Acme Filmworks

A family goes on a fishing trip, but makes a lot of stops along the way.

Short animated film by Kristian Pedersen

A dead woman wanders through the shadowy space between memory and reality, tracing the lines of her identity through the land she once walked—an immigrant in death as in life.

The ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS returns for its second year in theaters with 12 charming family-friendly films. The films included are: • Stems - Ainslie Hendersen (Scotland) • Shift - Cecilia Puglesi & Yijun Liu (U.S.) • Pearl - Patrick Osborne (U.S.) • Crin-crin - Iris Alexandre (Belgium) • Mirror - Chris Ware, John Kuramoto, Ira Glass (U.S.) • Last summer in the garden - bekky O’Neil (Canada) • Waiting for the New Year - Vladimir Leschiov (Latvia) • Piper - Alan Barillaro (U.S.) • Bøygen - Kristian Pedersen (Norway) • Afternoon Class - Seoro Oh (Korea) • About a Mother - Dina Velikovskaya (Russia) • Exploozy - Joshua Gunn, Trevor Piecham, & John McGowan (U.S.) • Inner Workings - Leo Matsuda (U.S.) • Corpus - Marc Héricher (France) • Blue - Daniela Sherer (Israel) • Manoman - Simon Cartwright (England) • All Their Shades - Chloé Alliez (Belgium)

A workman is oblivious to the danger he causes.

In a Michał Socha-directed opening, the Simpson family takes a nightmarish trip through Homer's body, eventually settling on a couch formed from his brain.

Freedom and Unfreedom unfolds in a single two-and-a-half-minute take. In a moody, dialogue-free piece, a single African-American figure appears in an abstract landscape, dancing among multicolored energy fields. The limbless, spiritless figure dances back and forth, only to be joined by another. Suddenly, dissonant phrases emerge as a hard gray boundary descends between them, and soon more and more walls begin to collapse around the figure until it is completely trapped in a small box, roughly the size and level of the compartments in which slaves were transported from Africa to America. Segment and first part of the film Suite from Freedom (2004).

Amazing and iridiscent film animated in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. Produced by Acme Filmworks Hollywood for United Airlines, Locomotion Channel.

The story is designed to be part of a trilogy of animated films called Suite For Freedom, which was commissioned to be shown to visitors entering the National Freedom Center in Cinncinnati Ohio. Slavery shows the hardship of the life of a house slave in the American South before the Civil War, telling the events in one day in her life.

Fierlinger concentrates his considerable talents as an animator to recount through fragmented memories, vivid recollections, and the occasional evocative photograph his life as the rebellious son of Jan Fierlinger, Czechoslovakian career politician.

Directed by Michal Socha.

Another iridiscent film animated in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo.

Animation in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. Nomination for "Best of the World", International Animation Festival, Hiroshima, Japan, 2010.

Short film animated in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. Produced by Acme Filmworks Hollywood for Sinai Hospital and nominated for various international awards.

Short film animated in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. Produced by Acme Filmworks Hollywood for Riverwind Casino.

Animated commercial short directed by Caroline Leaf.

Little ragdolls find their maker dead in his studio. Unable to understand what truly happened they try to get on with their daily life beside him.

Animated 15-second short commercial by Raimund Krumme.

Short film animated in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. Produced by Acme Filmworks Hollywood for Campbell’s Soup.

A trio of short films commissioned to be shown to visitors entering the National Freedom Center in Cincinnati Ohio. Freedom and Unfreedom by Aleksandra Korejwo uses sand animation. Slavery by Caroline Leaf shows the hardship of the life of a house slave in the American South before the Civil War, telling the events in one day in her life. The Underground Railroad by Luc Perez is the final film in the trilogy.