Abigail

As the gap between a burning airplane and the ground gets smaller, one passenger has other things on his mind!

Invocation

While filming a Teddy Bear in stop-motion, a man accidentally unleashes supernatural dark forces. A short horror film by Robert Morgan

The Story of King Midas

A greedy King Midas is visited one day by a mysterious visitor who grants him the ability to turn all things he touches to gold. He learns his lesson when the food he tries to eat and his own daughter are turned to gold as well. The visitor reappears and offers him the opportunity to return to his old self, which he gladly does. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

Boogie Woogie Man (Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out)

The annual ghost convention introduces swing music to their tired out old scares.

Locomotion

The Gruffalo

The magical tale of a mouse who sets foot on a woodland adventure in search of a nut. Encountering predators who all wish to eat him - Fox, Owl and Snake - the brave mouse creates a terrifying, imaginary monster to frighten them away. But what will the mouse do when he meets this frightful monster for real?

The Next Move

A film about a couple moving into their first home.

Trees

A Walt Disney short film.

Dragonslayer Quark

Cartoon short about Quark the troll, this time as a dragonslayer by chance.

Baby Quark

Tells the beginning of the story of Quark: His birth and how he is thrown out by his parents due to his malicious behaviour.

Warrior Cock

A duty-bound rooster fights ancient stone monsters to defend his witless hens.

Nocturna Artificialia

Enigmatic, stop-motion, animated story of a man's day.

The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff and toys from the child's head, leaving him without the top of his head for most of the film. The professor then teaches the lad about illusions and perspectives, the pursuit of an object through exploring a bank of drawers, divining an object, and the migration of forms. The child then brings out a box with a tarantula in it: the professor puts his "hands" into the box and describes what he feels. The boy receives a final lesson about animation and film making; then the professor gives him a brain and his own open-book hat.

Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.

The Comb

A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.

Anamorphosis

The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This artistic technique, often used in the 16th- and 17th centuries, utilizes a method of visual distortion with which paintings, when viewed from different angles, mischievously revealed hidden symbols.