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At a summer sleepover, two best friends realize they may be connected by more than just friendship.
Oct 2016
This delightful story is simply about a boy wanting to go outside and play in the snow. After getting all bundled up by his mother, the boy has found that he is unable to move! Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
Jun 1988
A lamp causes a ruckus in the shop while the shopkeeper is away.
Jun 1979
A child, who is afraid, of the dark forms a unique relationship with the objects that once frightened him.
Jan 1980
Emma, a lonely old woman, reminisces of one of her childhood birthday parties.
Jan 1987
Twins Lake and Lucas hate each others’ guts. One day after school, their sibling rivalry gets out of hand.
Apr 2022
This short is about a purple dinosaur named Sigmund, who likes to bounce on top of trees. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
Dec 1989
"Fame" was used as the soundtrack of an animated music video of the same title, directed by Richard Jefferies and Mark Kirkland while students at California Institute of the Arts. The film, released in 1975, went on to win the Student Academy Award for animation and aired on NBC's The Midnight Special.
Jun 1976
The film, Al Tudi Tuhak, is a creation story inspired by the art and mythology of the Northwest coast people. The story involves the creator, or "The Great Father" as he whittles the world into existence. Each of his wood shavings became fish, trees, birds,... even the sun and moon.
May 1999
Me Broni Ba is a lyrical portrait of hair salons in Kumasi, Ghana. The tangled legacy of European colonialism in Africa is evoked through images of women practicing hair braiding on discarded white baby dolls from the West. The film unfolds through a series of vignettes, set against a child's story of migrating from Ghana to the United States. The film uncovers the meaning behind the Akan term of endearment, me broni ba, which means “my white baby.”
Feb 2009
A polar bear is hunted by Eskimos. But suddenly the hunt gets interrupted. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Jun 1986
A child terminally becomes bad animation and is sent to an asylum of abandoned and lost cartoon characters.
Jan 1984
Stanley the Pembroke Welsh Corgi is left behind in the break of an apocalypse. All he wants to do is get back to his owner...
May 2014
An animated documentary film
Sep 2001
Two store clerks slacking off at work (at a gas station) on Halloween go on an acid trip.
Apr 2006
A kitten helps his father defeat a pack of marshmallows.
Jan 1983
A bookish young woman may be under the influence of a siren's spell. Is this a source of terror, or of comfort?
Jan 2018
Slik Willy combines abstract animation, sound and spoken narration to tell a narrative story. The film uses hand-drawn animation and textures from 35mm transparencies. Final compositing was done using an optical printer.
Jan 1995
A housecat attempts to eat what he doesn't suspect is a piranha.
A sickly elephant father struggles to open a jar of aspirin.