Weird & Wondrous Animated Shorts
Not your usual cute animated short film, more the challenging, odd, weird, experimental, conceptual, surreal and thought-provoking animation. A selection for the daring viewer. Not for children. All of them are available for free on Vimeo and/or YouTube.
List activity
3.6K views
• 8 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
68 titles
- DirectorFrédéric DoazanAn update of our classic human anatomy.
- DirectorJean ConstantialNicolas LaverdureLucas VigrouxA nameless guy (god of war?) marches people to destruction in a surreal tale.
- DirectorDominica HarrisonStarsKenny BlythBarney Mumby-PriceAmandine VincentA surreal tale about the serendipitous meeting of two lonely souls who live in their own imaginary world.
- DirectorDaniel BirdBen RichardsonA surreal film set in a rubble world where we witness the mating and reproductive process of a mutant crow species, and how its male and female halves get together through music radio waves.
- DirectorJames CalvertEddie WhiteStarsJohn WatersAn antacid fable about the dangers of gorging on meat -or veggies- set in the 19th century.
- DirectorMichael FreiA conceptual piece about the ways of connecting between a female socket and a male plug and what turns them on.
- DirectorSantiago Bou GrassoPatricio PlazaA man prepares and goes to work in a bizarre world, where the meaning of human workforce is taken to another level.
- DirectorCesar Diaz MelendezA surreal rendering of the soundtrack lyrics, which speak about the fluidity, shortness and interconnectivity of life, about the pace of living, and about where Art comes from.
- DirectorJoe BennettCharles HuettnerThe spaceship of couple of scientists going to set a station on the planet Vesta Minor gets lost and they fall on a wondrous world full of amazing creatures.
- DirectorSimon CartwrightStarsGordon PeastonGlen is barely a man. In a desperate attempt to tap into his masculinity he attends a primal scream therapy session, surrounded by wailing men he cannot even make a sound. When another member of the class pushes Glen too far he finally lets something out- a miniature version of himself which does whatever it wants, regardless of the consequences.
- DirectorJoe BennettStarsBen KronbergA homeless man speaks nonstop about posh restaurants at a bus stop.
- DirectorTomek DuckiA tree is uprooted after a storm and wanders through the forest trying to keep in touch with the rest of the trees.
- DirectorGeorges SchwizgebelA solitary man without a shadow rises from his desk, dons his hat, and leaves his apartment. He walks through a city to a large door, knocks, shows his invitation, and is admitted to a colorful scene. He walks through drawing rooms and gardens. He speaks with a man in a top hat who offers him a life of romance, but in that life there is betrayal. Is there a place in the world for our man without a shadow?
- DirectorTomek DuckiA conceptual semi-abstract approach to what life is for any individual.
- DirectorSong E KimStarsGudrun Cram-DrachRob WolpertBen ZelkowiczLife is a constant struggle for a husband and wife. She is suffering from stomach pain, and the doctor has no clue about a cure. Meanwhile, her husband is on his own journey of hunting a snake.
- DirectorNina GantzA stop motion film about an oddball felted character who slips through floors into the past and the deepest parts of his psyche in his pursuit of self-understanding.
- DirectorDaniel SousaStarsElsie McKendryBrett TobaskyA wild boy is found in the woods by a solitary hunter and brought back to civilization. Alienated by a strange new environment, the boy tries to adapt by using the same strategies that kept him safe in the forest.
- DirectorDaniel SousaA woman and man's passions are overshadowed by their predatory instincts.
- DirectorPESMetal objects of the past come to life in the depths of the sea.
- DirectorBill PlymptonA man follows footsteps in search of a mysterious visitor to his house.
- DirectorBill PlymptonStarsBill PlymptonThe perilous road to kicking the habit is explored in twenty-six vignettes that include various professionals and contraptions.
- DirectorYangzi SheStarsRebecca DavisRebecca DavisReid MillerDurian was born with his facial expressions opposite to everyone else.The film shows a time span of this little boy growing into a young adult, by displaying milestones in both his real life and his imaginary world.
- DirectorJérôme BoulbèsIn an uncertain time and place, a group of animated shy rock cubes come out from the anonymity of their quarry to mate. Powerful and indescribable forces made them move towards others in the sky, in a sort of dance that attracts some cubes to others, until those compatible latch on each other and produce a fresh new rock cube.
- DirectorJérôme BoulbèsIn the middle of the desert, a fierce combat between two warriors is taking place. Only one can survive, and the tribe is watching.
- DirectorTheodore UshevA surrealist journey through colors and shapes inspired by Federico García Lorca's poem "Romance". Visual poetry in the rhythm of fantastic dreams and passionate nights.
- DirectorKôji YamamuraStarsKotaro TsukamotoA surreal piece that shows how small children may see the world and themselves.
- DirectorJuan Pablo EtcheverryA trip into Picasso's creative mind. We enter his imagination to find the creatures and stories that populated his psyche.
- DirectorCraig WelchStarsLouise LerouxBlack and white drawings blended with photographic images depict an old man, with various tiny gadgets, trying to find the anatomy of the wings of an angel.
- DirectorPhilippe GrammaticopoulosThings have an interesting turn in a society consisting of snail-eating identical chubby men.
- DirectorVeljko PopovicSimon Bogojevic-NarathAre we truly free? Are our desires truly our own or merely imposed products of the society we live in? The question this film is asking is this: are we slaves to the culture and society we were born in or is there a way to escape after all?
- DirectorJuan DelcanAn abstract animated piece that explores the relationship between love and death, sex and life.
- DirectorDon HertzfeldtStarsRobert MayJennifer NyholmDon HertzfeldtA hilarious collection of animated television commercials that were rejected because of their creator's failing grip on sanity.
