Four Mations Movies

Animation set in the Middle Ages.

A heavyset woman who keeps being harassed by her aerobics instructor and her attempts to get even with him on a Body Beautiful contest.

British animation short from Paul Vester.

A humorous and thought-provoking view of what animals in zoos might be thinking about their captivity and surroundings.

During a violent electrical storm, a space-travelling metal cockerel crash-lands in a chicken farmer's field. He brings with him the grand promise of...

A bilious misanthrope finds enlightment via heaven, hell and the kitchen cupboard.

A young man in prison is interviewed and talks about his life, how he got into prison, and what it's like doing time.

A topsy-turvy world.

Darkly humorous variation on the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice, looking at the motives for the farmer's wife's murderous assault on the eponymouse...

A young boy struggles with bed-wetting. He is pleased to awaken one night to a dry bed, but terrors await him on his trip to the bathroom in the...

A man's repeated attempts to retrieve an apple off a high tree branch all prove fruitless. What does he want the apple for? That would be telling.

The morning shift at a big-city radio station.

A narrator relates the Japanese tale of two lovers who defy their families and society to be together. The tale ends happily, until something happens...

The travelogue is mobilised again by animator Lesley Keen in Burrellesque, commissioned for Glasgow’s European Capital of Culture 1990...

A part-time musician gets off his day job as a window washer for a disturbing apartment complex to a gig for a charity event. The rich arrive, and...

A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.

A man made of newspaper waits and waits by the telephone.

Animator Pavel Koutský's portrait of the man in the street; just an animal.

A man with a gun for a head and two conjoined twins share a prison cell.

This humorous animated short offers one possible answer to the philosophical question: what would life be like if I had never lived? The first half...