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Kimono

1992

An exploration of Japanese culture by experimental animation artist José Castillo.

El cerro de los elfos

1982

Experimental animation film by José Castillo.

Régime des Fleurs Chloë Sevigny Little Flower

2019

Eric Leiser directed & animated this handmade stop motion commercial for actress Chloë Sevigny fragrance by Régime des Fleurs

chimera

2024

A child is attacked and turned into a chimera and must learn to navigate his strange world as an entirely new kind of being.

Fantastical Revelations of Art, Math, and Romance

A short mathematical romance about two flat beings who bond over their shared fascination of the hypothetical third-dimension.

Let It Be a Tale

2024

An animated tribute to the text of "If I Must Die," the final poem written by Palestinian writer, scholar, activist, and martyr Dr. Refaat Al-Areer.

Visual Thinking

1961

In a mix of puppetry and animation, Harry demonstrates the Art of Visual Thinking to Kermit—and what it does to you once it gets out of control.

My Body Is Not My Home

★ 9

My Body Is Not My Home is a 3D animated short film following the journey of an uncanny simulacrum who undergoes the process of becoming the ‘Other’.

Optimizer Customizer

2002

A feminine machine, stuffed with modern nano-technology and useless operations is depicted in this mixed-media 2D animation short, highlighting the consequences of consumerism and the downfall of civilized society. The machine reminiscent of a two-dimensional video game, leads to a destructive chain reaction after a strange malfunction, with people turning into clones and robots.

Stay

2022 · ★ 4

Needles are used to repair the damage. Stay is a 5-minute animated film made using hand embroidery on tracing paper, depicting the relationship between a daughter and her absent father. Don’t forget to spend more time with the people you love even though you are busy.

Shrub Oak

2023

A looping experimental stop motion animation featuring a real plant dancing to music.

Sweet Spot

2025

“Sweet Spot” is an experimental animated short film that uninhibitedly explores the dialog between the work and its authors, Jorge Ribeiro and Paulo Patrício, whose points of view and creative approaches, both in terms of cinematographic language and ways of being, are quite different. Through this duality, and starting from a shared but at the same time individual process, the directors seek to understand at what point the short film they are making together reaches its “sweet spot”. In other words, the ideal point at which the work is considered finished.