This classic stop motion film was made in the UK in the early 2000s and used by the British Film Institute as part of their Starting Stories resource. A simple visual narrative is embedded with a complex set of themes: a baboon, stationed on the … [Read more...]
Ant
This film is by Film Bilder, the studio who made Head Up. This film, part of the Animanimals series by Julie Ocker, depicts the systematic and collective life of an ant colony. The military precision of the ants is an apt catalyst to discuss the … [Read more...]
Alike
This father and son tale is about the apathy and low mood caused by overwork and isolation. A father is miserable at work while his son, still young, is optimistic about going to school. The son’s cheerful moods get more and more repressed as his … [Read more...]
Bon Voyage
The grim irony of this film’s title demonstrates its hard-hitting treatment of the difficult, important subject of forced migration. The film begins as a traditional animation, depicting a group of refugees styled as simple line-drawings as they flee … [Read more...]
Threads [Tråder]
A mother and child are connected by a red thread. As the years go by, the thread stays the same, even as the relationship between the two changes. At the end of the film, the daughter has her own child, and the pattern begins anew. This powerful film … [Read more...]
Tripes and Onions [Szalontüdö]
Live action films appear infrequently in the corpus, as do Hungarian films. This live action short is similar to French Roast in its use of an upside-down protagonist: a scruffy man, perhaps homeless, appears to eat the lunch of a Hungarian … [Read more...]
Two Friends [Deux Amis]
The animation in this French film is comparable to that of November [Novembre]. An unlikely friendship between a tadpole and caterpillar progresses as each grows up into two very different beings: a frog and a butterfly. The film centres the classic … [Read more...]
Unplugged
This short and simple film is about renewable energy. It is the only work in the Bibliography to directly and explicitly address this important concept for the future of Europe. At only 90 seconds long, the film is a perfectly bite-size film for … [Read more...]
Whistleless [Fløjteløs]
Siri Melchior’s short animation is about a little bird who cannot whistle no matter how hard it tries. Entirely set to a musical score, this short film has a calm and positive tone. As the bird fails to whistle, it finds out that whistling happens … [Read more...]
