John Canemaker Movies

In 1986, seventeen years after Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s animated conversation about love and six years after the beloved Beatle’s...

In Belleau Wood, France, during the Great War, a soldier named John writes a letter home to his wife Sara in Milwaukee. He writes that her picture...

The unlikely story of 106-year old Chinese American artist Tyrus Wong, and how he overcame poverty and racism in America to become a celebrated...

After learning about pollution a group of creatures called Zwibble Dibbles, decide to throw a party for the Earth to raise awareness.

The extemporaneous musings of an actress about her career provide the springboard for an imaginative fantasy on the fragility of fame.

The film follows Wing Biddlebaum, a lonely former schoolteacher whose “hands” led to a scandal that drove him from his previous town and...

A lyrical and personal study of Canemaker's Long Island garden through the seasons, based on paintings, to an original jazz score by Fred Hersch.

Documentary short on cartoonist Otto Messmer, co-creator of Felix the Cat

The short takes as its inspiration Bottom's contemplation on the "dream" he has experienced in the middle acts of Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer...

During a long ride home from a punk show, a young boy fails to learn that sometimes when you talk, it annoys your friends.

Cartoon Carnival tells the story of the pioneering early days of the animated art-form and chronicles one film preservationist's quest to rescue...

A young boy's successful battle against cancer and his subsequent efforts to help other children overcome their fears of the illness.

Documentary short from Felix the Cat Collector’s Edition DVD

The life and career of the great cartoonist Winsor McCay is warmly recalled by his former film assistant, John Fitzsimmons, with clips of classic...

This educational science program features the story of Dr. Alfred Clothear and his discovery of how bears know when to sleep for the winter.