Movies: Cutout animation

The story of the evolution of life on Earth in animated form....

Three women, three generations. This is a Chinese family without love in 1940s....

"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...

"After GYMNOPEDIES, I had long wanted to animate a film specifically for a pre-selected piano piece by [Erik] Satie. MOONLIGHT SONATA is that film. It was totally designed for the 'Gnossienne V' and the movements of the animation are timed to the ove...

In the middle of the forest, a bonfire will define the fate of Fayna, a young, colorless girl....

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

A fly is treated to a portion of criticism....

This short animation by artist and animator Evelyn Lambart offers a wordless plea for the right of all living creatures to a clean, unpolluted environment. With rich colour and intricate animated motion, the film features birds, butterflies and other...

A square dances....

This short, cut-out animation was made by elementary school children at Clark School in St. Louis, MO....

A series of vaudeville acts inserted in images of reality, meant to demonstrate the ephemeral nature of all things....

Colour cut-out animation inspired by the shape of snowflakes and touched with the airy magic of these fragile designs. While music tinkles invitingly, snowflakes roll and whirl, pulse and glitter, shining with the many hues of twinkling lights. Made ...

In this cut-out animation, a college student discovers her identity after traveling to her remote West Virginia hometown to work in a discount superstore....

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A third world child pursues the dream of freedom but becomes a victim of exploitation....

A collection of mechanical-biological hybrids from the artist's workshop and a variety of rules written on different boards, gathered in order to secure projects and for entertainment....

Short experimental animation by Jules Engel...

One person makes the long and difficult journey towards finding their own beauty. In trying to mimic the beauty of others around them, they repeatedly fail at their attempts to be something they're not. Only when they muster the courage to look inwar...

A winter dread gnaws at the anxieties of a young couple....