Rotoscoping Movies

Meet 5000 space aliens in 5000 seconds in this bonkers animated film.

A group of children kidnap the legendary Christmas Witch, and put her on trial as a means of banishing her annual judgments.

Max Fleischer draws a clown, who comes alive on the page. The clown doesn't like the way he is drawn and demonstrates his own artistic abilities.

In this one, Max has run low on ink, so Ko-Ko finishes drawing himself and then heads over to the camera room, where he creates his own characters, a...

In an alternate Manhattan, two researchers-Robert Lang and Jeff Hawthorne-are drawn into Project STARLING, a covert operation buried deep within the...

Broadcast music evokes erotic and racial fantasies in this commercial.

Black and white drawings blended with photographic images depict an old man, with various tiny gadgets, trying to find the anatomy of the wings of an...

Max Fleischer draws Koko and a haunted house, while his colleague and the janitor mess around with a Ouija board. When Max goes over to take a look,...

Inspired by Rachel Moseley-Wood’s essay “The Other Jamaica”, Damian Marley’s controversial song “Welcome to...

What happens when thoughts won't stop? Telling yourself "try not to think." The exhaustion of thinking and thinking, an attempt to recapitulate...

An animated short about recycling.

Sometimes They Knock follows Alex, a young man navigating the fractured landscape of a mental health diagnosis. As he moves through distorted...

Phoebe (31F) is a completely normal person who just has a lot on her brain. (Which is a completely normal size.)

A road-movie structure divided into five chapters – covering sake’s fundamentals, its history, its relationship with Japanese culture,...

Synchronize is a tribute to the powerful effect movies can have on our imagination. This short film takes the viewer through the dream of a video...

This animated short film portrays a man's commute into the city. Director Michael Patterson employs a combination of pencils and rotoscoping, similar...

When you feel it, get it started / Even if you don’t, just somehow get it started / Whatever it may be, however it may be but / Anyhow let's...