Short Films

Impossible Maladies is a stop-motion short film by Alice Tambellini and Stefano Tambellini, a sibling filmmaking duo whose work blends handcrafted animation with a darkly playful sense of humor. Produced...

Mark Osborne’s MORE and the Cost of Ambition Released in 1998, MORE is a stop-motion mixed-media short film written and directed by Mark Osborne that stands as one of the...

Mickey & Minnie Holiday Songs Go Stop Motion Disney Jr’s 2025 holiday programming includes a small but noteworthy project for animation fans: Mickey & Minnie Holiday Songs: Christmas Shorts, a...

Toe by Neal O’Bryan & Chad Thurman: A Creeping Stop-Motion Horror Short The stop-motion horror short Toe, released on ALTER’s YouTube channel, is a masterclass in minimalist dread. Clocking in...

Eric Bernhagen’s My Greedy Friend: Childlike Surrealism and Stop Motion as Emotional Texture In the vast and often noisy landscape of internet filmmaking, certain shorts manage to cut through by...

Brontë: A Beautifully Handmade Stop-Motion Short from a Rising Young Animator Brontë is a remarkable reminder that some of the most affecting stop-motion films are born not in large studios,...

Diptera: A Haunting Stop Motion Meditation on Guilt and Decay Diptera is a chilling stop motion short film that lingers long after its brief runtime ends. Created as a fourth-year thesis...

Framed - A Noir Stop-Motion Allegory About Control, Identity, and the Puppet Condition In Framed (2017), director Marco Jemolo delivers a stark, noir-inspired stop-motion short that uses the physical language...

La vieja y el cuervo (The Old Hag and the Crow): A Dark Folk Tale in Stop Motion La vieja y el cuervo (The Old Hag and the Crow) is a...

赤い蝋燭と人魚（The Red Candles and the Mermaid): A Tragic Japanese Fairy Tale Reimagined in Stop Motion Stop motion has long proven itself to be an ideal medium for fairy tales that...

The Arctic Circle: Kevin Parry’s Silent, Icy Parable of Temptation Kevin Parry’s The Arctic Circle stands as a striking example of how much atmosphere, emotion, and meaning can be packed...

PART 1 The Man in the Lower-Left Hand Corner of the Photograph: A Tactile Descent into Memory and Obsession There is a particular strain of stop motion that doesn’t aim...

Marek Skrobecki’s D.I.M. — A Haunting Portrait of Routine in Puppet Animation Few stop-motion filmmakers have explored the emotional depth of puppet animation as poetically as Polish director Marek Skrobecki....

Alan The Infinite: Parabella’s Cosmic Dark Comedy That Begs to Become a Series Sometimes a short film arrives with the unmistakable feeling that you’re only seeing the tip of something...

Brunch: Marnik Loysen’s Sharp Stop-Motion Satire on Generational Anxiety In the crowded landscape of contemporary stop-motion shorts, few films manage to capture the cultural moment with as much wit and...