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Happy Birthday 2 You

01 Jul 2008 03:07 CST

Clara, a social worker, discovers a dark secret on her way to help a boy who is allegedly a victim of child abuse. But nobody is who they pretend to be in this story about murder, cats and birthday presents.

Chickenfut

24 Jun 2008 07:06 CST

When an awkward German exchange student is possessed by the spirit of his prized chicken named Gisela, he is given the power to fight back, avenging both the murder of his hen and his cruel treatment at the hands of school bullies.

I Am That Man

12 Jun 2008 09:06 CST

I Am That Man is part of the ?Man Without Shirt? series. A series of photographic self-portraits with a voice-over narrative and text.

Hatching Beauty

03 May 2008 10:05 CST

Hatching Beauty is a stop-motion live action montage about a woman deciding to sell her ova to make ends meet. Once she enters the market she realizes she is as much for sale as the products she produces at work. The inspiration came about when I was trying to raise funds to make a film and considering ovum donation as an option. The resulting story deals with collective fears around perfection, consumption, genetic engineering, commercial agriculture, and reproductive technologies.

Super Dee Dooper Giraffe

08 Jun 2008 10:06 CST

A giraffe is given super powers by eating super hero diarrhea. Chaos ensues.

Got, Got, Need!

18 Jun 2008 06:06 CST

'Got. Got. Need!' is essential playground lingo for thousands of children swapping football stickers all over the world. But for one collector, playground swopsies were not enough to land him the prized name of Mickey Stewart - the only empty space in an otherwise complete sticker album from 1970. After a dramatic vision, the collector realises that all his life's failures stemmed from his incomplete album and, now enlightened, he mounts a new bid to complete it - 35 years after he first started.

The Closet

24 Apr 2008 02:04 CST

Ramon and Trinidad in their Bronx apartment have buried a family secret in the closet. Ramon want to control the secret with discipline, while compassionate Trinidad feeds, bathes and reads to this secret, in her hope to free this spirit. When boss Pastor John Parker, and his wife come to dinner, this creature begins to awaken. Summary written by Luis Cortina

Earth to Earth

18 Jun 2008 05:06 CST

'With great power comes great responsibility' is a phrase we have come to associate more with superheroes than allotments, yet for the owner of one particular allotment, this phrase has never rung more true. Earth to Earth follows the life and times of allotment 4a with it???s owner describing how he came to terms with it???s ???special??? qualities.

Dear Lori

17 Jun 2008 01:06 CST

On March 23rd, 2003, the 507th Maintenance Company was ambushed near the town of Nasiriyah, Iraq. Eleven soldiers were killed and five were captured by Iraqi soldiers as prisoners. Among the POWs was a 19-year-old blonde hair blue eyed female soldier named Jessica Lynch from Palestine, West Virginia. Jessica???s rescue story quickly took center stage and her ordeal was used by the government to deflect negative attention away from the Iraq war. The Jessica Lynch incident ultimately extended beyond her persona to engage the nation in discussions of gender, race, war, and patriotism. Sources

Leonard & the Mountain

14 Jun 2008 05:06 CST

While traveling across America, Leonard Knight found a secluded spot and decided to build a monument to Jesus. Fourteen years later, Salvation Mountain is a harlequin colored, three-story religious monument made out of mud, old paint and adobe. It is surrounded by an encampment of brightly painted vehicles and elaborate adobe structures. Leonard's mountain and message is now known worldwide, as he gets daily visitors from around the globe. In recent years, Leonard has gained significant respect from the folk art community and his work is now on display in the Visionary Folk Art Museum in Balti

Portrait of the Artist at 16

12 May 2008 09:05 CST

Meet Cole Lanter and relive just what it was like to be 16 years old.

Tenderly Yours

06 Jun 2008 02:06 CST

Tenderly Yours resituates the personal, casual and ambiguous approach of French new wave cinema in a net art narrative that explores love, loss and memory. The story is recited by a striking and illustrious persona, who moves through the city with her lover. Her willful independence is intoxicating, though her sense of self is ambiguous and a fear of intimacy consuming. Then, one day she suddenly disappears. Her lover is left bewildered and is posed to question whether she is a fiction, who fades with every passing recollection. At this moment, her face reappears only to be united with tha

How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate

09 Jun 2008 11:06 CST

During the prologue, a room filled with terrified Irish students listen while a professor solemnly warns them that their performance on the three-hour test laid before them will determine their success or failure in life. Liberally laced with irony, this subversive comedy from Irish director Graham Jones centers on the attempts of six young friends to devise a way to cheat on their upcoming Leaving Certificate, a grueling comprehensive exam that will allow them to receive diplomas. The test causes so much anxiety that some students have committed suicide rather than risk failure. The young reb

Humans!

06 Jun 2008 12:06 CST

Humans! is a 60 second global awareness PSA sensationalizing the excessive, all-consuming nature of the human being. This cute and na?ve Earth stands no chance against such an insatiable parasite. Witness its utter demise in a fun and sickening kind of way.

Heart Made of Sound

13 May 2008 03:05 CST

Kris Moyes directs a music video for the Softlightes "Heart Made of Sound".

