John Straiton

On the same day a notorious crime kingpin Jimmy Vincent is released from prison, there is a daring armored car diamond heist of diamonds using his m.o.

Fairytale-like images of fire and night and shapes that seem to come alive.

A half-horse, half-man pursues a young woman who turns herself into the same figure. Using a spare animation style, Straiton deals with a mythological subject that reveals his personal sense of humour. A beautiful film, set to original music, that is stunning in its simplicity.

A dark film that explores images of survival, reproduction and death.

Between 1877 and 1885, an English photographer, Eadweard Muybridge, conducted detailed experiments analyzing human and animal motion using rapid photography. In 1968, John Straiton took the published works of Muybridge and created from them a fascinating and hilarious film. A tribute to the serious maker of the first nudie before the invention of movies.

An exceptional portrayal of the world's creation, from a barren landscape to the emergence of the Woman and the Serpent, ending with Society as we know it. The film is technically unsurpassed in plasticine animation.

Examines the mythology in Hollywood cinema by constructing a visual poem to one of its' most mythic stars, Marilyn Monroe.

Those sensual machines, steam tractors, reveal a remarkable ability to perform to music.

The mind and heart of Lydia are portrayed symbolically in smooth-flowing, single-framed drawings in this psychological study of a woman. A different film for the devotee of the experimental approach to motion pictures

The director puns on the then emerging genre of "rock videos," by bringing real rocks to life under the animation camera.