Another part of this torrent, giving people access to animated shorts that would otherwise be seen by only a few. Guilherme Marcondes is included here as well (Remember him from Tyger in part 10?), and I can say he is one of my favorite modern day animators. Check out more of his work (among others the Modest Mouse video clip). The Saint Inspector is a nice claymation creation from the makers of The Secrets of Tom Thumb, which is not a short animation but still highly recommended. George Geertsen uses pencil drawings, some animated, some stills, combined with street noises to give us a look at a day in the park for an old man around 1971, in an animation produced by the much appreciated National Film Board of Canada. After Jumping (Part 8) I included a longer animation from Osama Tezuka, Legend of the Forest. Tezuka is still relatively unknown, although his work was hugely influential, especially on manga comics. Being influenced by Walt Disney (which is especially clear in Legend of The Forest), Walt Disney in turn plagiarized his television series Kimba The White Lion from the 60's in 1994 when they made The Lion King, without giving any credit to Tezuka. I recently read his comic series Buddha, and think Tezuka's greatest skill lies in approaching serious matters with a sense of humor. In Holding Your Breath, Anthony Lucas, you mainly see silhouettes, light backgrounds, and dark skinny shapes on the foreground, with the voice over contributing to the slightly tense atmosphere: it was nominated for a palm dłor in Cannes. Joanna Quinn has created the first reality series in animation with Dreams and Desires, Family Ties, as a typical British family is followed on a wedding day with a handheld camera. Naturally, everything goes horribly wrong, and itłs extremely funny, as the woman making the recordingsł keeps commenting on what happens, while having a couple of drinks (and then some). In eternal gaze, Sam Chen takes Alberto Giacometti as his main subject, in a reasonably successful CGI film that won many festivals: personally, I feel itłs music is a bit too dramatic, and the movie is too long, but since itłs still well made, I included it here. In John Hubleyłs The Hole, Hubley uses improvised dialogue from Dizzy Gillespie and George Mathews as two construction workers at work in the bottom of a hole on a construction site discussing the possibility of an accidental nuclear weapons attack. I also included a short by Yamamura (better known for his Oscar nominated Atama-yama), but I like this story much better. Some more experimental work comes from Oscar Fischinger (Spirals was his first film) and Robert Breer (70).


Previous Festival Editions:

Part 1:

Contents of download:

* Folder icon Beltesassar's Short Animation Festival
o 25 Ways To Quit Smoking (1989) Bill Plympton.avi (25 megabyte)
o Au Bout Du Monde - Konstantin Bronzit (1998).avi (101.59 megabyte)
o Balance - Lauenstein (1989).avi (49.33 megabyte)
o Birthday.Boy.2004.avi (98.96 megabyte)
o Blackfly - Christopher Hinton (1991) - .avi (56.9 megabyte)
o Bunny - Blue Sky Chris Wedge (1998) Oscar Short Animated Film 1997.avi (93.04 megabyte)
o Cowboys.(Phil.Mulloy,1991).avi (170 megabyte)
o Crac - Frederic Back (1980).avi (137.5 megabyte)
o Father and Daughter - Oscar Short Animated Film 2000 8'08.avi (36.75 megabyte)
o Gopher Broke - Blur Studio Jeff Fowler (2004).avi (165.23 megabyte)
o Harvie Krumpet (2003).avi (186.29 megabyte)
o Intolerance & Intolerance II - Phil Mulloy (2000 & 2001).avi (242 megabyte)
o Mike's New Car - Pixar.avi (59.47 megabyte)
o More - Mark Osborne (1998).avi (177.79 megabyte)
o Pixar - Ice Age Extra(Gone Nutty).avi (40.89 megabyte)
o Rejected - Don Hertzfeldt - 2000.avi (98.44 megabyte)
o Rocks.Das.Rad.Germany-pp.avi (62.74 megabyte)
o Special Delivery - John Weldon & Eunice Macaulay (1978).avi (75.12 megabyte)
o Strange Invaders.-.2004.avi (66.31 megabyte)
o Tango - Zbigniew Rybczynski (1982).avi (42.69 megabyte)
o The Big Snit - Richard Condie (1985).avi (78.49 megabyte)
o The Fly - Oscar Short Animated Film 1980 3'00.avi (18.98 megabyte)
o The Old Lady And The Pigeons - Sylvain Chomet (1998).avi (136.93 megabyte)
o The Periwig-Maker - Schaffler (1999).avi (119.57 megabyte)
o The Sandman - Paul Berry - (1991).avi (69.2 megabyte)
o The.Cathedral.Poland-pp.avi (50.79 megabyte)
o Vincent - Tim.Burton.avi (63.22 megabyte)
o Ward 13 (2003).avi (190.28 megabyte)

