Six Dutch animated films are through to the shortlist of the YouTube Play project, a collaboration between the video-sharing website and the Guggenheim Museum. Out of 23,000 submissions, 125 have been shortlisted. They include six films from the Netherlands - see below.

The Guggenheim Museums - in New York, Bilbao (Spain), Berlin, Venice and soon also Abu Dhabi - are home to the world’s great modern artists. But the cutting-edge art of 2010 can often be found on the internet – and more specifically, on YouTube.

Guggenheim and YouTube called for submissions for a joint project, entitled YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video. They received 23,000 entries from 91 countries. The organisation made a shortlist of 125 films, six of them from the Netherlands.

All 125 shortlisted films can be seen on the Guggenheim’s YouTube channel as well as in the museums themselves. On 21 October a jury of top artists and filmmakers will announce the 20 winning films.

The shortlisted Dutch submissions:

1. Cardboard by Sjors Vervoort (svervoor)

Cardboard creatures turn up all over the city. The insects are the creation of character designer and animator Sjors Vervoort.

Freelance artist Evelien Lohbeck’s paper notebook works like a laptop computer. And on the screen you see her YouTube films, and discover that the notebook is also a toaster and a make-up mirror.

3. Pasfilm 2000 by Harry De Dood (harry8571)

The result of 40 years of consistently taking passport photos, by Harry de Dood’ 1960-2002. The baby Harry changes into a toddler, a little boy, and so on. One photo flows into another. In less than three minutes, we see more than 30 years of life flash by.

And egg waits for a champagne cork to pop. The film by writer and director Lernert Engelberts (1977) is called 'Revenge'. The pop means the end for both the champagne and the egg.

5. Walter, a dialogue with the imagination by Niels Hoebers (hoepla1001)

Walter is an animated puppet who appears in stop-motion films. His maker wants to make him understand he has no power over his own existence.

The French photographer Jean-Baptiste Maitre (1978) made ‘Why do things get in a muddle’. This question gradually unfolds on the screen in letters made up of fluorescent tubes. Maitre trained in France and the Netherlands and is currently a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.