Lost Loop

21 Aug 2007 10:08 CST

An experimental video to music rather than a music video. This is a mysterious visual puzzle that seperates the central couple and challenges them to find each other through their fading memories and low-fi technological landscapes.

everything is ok

07 May 2008 12:05 CST

EVERYTHING IS OK Directed by Kelly Tunstall, this HD music video for Halou's single "Everything is OK" is an adventure in mixed media. A fresh combination of sculptural elements, digitally-created scenes, hand-rendered images and live action footage, the sequence features a tribe of fierce puppets who meet their match when a beautiful visitor comes to their island.

Bad Dreams

07 May 2008 11:05 CST

Theo has had nightmares all his life. When a hospital tries out a new medicine that's suppose to help people with bad dreams, he signs up not knowing it will turn out to be the worst nightmare he's ever had. Constantly waking up but never really awake Theo begins to find it difficult to differentiate the reality from his dreams.

The Market

30 Apr 2008 01:04 CST

The Market is about buying groceries and preparing food for winter. It deals with the tendency of the buyers to buy domestic products, considering them better than those foreign and imported, no matter the method of their cultivation. The Market explores people?s behavior during ordinary, everyday shopping in market places.

Hairlady

01 May 2008 01:05 CST

Hairlady began as a time-lapse photography experiment. First, the subject?s head and face were shaved. As hair growth proceeded, two identical digital photos were shot per day (approximately 12 hours apart) for four months, the subject ending up extremely hairy. On the final day an HDV video camera was mounted where the still camera had been and the resulting video footage was shot, following the subject to meet the titular Hairlady (Miriam Escovitz).

Glass Crow

25 Apr 2008 01:04 CST

A poetic mediation on the defenestration of Prague - the spark which ignited the Thirty Years' War.

direction, animation, editing by Steve Subotnick; music by Alexander Stolmack-Ness and Joan LaBarbara

Rock Bottom Riser by Smog

29 Apr 2008 11:04 CST

Music video for the song Rock bottom Riser by Smog. From the album 'A River ain't too much to love'. Hundreds of ink paintings form the basis for a dreamy and flowing animation, randomly moving from image to image we travel deep into the murk of a distant memory rising to the surface. Hand drawn artwork animated in after effects.

Seville

29 Apr 2008 05:04 CST

This is a snap shot from a trip to Seville, in Spain. It was one of my first of experiments with 2D animation and music.

The Light

08 Apr 2008 11:04 CST

Adam Reiter?s world is in stasis; existentially empty and devoid of purpose. That is, until his daily routine is interrupted by a seemingly harmless traffic light. What starts as a mild frustration of modern day life, escalates into a seemingly all-out battle. In a moment of rage, a neutral by-standing Moving Man, makes an observation, and sheds light on whether the conspiracy is actually against Adam, or for him.

Boxcartoon

17 Apr 2008 01:04 CST

Boxcartoon was conceived as an ?exquisite corpse? collaboration wherein the filmmaker employed three other animators to create short works within set parameters with no knowledge of the content of other segments. These then were collected and animations were created between each contribution, as well as the finale and introduction, by the filmmaker with an aim towards a more cohesive whole than the classic animation jam. All contributors were selected on the basis of a general aesthetic similarity in personal work as well as an abiding interest in the fantastic or grotesque. Boxcartoon is a s

A Double Entendre

22 Apr 2008 09:04 CST

An 8 second turn of a phrase.

One Nation Under Tommy

23 Apr 2008 10:04 CST

Adapting the children?s game known as ?grapevine? or ?telephone,? ?One Nation under Tommy? is a mutation/deformation/liberation of a cynically patriotic Tommy Hilfiger commercial. The commercial was given to a writer who wrote a script from it that was then given to a filmmaker who made a film of that script which was then passed to another writer who &c. We did that 5 times over two years and ?One Nation under Tommy? is the result.

Room 101

06 Apr 2008 11:04 CST

a man unexpectedly dies in a car crash and wakes up in purgatory. he is guided into room 101 and is forced to face the anxieties and fears he avoided during the course of his life.

Death of a Matriarch

06 Apr 2008 12:04 CST

an adaptation of an episode of the cherokee origin myth, "kana'ti and selu", "death of a matriarch" explains why man must farm for their sustenance.

All You've Got

08 Apr 2008 03:04 CST

A battered wife forms an emotional attachment to the cat burglar robbing her home.

Pastor Inqvist's
Trip to Orlando

16 Apr 2008 03:04 CST

A stop motion animated film based on the story by Garrison Keillor.

Ng

14 Apr 2008 07:04 CST

In the summer of 1985, the San Francisco police unearthed a grisly discovery. The bodies of 25 victims, men, women and children were found, on a remote ranch along with a homemade dungeon and explicit videotapes. Two men were arrested for the horrific murders, but only one would face prosecution. This turned out to be one of the most grim, devious and damning cases in California history. This is the true story of Charles Ng, the first Chinese serial killer in America.

La Captive

04 Apr 2008 11:04 CST

Hidden from one's eye, in the far end of the crypt, a syncopated fight begins. This strange woman that nothing frightens more than herself, it's her, the Captive, prisoner of her own body. Tormented soul, prey of unfathomable mutations, monster-woman, woman-monster, your fight reveals intimate fearsome eruptions, your resignation is wise, tomorrow is an other day and everything will start again. Once upon a time a strange manor house overhanging the town...

A Bit Scary Really...

19 Mar 2008 02:03 CST

A Bit Scary Really... is a video piece in which a couple ? a man and a woman ? are attempting to fell a tree. It?s not such a simple job for city-folks, it seems. It?s a big spruce and a first attempt. But they?re giving it all they?ve got. Will it fall, and if so, which way??

Three Beauties

07 Apr 2008 06:04 CST

Student Academy Award Winner!

Follows the lives of three girls living in the slums of Dhaka,Bangladesh. The first girl, Labli, is 7 years old and stays home to take care of her younger sisters. The second girl, Julie, is 14 and worked 12-hour days at a garment factory 7 days a week for less than $13 per month. The last girl, Ruba, is 16 and getting married to her 30 year old cousin against her wishes. Three Beauties focuses on how these girls from the slums fall into lives tarnished by poverty, corruption, and unjust social practices.

Hush

31 Mar 2008 12:03 CST

There are people who wander into the woods with huge microphones to hear sounds that you just don't get downtown. Paul Matzner, founder of the Nature Sounds Society, acts as guide to our auditory worlds, inviting the viewer to consider the endangered habitat of ?natural quiet? - the sounds endemic to a specific environment, minus human-made noise.

Dimension X

26 Mar 2008 07:03 CST

An astronaut returns from space while vampires hunt a crooked Senator who holds the key to another dimension. A sci fi comic strip soap opera.

HYMN OF RECKONING

02 Apr 2008 01:04 CST

"There's a place for us somewhere a place for us." A sequel (of sorts) to SECURITY ANTHEM.

THE CORNSTARCH GIZMO

25 Mar 2008 01:03 CST

Driven by the need to heal, an idealistic young inventor builds a bizarre machine which he fuels with cornstarch. "If cornstarch can be used to heal diaper rashes," he reasons, "it can be used to heal the world's rashes." So he summons one person after another to his stately Brooklyn home, and they all desperately offer themselves to the odd-looking Gizmo (made from a lawn ornament and other random objects). Appearing in sumptuous B&W, the film is a tribue to the theatre of heightened emotion, at once displaying the effects of a world in desperate need of healing and the ludicrousness and i

REMINISCE

02 Apr 2008 09:04 CST

What started it all? Two friends talk about what inspired them to start skateboarding and why they both continue to ride their skateboards today.

Skate Witches

20 Feb 2008 06:02 CST

A gang of female Skate Boarders and their pet rats terrorize all the boy skate boarders in town. Shot in an afternoon on glorious Kodachrome. The sound was recorded through my Chinon projector. When you engaged the record button, there was an ungodly crackling that recorded onto the film. I figured out how to circumvent that problem on subsequent films. I should have cleaned it up on the dvd, but that wouldn't have been authentic. You can also see an ugly pulsing at the head of each shot which was the result of the lag time in the auto exposure setting a proper exposure. I eventually figured o

Chirpy

27 Mar 2008 07:03 CST

Chirpy is the classically animated tale of a little yellow bird's irrepressible love for a big black horse, a love that transcends all boundaries, including some basic laws of physics.
BANNED IN LONDON!

muZak.

19 Mar 2008 08:03 CST

Set amidst the light instrumental music of a supermarket, "muZak." chronicles a son's attempt to live his life and become a Techno DJ.

Typecast - party

12 Mar 2008 12:03 CST

Inspired by the multi-award winning Not My Type and made specifically for the mobile medium.

The Faktory

17 Aug 2007 10:08 CST

A human beings factory is managed by a dollar bill until the day when a faulty part turns the system around...

LOOPS: A Portrait of Caddie Life

19 Mar 2008 08:03 CST

Co-Directed by Stephen McFarland

This true story interweaves the hopes, fears, and ambitions (or lack thereof) of three golf caddies.

TO REMEMBER THAT OUR SKIES ARE THE SAME SKIES

19 Mar 2008 05:03 CST

This piece was built around a line -- as sentence -- that was forged in conversation. an idea that took on it's own life and whose meaning continues to grow and evolve even more now. This piece wasn't created so much as it was revealed, discovered, unearthed and given an existence somewhere other than my screen/hard drive.

Penguin Rebellion

22 Nov 2007 01:11 CST

Diego is 17 and thinks only about sex, meanwhile Chilean students are on the streets demonstrating and demanding a better public education. He becomes involved in the demonstration by accident, while holding a camera. He is wounded during the events. He goes on to find political conspiracy and a love affair experience.

Balikbayan

10 Nov 2005 06:11 CST

A migrant worker sends her mother back home bringing a taste of a 'better life' at all cost. This is one of the absurd but practical realities of mixing consumerism along with tradition in a developing nation.

Pin Doctor

29 Feb 2008 06:02 CST

"Pin Doctor" is a film that takes something feared by many--needles--and tries to find the beauty in its purpose through the eyes of one acupuncture doctor.

Marvelous, Keen Loony Bin

15 Mar 2007 05:03 CST

?Balloon headed monkeys mingle with faceless children, talking loaves of bread, and limbless Christmas shoppers. It?s all sorts of crazy up in this animated question mark.?

BEST NOT SLEEP THROUGH IT ALL

03 Mar 2008 11:03 CST

a meditation on the simple, yet cathartic, act of watching the scenery pass through the window of a moving vehicle. Feeling every color, shape, motion fully. Wanting to hold on to it all.

