Four Mations Movies

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

The morning shift at a big-city radio station.

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.

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

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

A man made of newspaper waits and waits by the telephone.

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

A topsy-turvy world.

British animation short from Paul Vester.

A young boy struggles with bed-wetting. He is pleased to awaken one night to a dry bed, but terrors await him on his trip to the bathroom in the...

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

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

The Sound of Music engages with the deep-rooted sexual and class-based politics of a seemingly arbitrary and violent culture.

This humorous animated short offers one possible answer to the philosophical question: what would life be like if I had never lived? The first half...

A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.

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

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

An animated film, based on a Rudyard Kipling short story of an Indian holy man’s journey through North East India.

Documentary about the abstract filmmaker.