US
A man reacts with violence when a pair of eyes spy on him from inside a cardboard box.
Nov 2002
A polar bear is hunted by Eskimos. But suddenly the hunt gets interrupted. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Jun 1986
A lamp causes a ruckus in the shop while the shopkeeper is away.
Jun 1979
A sickly elephant father struggles to open a jar of aspirin.
Jan 1984
A child, who is afraid, of the dark forms a unique relationship with the objects that once frightened him.
Jan 1980
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
A housecat attempts to eat what he doesn't suspect is a piranha.
Jan 1983
A man remembers his childhood memory of growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. How would his life have been if things had gone differently?
Jun 2018
A bird chases and teases a worm to Cole Porter's "Let's Misbehave" as sung by Irving Aaronson.
At the end of the workday, the women of the city head to the bathhouse.
Oct 2013
Charlie Brown is on the run from the Peanuts Gang after the Great Pumpkin puts a bounty on his head in this wild animated student short by Jim Reardon.
An experimental film portraying different skies in very long takes.
Nov 2004
Emma, a lonely old woman, reminisces of one of her childhood birthday parties.
Jan 1987
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
This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.
Jan 2003
Bloom Country adaptation
The proprietress of a burger joint is retiring and her children must compete to see who is worthy of taking her place.
Apr 2018
A child terminally becomes bad animation and is sent to an asylum of abandoned and lost cartoon characters.
When a girl at a party confronts a guy about his social anxiety, he starts to float in the air.
May 2013
Beckett cycles through a limited number of drawings, but adds new information to each drawing every time we see it, giving the sense of a world that is infinitely rich and also obviously contained tightly within the edges of the paper. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.
Sep 1972