Animation

Animation Express is a compilation of recent auteur animation from the National Film Board of Canada, the world’s leading public producer of animated films. Its 2009 release coincides with the NFB’s 70th anniversary. The collection features 26 films from both established and emerging filmmakers, includes multi-award winners such as Sleeping Betty and Madame Tutli-Putli.

A young man falls in love with a ghost and must avoid a variety of ghostbusters out to eliminate her and each other.

We hope that the "Action Animation" accurately portraits youngest generation of animated film makers in Poland.
A wide variety of topics and problems are presented on this 2-DVD set: nostalgic stories about the transience and loneliness are intertwined with the bitterly criticized consumerism. Delicate films about love in contrast to the sad visions of the future. The authors attempt to film psychoanalysis and "playing chess" with the memories.
The selection of titles reflects the diversity of techniques used by the contemporary film artists in Poland: a classical and computer animation, the stories painted directly into the camera - on the glass and canvas, collages and drawings, and the live cutouts. "Action Animation" is also a record of changes that have taken place in the Polish animation in the last two decades, as seen from the perspective of young artists.
This set is an important complement to the previous three anthologies, which together present to the entire history of Polish animation.

Since 1998, The Animation Show of Shows has selected the best in animated short films from the world’s most renowned animation festivals and presented them at the major animation studios to inspire their animators and directors. Now for the first time ever, the films featured in The Animation Show of Shows are available in this special DVD collection along with some of the most memorable animated short films of all time. This Box Set contains 18 great films.

Explores more than a century of animation in Britain, including the creative and technical inventiveness of the UK's greatest animation pioneers. The defining characteristic of British animation has always been ingenuity. Unable to compete with the big American studios, animators in Britain were forced to experiment, developing their own signature styles. The documentary uncovers the trade secrets of animation legends like Bob Godfrey, John Halas and Joy Batchelor, Len Lye and Bristol's world-renowned Aardman Animations.

Documentary exploring more than a century of animation in Britain, including the creative and technical inventiveness of the UK's greatest animation pioneers. The defining characteristic of British animation has always been ingenuity. Unable to compete with the big American studios, animators in Britain were forced to experiment, developing their own signature styles. The documentary uncovers the trade secrets of animation legends like Bob Godfrey, John Halas and Joy Batchelor, Len Lye and Bristol's world-renowned Aardman Animations.

La Planète sauvage est un film d'animation de science-fiction réalisé en 1973 par René Laloux sur un scénario écrit par René Laloux et Roland Topor d'après le roman Oms en série de Stefan Wul et coproduit par Les films Armorial (Paris), Le Service de la recherche ORTF (Paris) et le Československý Filmexport (Prague).
Les images du film sont créées à partir des dessins de Roland Topor dans les Studios d'Animation Jiří Trnka de Krátký Film à Prague.
Il obtient le Prix Spécial du jury à Cannes en 1973 et un Prix Saint-Michel à Bruxelles en 1974.
L'animation de La Planète sauvage est à base de découpages. Il s'agit du premier long métrage d'animation tourné par un réalisateur français (après les trois premiers courts métrages de Laloux : Les dents du singe en 1960, Les temps morts en 1964 et Les escargots en 1965) et d'une adaptation à la fois fidèle et poétique du roman de Stefan Wul.
Ceux qui ont vécu la sortie de ce film d'une grande poésie s'en souviennent comme d'un défi lancé aux cartoons américains, mais aussi comme un des premiers films d'animation adulte de l'époque. Représentant des humains ravalés au rang d'animaux domestiques des gigantesques Draags, Laloux met en scène une réflexion sur l'intelligence, la société, la politique et finalement sur la nature même de l'humanité