Popular Animation Movies on Kanopy - Page 24

A Game of Three Halves: Where the F%*ck Is Hamish?

2021

A Game of Three Halves: Where the F%*ck Is Hamish?

2021
Guts and glory are at stake in the Saturday recreational soccer league. This hilarious animation perfectly captures the highs and lows of coaxing together a motley crew to show up on time and game ready every week, but at the end of the day it's all worth it for the beautiful game.
Kitten's First Full Moon

2011

Kitten's First Full Moon

2011
After several attempts of being unable to reach the moon, the kitten returns home and finds a bowl of milk waiting for her.
Dunder

2016

Dunder

2016
8
Bulder's snowball fight with his best friend Modika was interrupted when Lex steals her attention away with some quiet playtime. Frustrated, Bulder attempts to win her back, resulting in a mischievous plan that he may well come to regret.
Evolution

1971

Evolution

1971
6.1
A humourous illustration of the natural process of evolution.
Coral Reefs

2018

Coral Reefs

2018
During an ordinary visit to the library, a young girl pulls out a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt, and hide there.
Exclamation Mark

1968

Exclamation Mark

1968
5
An animation with a philosophical undertone. The absurdity of human effort, whose final result does not match the actions taken.
Friendshape

2017

Friendshape

2017
Introduce a triangle, circle, square, and rectangle who celebrate the gift of friendship.
Alexander the Grape

1965

Alexander the Grape

1965
6
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 learns that it is better to accept yourself than to try to be something you are not. The short was reconstructed from film and audio elements; images from Jim’s storyboard fill in missing segments of the animation.
Hi! Fly Guy

2012

Hi! Fly Guy

2012
Buzz is searching for a smart animal to take to The Amazing Pet Show. He encounters a friendly fly who is more than happy to lend him a helping hand.
Hi, Neighbor !

2023

Hi, Neighbor !

2023
Sad Beauty

2020

Sad Beauty

2020
5.9
In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. When she falls ill due to a bacterial infection, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations.
Maralinga Tjarutja

2020

Maralinga Tjarutja

2020
The Maralinga people survive aggressive colonisation, including dispossession to enable atomic testing, and through their tenacious spirit and cultural strength fight to retain their country.
I'm Fast!

2012

I'm Fast!

2012
Join the fun as a train pulling a long, heavy load races a speedy little car across the country — through the mountains, through the desert, and through a blizzard! Who will win?
Inch by Inch

2006

Inch by Inch

2006
To keep from being eaten, a resourceful inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.
A Greek Tragedy

1985

A Greek Tragedy

1985
5.2
Three scantily-clad female figures struggle to hold up the crumbling remains of an ancient Greek temple.
Nightmare at School

2007

Nightmare at School

2007
Who hasn't felt apprehensive at the thought of starting high school? This is the central theme of this short animated film. Playing on imagination and humour, the director offers viewers a thought provoking piece dealing with the transition that young people between the ages of 10 and 13 experience. Inspired by the work of Escher and Magritte, Catherine Arcand has created a graphically rich film through optical illusions and trompe-l'oeil effects. Her style aptly illustra tes the theme of perceptions and is perfectly suited to conveying the dream world into which the film takes us.
Max's Chocolate Chicken

1991

Max's Chocolate Chicken

1991
Will Max or Ruby find the most Easter eggs to win the chocolate chicken? Only the Easter Bunny knows for sure.
Vicenta

2020

Vicenta

2020
7.7
A human tragedy on the backdrop of a legal and medical scandal which in 2007 lead to legal action against the Argentinean state before the UN Human Rights Commission and a verdict of guilty in 2011. The mentally and physically handicapped 16-year-old girl Laura had been raped by her uncle in 2006. But a legal abortion which had already been officially granted at the request of her mother, Vicenta, was opposed by lawyers and doctors.
Disintegration Line #2

1970

Disintegration Line #2

1970
5.5
DL2 reflects the influence of the American Bauhaus movement in Chicago introduced by Lazlo Moholy-Nagy during the late 30s/early 40s. The fim was made by shocking ten-foot strips of unprocessed black and white film into tanks of cold water, fixer, hot water, developer and then repeating the process. Lawrence Janiak arranged them into what he called "interesting sequences," optically printed through various pieces of color gels, carefully labeling each color and repeating them at various speeds.
Pipes

2022

Pipes

2022
7
Bob the plumber is hired to fix a broken pipe and lands to his surprise in a gay fetish club.