fairytale cinema
Welcome to the mythic microplex!
We’ve been collecting animations that are based on fairytale, folktale, myth and epic – either in terms of their content, their imagery or how they’re structured. Professional, amateur, surreal, comedic or deadly serious – they’re all here for your viewing pleasure.
BOTTLE | KIRSTEN LEPORE
Love in a bottle – a perfect folktale!
MINOTAUR | KĀRLIS VĪTOLS
While his Dad is at work the little Minotaur tries to find playmates. In the endless labyrinth, shot through with myth, he only manages to meet adults, busy with their own ambitions.
BABA YAGA | LEE ARKAPAW & NINA GEBAUER
Grandy bandy herself in the deep dark woods.
LITTLE DOG TURPIE | BEN MARS, DAMIAN SURR, JOHN HASTED & SUE DONE
Watch out for the hobyahs. Watch out for Little Dog Turpie, even more…
ONCE THERE WAS A KING | TYTUS MAJERSKI
Lullaby, dreams and nightmares all rolled into one.
KLOVESTEINEN | GRADUATE FILM, ARTS UNIVERSITY OF BOURNEMOUTH
A tale of two unlucky trolls, based on a Norwegian folk tale.
CORN MOTHER | HAYLEY MORRIS, SHAPE & SHADOW
A stop-motion animated short film based on a Native American folk tale. A ‘mother’ struggles to feed her two ravenous sons with the corn from her secret cornfield.
INHERITING THE RAVEN | GRADUATE FILM, ARTS UNIVERSITY OF BOURNEMOUTH
Deep within a Persian bazaar a cursed man sits with his raven.
But who is the keeper and who is the kept one?
THE UNSUCKSESSFUL VAMPIRE | GRADUATE FILM, ARTS UNIVERSITY OF BOURNEMOUTH
A completely useless vampire lives on a crazy golf course…
URASHIMA TARO | DONNA KENDRIGAN
A Japanese folktale. Remember – don’t open the box…
Urashima Taro is an episode from the SBS World Tales series (Australia – 2004) which comprised twenty short animated films, based on traditional tales from around the world.
PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN | PISKI FILMS
The classic Saxony folk tale – and it doesn’t pull its punches.
HAIRYMAN | STEVE SUBOTNIK
Surreal to the end. Who is the predator and who is the prey when the wild ones are about?
HEDGEHOG IN THE FOG | YURIY NORSHTEYN, 1975
A dream, or a fairytale, or both.
JOKER’S DAUGHTER – LUCID | HAYLEY MORRIS, SHAPE & SHADOW
A music video made for Helena Costas and Danger Mouse inspired by the Tarot.
WOLF’S LULLABY | GRADUATE FILM, ARTS UNIVERSITY OF BOURNEMOUTH
Lullaby, nightmare, and the protection of mothers is all here.
A STORY, A STORY | GENE DEITCH, WESTERN WOODS STUDIOS, 1973
A story from the very beginning.
PSYCHE AND EROS | ALISON DE VERE, 1994
Widely regarded as a masterpiece…
