Animated Hero Classics: Maccabees(2007)

The Gulls(sv)

Arne Sucksdorff’s short documentary observes gulls raiding nests and stealing eggs with ruthless persistence. Though presented as pure nature study, the film was widely read as an allegory of Nazism—a symbolic parable of predation and violence during wartime. Sucksdorff himself denied such intent, but remarked that “a film that is not open to interpretation is a dead film.”

Pony Place(nl)

Grandmother Koba has to take care of her grandchild Emma's digital horse farm.

Mysteries of the Unseen World(en)

Mysteries of the Unseen World transports audiences to places on this planet that they have never been before, to see things that are beyond their normal vision, yet literally right in front of their eyes. Mysteries of the Unseen World reveals phenomena that can't be seen with the naked eye, taking audiences into earthly worlds secreted away in different dimensions of time and scale. Viewers experience events that unfold too slowly for human perception

Enter Hamlet(en)

Enter Hamlet is a collage of images in cartoon form of a word put in balloon in each jump-cut scene as that word is said by the narrator Maurice Evans during his “To be or not to be…” soliloquy recording.

Réflexion(es)

Jungle Book(en)

The infant Mowgli, separated from his family and lost in the jungle, is found and raised by the animals. Baloo the bear tries to teach Mowgli the ways of the jungle, but some of the other jungle animals have their own plans for the young man-cub!

The Sailor and the Seagull(en)

The Sailor and the Seagull was released by the U.S. Navy in 1949 with a simple goal: encouraging servicemen to re-enlist. In the film, a disgruntled sailor named McGinty complains about the raw deal he believes he is receiving by serving in the Navy. As luck would have it, a seagull comes to release him from service so that he can experience the freedom of civilian life. McGinty soon learns, however, that civilian life means less freedom and less money than he had imagined and quickly jumps at the chance to re-enlist. (cont. http://blogs.archives.gov/unwritten-record/2013/09/26/sailor-and-the-seagull/)

Fishing(en)

Max is too rushed to do a thorough job of drawing Koko this morning. Max is going fishing. However, to amuse the clown, he draws a fishing pole and a pond before he goes.

Vaudeville(en)

An "Out of the Inkwell" cartoon featuring Ko-Ko the Clown.

Thanksgiving(en)

Koko likes to join Max and his friends for Thanksgiving dinner. He can, under the condition of screening his films.

Sweet Friday(ja)

An animation mixing hand-drawn and cut-out techniques depicting the daily rituals of weekday morning that is occasionally interrupted by flights of fantasy delivered in stroboscopic flashes. Showing scenes of brushing teeth and face washing, Tanaami describes the film to be like a self-portrait on his favorite day of the week.

Music-Mania(fr)

A bizarre musical couple falls asleep after an insane performance, and dreams about musical instruments.

Brains Repaired(fr)

Depicts a doctor looking into his patient's brain and seeing a collection of hideous and grotesque figures.

Fawns(el)

Two young men are alone at a self-service laundry. They are sitting next to each other, waiting in silence. An old framed embroidery of a young deer is hanging against the wall across them.

Animal(fi)

A farmer finds out that a wolf's bite has turned him into a voracious beast. Worse still, his only son seems to have swapped brains with one of his sheep.

A Short Vision(en)

The leaders, the wise men, the leopard, the deer, the owl and the rat all look up in the sky in fear as a strange object flies through the sky.

El cargador(qu)

Dramatic testimony of Gregorio Condori Mamani, who works as a porter in Cusco, Peru. Despite the huge effort they make everyday for a few coins, porters fall and find death in the streets.

Yawarpampa: campo de sangre(qu)

In 1424, the Chancas tried to conquer a small kingdom: the Incas. In this war, the destiny of the Andean world was decided with the rise of Pachacutec as the leader in Cusco, and the genesis of the Incan Empire and its expansion under his rule. This short narrates the decisive battle between the two factions, along with mythological elements.

Home on the Range(en)

A cow and her calf are bedding down for the night. The calf is frightened by a shadow, until it's revealed to be a jackrabbit. He follows the rabbit deep into the woods. Neither of them notices the wolf following.

Castle of Liars(ru)

A boy who often lies finds himself in such fabulous adventures that he begins to understand the benefits of truth.