Part 2:

Contents of download:

* Folder icon Beltesassar's Short Animation Festival Part 2
o Alison Snowden & David Fine (1987) - George and Rosemary.avi (96.62 megabyte)
o Arkelope - Roslyn Schwartz (1994).mpg (51.57 megabyte)
o Calypso is like so - Bruno Collet (2003).avi (103.45 megabyte)
o Chris Landreth - Bingo The Clown (1998).avi (33.47 megabyte)
o Fedorenco and Lamb - Every Child (1979).avi (61.26 megabyte)
o Grasshoppers - Bruno Bozzetto (1990).avi (48.91 megabyte)
o Konstantin Bronzit - Switchcraft (1994).avi (34 megabyte)
o Luxo Jr - Pixar (1986).avi (33.09 megabyte)
o Sex & Violence - Bill Plympton.avi (42.95 megabyte)
o The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa - Caroline Leaf (1977).avi (79.37 megabyte)
o Voyage To Next - Faith & John Hubley (1974).avi (147.51 megabyte)


Part 3:

Contents of download:

* Folder icon Beltesassar's Short Animation Festival Part 3
o Bill Plympton - The fan and the flower (2005) - Narrated by Paul Giamatti.avi (83.77 megabyte)
o Fallen Art (Tomek Baginski, 2004).avi (142.61 megabyte)
o Ferenc Cak? - Stones (2000).avi (102.35 megabyte)
o Flatlife - Jonas Geirnaert (2004).avi (73.33 megabyte)
o Georges Schwizgebel - Les Jeune Fille Et Les Nuages (2000).avi (52.9 megabyte)
o Matt Abbiss - Play (2003).avi (12.5 megabyte)
o Norman McLaren - Lines Horizontal (1962).avi (100.05 megabyte)
o Raoul Servais - Siren (1968).avi (110 megabyte)
o Sven Martin - Ritterschlag (2003).avi (50.03 megabyte)
o The Chain - Phill Mulloy (1997).avi (97.08 megabyte)

Part 4:

Beltesassar's Short Animation Festival Part 4

* Blur Studio - In The Rough (2004).avi (230.62 megabyte)
* Bruno Bozzetto - Baeus (1987).avi (80.11 megabyte)
* Genre - Don Hertzfeldt (1996).avi (19.56 megabyte)
* Joanna Quinn (1996) - Famous Fred.avi (298.99 megabyte)
* Peter Lord (1996) - Wat'S Pig.avi (122.93 megabyte)
* Pjotr Sapegin - Huset Pa Kampen (1998).avi (49.08 megabyte)
* Ring Of Fire - Andreas Hykade (2000).avi (230.96 megabyte)
* The Mermaid - Aleksandr Petrov (1997).avi (120.6 megabyte)
* The Monk and the Fish - Dudok de Wit (1994).avi (89.35 megabyte)

Part 5:

This time, I have been especially good to you. These 25 animations contain some very recent animations (e.g. three short animations nominated for and Oscar, namely 9, Badgered and check out the should have been winner the Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello) some young and upcoming stars from the Badenburg Acedemie (Annie & Boo and Wunderwerk), some funny stop motion (Wallace and Grommit, Angry Kid) and some sad (Dog by Templeton) and I added a selection of the best animators or the last 50 years (Norman McLaren, Phill Mulloy, Bill Plympton, Richard Condie, Wendy Tilby). Alltogether it's over 3 hours worth of material. It will take a while to download, but trust me: it's worth it.

