Legacy: A Very Short History of Natural Resources

Legacy takes the audience on a rapid-fire journey through the evolution of the world, starting with a cosmic bang, evolving through billions of years of plants, animals and the creation of natural resources, ending with man and his bounty – “sitting on his world contemplating his coconut”. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Kitchen Dialogue

A generational trauma through the lens of an Asian American teenager through food and poetry.

Mickey's Audition

A five-minute film for The Disney-MGM Studios combining live-action and animation. Mickey Mouse recalls his first big audition and subsequent filmmaking career.

A Story-A Story

Ananse the Spider Man climbs up to the sky to buy stories from the Sky God in this folktale from Africa.

Pupa

How long has it been since she lost control of her body? She is completely tapped out and finds herself wishing that she could just shed her body.

About Stepan the Blacksmith

The tale of the blacksmith Stepan, who returned the Moon, the Stars and the Sun to people.

Mooned

Villainous Vector must figure out how to get off the moon and return to Earth.

The Adventure of the Naive Duck Tasiko

Naive, pretty and pretensious Tasiko will get angry at her friend and runs in forest, where she finds herself face-to-face with a wolf. Her loyal friends will save her from the trouble.

Bang, Bang

It's hunting season, as well as Eda's 25th birthday. As a present, her father offers her an apartment under seizure.

Last Rumba in Rochdale

Bodney Brooks, a twelve year old master of computer controlled puppetry, decides to arrange a surprise birthday party for his Gran in an attempt to get back into his family’s good books. But, as ever in Bodney’s world, things don’t quite go to plan.

Drop by Drop

The last habitants of a village refuse to let themselves sink into oblivion.

Figaro Pho

Everyone of us has got at least one irrational fear ... in the case of Figaro Pho, he has them all.

Completionist

Lee’s anxiety builds and inconveniences push them over the edge of their own imagined catastrophes.

The Design

Animators and urban planners both create worlds, but Czech stop motion specialist Jiří Barta's ingenious paper cut-out short punctures the stifling architecture of communist housing. Skilled hands blueprint an apartment tower standardized specifications. Envelopes contain the elements of each home. Family dwellings, bachelor pads, scholarly studies and artist studios: different social configurations are permitted but restrained to the same uniform box. A dystopian revision of the REAR WINDOW scenario, THE DESIGN's darkly comic social critique still has teeth.

Two Trams

In one depot, two trams lived together. All day long, they traveled around the city, filling the streets with cheerful clatter, and they were happy. But in life, nothing lasts forever.

Pintas

One day, unexpectedly, a girl loses the colored freckles covering her body. She and her boyfriends will try to recover the color disappeared from their lives.

Two Faces

Loose impressionistic brushstrokes sketch a series of portraits of two faces, one male and one female, while the verse on the soundtrack tells the tale of both one and a thousand relationships.

The Charge of Texel

1795, Holland. The French vanguard is pushing towards the north, through a strong blizzard, beyond the enemy lines. At the head of the cavalry, Major Lahure learns that a British fleet, seeking to escape to England, is trapped by the ice off the coast, and prepares one of the boldest ventures of its time.

Penelope

A woman is caught up with house chores after someone rings her door.

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