Tango

Tango 1981

7.43

A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, as they move in loops through an absurd dance of social disconnection.

1981

Peter & the Wolf

Peter & the Wolf 2006

6.68

An animated retelling set to Prokofiev's suite. Peter is a slight lad, solitary, locked out of the woods by his protective grandfather

2006

Moomins and the Comet Chase

Moomins and the Comet Chase 2010

5.50

One day Moomintroll wakes to notice that grey dust is covering everything in the Moominvalley. He runs to ask the philosophical Muskrat if he knows what is happening, who advises him that things tend to look like this before an awful fate coming from the sky hits the Earth. With the help of his father, Moominpappa, Moomintroll and his close friends Sniff and Snufkin build a raft and head out on a challenging journey to the observatory in the Lonely Mountains hoping to find out more from the wise professors there. The friends have to overcome several adversities in order to make it there. When they arrive, they find the professors deep in calculations. They reveal that a comet will reach the Earth in four days, four hours, four minutes and 44 seconds.

2010

First Pavilion

First Pavilion 1968

6.00

A young scientist is kidnapped and taken to a mysterious house in which his former professor is conducting experiments to shrink people.

1968

Where Are You, Louise?

Where Are You, Louise? 1968

6.00

Mysterious creatures that have landed on the ground in a flying saucer, encouraging the people they meet to undergo experimental research in exchange for gaining youth and immortality.

1968

Ambulance

Ambulance 1961

6.00

In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis; the vehicle, ordinarily representing comfort and safety, becomes the group’s death chamber. Morgenstern’s presentation of the incident serves as a metaphor for the horror of the Holocaust, and provides a powerful trigger for discussion of the disturbing issues raised by the film. The figure of the children's’ teacher specifically parallels Janusz Korcak (1879-1942), a famous Jewish educator who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto and died with his young charges at Treblinka.

1961

Hospital

Hospital 1962

8.00

1962’s SZPITAL (HOSPITAL) is set entirely in a claustrophobic hospital room where a male patient is confined. Throughout the film the room is invaded by a variety of strange people

1962

Playthings

Playthings 1962

5.50

Paper cutouts over images of mixed colorful liquids, creating hypnotizing swirls and aesthetic explosions, as well as combining original and futurological sounds. Starting with the relentless hunting of antelopes, the geometric cutouts show the constant struggle between the warring groups. We have been observing it since the primeval times, when the tools of the battles were arches and spears, through the times of the domination of swords, later replaced by firearms. The increasing automation and power of war machines, the emergence of tanks and aircraft, eventually the use of weapons of mass destruction lead to total annihilation

1962

Walls

Walls 1988

5.80

An animated short film from 1987 that deals with the incarceration of a man in a dark cell from where there is no escape.

1988

Media

Media 1980

6.20

A film editor's setup. A man plays with a balloon.

1980

Thief

Thief 1988

1

A father and his sons want to catch a man who steals their apples.

1988

Danny Boy

Danny Boy 2010

6.20

A young poet falling in love. A city that awaits a drama to unfold. A time of sadness and conformity, a time of decisions. There is light, there is hope, there is poetry behind the dark clouds of our world.

2010

Soup

Soup 1975

5.09

A couple's relationship develops in a combination of photomontage and animation.

1975

Profesor Zazul

Profesor Zazul 1968

6.30

Tichy is caught by a storm on the side road, and therefore forced to seek shelter in strange looking house. He is welcomed by Profesor Zazul, who devoted his life to cloning experiments. Based on a short story by Stanisław Lem featured in Memories of Ijon Tichy.

1968