Being a fan, and having seen a considerable amount of Bill Plympton's delightful output, I have to say that this apparently lesser-known work is one of my favourites. The vignettes that narrate a tree's long life through centuries contain a perfect mix of delicate and naughty humour, also elaborating on each other and adding layers to the story, and reaching a magnificent ending, the only one that it could have had, really. From all the works of the Portland genius, it is this short gem that I find myself coming back to most often, and the experience is always a rewarding one. Highly recommended.

Push Comes to Shove is an animated short about two men looking the same doing various bizarre things to their faces. Like one pulling the other's ears forward, tying them in front of his face, getting a big rock in between the tied ears and pulling said ears with rock toward the face making a big fluffy hole on it. Or using grass seed with water on other's face, growing grass on it, and using a lawnmower to mow it down! Or painting red marks on it so it looks like a baseball before hitting it, then another face appears literally from the neck up! Like I said, pretty bizarre and highly recommend! I saw this on Volume 5 of The International Tournee of Animation from 1992. Well worth seeing if you like the offbeat.

A tale of lost innocence, greed and the random justice of nature. When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, its magical abilities lead to riches. But for how long?

1992 Czech animated short film directed by Jan Švankmajer

In this follow-up to his stop-motion hit Western Spaghetti, director PES transforms familiar objects into Fresh Guacamole.

片长：1'41" 以定格动画的形式在教大家如何烹饪意大利面的过程中向我们展现日常生活用品皆变成美味的原料。 Everyday objects become delicious ingredients as we learn how to cook spaghetti through stop-motion photography.

A young boy comes of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the boy as he discovers his family's most unusual line of work. Should he follow the example of his Papa, or his Grandpa? Will he be able to find his own way in the midst of their conflicting opinions and timeworn traditions?

在一个平静的小镇，矗立在街区中心的小旅馆，头戴礼帽的男子正坐阳台上阅读，他被书籍围在中央，如此自如。突然，晴朗的天空为滚滚乌云遮蔽，飓风来袭，狂风大作，房屋窗棂剧烈晃动，连书上的文字也随风飘散。人与牲畜、家具房屋相继被卷入空中，男子虽然仅仅勾住阳台的栏杆，可是还是随同旅馆一同飞向空中。不久，他们落在了一片荒芜而又有些奇怪的地方。青年四处游荡，寻找可以憩息的场所。这时，他看到一幢美丽的房屋，里面全部为书籍所充满。爱书的男子欣喜过望，他投入到这书的海洋，乐而忘返…… 本片荣获2012年奥斯卡金像奖最佳动画短片奖。

1981 film by Frédéric Back

A country couple and their shepherd endure drought, flood, a monstrous bear, hunters and tourists during a somewhat odd few days in their normally quiet life.

The story of one shepherd's single-handed quest to re-forest a desolate valley in the foothills of the French Alps throughout the first half of the 20th century.

Production Co: Krátký Film Praha Plot Keywords: Surrealism

日本地震后为小朋友们讲解核电事故的动画片，非常有爱。

这是一个甜美却酸涩的青春爱情故事。男孩在搬家前一天，邀请曾经青梅竹马的女孩一起随便走走，女孩欣然答应。于是两人踏上了前往海边放烟花的旅程。电车上，男孩提起儿时他们之间的一个秘密——共同偷了一枚手榴弹。两人相约找个地方把它埋掉。男孩和女孩，一路上刺激地骑着偷来的自行车，又跟暴走族斗智斗勇。终于来到了海边时，烟花却没能放成。两人相互表白，可这注定是一段无疾而终的爱情。 最终，火车还是轰鸣地带着男孩去了远方。突然间在黑暗中，出现了一个熟悉的身影，两串璀璨的烟火。

Short anime screened in theaters with the stereoscopic 3D conversion of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society movie. The story of Xi Avant is set in Spain and other locales in the near future, and it is tied to the NTT Docomo mobile phone network's next-generation Xi service.

In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.

这是一个薄雾未散的清晨，四周一片寂静。在一片菜地中，某张萝卜叶上，有一枚毫不起眼的虫卵。不久，里面的新生命颇见而出。这是一只心情愉悦的苍蝇，但是它的快乐和 新鲜感并未 持续太久，因为头顶上的计数器分明显示它只有一分钟的生命。一分钟？如此之短，该如何度过？正当它惊慌失措之时， 一张死去前辈曾用过的清单飘到它的手上，上面清楚列出了一分钟之内它应该做到的事情。比如：填饱肚子、唱歌跳舞、挑战极限、躲避天敌追杀、恋爱生子、救死扶伤、结交朋友、乃至成名种种。在接下来的一分钟里，这只苍蝇开始了它短暂而辉煌的一生…… 德国动画导演Michael Reichert以夸张的线条和幽默的笔触，为我们描绘了一只苍蝇在短短的一分钟生命中的各种精彩。或许我们在哀叹人生的平庸，或被生活压迫得气喘吁吁时，可以获得些许感悟和慰藉。 一分钟能干什么？也许不过是电脑的开机时间，也许不过是发一条微博的时间。如果你的人生只有一分钟，你会何去何从？但是对于只有一分钟生命的苍蝇来说，那意味着匆匆的人生。

A giant monster sends a town's citizens into a panic, except for a girl named Yuki and her schoolmate Tetsu. Tetsu happens to have his own strange creature named Cenco as a pet. Another boy named Shuu controls the monster threatening the town, and the stage is set for a battle.

Several people are spending their evening in a café. Two gossiping girls, two debating men, a bookworm and a boy, who just broke up with his girlfriend. The café's waitress starts a chat with him, persuading him to take a look at certain easel, while other customers begin to notice unusual things.

2003 animated short film directed by Andy Jones