A Touch of Deceit

27 Feb 2008 04:02 CST

When a rabbit sees a butterfly, he quickly realizes that there's more than meets the eyes.

APESH!T - Butter Face

11 Mar 2008 04:03 CST

In the tradition of the great American road movie, Butter Face takes you on an epic journey of discovery. That is, if you think a monkey, a rabbit and two humans shooting the bull as they tear ass across the American southwest in a kick ass '71 Superbird is classic Americana ? oh yeah, add a butter face, a Cleveland steamer, a Uranus flytrap and a dash of sexual confusion. Go America!

The Edge of the World

27 Feb 2008 09:02 CST

Paris in the winter. Bittersweet and beautiful. It's cold and the days are short. And it rains. It's wonderful.

PORTLANDTOWN

27 Feb 2008 02:02 CST

for and regarding the city i call home.

Pretty Kitty

27 Feb 2008 08:02 CST

Cats make you do crazy things.

BLOW

03 Mar 2008 08:03 CST

A terrible death machine imposes its law crushing everything it meets. It is a real living thing ridden by a fat War Lord. Many branching arms move the machine. A clever game of light and shadow discloses walls and buildings of a frightened city apparently uninhabited. The fat powerful man terrifies the city while windows close, black vultures drop their contents of death from the sky and explosions from the buildings follow one after the other. The Lord of War walks triumphantly, nobody can resist him. But something slips away, not everything is under control. A young boy attacks frontally. C

Villamar

02 Jul 2006 05:07 CST

Villamar is a fishing village in a coastal town of the Ilocos Sur, 60 kilometers from my hometown of Bangued, Abra Philippines. Fishing is their means of livelihood. When the waters are rough, the people are in the look out of driftwood, log to make charcoal, a way to supplemeent their income. Life in Villamar is a picnic, so I thought as a young child. Each visit was a feast, friends and relatives brought their catched from an all night fishing trip out to sea for us to have. I return to Villamar 30 years later to visit cousin Lupe, with warmth and in disbelief that I remembered those we

Taipei Super Fresh

26 Feb 2008 12:02 CST

A music video shot in Taiwan. Scooters on the loose...

Super Combo Hoplophiliacs

25 Feb 2008 12:02 CST

A new lunch is now available for all you gun lovers out there! The super combo hoplophiliacs!

What Would Elvis Do?

28 Jan 2008 07:01 CST

Randy Morgan's UndergroundfilmMaker Festival project. The assignment was to make a short documentary on the State of the Counterculture.

Kino Pravda

24 Jan 2008 05:01 CST

Chris Hefner's UndergroundfilmMaker Festival project. The assignment was to make a short documentary on the State of the Counterculture.

Undergroundfilm Maker Festival

15 Feb 2008 07:02 CST

After receiving almost 600 films submitted from 38 countries, the staff of Undergroundfilm selected five finalists on the basis of their body of work, a filmed interview, and an assignment which they were required to complete in four weeks. The assignment was to make a short documentary on the State of the Counterculture. The finalists included San Francisco underground legend Danny Plotnick, Australian filmmaker Annabel Osborne, animator Nicholas Kallincos, experimental filmmaker Chris Hefner and L.A's camp king, Randy Morgan. All but Hefner and Kallincos were in attendance at the scr

Out of Print

24 Jan 2008 05:01 CST

Danny Plotnick's UndergroundfilmMaker Festival project. The assignment was to make a short documentary on the State of the Counterculture.

Danny Plotnick is the Grand Prize winner of the UndergroundfilmMaker Festival!!

Volvo vs. Robin

13 Jan 2008 08:01 CST

I love doing videosampling stuff, and this is sampling sounds my Volvo makes and making a tune with it.

Inside the Extras Studio

12 Feb 2008 04:02 CST

made this to spoof the life of a professional extra - WAY before Ricky Gervais figured that idea out - made in 2004.

in memoriam

13 Nov 2007 06:11 CST

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delirium

12 Feb 2008 04:02 CST

when you don't eat, things don't seem to be as they are...

Shot in one 6-hour shoot, edited in a week, this film was the exploration of an idea generated while researching the Franklin expedition, wherein several starving men in the far north had to figure out how to survive... there is a 2008 redux version (2.5mins. longer) out there somewhere (google 'delirium redux'?)

Batard

07 Feb 2008 05:02 CST

Jacques Derrien, a french countryside hardware dealer, comes to Paris to execute his single daughter?s last wishes. Marthe Gogues, an orphan and a loose canon, leads strange investigation. The crossed destinies of two isolated, lost, and on borrowed time people trying to live or to come alive again.

Direct Mail

07 Feb 2008 04:02 CST

A story of a man that is confronted with the possibility of changing his life....

Lost Utopia

07 Feb 2008 06:02 CST

An animation using the Paradise Lost tale of Adam and Eve as the motif.

Supermarket

07 Feb 2008 05:02 CST

13 people shut themselves up in a supermarket with the intention of shooting a movie. There are 2 principal performers and the staff. Using walkie-talkies, the scriptwriters tell the actors exactly what they must do during the sequence. Nobody knows what is going to happen in the end.

pea vs. carrot

05 Feb 2008 07:02 CST

An intimate peek into the lives of a young couple.

Phone Sex Grandma

30 Jan 2008 04:01 CST

A 60 something Grandma working a phone sex line in a small Southern ghost town.

