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...

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...

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...

In this short animation film the triangle achieves the distinction of principal dancer in a geometric ballet. The triangle is shown splitting into some three hundred transformations, dividing and sub-dividing with grace and symmetry to the music of a...

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

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

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

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

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

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 usual, the action is partly symbolic, partly surreal....

A cut-out animation musical adaptation of the Irish mythological epic Táin Bó Cúailnge....

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

A series of vaudeville acts inserted in images of reality, meant to demonstrate the ephemeral nature of all things....

We hear the distant ring of Saturn....

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

A family pod of three dolphins navigates decay as an inevitable register while also having a secret ascension to a higher ground....

"The strangeness of this film is laced with carefully moulded apocalypses as the filmmaker explores a vision of life beyond death – the Elysian fields of Homer, Dante’s Purgatorio, de Chirico’s stitched plain. A moving single picture. Evolving the st...

In order to win the hand of a princess, a man must defeat an evil dragon and claim its treasured magic stone. Upon his return, Baghdad has been invaded and he must use the stone to defeat his new enemy....

What lies underneath the Ant Pile?...