- DirectorDon HertzfeldtStarsDon HertzfeldtA series of dark and troubling events forces Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life - or lack thereof.
- DirectorDon HertzfeldtStarsRobert MayKarin AngerLily and Jim are interviewed about their disastrous blind date.
- DirectorDon HertzfeldtStarsMurwarid AbdianiJaden AlexanderLance AndersonThe evolution of humanity, through countless eons.
- DirectorDon HertzfeldtStarsDon HertzfeldtRoxanna Kitten BrownHelp from a friend to pull the wisdom teeth does not end as expected.
- DirectorDavid FirthStarsDavid FirthA man has no friends while his houseplant is full of buds (friends.) He does get a dog, who thinks if the man can grow something, he will be like this plant. Even if it means a great sacrifice in the end, the dog is willing to do anything just for the man's happiness, because he is the dog of man.
- DirectorDavid FirthStarsDavid FirthA dark sarcastic satirical comedy about the way patients with mental problems are treated by the medical system. The 3rd installment of the Health Reminder series.
- DirectorDavid FirthStarsDavid FirthA black comedy about how the medical system disregard people's pain, over-prescribe drugs that aren't fully tested, and blame the patients for not getting better.
- DirectorDavid FirthStarsDavid FirthA black sarcastic look at drugs, the prescription kind, and their over-presence in medical practice The 1st installment of the Health Reminder series.
- DirectorFlora AndrivonMaël BerreurSoline BéjuyAn unhappy snake married to a violent wild boar prepares a special dinner with the boar's best friend, a hare, who is also her secret lover.
- DirectorRéka BucsiForty-seven brief but vivid vignettes about the paradoxical nature of our world, seamlessly intertwine perplexing scenes of poetical absurdism with the ironic, the grotesque, and the beautiful. Is this the symphony of life?
- DirectorMarcin WasilewskiA difficult love encounter between two fragile human beings with a De Chirico-like surreal landscape as a background and major obstacle.
- DirectorIvan MaksimovA surreal world of animals trying to use their noses to do funny things, animals doing funny things despite their noses, and sucking rabbits addicted to carrots.
- DirectorBalbina BruszewskaAn allegoric fable about an idealist man who has to face the sins of our modern rotten society.
- DirectorNatalia BrozynskaStarsNatalia BrozynskaA stop-motion allegorical fable about the power of fashion magazines on self-image, and how everybody wants to look different instead of being content with themselves.
- DirectorSelfburningA slaved humanoid whose mind is controlled from a spaceship suffers a reality shift after entering in contact with a strange substance.
- DirectorMeat DeptDavid NicolasLaurent NicolasStarsConrad VernonSteve LittleWilliam FichtnerDave, a NASA astronaut, and his co-pilot, a genetically-engineered intelligent melon, yes a melon, are preparing for the launch of the first-ever expedition to Mars.
- DirectorPiotr KarwasA wooden figure works in its workshop trying to build a mask that reflects its true self.
- DirectorMartine ChartrandThe History of Afro-Americans, from the slave trade and arrival of Africans in America in the 17th century to the modern day, told by an old lady to her grandson through the family's history book.
- DirectorLena ÓlafsdóttirStarsAnne PripErik C. SchmidtApparently normal people arriving at a clinic's waiting room start to show their worst behavior.
- DirectorJosh ShaffnerA time-lapse oil-painting animated film about an insomniac guy and what he dreams when he finally gets asleep.
- DirectorKobi VogmanA creature comes to life out of a wool hank and it has to learn to walk and move away from the wooden bench to which he was born attached.
- DirectorPasquale D'AmicoAn abstract piece with no story made by combining symbolic dream elements coming from the director's own dream world.
- DirectorSarina NiheiA allegorical tale about how Society discards and segregates people who are different and treats them as a lesser form of humans and as if all were the same.
- DirectorIshu PatelA psychedelic new-age short about what a spiritual human being might find after death.
- DirectorSol FriedmanIn this animated retelling of the Noah's Ark story, various unholy activities fill the great ship, as the animals discover the darker side of their nature.
- DirectorJosh ShaffnerPortrait of Los Angeles service industry worker.
- DirectorJosh ShaffnerStarsJosh ShaffnerLife on earth through time and space from the present time to 4000 years ahead, in non-chronological order. The settings change, humans do not.
- DirectorGrant KoltonStarsGrant KoltonThe story of a likely unlikely friendship between a boy called Boston and his pet scorpion Chester.
- DirectorLuke SaundersA series of fortuitous events lead a male and female rare flying fish species to meet and mate.
- DirectorDaniella ShuhmanItems of advice given by Marina Abramovic, Jonathan Franzen, Richard Ford, Patti Smith, Sjon, Fred Tomaselli, Olafur Eliason, Chapman Brothers, and Umberto Eco to any new artist wanting to live from their Art and make a career out of it.
- DirectorGregor DashuberAnnette JungStarsAndreas FröhlichTom StraussThe story of Ed, a middle-aged nervous-laughing insane man who lives in his family manor, and of his plans to murder his elderly demented father and dispose of the corpse.
- DirectorDusan KastelicStarsMateja StaricDusan KastelicYou have probably heard of the phrase "To think outside of the box"? Well, this is a story about such a box. The box is full of miserable creatures. One of those creatures doesn't belong there. He's thinking outside of the box.
- DirectorChloé FarrGabrielle SelnetAdam SillardStarsWilliam LebghilAlma JodorowskyHaving just arrived in paradise, Jerome sets out to find his wife Maryline. In the course of his search, he sinks into a surreal and colorful world in which no one seems to be able to help him.