Home on the Range

24 Jan 2008 04:01 CST

Opposites attract in this charming comedy about a frustrated, small-town waiter and a stressed-out, New York investment banker who just might have what the other is looking for. HOME ON THE RANGE is Michael Goldburg's NYU MFA thesis film which won a Warner Bros. Pictures Production Award, a Craft Award for Excellence at the New York Magazine First Run Festival, and was a finalist for original screenplay in the Chesterfield Writers Film Project at Paramount Pictures.

Back Issues

25 Jan 2008 04:01 CST

Peter, a wannabe comic book letterer, has just proposed to his girlfriend. Instead of saying yes, she gives him an ultimatum: 'Give up comics, get a real job, or we?re through.' The pressure is on, Peter must choose by the end of the workday between his girl and his passion for comic books.

still, life

21 Jan 2008 04:01 CST

Co-directed by Tania Khalaf.

Jill O?Brien and Trish Igo are art students, who collect dead animals found on the side of the road, and then document these animals through still photography. Their goal is not to shock, but rather to 'rescue' these animals and document their lives by creating something meaningful and beautiful. The process itself, which is more like performance art, has elaborate rituals such as ?hunting? for the animals, naming and photographing them, doing a ?take? (which is removing a part of the bodies as a keepsake), adding a ?gift?, wrapping the bodies and reti

Tour of Pain

24 Jan 2008 04:01 CST

An outrageous dark comedy about a New York City tour guide who skips the usual landmarks and leads a group of unsuspecting tourists on an all-too-intimate journey through the painfully hilarious events of her life.

Route 66 - An American (Bad) Dream

19 Jan 2008 03:01 CST

Accompany three German hillbillies discovering the American culture on a weird road trip and see how they stumble into the American way of life as outsiders.

Good Bingo

21 Jan 2008 07:01 CST

Good Bingo. A light-hearted glimpse at the bingo players, the community and culture which all convene at the Knights of Columbus Hall on Sunday afternoons in Denton, Texas. Bingo games at the KoC are where the hair is big and the talk is bigger. Your tour guides are two Texas twangy voiced sisters - Peggy Shaver and Lula Serena, with help from the rest of the bingo playing gang. You'll also meet Ed Bleess, the KoC's Charitable Bingo Manager who will share his insights from a non-player point of view. See what tricks the players use for good luck, and how visually appealling the game of bingo

Cubie

21 Jan 2008 06:01 CST

A conscious computer has been the holy grail of artificial intelligence research for decades. This film doesn't deal with morality, it explores the cognitive consequences of a thinking machine. How would a man-made consciousness differ from a human one? Would they even be able to recognize each other? And most importantly: how is our perception of the world linked to finding our place in it?

Chanaika

17 Jan 2008 09:01 CST

Chanaika (11) threw her violent father out of her family home. After this emotional event, she shows that she doesn't let down easily -Chanaika's ultimate dream is to dance in front of a crowd of a million people during the Carribean Carnaval in Rotterdam. This summer her dreams will come true!

Haunted Planet

15 Jan 2008 09:01 CST

Plagued by visions of restless, suffering spirits her entire life, a woman resolves to ignore them, tell no one of her 'gift' of second sight and try to be normal like everyone else. One day, her good friend tells her that he has dreamt about this terrible secret of hers. He explains that he's actually still dreaming now and that all of reality and the evils that haunt her are all just a nightmare -- his nightmare. At first she rejects his story. But she soon realizes that this is the most rational explanation for all of the atrocities of the world... it's all just a bad dream. She resolves to

DNN: Dead News Network

20 Nov 2007 06:11 CST

Peter Deadings heads this animated, bone-chilling newscast from Mictlan. Tune in to see the results of Selection 08; inf?rmate on the emerging theory of Global Chillin?; and don't miss Breaking Deadline News of the Million Muetro March on the Capital.

The 400th Fly!

16 Jan 2008 07:01 CST

A dark tale about a young girl who declares war on the old man who lives next door when he kills one of her pet flies. As events escalate out of control, the question is....who will win?

Hola Perro

11 Jan 2008 09:01 CST

The telephone rings and rings. Perhaps answering it is not the solution...

Tio Luis

11 Jan 2008 09:01 CST

An old married couple live in a department of the city of Mexico. Confusion and loss of memory are their companions.

Love Story

10 Jan 2008 09:01 CST

The story of a wolf that fell in love with a sheep.

Sand Dancer

09 Jan 2008 06:01 CST

This is a man living life by his own right steps. The 'Sand Dancer'( Peter Donnelly) lives at the beach in Brighton New Zealand. Hundreds of people are drawn from all over the world to watch him create vast arts works. He does not use any plotting tools or visual aids. Having a rare abilty to 'see perspective' Peter's masterpieces vanish in an instant,as soon as the tide starts to wash them away. This documentary explores the very simplist way to live life and looks at how a mans quiet passion for drawing in the sand has reached epic proportions. Despite being a heavily populated beach, loc

Inside My Skin

10 Jan 2008 06:01 CST

Inside My Skin is a personal documentary that profiles the filmmaker?s exploration of her emotionally hostile relationship with her mother. Upon hearing a disturbing message of the filmmaker?s mother talking about how remorseful she is from the way she raised her, the filmmaker journeys home to face her mother, their relationship and ultimately herself. Interspersed between striking interviews of her mother and grandmother, the film is laced with images of the filmmaker running and swimming in the ocean. The filmmaker narrates her discontent of constantly being treated as a child. She expresse

