Movies: Cutout animation

In this episodic animated fantasy from France, an art teacher interprets a series of six fairy tales (each involving a prince or princess) with the help of two precocious students. Princes and Princesses was created using a special style of cutout an...

The way bureaucracy works is told by men in the frames....

Suicidal poet Archy tries to end his life by jumping off a bridge, but awakens to find he has assumed the life of a cockroach and has become a part of a community of creatures living in a newspaper office. He also discovers that he can still write po...

Hare enlists four brave friends to help him reclaim his home from the wily Fox....

Film shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"), who wants a mate, yet has difficulties getting one....

ALEXANDER THE GRAPE, an unfinished cut-paper animated short from Jim Henson from 1965, relates the fable of a young grape with big ambitions who learns that it is better to accept yourself than to try to be something you are not. The short was recons...

An animated adaptation of Poe's famous short story....

An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica....

70-year-old Timo makes the most of his short ride to work. Speeding up on a bicycle ends up in a ditch, but the adrenaline rush leaves a feeling of pleasure....

In a white lace universe, three inventors create machines which are both pretty and useful. Unfortunately people do not understand them......

One of Klahr's masterpieces, Altair is an 8 minute collage color -noir culled from late-40s pages of Cosmopolitan, which induces a sense of claustrophobia and dread through its use of Stravinsky's The Firebird....

The best animation compilation on this side of the thrift store! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtFTfsNnVdY...

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

An animated film made from approximately 1700 laser printed photo(collage)s, manipulated by hand....

Documentary on industrial lubrification....

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

The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs....

Dressed In Green Many of the youths recruited by the guerrillas in the Vaupés region were taken from their schools. This is the story of one of them. She tells about the days in the camps and how the experience only gives her a feeling of hatred an...

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 subtle variations in tone are recorded. The mood--enhanced by John Davis' original music--is dream-like....

We hear the distant ring of Saturn....