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Kablunât: Legend of the Origin of the White People

His recent animation Kablunât: Legend of the Origin of the White People (2016) draws from a Nunatsiavummiut legend recorded by a Moravian missionary. Making use of archival photographs collected over nearly nine years, Gear reinterprets the legend for a contemporary Inuit audience, while framing the story as a reclamation from colonial retellings. “I wanted to literally insert myself in that narrative, break it apart and see what was there in a kind of dreamlike way,” he notes.

Queen for a Day

In Sara's class, the popular kids, also known as the kings and queens, are subjected to daily humiliations, which include having their pants pulled down or water thrown on them, but this is only a sign of their elevated status. Sara is the only blond and blue-eyed girl in her class, and she is completely overlooked by the kings and queens who do not have blond hair and blue eyes. She has a secret crush on one of the kings, who is way out of her league, and she doesn't have any friends either, but would like to become friends with Karen, also an outsider who aspires to a better status. One day, Sara eyes an opportunity to boost her popularity by humiliating herself and thereby become queen. Karen instantly becomes her friend, she seems to catch the eye of her kingly crush and popularity appears within her reach. However, her happiness is short-lived, and in the end she learns a far more valuable lesson than how to be queen for a day.

Apple and Strawberry

Paracusia

A woman alone in a small flat is carrying out her daily housework when she starts hearing sounds from the other side of the wall. The neighbor's's undecipherable doings are slowly invading ...  »

The Cat

Marie hasn't been sleeping well. Every night she's awoken by her cat, over and over and over. But tonight, tonight is different. Tonight, Marie's sleep trouble is the least of her worries.

Beheaded

The Evil Wicked Whale

Once inside this big fish, abandon hope, as all the devil's phantoms feast on ones soul

Haley and Joanna

Boys, beers and bras.

Big White - Big Black

Diddybob enters the great white open, but fails to leave.

N + 2

Two animated shorts, "Waiting for the Balloon" and "The Perfect Hole".

Great is the Mystery of Godliness

When an intergalactic space god shows up in the form of a German potato and turns your teeth into drunken, blathering idiots… it’s time to take the chicken and hit the fire escape. That is… unless you really dig having your domicile over run by dirty pots and pans.

The Tantalizing Fly

A film in the “Out of the Inkwell” series, an early animated short from Max Fleischer.

Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat

This short 1919 cartoon, produced by Ford Motor Company, shows a farmer Uncle Sam braining a huge rat branded with "I.W.W." (Industrial Workers of the World) before it can eat the grain.

A Fitting Gift

A cartoon from the J.R. Bray Studios with Rummy and friend buying a girdle for his wife.

The Ouija Board

Max Fleischer draws Koko and a haunted house, while his colleague and the janitor mess around with a Ouija board. When Max goes over to take a look, Koko is haunted by ghosts and inanimate objects, and escapes into the real-world studio.

The Drummer

An itinerant drummer boy is visited in his sleep by a beautiful princess. She requests his help in escaping from an evil witch who has entrapped her on the glass mountain. He sets out to find the mountain and is helped on his way by a rather pathetic old giant and a magic butterfly who lends him a pair of wings. Finally, he arrives at his destination and the witch sets him to work on three impossible tasks... The Drummer was one of the winning entries in 'The Magic Mirror' competition to find new animators for children's stories. The main condition was that the stories had to be adapted from existing fairy or folk tales. The series was sponsored by Kelloggs and the series producer was Anne Wood of Ragdoll Productions. Shown on ITV, world wide TV, video and at international animation festivals.

I wanted to be wanted.

She wonders when she started thinking that she was only a convenient tool for someone else. The protagonist finds herself rattled because of some minor occurrences in her daily life.

Tears Never Fall

You drift through outer space with your buddy and end up in an abandoned interstellar town. The remaining residents of this town live without gravity nor contact with the rest of the universe. You get separated from your buddy, but the townspeople give you little clue as to his whereabouts. Who is your buddy, exactly?