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A humorous and thought-provoking view of what animals in zoos might be thinking about their captivity and surroundings.

British animation short from Paul Vester.

A narrator relates the Japanese tale of two lovers who defy their families and society to be together. The tale ends happily, until something happens to make this tale truly Japanese in character.

The morning shift at a big-city radio station.

Animator Pavel Koutský's portrait of the man in the street; just an animal.

A young boy struggles with bed-wetting. He is pleased to awaken one night to a dry bed, but terrors await him on his trip to the bathroom in the middle of a dark and stormy night.

A man made of newspaper waits and waits by the telephone.

A man's repeated attempts to retrieve an apple off a high tree branch all prove fruitless. What does he want the apple for? That would be telling.

The last hundred years of Marxism, as seen through the eyes of animator Pavel Koutský.

A heavyset woman who keeps being harassed by her aerobics instructor and her attempts to get even with him on a Body Beautiful contest.

A man with a gun for a head and two conjoined twins share a prison cell.

A young man in prison is interviewed and talks about his life, how he got into prison, and what it's like doing time.

A topsy-turvy world.

The Sound of Music engages with the deep-rooted sexual and class-based politics of a seemingly arbitrary and violent culture.

An animated film, based on a Rudyard Kipling short story of an Indian holy man’s journey through North East India.

Answers questions such as "How many kinds of insects are there?" "Do insects have blood?" "How can a fly walk on the ceiling?"

This humorous animated short offers one possible answer to the philosophical question: what would life be like if I had never lived? The first half of the film follows a man from his conception to his funeral, focusing on the effect his life has on the people and events around him. The second half looks again at the same people and events, except now the man is not there - he had never been born. The differences will surprise you!

A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.

Documentary about the abstract filmmaker.

A Four-Mations documentary covering the importance of audial sound in the medium of animation.