Paul Driessen
2021Ei 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 Killing of an Egg
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.
The End of the World in Four Seasons
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.
Home on the Rails
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.
The One-Minute Memoir
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
Air!
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.
Elephantrio
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.
Cat Meets Dog