Beltesassar's Short Animation Festival Part 5

* 9 - Shane Acker (2005).avi (90.92 megabyte)
* A Grand Day Out - Wallace & Grommit 1991.avi (181.86 megabyte)
* Angry Kid - Peter Lord.avi (23.09 megabyte)
* Annie and Boo (2004) Johannes Weilund.avi (251.42 megabyte)
* Badgered (2005) Sharon Colman.avi (38.39 megabyte)
* Bill Plympton - The Exciting Life Of A Tree.avi (47.21 megabyte)
* Bob's Birthday - Allison Snowden & David Fine.avi (102.7 megabyte)
* Charade - Minnis - 1984.avi (13.13 megabyte)
* Chris Landreth - Ryan (2004).avi (149.84 megabyte)
* Konstantin Bronzit (2003) - The God.avi (33.03 megabyte)
* La Linea 145 (Cavandoli).avi (22.54 megabyte)
* Michael Sieber - Wunderwerk (2002).avi (80.11 megabyte)
* Norman McLaren - Neighbours (1952).avi (126.83 megabyte)
* Pedro Serrazina - Tale About the Cat and the Moon (1995).avi (55.39 megabyte)
* Raoul Servais - Chromophobia (1966).avi (109.33 megabyte)
* Richard Condie - The Apprentice (1991).avi (85.5 megabyte)
* Ring - Anna and Bella - 1984.avi (35.03 megabyte)
* Ryan Larkin - Syrinx (1965).avi (22.03 megabyte)
* Suzie Templeton - Dog.avi (16.42 megabyte)
* The History of the World - Phil Mulloy (1994).avi (54.73 megabyte)
* The Man With The Beautiful Eyes - (Charles Bukowski).avi (102.24 megabyte)
* The Mysterious Geographic Explorations Of Jasper Morello Pdtv Xvid.avi (175.05 megabyte)
* The.End.of.the.World.in.Four.Seasons - Paul van Driessen.avi (278.19 megabyte)
* Tim Webb - A Is For Autism (1992).avi (99.17 megabyte)
* Wendy Tilby (1991) - Strings.avi (116.4 megabyte)

Part 6:

I am spoiling you, I realise, but here is anotherpart of my animation short film festival. This time I have some funnyshort for you (Cousin, The Chubbchubbs, Do It yourself Cartoon Kit,Poumse), some more serious animations (Le Chapeau, Pad, Illusion) andsome simply weird ones but great to watch (Cat Soup & Karl & Marilyn). Hope you enjoy them. Also check out parts 1-5 if you haven't already.

Beltesassar's Short Animation Festival Part 6

* Adam Elliot - Cousin.mpg (44.82 megabyte)
* Bob Godrey - Do It Yourself Cartoon Kit (1961).avi (48.62 megabyte)
* Frederic Back - Illusion (1975).avi (181.96 megabyte)
* Guard Dog - Bill Plympton (2004).avi (60.32 megabyte)
* Ishu Patel (1977) - The Bead Game.avi (63.88 megabyte)
* Mich?le Cournoyer (1999) - Le Chapeau (The Hat).avi (66.37 megabyte)
* Pad - Aurel Klimt 1999.avi (67.06 megabyte)
* Pixar - The Chubbchubbs.mpg (97.5 megabyte)
* Poumse (1990) Mikhail Aldashin.avi (48.03 megabyte)
* Priit P?rn - 2003 - Karl Ja Marilyn.avi (349.07 megabyte)
* Tatsuo Sato - Nekojiru-so (Cat Soup) - 2001.avi (379.24 megabyte)


Part 7:

For Part 7, I decided to select some old unknown animations, and somenew unknown anmations. I included one of the oldest animations ever byWinston McCay from 1911, a silly symphonies from 1934 and the excellentThree Blind Mice by Dunning (who would later direct Yellow Submarine).Besides these, there are some animations I personally like fromstudents or small production companies. Rosto A.D. is an impressivegroup (check their website) Le Building is probably the best shortunder 2 minutes I have ever seen, and Inventaire Fantome reminds me alot of Jasper Morello I included in Part 5 (sorry for those who don'tspeak french, but I think you will still enjoy it). I added some betterknown animators for those who don't like the less known stuff, likeAlkabetz, Bozzetto, the lesser known Killing an Egg (which isn't evenmentioned on IMDB) by Driessen (who actually worked as an animator onthe Yellow Submarine as well, but anyway), Aldeshin and Brakhage. Jojo in the Stars is a very atmospheric animaton which I like a lot as well.Hope you enjoy this selection. My hard drive (40 GB) is being taken upby all these animations (over 10 GB); most likely I will put up one more part and then stop for a while. Cheers!

