Cutout Animation Movies

A short surreal animation created with fashion magazine clippings and sound collages.

Two duelling birds get the urge to change their plumage. A blue jay wants to be decked out in the green of cedar, and a loon dons the burnished red...

An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica.

We aren't only created with free will, but also with responsibility. The responsibility to listen to our gut feelings, follow our intuition, the wise...

An animated adaptation of Poe's famous short story.

This is a classing Jordan animation, primarily in B/W, with touches of color. Actually, the engraved art work was film on color negative, so that...

A surrealistic fantasy based on the 15th century woodcuts of the dance of the dead. A film experiment that deals with the photoreality and the...

A square dances.

Based on a poem by Samuil Marshak about an incredibly absent-minded man from Leningrad.

Documentary on industrial lubrification.

A little boy has a tiger as a pet, but it's a secret. The widemouth of the apartment building is Miss Kotilainen, who is always complaining about...

"The strangeness of this film is laced with carefully moulded apocalypses as the filmmaker explores a vision of life beyond death – the Elysian...

Three artists struggling against the grid of society find spiritual renewal.

This short piece is somewhat romantic, despite its title. We do see the ogre however. He inverts himself into the action throughout the film. As...

A third world child pursues the dream of freedom but becomes a victim of exploitation.

In the middle of the forest, a bonfire will define the fate of Fayna, a young, colorless girl.

This animated short is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited...

Short experimental animation by Jules Engel

A comical animated opera. A chicken leaves to get birch branches for sauna while the rooster stays to warm the sauna. On her way she sees a...

German propaganda film that mocks the expansion of the British colonies in South Africa, Egypt, India and Jamaica. The film is true to a more serious...