Swingers' Serenade

20 Dec 2007 04:12 CST

A tawdry tale of suburban sexual malaise plus a lesson in arcane film history rolled into one sin-tillating package! In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, when home movie making was at its peak, this nation's newsstands were filled with amateur movie making magazines. The majority of the articles contained therein focused on the technical concerns of filmmaking. Some magazines, however, would actually provide their subscribers with scripts to shoot-scripts on which these would-be cineastes could hone their filmic chops. In and of itself, there was nothing unseemly about such a servi

superDONG

07 Jan 2008 05:01 CST

?superDONG? takes place in a typical male toilet in Singapore. When the toilets are empty, the toilet graffiti comes alive. All hell breaks loose when a new character is drawn on the cubicle door. Is he friend or foe?

Bonjour Danny Bonjour

18 Dec 2007 04:12 CST

Danny has been under the tyrannical claws of his Mother's rule for 24 years. Ulcers, group therapy, no Father, and social dysfunction only add to Danny's problems. His only hope is a French girl named Marie. But can she help him change and find happiness before it's too late?

Antwerp and Warsaw

22 Dec 2007 08:12 CST

A whirlwind tour of Antwerp with bits of Poland... The architecture and statues spin into infinity.

Enjoy

29 Jan 2000 05:01 CST

On one hand the story of the filmmakers' obsession with a shining cultural icon -- a gigantic neon Coca-Cola Sign -- and at the same time a series of meticulously constructed TV commercial simulations, with a parade of characters and situations that comment on The Sign -- from its domination of the public landscape down to its influence on the personal "impulse" for pleasure, the veritable will to "enjoy."

Le Petit Chef

27 Dec 2007 12:12 CST

Worms in the cake mix? Budgies in the Blender? Wicked little Elouise just loves baking with her Mother for the local patisserie, but when Nasty Aunty B comes to look after her, Patricia is not happy with the interference. Things take a turn for the worse. A short twisted tale in the tradition of Roald Dahl.

The Ghost of Sam Peckinpah

06 Nov 2007 08:11 CST

Young wannabe cowboy Jack Yeager wakes the ghost of legendary film director Sam Peckinpah and together they ride into Hollywood to put the capital W back in Western.

Ipomoea Alba

12 Dec 2007 05:12 CST

Ipomoea alba, sometimes called the moonflower or moon vine, is a species of night-blooming morning-glory. Blooming from twining stems, the flowers are fragrant, white or pink, and large, 8-14 cm diameter. The flowers open quickly in the evening and last through the night, attracting night-flying moths and remaining open until touched by the morning sun.

To Say Goodbye

12 Dec 2007 05:12 CST

This is a film about family, about the ups and downs of one mother daughter relationship and the emotional energy it takes to keep it strong. Sara spends many of her weekends driving to visit her mother, a woman suffering from alcoholism, in an attempt to foster a more meaningful relationship with her. Her husband Scott was given the unique oppurtunity to document this process over the course of a particularly difficult one year period. As the year progresses Sara is faced with the reality of her mom???s deteriorating health as well as the severity of her addiction. In the end she must confron

She Dreamt We Dreamt

18 Dec 2007 04:12 CST

She Dreamt We Dreamt is a stop motion animation film based on a real story of love, jealousy, hatred and reconciliation.

LA PLUJA (rain)

19 Nov 2007 05:11 CST

It begins to rain metal over the city. Nobody knows exactly where it comes from, and neither scientists nor politicians are able to give a proper explanation about the strange phenomenon. While citizens are still waiting for an answer, they don't realize that they have already learned to live with the rain.

Transgression

12 Nov 2007 12:11 CST

Death Sled II: Steel Belted Romeos

20 Dec 2007 04:12 CST

A tale of backwoods blacktop mayhem--Two dim-witted, lead-footed guidos from Bayonne, New Jersey bust through stoplight after stoplight in their turbo-charged, bad-assed, jet-black Pontiac Grand Prix until their mean machine nearly eighty-sixes another hunk of American steel. And that's just the start of it...A confrontation, an assault, fists-a-flying, and traffic violations.

Exchange Policy

21 Dec 2003 01:12 CST

A wild eyed spending spree -- encompassing even the camera used to make the movie -- gives way to an investigation of the spectacular cultural construction that is "Christmas," along with its corollary, the ritual of obligatory exchange called "shopping."

Five Fucking Fables

08 Nov 2007 06:11 CST

The ones who fuck, live better lives.

Restriction Site Poetics

22 Nov 2007 11:11 CST

collaboration with writer/poet Jason Brennan exploring the writing method and the similarities to the process of genetic manipulation (cloning of DNA)

Know Your Enemy

04 Dec 2007 05:12 CST

It is a time of uncertainty and rumors of war. The Russians and the Americans have been on the verge of a cataclysmic confrontation involving the most fearsome of weapons. A mysterious phenomenon has caused 3 Russian pilots to crash their aircraft before they can complete their mission: to locate their missing comrades and supply them the necessary means for survival. In a foreign wilderness, and now having the same fate as their fallen comrades, they must find a way to survive while confronting a menacing beast.

Security

19 Nov 2007 06:11 CST

A security guard catches a young woman stealing in a supermarket, but something about her makes him do something he has never done before.