Beltesassar's Short Animation Festival Part 7

* Andreas Hykade (1995) We Lived in Grass.avi (254.58 megabyte)
* Bruno Bozzetto - Una Vita In Scatola (1967).avi (54.52 megabyte)
* Franck Dion (2004) Inventaire Fantome.avi (79.72 megabyte)
* George Dunning - Three Blind Mice (1945).mpg (72.28 megabyte)
* Ishu Patel (1984) - Paradise.avi (178.98 megabyte)
* Jeff Newitt - Loves Me, Loves Me Not.avi (42.9 megabyte)
* John Schnall - Goodnight Norma... Goodnight Milton... (1988).avi (43.76 megabyte)
* Le building - Marco Nguyen (2005).avi (17.88 megabyte)
* Marc Craste - Jojo in the Stars (2003).avi (170.78 megabyte)
* Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase (1992) Joan Gratz.avi (45.12 megabyte)
* Paul Claerhout - Scaredy Cat! (1988).avi (8.82 megabyte)
* Paul Driessen - The killing of an egg.avi (31.89 megabyte)
* Priit Parn - Hotel E (1992).avi (363.97 megabyte)
* Rosto A.D. (Matthias M?ller) - Phantom.avi (11.4 megabyte)
* Rubicon (1997) Gil Alkabetz.avi (79.36 megabyte)
* Stan Brakhage (2001) - Love Song.avi (95.6 megabyte)
* The Other Side (1993) Mikhail Aldashin.avi (45.93 megabyte)
* Wilfred Jackson (Silly Symphonies) The Grasshopper And The Ants (1934).avi (90.01 megabyte)
* Winsor McCay - 1911 - Little Nemo.mpg (80.68 megabyte)

Part 8 (Final):

This final torrent, I'd like to dedicate to everybody that keeps sharing these torrents.

This last 2.5 GB of animations consists of a nice overview of short animated films. I included more mainstream animations like A Greek Tragedy, Self Service, When The Day Breaks, and Bill Plymbton's Push comes to Shove. There are 3 longer animations, Daniel Greaves' Flatworld, The Cunning Little Vixen (a nice BBC production) and Zbrodnia i Kara (Crime and Punishment) by Dumala. There are more eastern European animators in this torrent, the unknown Gary Seko and Michaela Pavlatova. From Japan comes the godfather of manga, Osamu Tezuka with his nice short Jumping. Alltogether I hope you will like the collection, and I hope I could interest some more people in short animated films.

* 78 Tours (Georges Schwizgebel, 1985).avi Video 31.13 M
* Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby - When the Day Breaks (1999).mpg Video 94.43 M
* Aubier & Patar - Babyroussa, the Babiroussa.avi Video 86.02 M
* Bill Plympton - Push Comes To Shove (1991).avi Video 155.98 M
* Brad Caslor & Christopher Hinton - Blowhard.mpg Video 92.72 M
* Bruno Bozzetto - Self Service.avi Video 92.29 M
* Christmas (1996) Mikhail Aldashin.avi Video 179.83 M
* Daniel Greaves (1997) Flatworld.avi Video 311.62 M
* Disney - 1953 - Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom.mpg Video 102.92 M
* Don Hertzfeldt - Intermission.avi Video 35.18 M
* Evelyn Lambart (1974) Mr. Frog Went A-Courting.mpg Video 43.9 M
* Garik Seko (1982) Ex Libris.avi Video 93.87 M
* John Halas (1963) Automania 2000.avi Video 77.88 M
* Jolly Roger - Mark Baker (1998).avi Video 68.38 M
* Osamu Tezuka (1984) Jumping.avi Video 25.27 M
* Piotr Dumala - Zbrodnia i Kara (2000).avi Video 354.78 M
* Quest - Tyron Montgomery & Thomas Stellmach (1996).asf Video 24.44 M
* Repeat (1995) Pavlatova.avi Video 123.94 M
* Suzan Pitt (1973) - Jefferson Circus Songs.avi Video 95.25 M
* The Cunning Little Vixen (2003) Geoff Dunbar.avi Video 400.02 M
* Van Goethem (1986) A Greek Tragedy.avi Video 32.45 M
* Winsor McCay - 1912 - How A Mosquito Operates.avi Video 38.18 M

