Movies: Animation

Latin for "Faster, Higher, Stronger" (the Olympic motto), this experimental animation explores the interplay of abstract shapes and motions. How can the substance of motion be visualized? What degree of abstraction allows a communication with the vi...

A film about the importance of memories....

A woodcutter leaves home to cut down a pine tree for his Christmas tree. What he didn't expect was that one of the pine trees he decided to cut down... Runs away!...

Animation pioneer Evelyn Lambart recalls arriving at the NFB in the 1940s, her celebrated collaborations with Norman McLaren and her approach to her solo work....

The third installment for the agent blue franchise....

Htoo Htoo, a 10-year-old orphan who lives with his uncle. One day, Htoo Htoo sneaks onto his uncle's plane, leading to an unexpected adventure on a mysterious island. There, he befriends an ogre named Mr. Strong, and together they confront and overco...

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In this charming animation, lovingly drawn ink-to-paper over 4 years, a man is driven to insanity by the constant barking of the dog next door. As things come to a head, the warring neighbours find out whose bark is worse than their bite....

End of Restriction enters into the claustrophobic world of a teenage boy growing up in an English village. The film follows the boy’s cycle journey, on which we discover, through his eyes, the general decay and conservative nature of the village....

A meditation on the Moon as a series of spheres melting away. The audio-visuals are synchronized via a repeated glitch process: the same values that databent the visuals are also used to change the base audio samples, creating a translation between a...

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In the film Break, we see a frog and a penguin sitting and having a conversation on the delivery ramp of the grocery store Coop....

A series of paintings set to the music of Robert Schumann...

Combining collage animation and live action, this short depicts the achievements of the Chilean people under the Allende government and the subsequent reversal of this progress following the military coup. The collages were created by East German med...

Spiritualism opens a door to another world....

"Wherever you go, there you are."...

Silent cartoon....

A woman has 12 daughters and they were so cheeky that once their mother said in anger: "I wish you turned into jackdaws". Immediately the 12 girls turned into jackdaws and flew away. Later on, a son was born to the woman, who heard the story of his s...

The stepmother sends the hard-working girl to serve somebody. After a year she returns home with gold, silver and other treasures. As the bad-hearted woman sees this she sends also her own daughter to serve somebody, but she is lazy therefore she ret...

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