Movies: Stop motion

Puppets made of pliable material, impart the following message : your companion should be a worthier person than yourself so that he can impart knowledge and virtue to you....

Augusta goes on a diet in an attempt to impress her date....

16mm stop-motion animated film...

The stair of steps appear checkerboard room. Conflict between a young man tries to fit the situation and the stickman ridicules him....

In the Shadow of the Pines is an animated short documentary about a difficult father-daughter relationship. Drawing on childhood memories, Anne Koizumi, the filmmaker, explores her upbringing with her Japanese immigrant dad, who was also the janitor ...

Olivia, a 12-year-old middle class girl, is forced to reorganize her basic needs when her family (mother, little brother and herself) is evicted and forced to live in a squatted apartment on the edge of the big city, in a rough neighborhood. Her moth...

In an inhospitable place, a boy and his family struggle for survival....

A female magician presents several impressive metamorphoses, combining stop-motion animation and camera tricks....

"The War and the Dream of Momi" was a patriotic war film directed by Giovanni Pastrone. Segundo de Chomón was responsible for the animation effects....

Gulosus (the glutton), is an alluring yet disturbing view of gluttony in contemporary culture. The film is in stop motion, with one photo being taken every 6 seconds, and contains over 130 individual sound effects and foley sounds. The piece draws fr...

On the night of a lunar eclipse, we uncover the sweet, salacious, and spooky secrets of a small town. From a pigtailed psychopath to naughty nuns, this stop-motion animated film conjures a comforting thought: that weird is relative....

The Night had her birthday, and gave a party to which she invited Dima, a little boy so afraid of the dark that he could never sleep when the light was out....

A magical mummy in the hands of gangsters! Two crazy gangsters steal the mummy of the Great Sneeze from the museum, which once sneezed diamonds for the Egyptians. After various escapades, they manage to revive it, but the magic doesn't work as they i...

A young groom seeking vengeance for his missing wife learns the truth of his philanthropic family's greed-driven intentions....

Monster in a domestic crisis....

A scavenger protects his subway shelter....

A little pigeon finds a strange substance and decides to take a chance by trying the new treat—after all, why not? Pigeons are already odd, so what harm could it do?...

In a run-down hotel for transients, a man sleeps fitfully in bed. He rises to use the toilet down the hall, and while he's there, a burglar enters his room. He returns to find the burglar leaving through the window; the burglar falls to the street be...

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The Garden Ape enthusiastically explores a wild city garden....