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Vera is a cartoonist. After the death of her husband and son, she moved from Moscow to the small town where she spent her childhood. Vera starts doing animation with children at a local club. Among her students there is a very strange boy with unusual and incomprehensible drawings.

Selected works of Tachibana Kaoru bonus content, Animation workshop 1996.

The prince and the Devil seek a doctor for the princess, but end up breaking into an animation studio where characters like them are being forced to act in a thousand-episode series.

The princess, the Devil and the prince take part in one of the animation director's lacklustre cartoons.

Anica runs a dating agency called Animia. After recognizing her new client from Alcoholics Anonymous, she tries to get him to fall in love with her.

This is the opening animation of URACON III.

Short documentary on animator George Debels.

The history of Russian animated films.

"String Figures" (also called "Cat's Cradle") are figures created by wrapping a long string around the fingers. A traditional Japanese children's game, but not in this anime-style world. Ayaka is a string figure fighter. She designs string figures and fights rivals in a competition to save her brother's honor.

The walls of video rental shops in Japan are lined with hundreds upon hundreds of animation DVDs, but experimental and art animation on DVD are rare. To remedy this situation, Image Forum put together this showcase of the work of contemporary avant-garde animators trained in Kyoto and Tokyo.

After young Tutu kills a bear to save his little brothers life, he is considered an outcast as bears are sacred to the Lonki tribe. Years later Tutu and Linzi struggle to get by and work as lumberjacks near the forest they grew up in. When they both fall for the same woman, it drives the brothers apart. While Linzi connects more and more with nature and the forest, Tutu chooses another path. Through their story, we experience the deep connection of all living things and witness the mysterious retribution wrought by nature on humans who wound it. The film gives us an opportunity to contemplate our relationship with Mother Earth.

ANIMA is a dance animation movie representing a human "life."

A patchwork of the first animated movies from the collections of La Cinémathèque française : Stroboscopic Discs (1833), Zoetropes (since 1867), Reynaud's Praxinoscope (1878-1879), plates of Muybridge and Anschütz (1880-1890), an unseen Marey's chronophotography (1889), Chromolithographs films (since 1897), including one inspired by the second Georges Méliès' film, "Une séance de prestidigitation" (1896), with a photographic version, unseen until now.

A scientist brings a lemon to life to fight crime.

Opening animation for URACON II.

The opening video for Nagao Takena's film screening event in Kobe, Japan that was organized by the Horror Eiga Koujou Iinkai MebiusRing. The video features the song Intoxica by The Centurians.

Opening animation for AZICON.

This work was created at the "Ginza Shoeikai Art Festival" event held in June 2014 in Fussa City, Tokyo, as part of a workshop that allowed visitors to experience up-close the rotoscope animation technique. Visitors drew each piece by hand. The complete short film consists of those joined individual sketches.

Te Wei, an artist famous for blending Chinese painting into animations, has produced countless award-winning animations in his career since 1950s. The present collection compiles 4 titles by him, all adapted from famous Chinese fairy tales or fables. Some of his works, such as A Tadpole Looking for Mom (1960) and Love for Mountain and Water (1988), have won awards locally and overseas, from the prestigious Hundred Flowers Awards in China to even the Cannes Film Festival. Te Wei's art demonstrates a very different aesthetics from Western animations, which are characterized by their refined lines and elaboration patterns. On the other hand, he sometimes borrows from famous Chinese painting in portraying his characters. His works, which are indeed animated classical Chinese paintings, will offer a refreshing experience for children and grown-ups alike.