Cutout Animation Movies

ALEXANDER THE GRAPE, an unfinished cut-paper animated short from Jim Henson from 1965, relates the fable of a young grape with big ambitions who...

Suicidal poet Archy tries to end his life by jumping off a bridge, but awakens to find he has assumed the life of a cockroach and has become a part...

The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs.

In a white lace universe, three inventors create machines which are both pretty and useful. Unfortunately people do not understand them...

In order to win the hand of a princess, a man must defeat an evil dragon and claim its treasured magic stone. Upon his return, Baghdad has been...

In this episodic animated fantasy from France, an art teacher interprets a series of six fairy tales (each involving a prince or princess) with the...

A square dances.

Hare enlists four brave friends to help him reclaim his home from the wily Fox.

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

A surrealistic fantasy based on the 15th century woodcuts of the dance of the dead. A film experiment that deals with the photoreality and the...

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

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

Documentary on industrial lubrification.

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...

Short experimental animation by Jules Engel

The protagonist dreams of a better life, and his dreams take the form of colorful magazines.

An animated adaptation of Poe's famous short story.

Film shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"), who wants a mate, yet has difficulties getting one.

Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on...

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...