
1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film
1996-05-30
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10.0A struggling artist going through a creative block rendering his mind void of inspiration.
10.0"Life in the clouds" tells a part of the protagonist's life, Q, above the clouds with his pet. In an age of uncertainty and loneliness for Q, they suddenly meet Y, a foreigner of a similar race. Friendship and some feelings soon flourish.
6.0A woman plays out her existence on the screen of her life. Alcohol is the essence of her being. She imbibes her youth and becomes completely absorbed by the desire to satisfy her thirst. Moving from parties to binge drinking, pleasure to distress, joy to delirium, she lets herself be lulled by the undulating waves of bottles. She floats in the intoxicating liquid, sees her childhood re-emerge, and feels as if she is a tiny fish lost in an ocean of madness. Her craving for alcohol engenders a burning passion. Drinking becomes a fatal embrace... On the verge of drowning in the torrent of this insane obsession, will she find the strength to rise to the surface?
5.4The 365 days animation consists of sequence of 8760 pictures, all different shape and color, hand-drawn by the director every day in 365 days. This is the ultimate analog approach by the abstract animated film creator in digital era.
4.5An unhappy artist finally decides to paint a self-portrait but with the appearance of a wealthy person, with a car and a country house. What he does not imagine is that his portrait will compete with him for the same woman ...
8.0On his sixth birthday Robert receives three beautiful broken old birds in his mother's sitting room. A memory of an afternoon with tea and cake, lacy pink slips and a tale of an emperor with no skin.
0.0This film is part of the 10th edition of “Fresh out of school”, a collection of 13 short films based on poems on the theme “Friendship”, directed by young animators right after their animation studies.
0.0Standalone short in two parts. After being resurrected, Dick visits Mae East and decides to tail a strange screaming woman whom he sees in her building. Dick follows the screaming woman to the theatre, where he learns of her association with Professor Innuendo.
6.2A clerk at a lost property office is faced with unexpected change, and plans an unconventional response.
4.9MIGRANTS, a short film by Paul Chadeisson, is the first short film presented by Oats Studios in a new playlist that will become a curated collection of Oats' favorite short films from their favorite artists. Many years ago, humanity started the process of terraforming Mars. We follow the thoughts and prayers of one of the "cleaners" who work on this titanic project.
7.8Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.
0.0Pig, in the countryside, gets slaughtered by two butchers. After he wakes up in his room, in his bed, he realizes that it was just a dream. On his way to work, Pig notices the butcher from his dream, who starts haunting him.
An impressive parable where the artist’s creativity is paralyzed by the dull crowd can be seen as a metaphor for a totalitarian system. Cleverly designed animation shows the artist as a tied man whose creativity is hindered by the crowd. A visually attractive film with very interesting editing won an award at the Annecy festival in 1983.
7.0Whispered to by an ancient tree, a young shepherd dreams of more than his simple existence among grass and sheep. The journey he embarks on brings him into contact with golden birds, a dragon and a fair damsel.
8.8At the school talent show, Tina, Gene, and Louise sing a song titled "My Butt Has a Fever," much to Mr. Frond’s dismay.
7.0A young woman lives with her sleeping husband. Prisoner of her loneliness, she refuses to accept that this man is only a memory.
6.0This short animation by artist and animator Evelyn Lambart offers a wordless plea for the right of all living creatures to a clean, unpolluted environment. With rich colour and intricate animated motion, the film features birds, butterflies and other woodland creatures succumbing to air pollution caused by human inventions.