That lady's channel is pretty interesting. she has a bunch of wild Russian animals in her house and some other friends with different owls.

Every once in a while I come across some Russian animation and it is so different and so good. I will try to find some and post it. You have inspired me.

Sure there is


>> ^marinara:

channels make a dumb interface anyway. We need tags like stackoverflow.com has.
The problem is, there are too many channels to help me browse videos, (i'f i'm looking for clint eastwood, most likely I WON'T find it in the Actionpack channel)
but not enough channels to label videos in any helpful manner. If i'm searching for animation from the iron curtain, there's no way to find it)

what terry gilliam said about this movie in the guardian:

"It was at the Sitges film festival that I first saw an exhibition of work by the pioneering Russian animator Wladyslaw Starewicz, and the puppets were so enrapturing that when I got home I ordered up all the tapes I could find of his work. His work is absolutely breathtaking, surreal,inventive and extraordinary, encompassing everything that Jan Svankmajer, Walerian Borowczyk and the Quay Brothers would do subsequently. This is his last film, after The Tale of the Fox from 1930; it is all right there in this cosmic animation soup. It is important, before you journey through all these mind-bending worlds, to remember that it was all done years ago, by someone most of us have forgotten about now. This is where it all began."

Ok. I simply must sell this one because there is no way that it should perish in the queue due to its obscurity.

Aleksandr Petrov is a Russian animator who frequently works with the Pascal Blais Studio in Canada. He is one of the most renowned paint-on-glass animators in the world.

Paint-on-Glass is unbelievably difficult to pull off successfully. The technique involves creating a picture on a pane of glass with pastel paints, photographing it, and then "animating" the picture by manipulating the paints with your fingers. Petrov's version of The Old Man and the Sea is even more astonishing than The Cow. I would vote for this one 1000X if I could.

This cartoon is called Zhozkh va tomane, it's one of the great classics of Russian animation and a childhood favorite of mine.

Ohh sweet Russian animation! WTF Now it's Japanese?