Animation
The collection features wide-ranging animation styles from diverse animators from around the world. From the masters of stop motion, Jan Svankmajer and Kihachioro Kawamoto, to our collection of Oscar-Winning Animated Shorts from the National Film Board of Canada, OVID's animation collection examines a broad range of subjects from atrocities in the Belgian Congo (THIS MAGNIFICENT CAKE, directed by Marc James Roels and Emma De Swaef of Netflix's THE HOUSE) to life in a senior living community (Ignacio Ferreras' WRINKLES), to a clever rendering of the history of modern art (Dan Franck's The Adventurers of Modern Art).
Other highlights include Jan Svankmajer's FAUST and ALICE. In both, the legendary surrealist of cinema retells these classic stories through a frightening mix of live-action footage, stop-motion animation, puppetry, and claymation. We also feature Aurel's 2020 animated biographical film JOSEP. Winner Best Animated Film, both the César and the European Film Awards, JOSEP takes a strikingly original, almost painterly approach to the story of Josep Bartolí. The renowned Catalan artist fought Franco in the Spanish Civil War and later went into exile in Mexico to become Frida Kahlo's lover. We know you'll enjoy this survey of world-class animation gems.
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Artists and Love (2 Seasons)
2 seasons
From Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, ARTISTS & LOVE delves into the tumultuous romantic and creative partnerships that shaped some of the towering figures of modern art. Over the course of two seasons, directors Stéphanie Colaux and Delphine Deloget chronicl...
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Marx for Beginners
Directed by Bob Godfrey • Animation • 1978 • 6 minutes
How many people have actually read the work of Karl Marx? Based on the book by the Mexican cartoonist Rius, MARX FOR BEGINNERS is a hilarious animated film that highlights Marx's most influential ideas, and places them into the context of we...
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Tatsumi
Directed by Eric Khoo • Animation • 2014 • 98 minutes
TATSUMI celebrates the life and work of Japanese comics artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi-a manga pioneer who elevated the genre to a new level of creative expression and adult realism. A comics-crazed teenager, Tatsumi began to get published and was ...
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The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto
Directed by Kihachiro Kawamoto • Documentary • 2014 • 99 minutes
Kimstim is proud to present this collection of short films from one of the world's greatest stop-motion animators: Kihachiro Kawamoto. Famous for his beautiful, expressive puppets, Kawamoto began his career in the 1950s. Honing his...
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The Book of the Dead
Directed by Kihachiro Kawamoto • Animation • 2014 • 70 minutes
Master animator Kihachiro Kawamoto's tour de force adventure tale of a young noble girl in 8th-century Japan who leaves her home to follow the apparition of an executed prince in this ravishing film of beauty and mysticism.
As Buddh...
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Alois Nebel
Directed by Tomas Lunak • Animation • 2014 • 84 minutes
It is the end of summer, 1989. Alois Nebel works as a train dispatcher at a small railway station in the Sudetenland, a mountainous region on the Czechoslovak border. He is a loner who prefers old timetables to people, and he finds the lone...
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Your Name in Cellulite
Directed by Gail Noonan • Animation • 1995 • 6 minutes
A wickedly funny satire about the disparity between a woman's natural beauty and the ideal promoted by the mega-billion dollar advertising industry, this animated film shows us how far we will go to change the shape of our bodies to meet the...