Monique Renault

Like Fantasia (1940) or Allegro Non Troppo (1977), L'Opéra Imaginaire (1993) is an assembly of animated short films based on classic music greats. Directed by some of the best European animators and artists, L'Opéra Imaginaire takes us through dance, theater, music and painting masterpieces. It uses several animation techniques, like stop-motion clay animation or CG characters.

Two couples of dancing partners continually transform into different appearances, including numerous famous historical and pop culture characters.

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A music video made collaboratively for the strange 1994 song by French band Les Pirez, which had become a hit at one of the main Russian domestic animation festivals.

Educational film for a campaign against wife battering in 1985 in The Netherlands.

A man does the family planning, preparing future love-making sessions with his partner, without worrying about whether the desire is mutually felt. She doesn't seem to have the same desire as him, or rather not quite exactly the same.

1981 animation asks Question 1: Is there equality in similar jobs for men and women? Question 2: What do the women see behind the fence, that sets them off laughing?

First film in the Blind Justice documentary animation series about women and the law. The film traces the Aristotelian concept of all men being created equal and the exclusion of women from this concept.

An animated cartoon about the Creation myth reviewed and corrected by two women. God the magician has decided to create a paradise: Switzerland. He covers it with trees and cows, until Adam is born. After exploring his paradise, Adam creates Eve from one of his ribs. Man is shown as an erect penis, woman by a limbless trunk.

Archangel Gabriel tells a young housewife that she has been chosen to be the mother of Jesus. Mary's response is different than one would expect.

‘Woman is Fickle’ is based on the famous aria from the opera Rigoletto by Verdi. No woman is safe from the dissolute Duke of Mantua, who dreams of naked, languid beauties. But he also complains about their capriciousness. The women in the film refer to famous paintings: by Matisse, Botticelli, Degas. The film is a trip through male fantasies, seen through the eyes of a woman.

A woman kicks a man who is doing his morning ablutions on the backside, then laughs at her actions. One way for a woman to get rid of a man. Screened in France upon its release ahead of La Grande Bouffe (1973, Marco Ferreri).

Is there life after the constricting marriage contract?

A protest film against all the nuclear weapons in the world, with texts by Sonja van der Gaast set to music from Boudewijn de Groot’s well-known protest song 'Welterusten, meneer de president' (‘Sleep Well, Mister President’).

A woman writes a letter and looks back on the most significant cigarettes in her life.

Animated illustrations of statements by male church leaders about women and their role in society. According to our Catholic teachers, women are harmful animals, failed men or diabolical creatures, fit only for childbirth... This reveals the momentous influence of the church in the centuries-old oppression of women.

A big woman an a little superman are engaged in an erotic play.