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Claymation
see all genres ›Used with particular relish by filmmakers with a penchant for grotesque humor, Claymation is a term invented (and copyrighted) by animator Will Vinton in the late 1970s. It’s now accepted as a blanket for all clay-model cartooning before and since.
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Genres / Animation / Claymation
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Clay
Eliot Noyes, Jr. made CLAY as a Harvard undergraduate. Tracing the rise of life on earth from primordial ooze to the present in eight minutes, the film was enlarged to 35mm, released theatrically and nominated for an Academy Award® as "Best Animated Short Subject." Noyes' work included projects for Sesame Street, HBO, Pixar...Start your free trial to watch
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Darkness Light Darkness
A corporeal and Kafkaesque claymation from Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer. Two hands find each other in a room and begin molding themselves into a human figure. Different body parts come knocking, some more insistently than others, until the small space is stuffed with the finished man. Whether viewed as...Start your free trial to watch
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Imagination
Karo comes inside from a rainy day to tell Piyobupt about seeing fish swimming in the air. Piyobupt laughs at his friend’s delusion but his own imagination starts working. There’s no such thing as an ordinary thought bubble in Koji Yamamura’s inventive claymation.Start your free trial to watch
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Kipling Jr.
Like a Yasujuro Ozu film fashioned out of clay, KIPLING JR. relates a young pup’s coming of age with gentle regard for a child’s intimate experience of time and space. Kip Kipling lives with his parents in a little house near a railway line. Outside his window, a wily circus band toots out melodies. Animator Koji Yamamura...Start your free trial to watch
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Manly Games
A man sits down with plenty of beer to watch a game of football but the points in this game tally body count rather than goals. Jan Svankmajer’s claymation Grand Guignol keeps the crowd cheering while the man gorges on cookies. When the animated players charge the real world of the glutton’s apartment, a time-honored warning...Start your free trial to watch
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A Town Called Panic
Hilarious and frequently surreal, the stop-motion extravaganza A TOWN CALLED PANIC has endless charms and raucous laughs for children from eight to eighty. Based on the Belgian animated cult television series (which was released by Aardman Studios), PANIC stars three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and...Start your free trial to watch
