Impossible Figures and Other Stories I

Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions: Behind the Scenes

January 2002 •English

A documentary about the making of Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions.

The Buffalo Boy and His Flute

December 1963 •Chinese

A young boy who likes to play the flute dreams that he has lost his water buffalo.

Urbanissimo

June 1967 •English

A comic allegory in which a runaway "city" on legs matches wits with a wily farmer. A farmer has an encounter with a runaway "city" (which devours its environs). He deserts his rural home for the imagined joys of urban life.

Guard Dog Global Jam

March 2011 •

Spiral

February 2005 •English

Nevermind The Grief

April 1983 •Russian

A soldier served a long time service. He took as a reward an old drum and went where his eyes were looking. He walked for a long time, and went to the hut, and in it the small girl was crying, because the fierce witch has destroyed her parents.

It's a Wonderful Day

April 1975 •Russian

The cartoon based on the works of Alexander Pushkin was created on the basis of drawings from the exhibition "Pushkin through the eyes of children".

New Horizons

June 2015 •English

A brief visualisation of NASA’s historic spacecrafts Mariner, Pioneer, Voyager, and Dawn, exploring the solar system, culminating in the New Horizons mission.

Le monde moderne

April 2016 •French

Francine

June 2018 •English

Francine, a brilliant 9-year-old girl who hates her mother's cooking, battles a robot version of herself for her life - and a slice of pizza.

Ashes in the Thicket

October 1998 •Korean

A man who accidentally saw a UFO, falls into a painful illusion as his body is torn apart by a mysterious power. His illusion gets worse as he actually has his lovers kill themselves. But after…

It's Not Funny, It's Art

January 2008 •Dutch

Short animated film about Blanca, who tries to fathom art. When a painting makes her laugh out loud, her father reprimands her: "It is not funny, it is Art", he says. Blanca feels it is quite complicated. So when is something art? How do you have to look at it? And is it allowed to touch art, for example? When she fails to figure it out, she decides to imitate museum visitors. With great consequences.

On the Road to Kandahar

June 2003 •English

One of Rimmer's early 2000s video works which he made by hand-painting 35mm film, running it on a flatbed viewer, and shooting it off the screen with a video camera to then subject it to further manipulation.

I Met a Man

January 2010 •English

I Met a Man is a piece of whimsy inspired by the ever present whistling wind on the Irish coast of County Cork where the filmmaker was living when she made the film. The film is scratched in 35mm film stock with color added in video postproduction.

Kitsch in Synch

January 1975 •English

An abstract animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the iotaCenter, in 2007.

Real Inside

October 1984 •English

Hopeful job candidate Buck Boom is dynamic, forceful, confident and creative. But can he convince Mr. Mudgin, the personnel manager, to hire him? You see, Boom is an animated character in a live-action world and Mudgin is not used to dealing with someone who is different.

All Because of a Plate

January 1959 •

Short animated film.

How Do Dinosaurs Eat their Food?

June 2009 •English

With methods of eating and manners that are probably all too familiar to children and adults, these mischievous dinosaurs show in a big way that burping, spilling, playing with one's food and outright refusing to eat are not the best ways to enjoy a meal. An entertaining guide to table manners and a good reminder that positive and pleasant mealtime behavior gets the best results.

The Invisibles

May 2014 •Spanish

A day in the life of the homeless on the streets of LA, the ones that survive or live in a different reality, youngsters with a broken dream, war veterans, drug addicts, lonely people with no family, victims of the economic or emotional crisis.

Irony

October 2022 •Spanish

A reflection of academic life during the pandemic; the passing of the days for a student who must stay home to keep from catching covid-19; and how, after being overwhelmed by everyday life at school, he starts to feel liberated… until virtual classes make him appreciate his pre-pandemic reality.