Part 9

After almost one year, I have decided to celebrate the first year aniversary of Beltesassar's Short Animation Festival with a new torrent. After putting out 8 torrents with approximately 135 excellent animations, I received a lot of thank you's from people who were very grateful they could finallt (once again) see some short animations the really wanted to see. For all the people that made requests for animations, I have made this torrent. It contains all the video's I have which people requested for. Like L'Homme Sans Ombre by George Schwizgebel and Walking, by Ryan Larkin. Three currently Oscar nominated Short Animation are in here: Scrat (getting less and less funny), Little Matchgirl (Disney is getting more and more traditional) and Maestro, a funny short building up to one great joke: but I hope and think Torill Kove will win.
I included some recent animations, for example Overtime, which has a very nice atmosphere and which I found was quite enjoyable - it won the OIAF award for best graduate film, and The Cags, by Alexei Petrov (Note this is not Aleksandr Petrov, whose Old Man and the Sea I might add to part 10). I added 2 movies from the Arnaud Demuynck production house, Signes de Vie, a dark and sad animation with a hapy ending, made by Arnaud Demuynck, and Chahut, made by Gilles Cuvelier. I also added Vent by Erik van Schaaik, because he's dutch just like me and the movie is doing really well on international festivals. Humdrum by Peter Peake was nominated for an Oscar, as was Quest. But let's be honest, the folks at the Oscar really don't have a clue about what's worthwhile in short animation: there are a lot better recent animations that never got nominated to begin with. Morir de Amor for example, or Rabbit by Run Wrake. Or how about the lovely animated romantic comedy in 9 mnutes A Backbone Tale by Jeremy Clapin? I also added a video clip: one of the few places in popular culture animation still has a prominent place, and have chosen for Good Song by Blur, animated by Snynola, for which they got the McLaren animation award in 2004. I added some unknown animators who made nice animations, and finally, I included some better known animators: Paul van Driessen, Michael Dudok de Wit, Suzan Pitt and Don Hertzfeldt, which I'm sure you'll like, but who are slightly overclassed by younger artists in this torrent, I have to admit. Keep an eye out for part 10: it's coming. Also, have patience with the upload: I might not be online the whole day.


Beltesassar's Short Animation Festival Part 9

* Ryan Larkin - Walking (1968).avi (59.91 megabyte)
* Gil Alkabetz - Morir de Amor.avi (178.16 megabyte)
* Gilles Cuvelier - Chahut (2005).avi (116.4 megabyte)
* Georges Schwizgebel - L'homme sans ombre (2004).avi (88.61 megabyte)
* Michael Dudok de Wit - The Aroma of Tea (2006).avi (40.41 megabyte)
* Frank & Caroline Mouris - Frank Film (1973).avi (180.34 megabyte)
* Tyron Montgomery & Thomas Stellmach - Quest (1996).avi (73.46 megabyte)
* Piotr Duma?a - Franz Kafka (1991).avi (179.63 megabyte)
* Paul Driessen - Au bout du fil (Cat's Craddle) (1974).avi (120.01 megabyte)
* Marcell Jankovics - Sisyphus (1974) .avi (24.49 megabyte)
* Michael Theodore - Color Dream no.246 (2006).avi (23.39 megabyte)
* Don Hertzfeldt - The Meaning of Life (2005).avi (125.58 megabyte)
* Arnaud Demuynck - Signes de Vie (2004).avi (124.84 megabyte)
* Suzan Pitt - Asparagus (1978).avi (110.19 megabyte)
* Erik van Schaaik - Vent (2004) .avi (40.17 megabyte)
* Alexei Petrov - The Cags (2005).avi (21.78 megabyte)
* Atlan Berland Ferrie - Overtime (2005).avi (72.01 megabyte)
* Jeremy Clapin - Une Histoire Vertebrale (A Backbone Tale) (2006).avi (93.15 megabyte)
* Pixar - Scrat No Time For Nuts (2006).avi (75.98 megabyte)
* Géza M. Tóth - Maestro (2005).avi (57.24 megabyte)
* Richard Webber - Purple and Brown 7 (2006).avi (8.16 megabyte)
* Blur - Good Song (2004).avi (40.88 megabyte)
* Run Wrake - Rabbit (2005).mov (56.88 megabyte)
* Peter Peake - Humdrum (1998).avi (32.2 megabyte)

