Movies: Paul Driessen

Three stories of people in distress that interlock....

The daily horror in your mailbox. The best headlines of a popular tabloid, collected and presented for your edification....

This animated short film is about a guy who is about to eat a soft-boiled egg. As he's cracking the egg, he can hear a voice coming from within--telling him to STOP! Every time he hits the egg, someone from within the egg yells at him....

A short made for the surprise dinner in honor of 50 years Nico Crama as filmmaker. A knight defies hideous dangers to save a princess. Rearranged and slightly modified version of Oh What a Knight from 1982....

Directed by Paul Driessen....

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Short animation telling three stories - of a man at home, a boat at sea and a bird. All three are seen simultaneously via a split screen and occasionally coincide....

An animated cartoon envisaging the kind of world that children of the future may well inherit when the last vestige of blue is blotted from the sky by the spreading mantle of smog. In this story a little boy sets out, equipped with celestial wings, t...

A castaway on a desert island loses himself in his imagination....

A couple lives in a house situated on the railway tracks. They lead a peaceful domestic life, despite the periodic interruptions of the train passing through their living room; but when the husband - a gold prospector - falls down on his luck, the tr...

Uncles and aunts and otherwise related people. Revealing snapshots of their lives and times. As long as they hold out, a series to be continued…...

Genesis, seventh day early in the morning. The Creator realizes that he forgot to add sound to the world! He starts to fix it using his strange collection of cartoons. But not to the liking of his creatures ......

A medieval writer attracts the attention of Death itself while he writes his stories. Soon Death enters a tale he is creating and attempts to kill his main protagonist....

A child, a young man, an adult, and an old man walk alternately to doom, finding two shiny shoes on their way...

Animated look at transportation....

During Christmastime, a bum discovers a magical box....

A deceptively simple film, The Same Old Story is over almost before it has begun. A story within a story within a story, its effect is jarring, ambiguous and lingering. The film speaks of fear, which is as old as humanity and as new as today. An anim...

Theatrical short made for Canadian Tire Corporation, Ltd....

Documentary behind the making of Paul Driessen's animated short film The Writer....

Through a series of family snapshots, we are introduced to a family. The accompanying captions comment on everyday scenes featuring uncles, aunts and in-laws....