Stop Motion Movies

A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.

A bitter folk song.

A musician is playing his music to some animals, when a hungry lion shows up.

A short story about human creativity blocked by the destruction and death that wars bring with them, and how art pieces go beyond the life of their...

A magical creature finds a modern solution to his problem.

The original 54-minute documentary, as broadcast by Channel Four on 20 June 1984, after which the animated links by the Quay Brothers were recompiled...

A film miniature set to classical music. Schubert's soulful music inspired the artist to create a peaceful and reflective film based on her personal...

"Travelling Through Brush and Ink" is a stop-motion animation of a little modern man traveling through four significant ancient Chinese paintings,...

A still frame, the hallway of the gray, dull house of Horse, Cowboy and Indian. Cowboy and his crazy stooges fill the place, giving it life and...

A lighthouse keeper’s surprising discovery pulls him out of his daily routine and takes him into uncharted territory.

An experimental stop motion film

A rock performs an acrobatic feat for the assembled crowd.

Len Lye scraped together enough funding and borrowed equipment to produce a two-minute short featuring his self-made monkey, singing and dancing to...

Featuring an all-puppet cast, Frank and Zed tells the story of a doomed village, whose King made a fateful deal to stop a demon from destroying the...

Cup of tea? Come and take a seat in Lyn's cosy front room, hear her story of wartime love and watch as her belongings come alive with the hope, fear...

Stop motion animation by Beatrice Pucci

A poet, inverting the cliche of the starved artist in the garret, and immediately begins to compose. He has nobly romantic intentions, and begins...

Urban legend tells of the ghost of Lombardi haunting his ranch after a terrible fire burned it to the ground. Maple doesn’t believe in...

Malice comes up abruptly. As if it is blinking. Capricious like a flapping insect. One day the boy finds a winged insect and crushes it out of...