Creature Comforts
July 14, 1989
A humorous and thought-provoking view of what animals in zoos might be thinking about their captivity and surroundings....
July 14, 1989
A humorous and thought-provoking view of what animals in zoos might be thinking about their captivity and surroundings....
May 20, 1963
A man's repeated attempts to retrieve an apple off a high tree branch all prove fruitless. What does he want the apple for? That would be telling....
May 21, 1993
A narrator relates the Japanese tale of two lovers who defy their families and society to be together. The tale ends happily, until something happens to make this tale truly Japanese in char...
December 31, 1988
Animator Pavel Koutský's portrait of the man in the street; just an animal....
December 31, 1990
A young boy struggles with bed-wetting. He is pleased to awaken one night to a dry bed, but terrors await him on his trip to the bathroom in the middle of a dark and stormy night....
August 11, 1992
The Sound of Music engages with the deep-rooted sexual and class-based politics of a seemingly arbitrary and violent culture....
November 28, 1990
A young man in prison is interviewed and talks about his life, how he got into prison, and what it's like doing time....
December 31, 1992
A man with a gun for a head and two conjoined twins share a prison cell....
December 19, 1987
This humorous animated short offers one possible answer to the philosophical question: what would life be like if I had never lived? The first half of the film follows a man from his concept...
December 31, 1989
The travelogue is mobilised again by animator Lesley Keen in Burrellesque, commissioned for Glasgow’s European Capital of Culture 1990 programme. Drifting through Glasgow’s Pollok Park towar...
June 29, 1964
Answers questions such as "How many kinds of insects are there?" "Do insects have blood?" "How can a fly walk on the ceiling?"...
March 9, 1991
A heavyset woman who keeps being harassed by her aerobics instructor and her attempts to get even with him on a Body Beautiful contest....
December 31, 1991
A Four-Mations documentary covering the importance of audial sound in the medium of animation....