Cutout Animation Movies

A tiny baroque ode to fleeting darkness and pretty make-believes.

In this short animation film the triangle achieves the distinction of principal dancer in a geometric ballet. The triangle is shown splitting into...

Edge of Alchemy is the third film in a trilogy examining the psychological terrain of women's inner worlds. In this handmade film, assembled from...

Our Lady of the Sphere uses cut-out animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are...

The way bureaucracy works is told by men in the frames.

This is a classing Jordan animation, primarily in B/W, with touches of color. Actually, the engraved art work was film on color negative, so that...

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

Two duelling birds get the urge to change their plumage. A blue jay wants to be decked out in the green of cedar, and a loon dons the burnished red...

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

One of Klahr's masterpieces, Altair is an 8 minute collage color -noir culled from late-40s pages of Cosmopolitan, which induces a sense of...

Based on a poem by Samuil Marshak about an incredibly absent-minded man from Leningrad.

This short piece is somewhat romantic, despite its title. We do see the ogre however. He inverts himself into the action throughout the film. As...

A frenetic and poetic flight on the wings of classic Greek mythology.

The best animation compilation on this side of the thrift store! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtFTfsNnVdY

Award-winning cut-out animation making a full statement on bravado by using two empty words. Available in full at -- https://youtu.be/zJiyvyskYmQ

A girl falls in love with her neighbour, a boxer she can never hope to meet, but the letter-birds will change her destiny forever.

A fly is treated to a portion of criticism.

German propaganda film that mocks the expansion of the British colonies in South Africa, Egypt, India and Jamaica. The film is true to a more serious...

A deeply personal documentary about the loving relationship between the director and her mother. Using interviews and animated family archives, it...