Out to lunch - Joseph Bennett (2014)

This is exactly the reason you never should call a yeti for an interview at a television broadcast. Especially if it's hungry all day.

OUT TO LUNCH from Joseph Bennett on Vimeo.

Legend of the Golden Egg Warrior (2012)

HAPPY EASTER to everyone! Best wishes to all!

"Legend Of The Golden Egg Warrior" from CRUSH on Vimeo.

Omega (2014)

OMEGA is an ambitious stop motion short movie project produced by Eva Franz and Andy Goralczyk at the University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany. The end of evolution awaits us in a wasteland dominated by bizarre trash formations, dust and rock. From the scattered remains of a long forgotten culture an electric ecosystem rapidly evolves into the ultimate form of existence...The mechanical life form Ohm inhabits a bleak and devastated planet. The thousands of mechanical creatures of this world share a single cycle of energy. In this cycle, Ohm is a rogue element. His nature is to devour and absorb others. When one day a gargantuan foreign object appears in the skies. Drawn in by mysterious creatures of light, the Ohm tracks them across the planet, changing the known order of matter, time and space.

OMEGA - A Stop Motion Animated Short from omegastopmotion on Vimeo.

Catzilla (2013)

Beware of the mighty kitten that destroys a whole town. No one can beat it until a young woman gives him a new trial. To fight against a similar monster cat and tear the place apart. Funny and enjoyable animation, full of action and dedicated to Kaiju mythology where Godzilla and other famous monsters appeared in Japanese cinema around sixties.

CATZILLA from Platige Image on Vimeo.

An optical poem (1938)

A dance of shapes. A title card tells us this is an experiment in conveying the mental images of music in a visual form. Liszt's "Second Hungarian Rhapsody" is the music. The shapes, all two-dimensional, are circles primarily, with some squares and rectangles, and a few triangles. The shapes move rhythmically to the music: receding from view or moving across the screen. Red circles on a blue background; light blue squares; white rectangles. Then, a red background of many circles with a few in the foreground. Red gives way to blue then to white. Shapes reappear as Liszt's themes re-occur. Then, with a few staccato notes and images, it's over. Enjoy August and rest of the summer my friends.

Omerta (2011)

In 1930, Mafia gangs fight themselves in the New York slums. On the beat of a devilish music, Teddy Toad and his gang of frogs engage in a battle to pluck the delectable Lady Horny from the grasp of the powerful White Coal. Between love, music and revenge, immerse yourself in the ruthless world of Omerta, and break the code of silence.

Omerta from Omerta Team on Vimeo.

Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Another really enjoyable animation from Disney based on the classic video game Fix-It Felix. Ralph is the bad guy who destroys the building as Felix repairs it. Ralph wants to change position and be the good guy now because he feels isolated from the other characters of the game. He has to find and gain a medal from another arcade game in order to win their sympathy but as he is used to wreck everything on his way, he enters into a war game and unleashes by mistake a deadly menace to all the other games. Now with the help of Vanellope, a cute glitch character from a cheesy candy racing game, the will try to win the trophy so Ralph will get back his medal and together they will destroy the aliens who threaten their artificial world. Cool story, maybe sometime more childish that it should be, but also entertaining and funny.

Bottle - Kirsten Lepore (2010)

Two different creatures are living by the sea. The one is made by snow, the other by sand. They communicate by sending each other various things they find on their shores. Soon the will for the next step of their contact will be bigger and they both decide to meet each other without knowing the consequences. A heartbreaking animation from the States.

Bottle from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.

Serenade to Miette (2011)

This is a great work of illustrator Toniko Pantoja from Los Angeles. A street magician messes with some mobsters on his way to help a young beautiful acrobat. A small animated film with excellent script, full of action, romance and fun.

Serenade to Miette from Toniko Pantoja on Vimeo.

Meet Buck (2010)

Today, Buck is going to spend the afternoon with his girlfriend who's so happy to see him (she's pretty much happy always). But when Buck finds out that her father is not the tolerant and sympathetic guy he expected, the Sunday afternoon turns really bad. Hilarious animation with action and suspenseful sequences and great design.

Meet Buck from TeamCerf on Vimeo.

Out of a forest (2010)

This is a really good production from Danish animator Tobias Gundorff Boesen. The storyline is excellent especially at the end. It's about a lovely little rabbit enjoying the company of its elders somewhere in the middle of a forest. But the bad wolf wonders around and seeks for his next victims.

Out Of A Forest from Tobias Gundorff Boesen on Vimeo.

Telephoneme (2010)

This short animated gem is based to an educational film from the 60's, titled 'The Alphabet Conspiracy'. There was a young girl, Alice who boycotts her homework and falls asleep, traveling into another world where she conspires with a Mad-Hatter-type to eliminate books and words. But a linguist changes opinion to Alice about the importance of the language. So we can have a happy end as she wakes up and does her homework finally for the the good of humanity. A stunning animation that won lots of prizes worldwide.

TELEPHONEME | MK12 from MK12 on Vimeo.

Salesman Pete and the amazing stone from outer space (2010)

Pete is a nice and clumsy salesman. But he's also a deadly super secret agent with a microprocessor implanted into his brain by some mad scientists from the government ! He has to secretly stop a bunch of bad guys who stole a magic stone that can change anything into seafood!

Salesman Pete from Salesman Pete on Vimeo.

Love of future (2009)

Can a robot feel loneliness? Its attitude may remind to us our cold behavior as humans sometimes. The award wining short film about a love from the future. It was the winner of Shoot it 2009 mobile film festival and special guest presentation in Sessif 2011 festival.

Love Of Future from Nika Lominadze on Vimeo.

Drive In Short Film Intermission Anti Pay TV 2

Don't let the monsters in your leaving room. Oh my, this was hilarious.

Fubar Redux (2011)

Cats and dogs are fighting again as always. This time the situation is critical as we have a total war between the two sides. Private arm dealers sale more and more weapons to both armies in order to increase their bank account rates. And peace looks like an utopian dream as well.

Fubar Redux from Hasraf HaZ Dulull on Vimeo.

Sex and violence - Bill Plympton (1999)

Bill Plympton is another great animator who with his unique style and flavor of humor gives us some clever stories of sex, violence, empathy and madness.

Bill Plympton - Sex and violence από baltanar

Cavallette aka Grasshoppers - Bruno Bozzetto (1991)

Enjoy fine work from Bruno Bozzetto. A serious animation made by a minimal form. It's about thirst of human civilization for war and conquers. A single figure stands for an entire group opposite another one and they repeatedly fight and die. It was an Oscar Nominee for Best Animated Short in 1991.

The Gloaming - Nobrain (2010)

Welcome to the nightmarish world of No brain. Where a man lost in the desert creates somehow a smaller world with his civilization's process. The mankind represented by a special technique that combines two different animation styles. The past, the present and the future of a race rising and falling apart. Just brilliant!

THE GLOAMING from Sabotage Studio on Vimeo.

Rebus Film Nr. 1 (1925, Paul Leni)

It's time to squeeze your mind a little bit. An "extra" shown in two parts at the movie theater, before and after a feature: part one gives the clues to six words in a crossword puzzle, part two gives the answers. In addition to the visual clues, which are clips of a party, an Asian country, a European city, table games, winter, and bullfighting, there are montages of street scenes and spinning objects. A simple cartoon character, Mr. Rebus, walks the audience through the clues, and title cards encourage the participation of the theatergoers.