Cutout Animation Movies

In this animated environmental parable, we find a people living in harmony with nature, until carelessness leads to the ravens' revenge. We follow a boy's courageous journey to the spirit world to find the only one who can save his village from the resulting darkness--the Lord of the sky. An...

Conquerors land on a newly discovered planet and try to colonize and explore a new discovered planet.

A family pod of three dolphins navigates decay as an inevitable register while also having a secret ascension to a higher ground.

A third world child pursues the dream of freedom but becomes a victim of exploitation.

An animated horror/sci-fi anthology reminiscent of The Twilight Zone, viewers who enjoy the dark and mysterious will find themselves enjoying this short film.

QUICK DREAM, subtitled "A Series of Exorcisms," is the result of this first assignment. As Mouris describes it, “This film is a series of visual experiments with magazine photograph cutouts that make moving collages; coloraid paper; Avery labels; whatever I could think of that might animate. It...

A little boy has a tiger as a pet, but it's a secret. The widemouth of the apartment building is Miss Kotilainen, who is always complaining about everything. Other people in the building have their own secrets too. After a lot of those secrets are uncovered, a party is held that melts the heart of...

A winter dread gnaws at the anxieties of a young couple.

German propaganda film that mocks the expansion of the British colonies in South Africa, Egypt, India and Jamaica. The film is true to a more serious tone than the stocky British John Bull becomes a giant squid that sends out its tentacles all over the world, and so triggers an attack by German...

A tiny baroque ode to fleeting darkness and pretty make-believes.

An ancient was looking for the plum blossom in the snow storm during the trip.

A frenetic and poetic flight on the wings of classic Greek mythology.

This short, cut-out animation was made by elementary school children at Clark School in St. Louis, MO.

In this cut-out animation, a college student discovers her identity after traveling to her remote West Virginia hometown to work in a discount superstore.