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"Grey Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood" is a Soviet musical claymation film, produced by Garri Bardin in 1990, one year before the Union dissolved. The film is emblematic of the loosening of restrictions and censors in the Soviet Union, as it is highly critical (albeit in metaphor) of the state, something that would never have been allowed before this point. It sprinkles these critiques into a w...

While not technically directed by Masaaki Yuasa, this short film was largely his brainchild, and it shows! This bad boy has his kinky fingerprints all over it. Cat Soup (Nekojiru-sou) is based on the comics of the eponymous mangaka Chiyomi Hashiguchi known by her pen-name Nekojiru who sadly took her own life a few years before this film entered production. The film is a tribute to her life's wo...

The film that won legendary Canadian animator Frédéric Back his first Academy Award. It showcases the industrialization of Montreal as seen from the point of view of a wooden rocking-chair, handed down from generation to generation. It was inspired by a homework assignment written by his then ten-year-old daughter Süzel. The film is responsible for Back's iconic eyepatch. As he was applying fix...

Osamu Tezuka’s first foray into experimental animated shorts, Tales of a Street Corner (1962) was first screened at Mushi Productions' inaugural company presentation held at at the Yamaha Hall in Ginza on November 5, 1962. It was shown alongside the first episode the original black-&-white Astro Boy (1963-66) and Osu (1962). Tales of a Street Corner is a musical amble through the seasons, told ...

"Blue Puppy", or "Light Blue Puppy", is a 1976 Soyuzmultfilm animated short directed by Yefim Gamberg, with lyrics by Yuri Entin, based on the folk tale by Gyula Urbán. It had a star-studded voice cast, was one of the most well-known Soviet films of the 70s, and is still celebrated in Russia today. It was renowned at the time for its use of spots of India ink as the shape of the characters, giv...

Vadim Kurchevsky came to Soyuzmultfilm's newly created puppet department in 1957. At first he was a production designer, then he shot several films together with other directors, and finally in 1966 he directed his first picture on his own, titled "My Green Crocodile". This gentle and melancholy fairy tale tells of the love of a crocodile and his beloved snow-white cow. They are happy together,...

A stunning exploration of first person perspective, "Jumping" is a short film by the godfather of anime, Osamu Tezuka. Like much of his other work, this film reflects Tezuka's staunch anti-war ethos. Make sure you pause at around the 3:00 mark to check out an easter egg from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. © Tezuka Productions Co., Ltd. Presented at the 6th Zagreb International Anima...

"Osu", sometimes translated as "Male", is an experimental short by the godfather of anime, Osamu Tezuka. It was created in a rush in order to meet the exhibition date, and was premiered alongside the very first episode of "Astro Boy." Not to be confused with Tezuka's 1987 short of the same name, "Osu" is about a cat who observes an odd situation in which a man kills his lover in bed and waits f...

"Osu", or "Push", is a short film by the godfather of anime, Osamu Tezuka. Due to a delay in completion of another film, "The Legend of the Forest", which was to be exhibited at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival, this work was quickly produced as a replacement. Not to be confused with Tezuka's 1962 short of the same name, "Osu" is set in a convenient world where vending machines of...

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