One of Oskar Fischinger's earliest films, Seelische Konstruktionen (as it is known in German), clearly points the way to the masterpieces of musically-blended experimental animation he would conceive in the decades to come. The sense of masterful timing and rhythm, the easy and natural -- though patently Fischinger-esque -- character traits of the subjects, and the smooth precision of both line and movement are all present already. Unique is the black-silhouetted, semi-cartoon characters (not nearly as rigidly self-contained as Lotte Reiniger's cut-out forms) which seem to adhere to no physical limitations whatsoever. Morphing into shapes, structures, objects, patterns, and even one another, as though they were made of pure mercury and set to music. As for the "story", it's rather non-sensical, and certainly silly, but also has a slightly dark and devious tinge to it as well; men becoming monsters, uncontrollable shape-shifting and the constant, almost desperate movement.

Jackie is a boy who is so trapped by his fears and doubts that he could not communicate with anyone....

Sid the Sloth takes a school of children out on a camping trip from home, only to find that in typic...

Alvin learns the true meaning of Christmas.

Mountain Music illustrates what happens when technology gets too advanced too soon. Preserved by th...

A deer, disillusioned by the consumerism that defines his life. A lizard, ostracized from society, f...

Take an animated journey into the depths of the human mind, exploring three psychedelic trips that c...

Bonzo is rejected by his sweetheart, a pekinese called Chekee, who is enraptured by her favourite fi...

Follow a day of the life of Big Buck Bunny when he meets three bullying rodents: Frank, Rinky, and G...

Elephants Dream is the story of two strange characters exploring a capricious and seemingly infinite...

Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate text...

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno t...

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

A delinquent tomboy takes the job of a murderous carney's assistant.

A night in the life of two blacklight gossip queens in the year 2999.
An animation (long before there were such things) for Oscar Brown Jr’s track “But I Was Cool”, from ...

AMBIENT TRIP COMMANDER is the story of Samantha Tapferstern, a geeky young woman who lives a rather ...
Mr Plastimime is a funny and moving story about a man who faithfully practices a dying art, a man wh...

This is a film about a man without a face. His arms and legs, bound with ropes, the disabled man is ...

In the year 2150, Johnny, a lazy Space Delivery Man, must deliver a package on a planet he does not ...

Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take...