Movies: Drawing

The odyssey of a young Cape Breton woman as she moves to the big city (Halifax) and supports herself after the birth of her illegitimate child by posing for college art classes, on her way to becoming an artist in her own right....

An illustrator can't find the perfect guy, so she draws her own....

Sketches of a Spanish circus made by Richard Williams in 1953 come to life. Williams began the project at the age of 20 and finished it when he was 77. It premiered at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in 2010....

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Commissioned by Harald Inhülsen for MasterclassFilm. A companion piece to Stefano Miraglia's Self-portrait, also part of the same commission....

A woman who is struggling with an overwhelming desire to consume human flesh brought on by a fascination with 70s Cannibal Movies struggles with her desires as she tries to continue her everyday life and control her inner hunger....

Hala, an 8-year-old girl, lives a difficult life with her brother Amir and their cruel stepmother. To escape her painful reality, Hala retreats into a fantasy world, finding solace from the harshness around her. However, one question continues to ha...

When finishing a drawing, a man will face a real nightmare....

This dreamlike fusion of political thriller and science-fiction fantasia is set to original music by Beyoncé....

Kaleidoscopic one minute animation windfall from Jake Fried, like penetrating the third eye. Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out ....

In her attempt to escape her past, Huiju relocated to the UK over 11 months ago. However, even after moving to a new country, she found that her nightmares from Korea continued to haunt her. Determined to move forward, she made the decision to confro...

A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles....

A young woman discovers a mysterious crayon drawing while out for a jog....

"Rilin, a high school girl with a deep passion for drawing, dreams of becoming a painter. She chooses to pursue further education in art. However, upon entering her studies, she is made to feel that her abilities will never amount to anything. Conseq...

Cut-out animated parody of Hamlet by pioneering British animator Anson Dyer....

A film about being, having been and becoming through the lens of a boy desperately trying to sketch out a cloud....

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An attempt to understand climate change through the production of human food; a few drawings to describe our world. This animation is the result of a workshop held with 15 children from the Limette School in Brussels during the festival Filming for t...

Legendary underground cartoonist Spain Rodriguez and his friends -- cartoonists Robert Crumb and Jay Kinney and cultural critic Susie Bright -- discuss Spain's art and his life as an outlaw biker, '60s figure and social satirist....

A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing a large profile caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The loss of the rest of the film has bequeathed us ...