Movies and TvShows featuring "four-mations" theme.
Creature Comforts is a 1989 mockumentary-style animated short film that features interviews with various animals in a zoo. The animals share their thoughts on topics such as living conditions, relationships, and defecation. The film explores the concept of anthropomorphism through stop-motion animation using claymation techniques. It offers a humorous and insightful look into the lives of animals and the parallels to human experiences.
The morning shift at a big-city radio station.
British animation short from Paul Vester.
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.
Answers questions such as "How many kinds of insects are there?" "Do insects have blood?" "How can a fly walk on the ceiling?"
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 character.
A young man in prison is interviewed and talks about his life, how he got into prison, and what it's like doing time.
The Sound of Music engages with the deep-rooted sexual and class-based politics of a seemingly arbitrary and violent culture.
In this surreal adult animation, a cat finds itself in a series of bizarre and unpredictable situations, including encounters with a seeing-eye dog, cartoon birds, and a helicopter. Along the way, it explores themes of birth, breasts, and the fragility of life. The cat's journey takes place in various settings, including a movie theater and a subway.
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.
A heavyset woman who keeps being harassed by her aerobics instructor and her attempts to get even with him on a Body Beautiful contest.
A man made of newspaper waits and waits by the telephone.
Animator Pavel Koutský's portrait of the man in the street; just an animal.
The last hundred years of Marxism, as seen through the eyes of animator Pavel Koutský.
A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.
Documentary about the abstract filmmaker.
A man with a gun for a head and two conjoined twins share a prison cell.
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 towards the Burrell Collection as seasons shift, Keen’s 35mm film convenes with the spiritual life of the artefacts held therein. These objects break out as kaleidoscopic visions, ripped from their place of origin; escapees pointing to Scotland’s own history of cultural extraction.
An animated film, based on a Rudyard Kipling short story of an Indian holy man’s journey through North East India.