What remains, unedited, of the first episode of a serial by several hands, subject to a form of supervision-control by Fischinger. It opens with an extremely happy image (a "creative hand" which subsequently returns from time to time) — with shading and movements which appear to have been achieved by the use of the Rotoscope — characters who evoke the commedia dell’arte, in a somewhat joyless tone, but visually dramatic and with echoes of "caligarism". Enno Patalas would like to visit the other surviving episodes, better to understand the spirit of the operation conceived by Louis Seel, designer emeritus and the inspiration of the project. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.
A trippy pop-art collage of phallic objects, naked women and American icons, most notably Elvis Pres...
A cinematic devotional book. Based on interviews with an unemployable sufferer (and his fellows), li...
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Travel around the brain with a little, lost thought and discover what it takes to make a great idea.
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A little boy has a tiger as a pet, but it's a secret. The widemouth of the apartment building is Mis...
A small mole is looking for a fallen star in the night forest where everyone else seem to have alrea...
The story of a duel between a knight who, at a certain point, is fighting against himself.
One winter, a ravenous ogre terrorizes the land of King Balthasar. Meanwhile, a blizzard is brewing ...
A comical animated opera. A chicken leaves to get birch branches for sauna while the rooster stays t...
Stick-figure animation makes for a witty genre send-up of the Western.
An animated opera version of "Goldfish". In this modernised version of the fairy tale of the Goldil...
The earth shook. The sea roared. And then… There is a small house solitary standing by the seaside....
Stop-motion animated short with experimental sound by Rudolf Pfenninger.
Animation with experimental sound painted by Rudolf Pfenninger.
Stop-motion animated short, with sound by Rudolf Pfenninger.