Movies: Cutout animation

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 help of two precocious students. Princes and Princesses was created using a special style of cutout an...

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

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 of a community of creatures living in a newspaper office. He also discovers that he can still write po...

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

An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica....

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

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

In the middle of the forest, a bonfire will define the fate of Fayna, a young, colorless girl....

In this animated environmental parable, we find a people living in harmony with nature, until carelessness leads to the ravens' revenge. We follow a boy's courageous journey to the spirit world to find the only one who can save his village from the r...

One of Klahr's masterpieces, Altair is an 8 minute collage color -noir culled from late-40s pages of Cosmopolitan, which induces a sense of claustrophobia and dread through its use of Stravinsky's The Firebird....

"The strangeness of this film is laced with carefully moulded apocalypses as the filmmaker explores a vision of life beyond death – the Elysian fields of Homer, Dante’s Purgatorio, de Chirico’s stitched plain. A moving single picture. Evolving the st...

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

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

An animated adaptation of Poe's famous short story....

A winter dread gnaws at the anxieties of a young couple....

A little boy has a tiger as a pet, but it's a secret. The widemouth of the apartment building is Miss Kotilainen, who is always complaining about everything. Other people in the building have their own secrets too. After a lot of those secrets are un...

A short surreal animation created with fashion magazine clippings and sound collages....

Two duelling birds get the urge to change their plumage. A blue jay wants to be decked out in the green of cedar, and a loon dons the burnished red of oak leaves, but neither bird foresees the consequences of vanity....

The best animation compilation on this side of the thrift store! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtFTfsNnVdY...