the world's bizarre animation collection (vhsrip)
including 14 weird animations from us, uk, france, canada, bazil, japan, korea and australia, used various tools like pencil, clay, shadow-puppet, puppet, stop-motion, 2d computer, 3d computer...mystic and symbolistic plot with very impressing music.
will update as usual.

specs:
700mb, Divx Codec, 768kbps, 16PCM, 320*240...
Piggy in the Middle (1997)
United Kingdom | 1:46
Animator: Katy Milner
Style: Surreal / Fantasy
A farmer's wife finds out why one should never come between a man and his pig. A really short but freaky animation!
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Brambles (2000)
Canada | 2:08
Creator: EYEheart Art & Production Company
Style: Industrial / Fable
Creative doesn't even begin to describe this beautiful, beguiling piece about fish and the men who carry them. Don't miss it!
Moody, mysterious, absurd, and touching, this film engendered a multifarious cinematic debate among us.
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MM-HMM (1998)
United States | 4:20
Creator: S.M. Rogers
Style: Farce / Slapstick / Experimental
Some Informations
Awards:
Best Experimental Animation, California Sun International Festival
Anima Mundi, the world animation fest of Brazil.
A woman asks her man if he would love her no matter what changes her body went through. What changes, indeed...
Funny film. Really good twist ending!
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Night Wind (1996)
France | 3:35
Creator: Janet Strauss
Style: Puppet / Horror
Emily Bronte meets the Brothers Quay on a dark and stormy night.
This movie is all atmosphere. There's not much plot but it definately looks cool.
Locked (1997)
United Kingdom | 4:11
Animator: Filipe Alcada
Style: Puppet / Mystery
A man wakes up in an icebox. As physical escape seems impossible, the man directs his mind and body toward creating a more hospitable cell. Each attempt is met with anonymous and severe retribution.
Filipe Alcada created this work at the prestigious Royal College of Art in London.

MuM (1999)
United States | 7:10
Creator: Nicholas Peterson
Style: Stop-motion / Mystery
Awards:
Best Animated Short, YAHOO! Online Film Festival
Best Undergraduate Short Film, Hamptons International Film Festival
Grand Prize, Student Sections, Matita International Animated Film Festival, Italy
2nd Place Animation, Student Emmy Awards
Finalist, Santa Monica Film Fest MOXIE Awards
Doubts simmer as a young bride, already wearing her dress and veil, reflects on who she is and where her life is going. Is she doing the right thing? Can she escape if she isn't?
MuM was created with a cutting-edge blend of stop-motion animation, computer-generated images, and "in-camera" effects. The haunting score was composed by Jasper Randall.
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Division (2002)
United States | 5:23
Animator: George Nadeau
Style: Mystery / Fable
Some Informations
In a tragic riddle about beauty and mortality, a gardener encounters a painter in a wasteland. A really fantastic animation with wonderful music.

Grace (1998)
United States | 6:30
Creator: Lorelei Pepi
Style: Experimental / Horror
Detail Informations
Exploring flesh and soul, spirituality and sensuality, the incandescent body in space transforms as it reclaims itself.
Grace is an experimental animation short constructed in four parts, utilizing multi-media techniques to create a layered and flowing poem of visual metaphor. Exploring flesh and soul, spirituality and sensuality, the incandescent body in space transforms as it reclaims itself. Animation techniques include stop-motion, pixillation, optical printing, surface projections, and direct under-camera painting with illuminated waxes and manipulation of various materials.
Lorelei Pepi is an internationally award-winning experimental animation filmmaker residing in Los Angeles, California. Grace debuted in May 1999 as her first film created independantly. She has participated in numerous commercial film projects as director, animator, and designer in a variety of animation formats ranging from computer, traditional 2-D, and stop-motion.

Theatro (1997)
United States | 6:00
Creator: Nicholas Kozis
Style: shadow-puppet / Medieval / Mystery
This moody and intriguing story about a being who is invited to a shadow play, is told with images reminiscent of Medieval text illuminations.
Here Lies Evolution (1999)
Bazil | 2:50
Creator: Anderson C.Resende
Style: Horror / Experimental
Sorry, cant find pictures or informations, but this is a really weird one!
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Donor Party (1993)
United States | 4:02
Animator: Laurence Arcadias
Style: Horror
imdb
Some Infos
A mad house sets the scene for a game of fleshy cut and paste that makes the Island of Dr. Moreau look like Club Med.
If you've dreamed of looking like a mutant (and who hasn't?), sacrifice yourself to these characters' scalpels.

Anjyu (2001)
Japan | 3:45
Creator: Yasuo Ohba
Style: Abstract / Experimental / 3D Computer Animation
Detail Informations
This computer graphics work, "Anjyu," refers to its composited layers of calmness. It reflects the Ohba's feelings and emotions during creation.
Not intended to emulate any one thing in nature, this piece is evocative of watching dancing cilia, joyful fibers or a scrub brush on ecstasy. This procedural animation is pure mathematics as art, a meditative journey into soft, flowing calmness. Derived from complex algorithms, which were then manipulated with a custom program to control the color and appearance of the "characters," this piece is accompanied only by a gentle piano line.


Man Hang (Ephemeral Epiphany) (2001)
Korea | 5:00
Creator: Hyunsuk Kim
Style: Visual Art / Experimental / Mystery / 2D Computer Animation
Awards:
Best Use of Computer/Digital Animation, New York animation festival 2001.
A surreal, computer generated journey of self-discovery.
Written in Chinese, the title, Man Hang (Ephemeral Epiphany), means the way to reach true knowledge. Kim describes his work as an attempt to depict his own realization; the emptiness of meaning and the paralyzed salvation of life.

Harvey (2001)
Australia | 11:00
Creator: Peter McDonald
Style: Horror / Surreal
IMDB
Awards:
Best Live Action Film under 15', Student Category (Palm Spring International Festival of Short Film, USA - 2001)
Harvey is an ambitious project, combining cutting edge digital compositing/ animation techniques with a poetic metaphorical tail about loneliness and incompleteness.The main character, Harvey, has been cut brutally in half from head to groin, down the centre of his body, yet he remains very much alive. The film follows the macabre results of his obsessive relationship with his mysterious neighbour.Combinations of actors shot with blue chroma make-up, heavy inferno mat work and the insertion of 3D geometry using softimage where all used to create the fantastically surreal and macabrely horrifying images in this film. Copyright held by creator.
A dark tale of obsession and loneliness. It is the story of a man desperately searching for completeness not only physically but also emotionally. It is only when he thinks he has achieved this goal through the unwilling coalescence of his neighbour that he begins to understand the painful, irresolvable nature of his obsession.
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