René Laloux
René Laloux was born in Paris in 1929 and went to art school to study painting. After some time working in advertising, he got a job in a psychiatric institution where he began experimenting in animation with the interns. It is at the psychiatric institution that he made... Read full bio →
Gandahar
On the planet Gandahar where peace reigns and poverty is unknown, this utopian lifestyle is upset by reports of people at the outlying frontiers being turned to stone. Sylvain is sent to investigate this mysterious threat.
Comment Wang-Fo fut sauvé
Among the aged master painter Wang-Fô's impeccable paintings, exists a mediocre and unflattering portrait of the pale Celestial Emperor that has merited him execution, nevertheless, how is this possible?
La prisonnière
Two kids travel to a city where silence is kept sacred.
Les maîtres du temps
On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves young Piel alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar, an adventurer travelling through space. Onboard Jaffar’s shuttle are the renegade Prince Matton, his fiancée, and Silbad, who knows Perdide well.
La planète sauvage
This film takes place on a faraway planet where giants rule, and tiny humanoids must fight for their lives and their equality. A surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.
Les escargots
In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.
Les temps morts
What is man ? Man makes war, man kills man, man hunts, man is executed. A montage mixing original drawings by Topor, original shots and stock shots that ironically analyze what man is.
Les dents du singe
An animated film whose storyline was created by patients in a French mental health clinic. A dentist steals the teeth of poorer patients for rich clientèle until a monkey magician elicits revenge.