A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on her window. She sharpens pencils and writes on a page in a copy book. The pencil point often breaks under her fingers' force. She places broken points outside the window on the sill. A satanic figure is somewhere nearby, animated but of straw or clay, not flesh. She finishes her writing, tears the paper from the pad, folds it, places it in an envelope, and slips it through a slot. Is she writing to her husband? "Sweetheart, come." Written by
Short animated film featuring the song "Can't Go Wrong Without You" by His Name Is Alive.
The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This artistic technique, often used in the 16th- and 17th centuries, utilizes a method of visual distortion with which paintings, when viewed from different angles, mischievously revealed hidden symbols.
A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.
Stop-motion animated short film with a white ball, a rabbit, and a girl, and a voice singing "Are We Still Married".
Near an extraordinary chair with many legs, a hand is visible gripping an edge. The hand is weathered, the fingers cracked and scarred. The end of a rifle appears and a shot fires. The bullet is visible whirling through space; it caroms and then goes through a pine cone. A long spoon emerges from a drawer in the chair and stretches toward the hand. The bullet is on the spoon. Later, the hand holds the bullet between two fingers; another shot is fired.
Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.
A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.
In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff and toys from the child's head, leaving him without the top of his head for most of the film. The professor then teaches the lad about illusions and perspectives, the pursuit of an object through exploring a bank of drawers, divining an object, and the migration of forms. The child then brings out a box with a tarantula in it: the professor puts his "hands" into the box and describes what he feels. The boy receives a final lesson about animation and film making; then the professor gives him a brain and his own open-book hat.
With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink, thinks, then draws a straight line down the page in front of him, out of which sprout six more quill pens, each held by a hand. The calligrapher moves all the hands and pens in unison, drawing an elaborate feathered wing, which comes to live, peeling off the page, and, now a quill pen, slips in to his hand. He tucks it behind his left ear.
Enigmatic, stop-motion, animated story of a man's day.
Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.
Stop-motion animated short film in which a puppet on a trike captures a puppet bird-man.
A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.
Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his glowing nose, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudoph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa's sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea...
日々繰り返される祭りの準備に憂鬱なハロウィンの王様ジャックは、ある日、偶然クリスマスの世界へ迷い込む。その華やかさに魅了された彼は、ハロウィン風クリスマスの計画を思いつく。しかし、サリーはそんなジャックを心配している。
ビクトリア朝時代の英国。未確認生物の発見に執念を燃やすフロスト卿は同時に、探検家たちの憧れ、“貴族クラブ”に入会したいと望むが、伝説の生物の存在を証明する必要があった。そんな彼のもとに未確認生物ビッグフットの居場所を教えるという手紙が届く。類人猿が人間に進化する過程にあるというビッグフットは進化の過程の欠けた部分“ミッシング・リンク（失われた環）”と思われ、フロスト卿は手紙の送り主を訪ねるが……。
大好きな科学に夢中になるあまり、友達が一人もできない少年ヴィクター。そんな彼を両親は心配していたが、ヴィクターは愛犬スパーキーを相棒にして楽しい毎日を送っていた。しかし、思いも寄らぬ事故が起きて、スパーキーは天国へと旅立ってしまう。深い悲しみに沈んでいたヴィクターだったが、次第にスパーキーをよみがえらせたいという強い気持ちを抱くように。少しばかり危険な科学な知識を駆使してスパーキー蘇生に成功するが、その姿はつぎはぎだらけで、まるでフランケンシュタインのようだった。
アードマンのストップモーション・アニメ『ひつじのショーン』シリーズ、劇場用長編第2作。UFOに乗ってやってきた宇宙人の女の子と仲良くなったショーンが、その子を守るため、宇宙にまで飛び出して活躍する。
Wallace and Gromit open a bakery, accidentally getting tied up with a murder mystery in the process. But when Wallace falls in love, Gromit is left to solve the case by himself.
