Ainslie Henderson’s “Stems” is a piece that illustrates the fascination with collecting old, broken, or dead inanimate objects which have “already had a life,” and the way that animating them allows them another chance to live—but only for a brief moment.

As hot as stop mo gets, across all the years and permutations, there is still something so appealing about traditional cut-out animation.

Narrated by the unmistakable pitch of Tom Waits, The Moon's Milk chronicles the last expedition of Captain Millipede and his crew to harvest the milk seeping from the moon's craters.