The Abduction of the Sun and the Moon

A short animation that depicts the drowning of a village by modern technology.

On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves young Piel alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar, an adventurer travelling through space. Onboard Jaffar’s shuttle are the renegade Prince Matton, his fiancée, and Silbad, who knows Perdide well. Thus begins an incredible race across space to save Piel.

A technological civilization takes three intelligent salamander creatures captive to conduct experiments on them. The experiments go awry and the salamander creatures wreak havoc in the city of humans.

Dedicated to the memory of Fritz Lang, this rarely seen late short from Sándor Reisenbüchler offers up an eye-popping ecological vision. Moving from frantic cityscapes bursting with lurid colours and a phantasmagoria of commodities to idyllic pastoral scenes, Ecotopia combines Reisenbüchler’s talent as a painter with his love of collage to skewer consumerism in the post-communist nineties.

An absurd animated vision of a civilization taking over Earth, served with a side order of extremely wry sarcasm.

The utopian vision of a lunar spacecraft voyage that will affect life on Earth.

The toil of an ink blot until, finally, a letter emerges from it. The abstract film draws attention to the global issue of illiteracy.

This animated film with hints of Monty Python satire and early 20th century burlesque has Earthlings land on Mars with the intention of bringing peace to the warring natives.

Experimental collage animation that covers decades of art, culture, technology, etc.