1. Britannia
The history of empire. A British bulldog answers his mistress's call. He tacks down the Union Jack to cover the British Isles, then begins playing with a small ball that's the world. At first it's innocent play. The dog discovers tea in India; then, the dog shakes gold out of Africa. Gradually, innocence gives way to more and more ferocious play with the ball. We see terrorized women and children as the dog becomes an enslaving potentate. Harmless English archetypes benefit from colonial riches. Then the world begins to grow, and the dog changes too, from bulldog to effete lap dog.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
2. Body Beautiful
A heavyset woman who keeps being harassed by her aerobics instructor and her attempts to get even with him on a Body Beautiful contest.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
3. Art Education
Feministic interpretations of famous paintings by Vermeer, Michelangelo and others.
4. The Girl with Stories in Her Hair
A girl in a brothel reminisces and questionins the advice her mother gave her as a child.
5. The Cruise
The dance floor of a cruise ship. As each passenger is chosen, they choose a song on the jukebox and dance to it. But one passenger, playing a joke on another, selects a different song first. He keeps choosing that song, and eventually fills the jukebox with coins. It plays the same song over and over, and everyone is compelled to dance with the ship itself getting sick, while the man who was the brunt of the joke escapes in a rowboat.
6. Assisted Migration
A bird requires some assistance for his migratory flight south, but things don't quite go as planned.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
7. Visitation
In an outer-world night, creatures that live beneath human consciousness emerge and take hold of the narrator, dissecting his spirit and dismembering his thoughts. He beholds a mythical eternity filled with shadowy industrial scenes and monochrome textures—a heavenly hell of unending life and death.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
8. Pinball
As George Antheil's avant-garde composition "Ballet Mecanique " plays, a dizzying array of abstract paintings are captured in close-up, spun around, and rapidly edited together. Grotesque and frightening creatures start to emerge through the flickering shapes and patterns.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
9. Man on the Chair (의자 위의 남자)
“Man on the chair” is tormented and constantly doubts his very own existence.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
10. In Deep Waters (Dans les eaux profondes)
Three characters share a common traumatic experience when they were born.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
11. The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
In this animated short, Evelyn Lambart uses her well-known style of animation – paper figures and brightly colored backgrounds – to revisit Aesop’s tale of 2 mice with vastly different lifestyles. Ultimately, the film suggests it is far better to live simply and in peace than to live in luxury amidst danger.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
12. The Prince of Egypt
An animated take on the biblical story of Moses, from his being a prince of Egypt to his ultimate destiny of leading the Children of Israel out of Egypt.
It has an average vote of 7.283 on TMDB.
13. Mound
Mound is a celebration of the moving painting, in which more than one hundred pallid puppets – clowns, spectres, gnomes, wraiths, and ghouls – writhe, sway, plod, and transform with awkward grace to the mournful musical accompaniment of It’s Raining Today by legendary singer-songwriter Scott Walker .
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
14. MacPherson
This animated film by Martine Chartrand recounts the friendship between a young Félix Leclerc and Frank Randolph Macpherson, a Jamaican chemical engineer and university graduate who worked for a pulp and paper company. An inveterate jazz fan, Macpherson inspired Leclerc, who wrote a song about the log drives and entitled it “MacPherson” in honour of his friend. Paint-on-glass animation shot with a 35mm camera.
15. Story from North America
A silly song about killing spiders.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
16. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Mr. Conductor's supply of magic gold dust, which allows him to travel between Shining Time and Thomas's island, is critically low. Unfortunately, he doesn't know how to get more. Meanwhile, Thomas is fending off attacks by the nasty diesel engines. Getting more gold dust will require help from Mr. C's slacker cousin, his new friend Lily and her morose grandfather, plus the secret engine.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
17. Fear(s) of the Dark (Peur(s) du noir)
Several scary black-and-white animated segments in different styles appeal to our fear of the dark.
It has an average vote of 6.346 on TMDB.
18. Eager
Traditional clay-mation and stop-motion animated film.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
19. Rythmetic
Rythmetic is a 1956 Canadian short animated film directed by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart where numbers are the main characters.
It has an average vote of 5.1 on TMDB.
20. Fronta (Fronta)
Short animation by Diana Cam Van Nguyen
