Landscape painting with creative pixel glitches. José Miguel Biscaya explores a nature scene with the camera and rediscovers it through manipulated MPEG algorithms and deliberate encoding errors.
Fukushima and a broken heart lead to a meltdown of body and mind.
Naughtiness strikes back: Angry Kid tries in vain to spook his little sister. At last she is fed up with his antics and takes revenge.
The embodiment of naughtiness: Aardman’s Angry Kid. In this episode he sits in the car with his Dad and finds a good excuse to use the f*** word profusely.
A child beams with joy at his balloon. Not for long, because the round red friend on the line has some mean ideas of his own about how to play with the little cutie. Don Hertzfeldt’s classic of black humoured drawn animation.
Even in its rebellious youth, cartoon already tested its boundaries and freedom. In 1919, Earl Hurd drew the serial character Bobby Bumps and his dog Fido.
Robert Morgan begins where “Eraserhead” ends. His inquisitive Bobby Yeah explores strange rooms, meets creatures that look like medical disasters and just loves to push the dangerous but tempting red button.
The cowboy hero, the lovely lady, and the evil villain – in his spoof on one of the oldest genres in film history, the western movie, Osamu Tezuka sets up a funny obstacle course of projection blunders and celluloid flaws.
Bruce Bickford’s claymations know no limits. The magician with the cult following makes his figures morph continuously from one shape to the next.
Archives are tirelessly fighting against the age-related decay of film stock. Chemical processes produce blisters and crystal carpets in the emulsion.
“Climax Fables presents” the fantasy world of an unknown artist from the Roaring Twenties. Eveready Harton has adventures with wife, rival and pet.
Where can you find a Russian church with a “topless exchange”? And where can you find a “Porno Plaza”? In Tallinn!
The Wehrmacht dances the “Lambeth Walk” which in the late 1930s was very popular and abhorred by the Nazis.
Mihai Grecu and Thibault Gleize take quantum theory seriously as they twist the laws of nature with a wink.
The birth of an animation figure, without metaphorical frills. For Robert Morgan, single frames take over the function of sperms and inseminate the camera.
