Animated Shorts
              8 Episodes
            
          
            From gorgeous hand drawing to playful stop motion, dreamlike pinscreen to exquisite silhouette shadowplay, a dazzling array of techniques is on display in this miniature animation celebration. Including bite-size masterpieces by visionary animators such as Lotte Reiniger (PAPAGENO), John and Faith Hubley (COCKABOODY), and Suzan Pitt (ASPARAGUS), these eyeball-whirling wonders may be short in length but they’re positively epic in visual imagination.
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   11:25Episode 1 11:25Episode 1Les escargotsEpisode 1Directed by René Laloux • 1966 • France FANTASTIC PLANET was not the first collaboration between writer-director René Laloux and illustrator Roland Topor. Presented here is a short film they made together in the mid-1960s: LES ESCARGOTS. 
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   08:52Episode 2 08:52Episode 2CockaboodyEpisode 2Directed by John Hubley and Faith Hubley • 1973 • United States 
 Starring Emily Hubley, Georgia HubleyFaith and John Hubley visualize the spirit of childhood imagination in this slice-of-life short set to recordings of their daughters Emily and Georgia at play. 
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  AsparagusEpisode 3Directed by Suzan Pitt • 1979 • United States Suzan Pitt's animated short throws open the doors of perception onto a shape-shifting vision of polymorphous sexuality. A landmark in the history of independent animation, ASPARAGUS is a mesmerizing exploration of the artist's inner world, and a view... 
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   12:18Episode 4 12:18Episode 4No Place Like Home #1 and #2Episode 4Directed by Karen Yasinsky • 1999 • United States Over the course of these two stop-motion films, made by Karen Yasinsky in 1999, a woman—with the help of a pair of ruby-red slippers—delves into her fantasies and confronts good and evil before returning safely to the reality of her life. 
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   06:57Episode 5 06:57Episode 5Dad’s DeadEpisode 5Directed by Chris Shepherd • 2002 • United Kingdom 
 Starring Ian Hart, Kay D’Arcy, Chris FreeneyA darkly psychedelic blend of animation and live action evokes a man’s memories of his former schoolmate and “best friend”: a charmer whose outward cool concealed a scary, sociopathic heart. Director ... 
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  Old ManEpisode 6Directed by Leah Shore • 2012 • United States For more then 20 years Charles Manson has refused to communicate to the outside world. Until now. These are actual never before heard phone conversations between Canadian best selling author Marlin Marynick and Charles Manson. 
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   15:25Episode 7 15:25Episode 7Public Service AnnouncementEpisode 7Directed by Athi-Patra Ruga • 2014 • South Africa A stunning cosmic kaleidoscope of fluorescent, pixelated nature imagery is set to a dryly satirical lesson on the totalitarian, matriarchal political structure of the fictional republic of Azania. 
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   08:09Episode 8 08:09Episode 8Goodbye Jerome!Episode 8Directed by Gabrielle Selnet, Adam Sillard, and Chloé Farr • 2022 • France 
 Starring William Lebghil, Alma JodorowskyDeath is only the beginning in this fantastically phantasmagoric animated odyssey, which imagines heaven in the boldly colorful, psychedelic style of George Dunning’s Beatles clas... 
 
 
               
             
          