Cutout Animation Movies

ALEXANDER THE GRAPE, an unfinished cut-paper animated short from Jim Henson from 1965, relates the fable of a young grape with big ambitions who...

Suicidal poet Archy tries to end his life by jumping off a bridge, but awakens to find he has assumed the life of a cockroach and has become a part...

In this episodic animated fantasy from France, an art teacher interprets a series of six fairy tales (each involving a prince or princess) with the...

The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs.

In a white lace universe, three inventors create machines which are both pretty and useful. Unfortunately people do not understand them...

Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on...

Hare enlists four brave friends to help him reclaim his home from the wily Fox.

The way bureaucracy works is told by men in the frames.

In this short animation film the triangle achieves the distinction of principal dancer in a geometric ballet. The triangle is shown splitting into...

A square dances.

This short piece is somewhat romantic, despite its title. We do see the ogre however. He inverts himself into the action throughout the film. As...

Film shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"), who wants a mate, yet has difficulties getting one.

An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica.

Conquerors land on a newly discovered planet and try to colonize and explore a new discovered planet.

In order to win the hand of a princess, a man must defeat an evil dragon and claim its treasured magic stone. Upon his return, Baghdad has been...

A cut-out animation musical adaptation of the Irish mythological epic Táin Bó Cúailnge.

The best animation compilation on this side of the thrift store! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtFTfsNnVdY

A series of vaudeville acts inserted in images of reality, meant to demonstrate the ephemeral nature of all things.

A surrealistic fantasy based on the 15th century woodcuts of the dance of the dead. A film experiment that deals with the photoreality and the...