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Girl in the Hallway

April 2019 •English

A story from childhood and an indelible image continue to haunt Jamie many years later.

Acid Rain

January 1989 •English

Environmental PSA by Bill Plympton.

The Fable of Henpecked Henry

October 1922 •English

Silent cartoon.

The Man Who Slept

September 2009 •French

A young woman lives with her sleeping husband. Prisoner of her loneliness, she refuses to accept that this man is only a memory.

Moto Perpetuo

May 1981 •Hungarian

Moto Perpetuo shows an absurd picture of our neverending changing culture and history.

A Romantic Story

January 1964 •Hungarian

A man meets a girl, sitting on a bench in the park. He imagines ways that he can impress her. But will he make the good impression when he gets the chance?

The Luncheon

January 1980 •Hungarian

The first animated short film to feature Varga's clumsy claymation character Augusta.

Masques

May 2009 •French

Two masks face each other under a multitude of disturbing glances. A signal is given, begins then a dance, a ritual fight.

Buffalo Milk Yogurt

January 2010 •English

In Buffalo Milk Yogurt, a collaboration with Corey Fogel, a man experiences a nervous breakdown in a gourmet supermarket while a woman practices yoga in a display of fall decorations.

The Oven Sky

December 2011 •English

The Oven Sky (2011) is set in a quickly gentrifying neighborhood where newcomers pressure a longtime resident to turn her yard filled with lawn ornaments into a dog park. This animation features music by Rachel Mason.

LAND

April 2013 •English

LAND is a fluid series of formal land animation experiments based upon the imprint of landscapes in various locations and intuitive interpretations of those movements. Shot in New York, Thimble Islands Bear Island, Connecticut, Armstrong Redwoods, Sonoma County, California, Hastings, England. note* (part of the EYE Filmmuseum Permanent Collection)

Regeneration

April 2009 •English

Regeneration is a film about transformation. Starting in a dark place the character reaches toward the divine and breaks into the world of the spirit. Through this act representing an outstretched hand we see that the Holy Spirit represented as a dove is pursuing us even more urgently. The meeting of the two represents the freedom in flight found in trusting fully in the Holy Spirit and is completed with the return to the heart now fully regenerated.

Vendo/Ouvindo

March 1972 •Portuguese

Ninja Fireball in Edo

November 1935 •Japanese

A short story about a young ninja.

In The Tall Grass

March 2015 •Russian

Joseph is mentally deviated. He is a prisoner of his own flat and always in permanent war with his own mind.

Omnibullée

September 2014 •French

Sombres Héros

January 2007 •French

Everybody Goes to the Hospital

February 2022 •English

'Everybody Goes to the Hospital' is an animated exploration of a true physical, psychological, and familial trauma.

Chicken Run

June 2000 •English

The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they can’t fly! It’s hardly poultry in motion when Rocky attempts to teach Ginger and her feathered friends to fly…but, with teamwork, determination and a little bit o’ cluck, the fearless flock plots one last attempt in a spectacular bid for freedom.

An Imaginary Life

February 2007 •English

For an imaginary friend, living an imaginary life, there's nothing worse than being forgotten.