Beltesassar's Short Animation Festival Part 10

* Hedgehog in the Fog - Yuri Norstein (1975).avi (121.82 megabyte)
* Le Papillon - Antoine Antin & Jenny Rakotomamonjy (2002).avi (21.76 megabyte)
* Ryan Larkin - Street Musique.avi (115.64 megabyte)
* The End - Chris Landreth (1995).avi (51.41 megabyte)
* Tyger - Guilherme Marcondes ( 2006).avi (66.08 megabyte)
* Op Hop Hop Op - Pierre Hebert (1966).avi (33.89 megabyte)
* Icon for document filetype Comments.txt (19.36 kilobyte)
* Ivan Maximov - Bolero (1992).avi (101.19 megabyte)
* My Baby Just Cares For me - Aardman & Nina Simone.avi (23.87 megabyte)
* Le Paysagiste (Mindscape) -Jacques Drouin (1976).avi (113 megabyte)
* Terry Gilliam - Storytime (1968).avi (84.98 megabyte)
* Géraldine - Arthur De Pins (2000).avi (114.73 megabyte)
* Jiri Trnka - Story Of The Bass Cello (1949).avi (124.16 megabyte)
* The Lump - John Weldon (1991).avi (128.48 megabyte)
* Emile Cohl - Fantasmagorie (1908).avi (3.22 megabyte)
* L'homme aux bras ballants - Laurent Gorgiard (1997).avi (103.09 megabyte)
* Alexander Petrov - The Old Man and the Sea (1999).avi (700.69 megabyte)
* Reci Reci Reci - Michaela Pavlatova (1991).avi (109.6 megabyte)
* Bambi meets Godzilla - Marv Newland (1969).avi (15.19 megabyte)

Beltesassar's Short Animation Festival Part 11

* A Gentlemen's Duel - Blur Studio (2006).avi (167.44 megabyte)
* Chuck Jones - What's Opera Doc (1957).avi (139.25 megabyte)
* Comedy of Horrors - Will Vinton Productions (1991).avi (185.38 megabyte)
* Comments 11.txt (19.31 kilobyte)
* Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite.mpg (30.57 megabyte)
* Lumaaq, an Eskimo Legend - Co Hoedeman (1975).avi (71.61 megabyte)
* Night Angel (Jacques Drouin & Bretislav Pojar, NFB of Canada, 1986) [TVRip] [Animation Short].avi (145.65 megabyte)
* Piet Kroon - T.R.A.N.S.I.T. (1998).avi (147.84 megabyte)
* Piotr Dumala (1987) - Sciany (Walls).avi (70.74 megabyte)
* Pixar - Sesame Street light and heavy.avi (8.8 megabyte)
* Priit Parn - Time Out (1984).avi (119.71 megabyte)
* Roger Allers - The Little Match Girl (2006).avi (29.91 megabyte)
* Short Animation - Bob Godfrey & Zlatko Grgic (1979) - Dream Doll.avi (125.71 megabyte)
* Strange Invaders - Cordell Baker.avi (87.78 megabyte)
* Suzie Templeton (2006) - Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf (Making Of).mpg (211.31 megabyte)
* Suzie Templeton (2006) - Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf.avi (391.24 megabyte)
* Yuriy Norshteyn (1979) Skazka skazok (Tale of Tales).avi (700.02 megabyte)
* Yuriy Norshteyn (1979) Skazka skazok (Tale of Tales).srt (507 bytes)
* Zdenko Gasparovich - Satiemania (1978).avi (154.84 megabyte)