Solipsist

03 Dec 2007 02:12 CST

A dull, middle-aged office drone named Walter B. Jehovah believes he is God.

Day of the Cabbage!

25 Nov 2007 05:11 CST

'DAY OF THE CABBAGE!' is a giant-monster movie with an all-vegetable cast, the third in a series of 'Vegetronics' live-action mini-epics. Shot on HD with real food, live vegetable characters act in miniature sets with matzo buildings and graham cracker skylines. A mysterious cabbage meteor crash-lands in a toxic supercrunch site, mutating into a hideous monster that wreaks havoc on Matzoville. Young Billy Tomato discovers the creature and tries to warn his father Dr. Bell Pepper. Can Billy help BRANDCO corporation come up with a solution to save Matzoville from being flame-broiled out of ex

The Big Brother State

01 Dec 2007 07:12 CST

The Big Brother State is an educational film about what politicians claim to be protection of our freedom but what we refer to as repressive legislation. Since terrorism has become a global threat, especially after 9/11, governments all over the world have started enforcing laws which, so the governments say, should increase national security. These laws obviously aim at another goal: the states gaining more and more control of their citizens at the cost of our privacy and freedom.

MOBILIZATION EXERCISES

19 Nov 2007 05:11 CST

Nothing is static, each one is a mobilization exercise.

Dentist

08 Nov 2007 06:11 CST

An enthusiastic dentist, a reluctant patient, and a strange picture on the wall...

The Man Who Met Himself

29 Nov 2007 07:11 CST

A mysterious call, a photograph of a man and a private detective compelled by the one case that has finally got to him. One stark but brilliant day in London, Austin Petersen takes a job from an anonymous client, a demand he knows he should refuse. The case takes Petersen through the city streets as he follows a man who is supposed to be dead. Who is Stephen Maker? Did he fake his own death, or do doppelgangers really exist? Petersen concludes his report but cannot close the case. Desperate, he goes back to the caf??, where he realises that he is the witness to the working out of a distu

Fog Eyes

06 Oct 2007 10:10 CST

The hospital is a dangerous place for little Fog Eyes. To one side of her bed is a wicked coma patient. To the other is something called God. And Sister Enid insists that if she doesn?t pray, someone called ?the devil? will get her soul.

Day 335

29 Nov 2007 06:11 CST

Tedium is word used loosely these days... how do space folk kill time?

Puppet

19 Nov 2007 08:11 CST

A young man fabricates a simple sock puppet, not knowing the abuse the entity will soon inflict. Through an escalating series of torture, the possessed sock puppet takes embodiment of fear, chaos, and willful self-destruction.

'Moving Along'

19 Nov 2007 08:11 CST

Dark imagery of conformity takes the screen as hip hop, rhythm and poetry are visualized in the Planets? track ?Moving Along.?

Delivery

19 Nov 2007 08:11 CST

Abuse leads to rage as two friends compete for a delivered package. Was the result of this conflict worth the prize found within the box? "Delivery" deals with the realistic consequences of rage and violence, even within a cartoon setting.

Drink

19 Nov 2007 08:11 CST

In this animated film, a boy discovers a magic potion that allows him to explore the universe within himself. A sip unleashes a violent reaction, revealing a diverse cast of characters twisting and stretching their way out of one another forming a monumental pile. The boy drinks for a second time which violently transforms him again, creating a torrent even more twisted than the first, but this time in reverse order.

AGUJA

21 Nov 2007 04:11 CST

A heart becomes the thread for sewing a butterfly in this stop motion short. We are an art collective named DIEZ Y MEDIA, we generate independent animated shortfilms... see our work!

And I Cried

20 Nov 2007 10:11 CST

We live in a world besieged and besotted by image. Everyone, it seems, wants their fifteen minutes and plenty of people will do whatever it takes to get a piece of the celebrity cake. And I Cried is a film about wishing to be a movie star. Being a star is about shining bright, a brilliant flash of light against a velvety black night sky. And I Cried is an exploration, a celebration, a lamentation, of our obsession with the star and the image.

Hyperhydrosis

20 Nov 2007 09:11 CST

More than anything Bryan Bodak wants to be normal but suffers from hyperhydrosis, a disease that causes him to shoot sweat out of his hands. Considered a freak by his classmates, Bryan confides in his Mother who accidentally burns down every house they live in. Together with his Dad and his best friend John, Bryan videotapes his trips to the Doctor where they discover a surgical remedy and the risks involved. A bittersweet coming of age tale, ?Hyperhydrosis? deals with individuality and the price of becoming normal.

Joke

19 Nov 2007 07:11 CST

A man , bored while waiting, meets a stranger. He makes a quick deal hoping for entertainment, but he gets more than he bargained for.

Redemption

08 Nov 2007 06:11 CST

Blackmarket baby south of the border. A 72 Hour Challenge film.

Paris Metro

20 Oct 2007 08:10 CST

While working in Paris, I tried to get as much B-roll as possible. The Metro turned out to be a good framework for my experience and what I had captured.

And The Winner Is...

08 Nov 2007 06:11 CST

A team attempts to make a film for a 72 hour challenge in this 72 Hour Challenge film.

EATMEAT

13 Nov 2007 06:11 CST

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Help Wanted

08 Nov 2007 07:11 CST

There's trouble at the office when employees begin to disappear. A 72 Hour Challenge film.

