Movies: Cutout animation

ALEXANDER THE GRAPE, an unfinished cut-paper animated short from Jim Henson from 1965, relates the fable of a young grape with big ambitions who learns that it is better to accept yourself than to try to be something you are not. The short was recons...

In this episodic animated fantasy from France, an art teacher interprets a series of six fairy tales (each involving a prince or princess) with the help of two precocious students. Princes and Princesses was created using a special style of cutout an...

Suicidal poet Archy tries to end his life by jumping off a bridge, but awakens to find he has assumed the life of a cockroach and has become a part of a community of creatures living in a newspaper office. He also discovers that he can still write po...

In a white lace universe, three inventors create machines which are both pretty and useful. Unfortunately people do not understand them......

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Film shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"), who wants a mate, yet has difficulties getting one....

The way bureaucracy works is told by men in the frames....

A family pod of three dolphins navigates decay as an inevitable register while also having a secret ascension to a higher ground....

Hare enlists four brave friends to help him reclaim his home from the wily Fox....

Based on a poem by Samuil Marshak about an incredibly absent-minded man from Leningrad....

An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica....

Documentary on industrial lubrification....

The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs....

The best animation compilation on this side of the thrift store! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtFTfsNnVdY...

This is a classing Jordan animation, primarily in B/W, with touches of color. Actually, the engraved art work was film on color negative, so that subtle variations in tone are recorded. The mood--enhanced by John Davis' original music--is dream-like....

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Three artists struggling against the grid of society find spiritual renewal....

Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on static backgrounds to suggest travel and discovery....

We hear the distant ring of Saturn....

A surrealistic fantasy based on the 15th century woodcuts of the dance of the dead. A film experiment that deals with the photoreality and the surrealism of life. A collage-animation that cuts up photos and newsreel film and reassembles them, produci...