Various Loops

Beckett created a significant number of animation loops which display his playfulness and also evidence his process as many are variations of ideas and images that he used in his animations. Thirty-one loops are included, selected to show the variety of approaches as well as his intriguing results. - Pamela Turner

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Knotte Grosse Loops

These are work-in-progress elements of some commercial projects and a film to be titled, Knotte Grosse. Beckett received an AFI Independent Filmmakers grant to produce Knotte Grosse but it was unfinished at the time of his death. The images allude to computer-generated graphics (but are not) and foreshadow an interesting direction in his work. - Pamela Turner

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Rest in Peace

After a tragic incident strikes a happy town, their beloved governor knows just how to fix it.

2021-10-27 | fr

Electronic Masks

Short experimental video art by Barbara Sykes.

1978-01-01 | en

Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 1 – Busy Easy Money

2021-09-28 | ja

New Horizons

A brief visualisation of NASA’s historic spacecrafts Mariner, Pioneer, Voyager, and Dawn, exploring the solar system, culminating in the New Horizons mission.

2015-06-30 | en

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

A story about the strange appearance of an unusual person in the rural courtyard of ordinary people. One evening, Pelayo, the owner of the yard met a very old man with white wings in his yard. He had a poor, squalid, dirty look. Pelayo and his wife, Elisenda, decided that this man was a foreign sailor who was shipwrecked, but they still decided to call a neighbor. She said that this was an angel who was sent to take care of a sick child of this family. And they left the old man in their coop. Soon the whole village knew about the appearance of this strange creature.

1989-12-19 | ru

Lafertovskaya Makovnitsa

The cartoon tells about a girl who was sent by an evil stepmother to get tortillas and the secret of making them to her grandmother, who lives in the Lafertovo part of Moscow.

1986-03-01 | ru

Out of Nowhere

An old lifeguard arrives every day for work, when in fact the swimming pool he guards has been empty for years. One day, an unexpected guest appears out of nowhere, filling him with doubts about his everyday reality.

2012-08-09 | en

Myself: Smoke

Myself tries to quit smoking.

2015-09-16 | en

Beach Flags

Vida is a young Iranian lifeguard swimmer. Popular in her team, she is determined to fight in order to be the one to participate in an international competition in Australia. However, when Sareh, as fast and talented as her joins the team, she will have to face an unexpected situation.

2014-11-13 | fa

Upon This Planet

A sensitive girl who lives in a port town develops a strong interest in the wider world when a young man she meets sets off on a journey. What kind of world is waiting beyond the sea?

1998-01-28 | ja

The Garden Ape

The Garden Ape enthusiastically explores a wild city garden.

2015-09-18 | en

Norman Normal

Norman Normal is pressured to act in ways he finds uncomfortable by his boss, his father, and the people around him.

1968-02-03 | en

Shoe Show

While the humans are away, the shoes in a cobbler's workshop engage in a number of activities, including flirting, kidnapping and a gunfight.

1984-01-01 | cs

A Fish with a Smile

Moving story about a lonely man who finds solace and company in his pet fish.

2006-02-14 | zh

How to Hook Up Your Home Theater

Following in the great tradition of his classic "How To" animated shorts of the 1940's, Goofy makes his return to the big screen in "How to Hook Up Your Home Theater". When Goofy is desperate to watch the Big Game, he heads to his local electronics store to tackle every consumer's nightmare - selecting the perfect home theater system and worse, trying to hook it all up.

2007-12-21 | en

Trolls: Tiny Diamond Goes Back to School

In this exclusive original short film, journey back to school with Tiny Diamond as he tries to figure out how to be the cool kid and 'fit in'.

2020-07-07 | en

Daffy Duck & Egghead

Daffy taunts a hunter in Tex Avery's classic, meta short.

1938-01-01 | en

The Black Dog

Since Rosa was little, people used to say around town that her grandfather was a black dog. The legend, belonging to the Valley of Oaxaca, spoke of a man who had the ability to turn into a black dog and roam the streets at night. Through images of the town, interviews with the brothers and animated interventions, the documentary tells the story of the myth and its importance in the collective memory.

2023-07-26 | es