Groter dan je bent

Invalid date •Dutch

Ego Sum Petrus

January 2010 •French

Un spectacle interrompu

January 2012 •French

Synapses

April 1981 •English

Réne Manzor's debut short, a surreal story about a tramp trying to build a road through the desert.

My Name Is Nathan

July 2012 •English

A little boy troubled by a paper bird - Quote : "I am alone in my gondola, I am trapped in the sky, My name's Nathan, I don't like the real"

Marcel, your mother is calling you

January 1961 •French

The Art of Drowning

June 2009 •English

Ponders the possibilities of what awaits us at the end of our life.