Strange Fish

Little Red Riding Hood

March 1937 •Russian

A classic Soviet, black-and-white, animated film by the sisters Brumberg, "grandmothers of the Russian animation". Its plot differs slightly from the original fairy tale.

Mr. Plastimime

May 2014 •English

Mr Plastimime is a funny and moving story about a man who faithfully practices a dying art, a man whose timing is a bit off, a man whose skills aren’t recognized, a man who is unlucky in love; But this is a man who keeps moving forward, faithfully believing he will one day be finally ‘seen’. That day has come…but he never expected it to be like this.

Extrapolate

October 2016 •Dutch

A line is being extrapolated through a grid. When the line surpasses the boundaries of the grid, the process spreads to and reflects on its surroundings. Beyond each boundary the extrapolation of movement is causing deformation in a systematic but speculative way.

Abandoned Village

June 2021 •Georgian

Village, like a human being, is born out of love. Village, like a human being, is ruined, if left without love.

Anemone Temple

June 2021 •Polish

Deep-sea organisms living in such a specific environment have developed unusual forms and properties. This is an interpretation of the underwater world and an invitation to relax.

Avant

June 2021 •Hungarian

I work with the interaction of space, and being in it, and the energies associated with them. The state of rest, then tipping over from it, and then returning to it again.

Freedom of the Leg

May 1989 •Polish

A dream-like story of a sleeping man whose body parts live their own lives at night to return to him in the morning - all except one leg which has chosen freedom. Its owner as well as a crowd of homeless men chase the leg, but it grows feathers and flies away as a bird. A grotesque tale with a poetic ending and with interesting music by Janusz Hajdun.

Perpetual Motion

October 1920 •English

Part of Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.

Smile!

January 2004 •English

A troublesome individual is put against a jury. Is he capable of life in a joyous community, where a smile never leaves faces?

Bambi Meets Godzilla

July 1969 •English

Bambi is nibbling the grass, unaware of the upcoming encounter with Godzilla. Who will win when they finally meet? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

The Infinite

July 2020 •Italian

Animation inspired by the poem “The Infinite” by Giacomo Leopardi.

Ab ovo - Traces of Sand

January 1987 •

A non-narrative film thematising the eternal struggle of human life in a series of scenes connected by associations and accompanied by a strong music motif.

Attaque nocturne

June 1948 •French

The film existed only in Jacque’s memory because all that remained were the two cardboard thief characters. Jacques called upon his memories to recreate the decor and the characters with a decorator. The operator then filmed frame by frame to reconstruct the film.

La Ballerine

January 1944 •

When Agnès Varda was preparing the film Jacquot de Nantes in 1990, she was able to shoot in the small apartment where Jacques was raised. While emptying the attic, Agnès found pieces of 9.5 mm film, dry and folded, almost broken and two small cardboard figures. The film was impossible to project and the film had to be remade. Showing the pieces of film to Jacques he immediately identified La Ballerine. A student from the Fine Arts School of Nantes therefore redrew each shot, frame by frame, on blank 16 mm film.

Anatomy of a moth

October 2004 •Spanish

Kontrol-Eskape

April 2005 •

A Nervous Life of Cosmos

January 1986 •Polish

A short black comedy movie with a scent of horror. A distant planet somewhere in space inhabited by black Characters from fairy tales.

Fantaisie érotique

January 1936 •Czech

Capolavoro

September 2013 •English

Directed by Emanuelle Pasorelli, this arthouse film makes little sense. A man, who may or may not be a thief, with a nagging wife hears a beautiful woman in his head, and both conspire to make him go mad as he lives in anguish over his role in his friend Luigi's death. Actor's mouths rarely move, yet the player can hear their voices, a technique the director used in several films. The ladder in the end symbolizes something, that is unknown of what.

Mr. Chocolate Meets Miss Milk

January 1991 •English

A black-and-white film that takes an ironic look at alienation between the races and the sexes. It is a mix of cell animation, painting, live action and early Atari computer animation.