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Animation
see all genres ›The “motion” of pictures comes into tight focus in an animated film. The sequencing of drawings, the manipulation of puppet armatures or the arranging of cut-out materials brings otherwise stationary materials to life. These days, digital rules this imaginative realm, making the work of frame-by-frame artisans of the past and present all the more precious.
Discover Animation Films
Genres / Animation
SUB-GENRES · CGI · Cel/Hand-Drawn · Chalk · Claymation · Cut-Out · Stop-Motion/Puppetry
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Duo Concertantes
DUO CONCERTANTES has two parts, THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION and PATRICIA GIVES BIRTH TO A DREAM BY THE DOORWAY. Both PATRICIA and HAMFAT ASAR (made the following year), the two most spectacular of Lawrence Jordan's animated works, operate against the backdrop of a fixed scene. In the former, it is a back...Start your free trial to watch
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Edison and Leo
A magnetic, amoral and womanizing genius inventor's world threatens to fly apart at the seams. His son, who has electricity crackling through his veins due to an accident in his father's laboratory, discovers that his father had an unwitting hand in both his mother's early death and his electrical ailment.Start your free trial to watch
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Educated Fish
Decades before FINDING NEMO, this imaginative Dave Fleisher cartoon got plenty of mileage from the underwater kingdom. Most of the little fish at A.B. Sea School for Fish are good students. But one goofs off during the teacher’s lesson about the hook and line. He’ll wish he had listened once a seductive worm takes him for a...Start your free trial to watch
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Elsa Kirk
In the mid-1990s I unearthed photographic contact sheets of different women in a thrift store in the East Village. Only one was named and dated: "Elsa Kirk, Feb 22 ‘63." But all looked like they were from the same photographer and time period. There were twelve images per sheet of these models/actresses and I found myself...Start your free trial to watch
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The Enchanted Spectacles
A parlor full of bon vivants pass around an enchanted pair of spectacles that “reveal the personality and pleasures of the one who wears them.” As always in Émile Cohl’s films, there is a thin line separating everyday reality from fantastic apparitions. The glasses reveal free associated stop-motion images...Start your free trial to watch
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Enid's Idyll
Lawrence Jordan used forty-six engraved Gustave Doré illustrations from "Idylls of the King" as settings for his extravagantly romantic saga. As Enid, the protagonist, is seen in a vast array of scenes from deep forests to castle keeps. Her champion is sometimes with her, sometimes away fighting archetypal foes. She dies and,...Start your free trial to watch
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Fantasmagoria
Émile Cohl was already 50 by the time he made his first breakthrough work for Gaumont. FANTASMAGORIA's squirmy chalk drawings are infused with the same anarchic spirit which inspired his earlier work as a caricaturist and art provocateur. Pointedly crude, the animation skewers a bourgeois lady at the theater within seconds....Start your free trial to watch
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Fascist Boots on Our Homeland
FASCIST BOOTS ON OUR HOMELAND, made in the midst of the Second World War, is a stark animated short that portrays the Soviet Union as the last bulwark against the Nazi advance. In spite of the film’s grave historical ironies (“Fascism brings massive destruction, starvation and death to hundreds of...Start your free trial to watch
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Fat, Bald, Short Man
Lonesome, middle-aged virgin Antonio Farfán is picked on and ridiculed as a matter of course, whether by coworkers or his bullying mooch of a brother (who only calls when he needs money). An employee of a notary’s office, his status improves a bit when his new boss (and strangely affable doppelganger)...Start your free trial to watch
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The Floor of the World
In the shifting landscape of dirt and sky, excavation and construction merge. Figures move back and forth between life and death, and possibly somewhere else. The ephemerality of existence is a mundane question in this world, where numbers mark the way. THE FLOOR OF THE WORLD turns out to be easily...Start your free trial to watch
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Forward March, Time!
An animated fantasia "based on the works of Vladimir Mayakovsky," this dazzling kaleidoscope of imagery pays tribute to that fabled Soviet poet, playwright and Futurist in terms as imaginatively fabulist as any Western animation of the 1970s "head" era. Beginning with a wrecking ball repeatedly smashing...Start your free trial to watch
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Fresh Vegetable Mystery
Wonder what all that produce is up to when the store is closed? Well, like the rest of us, they're mostly sleeping, with a street cop, an early Mr. Potato (or, rather, Sgt. Potato), complete with Irish accent, on the beat. When a nocturnal thief kidnaps some of the carrot population, everybody's a suspect...Start your free trial to watch
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Ghost Algebra
Under erratic skies, a solitary figure navigates a landscape of constructed nature and broken bones. She peers through a decaying aperture, waiting and watching; the fragility of the body is exposed for what it is: ephemeral, liquid, a battlefield of nervous dreams. Using found and natural objects, rephotographed video,...Start your free trial to watch
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Greedy Humpty Dumpty
This COLOR CLASSICS cartoon elaborates upon the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme with touches from the myth of Icarus and Mother Goose. The roly-poly egg is a moneyed tyrant in this telling. He imagines that the sun is a giant ball of gold in a frankly hallucinatory sequence and commands the villagers to build...Start your free trial to watch