An entertaining, thought-provoking, and visually stunning selection of animated and live action short films from around the world.

Don’t Go
Awesome electronic disco music propels this nonstop chase scene of a movie as a cute, pink-bellied, one-eyed CGI bunny gets chased around an apartment by a live-action black cat. (Turgut Akacik, Turkey 2010, 4 min)

Gravity
Falling objects are synchronized to produce rhythms and patterns. (Renaud Hallée, Canada 2009, 2 min)

Pixels
Old-school video game icons take over New York City (and the world) in this music video for French technopop band Naïve New Beaters. (Patrick Jean, France 2010, 3 min)

The Deep
Metallic objects come to life in the depths of the sea in the newest film from New York’s brilliant stop-motion artist PES. (PES, USA 2010, 2 min)

Minnie Loves Junior
A beautifully shot film about a little boy who loves the sea and a little girl who loves the boy. (Andy Mullins, Matt Mullins, Australia 2010, 14 min)

Fluffy McCloud
A short film about Man’s mixed relationship with Mother Nature. Fluffy McCloud uses his powers of precipitation mostly to annoy, but when one of his pranks causes near calamity, he decides to use his meteorological skills to make people happy. (Conor Finnegan, Ireland 2010, 3 min)

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
An up-close and personal interview with Internet video star Marcel, a tiny shell with one eyeball, two shoes and a really great personality. (Dean Fleischer-Camp, USA 2010, 3 min)

The Lost Thing
In this Oscar-winning animated short, a boy encounters a strange creature on a beach and decides to find a home for it in a world where everyone believes there are far more important things to think about. (Andrew Ruhemann, Shaun Tan, Australia/England 2010, 16 min)

Bottle
A transoceanic love story between a sandman and a snow woman who exchange gifts via a bottle in the water. (Kirsten Lepore, USA 2010, 5 min)

Johnny
Colorful stop motion, goofy live action, surreal homemade sets and a ridiculous pigeon costume come together to humorous effect in a tongue-in-cheek fable about what happens to little boys who don’t drink their milk. (Malena Modéer, Germany 2010, 4 min)

Dot
Multiple Oscar-winning studio Aardman Animations (Wallace & Gromit) has created the world's smallest stop-motion animated character. In this miniature escape adventure, Dot measures just 9mm tall and was animated using a microscope and tweezers. (Sumo Science, England 2010, 2 min)

Gulp
Achieving yet another Guinness World Record, Aardman Animations follows up on its smallest stop-motion short Dot with the world’s largest stop-motion set. Filmed entirely on cameras mounted over 100 feet above ground, with a set crafted by sand artists, Gulp is the saga of a fisherman out on his daily catch when he is suddenly swallowed by a giant sea monster. (Sumo Science, England 2010, 2 min)

Monstre Sacré
In a twist on Hans Christian Andersen, a baby dinosaur is hatched into a family of ducklings and grows into a misunderstood monster—and an international superstar. (Jean-Claude Rozec, France 2009, 10 min)


(Total running time 68 min, in English) Recommended for ages 7–14.