Pioneers
Silhouettes, abstract films and fairy tales before 1970.
FilmThumbelinaHans Christian Andersen’s Thumbelina told the tale of a tiny girl grown from seed to be a …
FilmAnimals UnitedOne day the animals become too colorful: war is constantly going on among the people. When…
FilmCarmenSilhouette film. Based on Bizet’s opera “Carmen”.…
FilmMarionettenA minor character from a collection of marionettes takes viewers through a small world the…
FilmPapagenoFilm shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"), who want…
FilmThe Seven RavensWhen a young girl finds out that, due to her existence, her seven brothers are struck by a…
FilmFantasmaticSurreal animation with sand and metal slivers by Ernest Ansorge, Gisèle Ansorge…
FilmRhinocerosBased on Eugene Ionesco’s play, this is an animated film warning that by conforming to pat…
FilmPuss in BootsSilhouette film based on Perrault's fairy tale.…
FilmDustA cloud of black dust, one of white dust, and the world.…
FilmHarlequinA love story set to a baroque score, HARLEQUIN is a delicate black-and-white ballet render…
FilmGalatheaPioneer of silhouette animation, Lotte Reiniger, uses this technique in a retelling of the…
FilmCirclesExperimental animated film using the newly developed Gasparcolor process. It used a subtra…
FilmSharp Left Beyond the MoonThe residents in heaven are worried because Santa does not know what to do. All of the chi…
FilmThe Stolen HeartA wicked giant attempts to steal all of the instruments from a small town.…
FilmDornröschenAfter a long wait, a king and queen have a daughter. As there are not enough golden plates…
FilmEin Münchner im HimmelAlois Hingerl, porter no. 172 at the Munich train station, gets into heaven. St. Peter int…
FilmAlarm at the Puppet TheaterKasperle and a group of his puppet friends prepare for his grandmother's birthday-but a li…
FilmStudy No. 8An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger…
FilmA Game with StonesA device consisting of a clock, a pendulum, a faucet and a bucket enacts a series of event…
FilmComposition in BlueAn abstract film in which every motion of coloured shapes is in strict synchronization wit…
FilmAdebarAdebar is the first of Peter Kubelka's 'metric films', in which every element of the compo…
FilmVom faulen Töpfer und dem fleißigen WäscherA lazy potter is annoyed by the presence of the hard-working washerman. He makes sure that…