Movies: Cutout animation

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...

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

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

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

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...

Two duelling birds get the urge to change their plumage. A blue jay wants to be decked out in the green of cedar, and a loon dons the burnished red of oak leaves, but neither bird foresees the consequences of vanity....

Conquerors land on a newly discovered planet and try to colonize and explore a new discovered planet....

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

Short experimental animation by Jules Engel...

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....

A cut-out animation musical adaptation of the Irish mythological epic Táin Bó Cúailnge....

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

An animated adaptation of Poe's famous short story....

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

In this short animation film the triangle achieves the distinction of principal dancer in a geometric ballet. The triangle is shown splitting into some three hundred transformations, dividing and sub-dividing with grace and symmetry to the music of a...

"The strangeness of this film is laced with carefully moulded apocalypses as the filmmaker explores a vision of life beyond death – the Elysian fields of Homer, Dante’s Purgatorio, de Chirico’s stitched plain. A moving single picture. Evolving the st...

An animated film made from approximately 1700 laser printed photo(collage)s, manipulated by hand....

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

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