Directing
Max Porter
Born 1981-01-01 · New York, USA
Max Porter (born 1981 in New York) is an American animator and filmmaker. He is best known for his stop-motion film Negative Space, for which he received critical acclaim and was co-nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film with co-director and wife Ru Kuwahata. He is a faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design. Description above from the Wikipedia article Max Porter (animator), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
6.5When a four-year-old girl discovers a dead bird in the garden, her mother is swept into a world where reality unfolds like a cartoon. Inspired by a poem by Nick Flynn, this film is a meditation on a mother's attempt to protect her daughter's sense of wonder.
Cartoon Physics
2026
6.5When a four-year-old girl discovers a dead bird in the garden, her mother is swept into a world where reality unfolds like a cartoon. Inspired by a poem by Nick Flynn, this film is a meditation on a mother's attempt to protect her daughter's sense of wonder.
Cartoon Physics
2026
A mysterious phenomenon over takes a small town, reeking havoc of all things red.
Red Things
2003
A mysterious phenomenon over takes a small town, reeking havoc of all things red.
Red Things
2003
6.0A house is visited by a clean, organized, well-mannered guest.
Perfect Houseguest
2015
6.0Here Comes Science is a 2009 children's album from Brooklyn-based band They Might Be Giants, packaged as a CD/DVD set. The album is (as the title suggests) science-themed, and is the third in their line of educational albums, following 2005's Here Come the ABCs and 2008's Here Come the 123s. It is the band's 14th studio album and fourth children's album. It was nominated for the "Best Musical Album For Children" Grammy.
They Might Be Giants: Here Comes Science
2009
NRKayo, a Japanese high school student, arrives in California as part of a new school exchange program funded by an American billionaire. She learns how to integrate into this confusing new culture with a Japanese talking ostrich.
Porcelain Birds
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7.0Everyone who enters a crime scene leaves something behind and takes something away. "Something Left, Something Taken" is an animated dark comedy about a vacationing couple's encounter with a man they believe to be the Zodiac Killer.
Something Left, Something Taken
2010
7.4Even though Sam's father is hardly ever home because he is often away on business trips, he is able to connect with his son by teaching him how to pack a suitcase.
Negative Space
2017
7.4Even though Sam's father is hardly ever home because he is often away on business trips, he is able to connect with his son by teaching him how to pack a suitcase.
Negative Space
2017
3.3From the wall of a small town bakery, a cuckoo clock recounts a day where bread was sliced one second thick, lovers fell in sync and time rarely flowed at an even rate.
Between Times
2014