Paul Driessen

Te land, ter zee en in de lucht

Paul Driessen

Short animation telling three stories - of a man at home, a boat at sea and a bird. All three are seen simultaneously via a split screen and occasionally coincide.

Het scheppen van een koe

Paul Driessen

Robert Paul, Peter Bierman

Directed by Paul Driessen.

The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg

Paul Driessen

A short animation about a boy who sees an iceberg coming. Will he be in time to warn the captain?

Jeu de coudes

Paul Driessen

A man expresses his individuality in a conformist society.

Ei om zeep

Paul Driessen

Peter Bierman

This animated short film is about a guy who is about to eat a soft-boiled egg. As he's cracking the egg, he can hear a voice coming from within--telling him to STOP! Every time he hits the egg, someone from within the egg yells at him.

The End of the World in Four Seasons

Paul Driessen

Complex, short animation film that divides the screen into eight small windows. To the music of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and with appropriate colours, seasonal stories are told in the small frames. Every now and then, the isolated events cross their borders and the scenes start interacting.

La Belle et la boîte

Paul Driessen

A knight braves various dangers in order to rescue a damsel in distress.

2D or not 2D

Paul Driessen

Things are not quite as they appear in this love story by Dutch director Paul Driessen, as the attraction between two people is thwarted by unexpected geometric complications.

Het Treinhuisje

Paul Driessen

A couple lives in a house situated on the railway tracks. They lead a peaceful domestic life, despite the periodic interruptions of the train passing through their living room; but when the husband - a gold prospector - falls down on his luck, the train comes to assume a more ominous significance.

David

Paul Driessen

Peter Bierman, Aart Staartjes

A giant trying in vain to kill little David.

The One-Minute Memoir

Janet Perlman, Theodore Ushev

When Academy Award®–winning animator and painter Joan Gratz asked eleven filmmakers if they would contribute to an omnibus film, she wasn’t sure what to expect—after prompting them to make a “one-minute memoir,” she let them figure out the rest. The One-Minute Memoir is the exuberant result: eleven stories ranging from the heartfelt to the absurd, all reflective of each director’s personal style.

Une Vieille Boîte

Paul Driessen

During Christmastime, a bum discovers a magical box.

Air!

Paul Driessen

Although only a couple of minutes long, this animated short makes the point that oxygen is the stuff of life whether on land, in the air or water, but that it is becoming scarcer as man-made pollutants crowd it out. This is a film without words in which plants, birds, fish and, finally, man come to the same "breathless" end

Elephantrio

Graeme Ross, Paul Driessen

In this zany tale, three storybook characters experience the dangers and temptations of life while trying to maintain physical and moral integrity. Three well-known animators collaborated to create this potpourri, and though each section was animated independently of the others, recurring threads of story and theme weave the whole into a unified moral fable. Film without words.

3 Misses

Paul Driessen

Three stories of people in distress that interlock.

Cat Meets Dog

Paul Driessen

An anthropomorphic cat and dog, their images divided over 4 panels, receive an invitation for a romantic rendez­vous. When they eventually arrive at their destination after multiple moments of near-­interaction the lovers don’t turn out to be whom we thought they were. At the end it’s their abandoned spouses who meet and reveal the naked truth.