Surrealist stop motion comedy, whereby sentient chairs copulate.
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A film representing the early efforts of Pixar to explore all elements of CG processes such as animation, shading, lighting, rendering and effects.
Two men in adjoining duplexes, good friends, are enchanted by the song of a bird. One buys a small harmonica and learns to play it; he keeps his neighbor awake. The neighbor buys a larger harmonica, and an arms race ensues; the instruments get larger, until it's a piano vs. a pipe organ, and then they start bringing in larger groups of friends until an entire orchestra is playing the 1812 Overture. The houses collapse from all this, atop the dueling orchestras, and on their way up to heaven, the man puts his small harmonica up for sale.
A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop.
Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that one of them contains documents worth a lot of money. So he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair. On the way he meets many strange people who would like to help or to swindle him.
Josh, a struggling musician, wins a vintage recliner in an eBay auction. Since he lives in New York and the chair is in Atlanta, this poses a bit of a problem. He asks his girlfriend, Emily, to accompany him on the trip, and his hippie brother Rhett joins the pair along the way.
In an antique shop owned by Madam, there are a number of unusual items awaiting their next owner and the day their story gets told. And so, when a young Singaporean man named Andy wanders into the store and inquires about a seemingly ordinary bracelet on one of the mannequins, Madam tells him of the doomed love story of the bracelet's previous owner: a Singaporean man who fell in love with a Thai woman but wound up in prison. But she persuades Andy to keep paying attention, as she weaves the tales of three thrillers associated with the various items in her shop. Thrillers that center around men from Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, and South Korea.
When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the treasures he believes rightfully belong to him.
A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
Lazy Boy unfolds in long, unhurried takes that mirror the stillness of its subject: a full-time furniture salesman in the South Bay of Los Angeles, working through the quiet despair of an economic recession. With customers scarce and sales impossible, the film lingers on stalled transactions and empty showrooms, transforming the monotony of labor into a portrait of endurance.
Shinsuke Kujo is a chair craftsman who lures people into his apartment and murders them to use the body parts for constructing a chair. Kato, a representative of a chair company, finds his website on social media and suggests a meeting. She's quickly enamored with him both professionally and personally, unaware of his true nature as a serial killer.
In the story of a mere moment, “Shadow” peeks into the room where seven spirits toast one another while a gruesome plague ravishes the streets beyond their fastened brass door. Edgar Allan Poe-inspired experimental video shot remotely during Covid lockdown.
A girl moves into a new house and discovers a conspicuous chair in her backyard as well as strange happenings at 5:00 am every morning.
A sentient chair becomes jealous of a living boy
Absolutely NO tables. What else were you expecting?
Twins Abraham and Shraga are prisoners of all the dreck piled high around their Brooklyn apartment - until concerned neighbors intercede.
In this serene window into self-healing, visionary founder Charlie Malta unfolds a revolution in meditation with a practice called "Chair Windmills”, a focus on inner pain and relief from suffering.
A fun rehabilitation program for persons with moderate to severe lung disease, brought to you by health professionals in Exercise Physiology and Respiratory Medicine.
An animated retelling of ‘Night of the Living Dead’, in which a group of people in a rural farmhouse struggle to survive the threat of bloodthirsty zombies.
A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, looping further through an absurd dance of social disconnection as each character moves in.
Short animation of a Russian folk tale, made in 1981. A parody of the fable by Ivan Krylov "The Crow and the Fox".
Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.
Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.
Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.
At an elder-care facility, a geriatric con artist tries to prevent his new friend with early Alzheimer's symptoms from being transferred to the 'lost causes' floor.
Two friends, Jung Jong-suk and Hwang Kyung-min, meet after several years and talk about their time in school, which left them scarred.
A playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the retina of the eye, McLaren engraves pictures on blank film creating vivid, percussive effects.
Sometime in the future, mankind has depleted all energy and fuel sources, however they have engineered a way to use human excrement as fuel. To reward production, the government hands out extremely addictive, popsicle-like "Juicybars", which in turn also act as a laxative. Aachi and Ssipak are street hoodlums who struggle to survive by trading these bars in the black market.
I made this film especially for you. I needed to check in with you. I needed to tell you how I feel.
In a world that judges people by their number, Zero faces constant prejudice and persecution. He walks a lonely path until a chance encounter changes his life forever: he meets a female zero. Together they prove that through determination, courage, and love, nothing can be truly something.
Bugs is given a room for the night at the castle of Count Bloodcount in Transylvania.
A visual representation, in four parts, of one man's internalization of "The Divine Comedy." Hell is a series of multicolored brush strokes against a white background; the speed of the changing images varies. "Hell Spit Flexion," or springing out of Hell, is on smaller film stock, taking the center of the frame. Montages of color move rapidly with a star and the edge of a lighted moon briefly visible. Purgation is back to full frame; blurs of color occasionally slow down then freeze. From time to time, an image, such as a window or a face, is distinguishable for a moment. In "existence is song," colors swirl then flash in and out of view. Behind the vivid colors are momentary glimpses of volcanic activity.
An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart Blackton and the Incoherents of club Hydropathes, the film, with all its wild transformations, sees our protagonist materialize a movie theatre, meet an elephant and escape from jail; A morphing, stream-of-consciousness delight.
In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.
A strange creature races against time to make the most important and beautiful creation of his life.
Dexter and Dee Dee wreck havok using Dexter's latest invention: a hand-held device that turns people into various animals. The short film that inspired the TV-series.
Mickey, Minnie, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow go on a musical wagon ride until Peg-Leg Pete tries to run them off the road.
A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.
