Four Mations Movies

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

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.

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

The morning shift at a big-city radio station.

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

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

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

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 middl...

British animation short from Paul Vester.

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

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

A topsy-turvy world.

A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.

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

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 of...

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

Documentary about the abstract filmmaker.

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

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