Film Tag: Animation

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The Sandpit

Intricately “re-animated” with over 35,000 individual photos, the filmmaker presents a day in the life of New York City as you’ve never seen it before. The city seems shrunk down to the size of a Playmobil set, with water taxi’s bobbing, toy-like steam shovels moving jerkily on miniature construction sites and car taillights streaming together in streaks of red and white as they head up the FDR.
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How the Shammies Bathed

Collage and mixed media animation create a textural feast, with adorable animated characters designed in patterned fabrics, burlap, and buttons. A foreboding “drip-drop” coming from a dark room turns out to be only water in the tub — it’s bath time for the Shammies!
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Love & Theft

Iconic figures from Betty Boop to Mao Zedong morph into one another in ever intensifying animated loops in this psychedelic tour-de-force from Andreas Hykade.
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Chernokids

In this utterly creepy dystopian nightmare, a family of deformed mutant children leave their orphanage and trek through the ruined landscape of a crumbling nuclear power plant to bring a gift of fish to their “mother.”
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Dr. Breakfast

The newest film from NYICFF alum Stephen Neary (Let’s Make Out, Chicken Cowboy) manages to exceed both his previous entries in its twisted lovability. One day at breakfast, a man’s soul bursts out of his eyeball. While the soul roams the Earth in search of delicious things to eat, two neighborly deer care for the man’s catatonic body, showing him the meaning of friendship.
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Ernesto

Seven-year-old Ernesto feels left out when he realizes he’s the only kid in school who hasn’t lost any baby teeth. Ernesto resorts to drastic measures to get rid of them; his teeth however, have other plans…
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Luminaris

From the director of past NYICFF favorites Lapsus and Journey to Mars comes a brilliantly executed, visually unique and immensely amusing stop motion short that took home the audience award at the prestigious Annecy Animation Festival. In a world controlled and timed by light, one man has a plan that could change destiny.
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Shop Tales

The streets and squares of a small town are lined with shops, each with its own specialty. There’s the word-sprinkling shop, the shop of memories, the shop of angels, and even the shop of secrets, filled with things that cannot be discovered. With lovely decoupage sets and the poetic insight of The Little Prince tucked neatly into a folk-tale formula, this film is wise beyond its years.
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Vlog

A teenage runaway documents her pre-dawn escape, videotaping a tearful goodbye to her sleeping family, she slips out the door, hops on her bike, sticks in her ear buds, and is free.
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The Persistent Resistance of Vision

This experimental animated film mimics the optical illusion effect of a thaumatrope (look it up) by rapidly alternating still drawings of a bird, a cage, and a Cheshire-like cat to start-and-stop electro-circus music.
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The Yellow Balloon

The true story of a dramatic event that takes place on a New York City subway, featuring a little girl and her yellow balloon.
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B/W Races

A quirky, black and white paper cut-out animation about a car race — in which a rogue black driver who runs others off the track gets his comeuppance. Homemade sound-effects add to the lo-fi fun. Vroooom.
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Behind

After a trying and scary day, a little girl feels all alone — until she realizes that her best friend has been with her and taking care of her the whole time.
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Paint Showers

Out of a swirling cosmos of paint, comes a downpour of color and texture washing over all.
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Twist & Shout

Two cute-as-buttons Japanese puppets travel to Abbey Road to find inspiration and shoot the video for their ukulele cover version of “Twist and Shout.”
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Don’t Go

Awesome, thumpy, electronic disco music propels this non-stop chase scene of a movie — as a cute, pink-bellied, one-eyed CGI bunny gets chased around an apartment by a live action black cat.
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Johnny

Colorful stop motion, goofy live action, surreal homemade sets, and a ridiculous pigeon costume come together to humorous effect in the story of Johnny — a hilariously narrated, tongue-in-cheek fable about what happens to little boys who don’t drink their milk!
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Make-Down

In a fantasy vision of transformation, a woman’s face becomes a canvas.
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Rubika

Welcome to Rubika, a planet with a fancy gravity.
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Snowflakes and Carrots

A little girl steals the carrot noses from all the snowmen she can find. But why?
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Escape His Stare

While selecting a chicken at the marketplace, Mr. Wang notices a rooster looking at him. As the hatchet comes down on his dinner, the man cannot escape the bird’s reproachful stare and he becomes overcome by feelings of guilt. At home the scene replays in his mind, haunting his waking and sleeping life — but what can he do? His wife is demanding chicken for dinner again!
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Jeannine M.

In 2097, as an overcrowded, unbearably hot earth swelters, the elderly are sent out into the cooler climes of space.
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Pl.ink!

A hyper-imaginative little toddler forces his artist father to lighten up as he takes him on a color-splattered roller-coaster ride inside his own paintings.
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Who is not Sleeping?

Rabbit is sleeping over at Teddy Pig’s house. It’s going to be lots of fun! They are playing and drinking hot chocolate, but when the lights go out something doesn’t feel quite right.
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Enrique Wrecks the World

An unfortunate chain of events is set in motion when a boy shoots at a bird with a slingshot. Tasteless and crass. A hilarious blood bath. Parents, please leave the room.
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Whale Bird

Delicate animation in pale colors with translucent, overlapping layers sets a gentle tone in this story about friendship between a girl and a gargantuan whale bird who lives under the sea.
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Mi’au Myau

In this lovely hand-drawn short animation, a group of birds sit together on a branch, chirping away each in their own native tongue. But when an unexpected visitor comes along, his words are universally understood.
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