Hong Kong Punk

09 Nov 2007 02:11 CST

I was just in Hong Kong, I shot some b-roll and put it to a punk song

Funny Business

08 Nov 2007 07:11 CST

The real life of a clown. A 72 Hour Challenge film.

shoes

01 Nov 2007 02:11 CST

One day a boy and his brother encounter shoes hanging on a power line. The brother tells the boy the shoes contain treasure.

Grater City

09 Oct 2007 06:10 CST

Dear Alphabet

22 Oct 2007 03:10 CST

Dear Alphabet is an experimental cartoon about a girl and what happens when a monster eats her mother. When she still cannot escape the depths of chaos, a magnificent storm washes her sadness away. (mixed-media animation).

Larson

15 Oct 2007 05:10 CST

Larson Mews desperately needs his new apartment to mean a fresh start. But when his neighbors find out he's a convicted sex offender, the future may not seem so bright.

The Eel

17 Oct 2007 12:10 CST

A short horror film detailing the psychedelic life cycle of a mutant eel.

92

17 Oct 2007 12:10 CST

A surreal short made to promote the George Bataille exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London.

Nightwatch

23 Oct 2007 07:10 CST

A security guard working the graveyard shift in an industrial complex witnesses something too strange for words.

Once Upon A Time...

20 Oct 2007 04:10 CST

an abstract surreal film, influenced by german expressionism. An adult version of beauty and the beast meets little red ridding hood.

CAMMINA CAMMINA

17 Oct 2007 07:10 CST

A stop motion music video for the band Fahrenheit 451 influenced by 1950s science fiction. A robot with a love of Ska music wants to escape from his small mechanical world.

C'EST COMME ÇA

27 Sep 2007 02:09 CST

A condemned Man shares his last thoughts, as he smokes a cigarette, moments before his death.

Last Train Ride

29 Jul 2007 07:07 CST

A bored , desperate, lonely man in New York and what he has in his mind.First steps to madness.

Noci

29 Jul 2007 07:07 CST

love life fire

Black & White Red All Over

19 Sep 2007 10:09 CST

The Penguin-Noir precursor to "In for the Krill" feature/graphic novel. www.inforthekrill.com

Teléfono

27 Sep 2007 01:09 CST

Two strangers share a moment, and a kiss, neither will ever forget.

Work

29 Sep 2007 01:09 CST

Ian goes to work. He is pitching for a major shoe client. But he also has eyes for a new secretary, and something in his drawer at work. And he likes to go to the lavatory too.

Kyoto Song

07 Oct 2007 09:10 CST

Japanese tea garden, dreamlike with the protective wind.

Where are We

07 Oct 2007 05:10 CST

This is an experimental poetic documentary that uses spoken words and images to look at the isolation one feels living in a North American city. This 6 minute short follows a solitary bike ride, where we explore an empty non-descript city. We go along with the bike through the various neighbourhoods of the seemingly empty city. The film examines the questions of what does isolation look like? How do we connect with one of another, living separately within our own boxes? What do we deem important in from what sometimes becomes the decay of our buildings? How do we create community in this c

Little Clumps Of Hair

29 Sep 2007 01:09 CST

Martin goes to the pub to meet friends. They have little to talk about until Jack notices there is something to talk about that Martin would rather not talk about. A lesson in loyalty, women, hair, and how not to dress.

EASY

14 Aug 2006 09:08 CST

EASY tells the story of a casual (sexual) relationship of convenience between an older couple. It seems on the surface to have become routine and easy, but underneath this ease lies a dark secret. As the story unfolds with a subplot based on the classical tail of The Little Red Riding Hood, the secret is revealed - someone turns to be the Big Bad Wolf!

Three in the Morning

25 Aug 2007 12:08 CST

Sex, airplanes, and an inexplicable flow of electricity.

The Luminary

23 Sep 2007 09:09 CST

The Luminary is a love story, albeit a slightly unconventional one. The protagonist, a reclusive entymologist with a light bulb in the place of his head searches for the missing link in his collection - the luna moth. She holds the key to his collection and to his happiness. As he waits to find her, the seasons turn from autumn through to spring. In the light of spring, love blossoms as the elusive luna moth is willingly in lured to the brightness of our protagonist?s globe. But like the passing cycles of nature that move through the background of the story, this love is also part of a cycle.

Gerrard

04 Oct 1999 06:10 CST

Set in Paris, this is the story of raw, creative advertising genius. A genius unleashed by angst, driven by caffeine, and destroyed by his mother.

Domestic

20 Sep 2007 11:09 CST

It's crouching lover, hidden agenda when a couple puts their relationship and martial-arts skills to the test, in this short film about fidelity, forgiveness, and how to turn domestic objects into menacing weapons.

Dinner Table

07 Aug 2007 06:08 CST

On an ordinary day, a young couple is having dinner. The boy takes a bite of chips. The girl casually asks him how the food is. He briefly answers, ???It???s good.??? However, the intonation or speed of how he spoke, the way he chewed the chip, the fact that he didn???t look at her takes her to her psychological journey in which she explores what is really happening in their relationship. While the conversation at the dinner table remains ordinary and mundane, the images jump back and forth between the dinner table and her mind???s eye. The girl imagines that she is approaching him as

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