"Christopher's Christmas Mission"- A tale about a boy who steals Christmas gifts from the wealthy to give to the poor people of Stockholm, while working in a post office on Christmas Eve.
In this follow-up to his stop-motion hit Western Spaghetti, director PES transforms familiar objects into Fresh Guacamole.
The Pollard family is calmly discussing their impending death by atom bomb when Mrs. Pollard recounts a dream in which she sensually bathes herself in the “Tears of Neglected Children”.
Stop-motion animated short film in which a puppet on a trike captures a puppet bird-man.
Catarina e os Outros de André Badalo é uma curta-metragem portuguesa de ficção que literalmente lançou a carreira de uma excelente jovem actriz como é Victória Guerra.
Catarina (Guerra) é uma jovem mulher cujos únicos encantos que nos são dados a conhecer se prendem directamente com a sua extrema beleza. Durante breves momentos do seu dia, Catarina é uma prisioneira auto-imposta do seu quarto onde, entre as quatro paredes, olha sem rumo para aquilo que a rodeia.
Alheada de tudo e todos e sem qualquer sinal daquilo que a atormenta, Catarina apenas sai do seu quarto para vaguear sem rumo por uma cidade onde procura parceiros sexuais... todos e qualquer um que lhe proporcione breves momentos de sexo desprotegido. Até ao dia em que a verdade é finalmente exposta...
This short film continues the adventures of the title character as he tries to retrieve his elusive acorn.
A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.
The Peanuts Gang competes in a punt, pass and kick contest. The winner gets a new bicycle and a trip to the Super Bowl. Meanwhile, Snoopy coaches the Birds football team (made up of a bunch of Woodstock-like birds) to the AFL (Animal Football League) Super Bowl.
Documentary about the making of and legacy of The Creature from the Black Lagoon included in The Legacy Collection box set.
A craftsman builds a glass harmonica that enlightens him. He travels to a town where the people are obsessed with money. A bureaucrat smashes the glass harmonica which leads to chaos and eventually to social reform.
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
A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he’s there, or why he’s bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally ‘zones out’ of his surroundings as he tries to edge towards his way to freedom. But the more he explores, the more pain he has to endure, and the more frightening his predicament becomes.
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".
An experimental short film from Toshio Matsumoto featuring Mona Lisa.
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.
A team of inept undertakers attempt to get a coffin to a funeral on time. An undertaker is in charge of moving a coffin from a home to the church. The home is on the 26th floor of a skyscraper; the stairs are narrow; the lift is small and prone to stop working. Chaos ensues.
Buster's handmade boat, The Damfino, is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door. When he drives off with it in tow, the side of his house, then the whole thing, collapses. At the harbor he rides the boat out only to have it sink beneath him. The rest is a series of adventures he and his family have with the restored boat.
