Four Mations Movies

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

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...

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

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 Sound of Music engages with the deep-rooted sexual and class-based politics of a seemingly arbitrary and violent culture.

Answers questions such as "How many kinds of insects are there?" "Do insects have blood?" "How can a fly walk on the ceiling?"

British animation short from Paul Vester.

A topsy-turvy world.

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

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

The last hundred years of Marxism, as seen through the eyes of animator Pavel Koutský.

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

A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.

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...

A Four-Mations documentary covering the importance of audial sound in the medium of animation.

An animated film, based on a Rudyard Kipling short story of an Indian holy man’s journey through North East India.

Documentary about the abstract filmmaker.