Four Mations Movies

Animation set in the Middle Ages.

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

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

A bilious misanthrope finds enlightment via heaven, hell and the kitchen cupboard.

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.

British animation short from Paul Vester.

Darkly humorous variation on the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice, looking at the motives for the farmer's wife's murderous assault on the eponymouse...

During a violent electrical storm, a space-travelling metal cockerel crash-lands in a chicken farmer's field. He brings with him the grand promise of...

A young man in prison is interviewed and talks about his life, how he got into prison, and what it's like doing time.

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

The morning shift at a big-city radio station.

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

A topsy-turvy world.

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...

A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.

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

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

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

Documentary about the abstract filmmaker.

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