Keyword: Four Mations

A humorous and thought-provoking view of what animals in zoos might be thinking about their captivity and surroundings.

Animation set in the Middle Ages.

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'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.

A young man in prison is interviewed and talks about his life, how he got into prison, and what it's like doing time.

British animation short from Paul Vester.

The travelogue is mobilised again by animator Lesley Keen in Burrellesque, commissioned for Glasgow’s European Capital of Culture 1990 programme....

During a violent electrical storm, a space-travelling metal cockerel crash-lands in a chicken farmer's field. He brings with him the grand promise of...

A bilious misanthrope finds enlightment via heaven, hell and the kitchen cupboard.

Darkly humorous variation on the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice, looking at the motives for the farmer's wife's murderous assault on the eponymouse...

A topsy-turvy world.

A Four-Mations documentary covering the importance of audial sound in the medium of animation.

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...

A part-time musician gets off his day job as a window washer for a disturbing apartment complex to a gig for a charity event. The rich arrive, and...

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...

A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.

A man with a gun for a head and two conjoined twins share a prison cell.

The morning shift at a big-city radio station.

Documentary about the abstract filmmaker.

Animator Pavel Koutský's portrait of the man in the street; just an animal.