Movies: Live action and animation

Young Billy Martin has a vision of Soapy, a giant bar of soap, that teaches him the importance of being clean....

In front of a girl with the traditional Japanese hairstyle, a small man on a desk says, "women descended from tobacco." The girl laughs at him and traps him under a glass. The angry man puffs on a cigarette in a pipe and blows smoke at the girl. The ...

"Phoools" dives into an artist's obsession with the simplest of shapes - a few ovals rotated around a circle, universally agreed to be called a flower. As he starts seeing this pattern everywhere, from drain covers to textiles, his perception shifts....

Scottish animators Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson star in and co-direct this inventive documentary. Albeit framed as a film for Will’s mother, we too are invited to witness how Will deals with the grief of his mother’s cancer. The duo work on th...

A story about a time traveler and the search for the first cell of one's existence. 'The Dead', played by Peter Murphy searches for and finds a 'Grid' which enables him to watch the beginning of his life -from the moment of conception....

Intercutting live action footage with animation, a depiction of the possible memories, repressions and fears of the leading character. The animated sections are monologues by a male figure drawn to highlight the tension between rigid and fluid body s...

A drug artist designs a new piece that is triggered by exposure to audio visual static....

The future is just a little more technologically advanced than today. People spend more time in the metaverse, and the number of cyber crimes has increased. In order to improve the efficiency of crime control, the operators of the metaverse have beg...

This Christmas film, created as a special for television broadcast throughout the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania viewing region, was produced by puppeteer Mabel Beaton and her husband Les for Bell Telephone Company and first aired in 1953. Following a sh...

A kid overhears suspicious activity happening in their city -- when they encounter this anomaly, they are faced with something unexpected....

Charming animated illustration of one of nature's wonders from Britain's most inventive pioneer of wildlife filmmaking....

Stamp... stamp stamp... stamptampstampstamp stamp heeltoheel stamp heeltoheel stampstampstampstampstamp into it....

The movie takes place entirely in and around the Mini Moni Cafè. The Mini Moni Cafè is run by the first generation members of Mini Moni, who are lead by Mari Yaguchi. Mika Todd is the primary baker for the cafè and Ai Kago and Nozomi Tsuji are bumbli...

A colourful yet sinister mix of painting, puppets, and real people. A puppet maker shrinks people, then sends them down a conveyer belt to be married and later used as figures on a wedding cake. Our minds, although not clock-work, are forced to live ...

A man partakes in an interview that reveals more than he wants to know....

The lives of a director and a writer intertwine for the creation of a unique film that will lead them to stardom. Meanwhile, a love between them will forge as we watch the filming process and a series of curious characters....

A Chinese-American teenager who attends Chinese classes on weekends with his friend Monica, falls in love with Abigail, a very religious blonde girl, which leads him to question his identity and values....

Dave Borthwick's award winning film made while a student at Bristol University's RFT course in 1977....

A live action/animated commercial of a powder blush, it was made by one of the pioneers of Spanish animation, Josep Serra i Massana....

This short film begins with the character Chauncey (a puppet made of sex toys resembling a mouth and hands with a sock for a body) rolling around in a babies’ rolling chair and watching obscure cartoons and shows on TV. They have satirical, comedic, ...