shorts

An experimental film from Barbara Hammer about lesbian couples.

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

With three filming locations at a time, three directors and no leading actress it is not easy to shoot a movie. Especially not when you are filming an experimental piece of work...

Follows Private Investigators Gus and Millie as they struggle to reconcile their personal lives with their shady professional ones.

A visceral exploration of four victims' experiences coping with campus sexual assault as they transition through phases of attack, post-traumatic survival, and activism for change.

The awkwardness and confusion of burgeoning sexuality in teenage girls in a twisted and repressed suburban culture.

A collection of everyday awkward and embarrassing moments, each with an uneasy familiarity.

The difficulty of separating sexual fantasy and reality become apparent at an investigation of an alledged sexual harassment case.

A family get into a battle of wills on the side of the highway when their boy defiantly throws orange peels out the window.

Nadja is a guest student, who stays at Cité Universitaire and visits the Sorbonne, while preparing a thesis on Proust. Besides her student life she likes to stroll about Paris, to explore the variety of this wide and open city.

An experimental film consisting of images of satin, beads, painted faces, and people dancing.

Silently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back.

Rob Breer blazing the trail.

An experimental short film from Robert Breer with various colorful animations.

After the title, a white screen gives way to a series of frames suggestive of abstract art, usually with one or two colors dominating and rapid change in the images. Two figures emerge from this jungle of color: the first, a shirtless man, appears twice, coming into focus, then disappearing behind the bursts and patterns of color, then reappearing; the second figure appears later, in the right foreground. This figure suggests someone older, someone of substance. The myth?

An experimental short film from Robert Breer utilizing various colors and light.

A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. A young women swings in a garden; a woman's face smiles. The rest is spinning cylinders, pistons, gears and turbines, kitchen objects in concentric circles or rows - pots, pan lids, and funnels, cars passing overhead, a spinning carnival ride. Over and over, a heavy-set woman climbs stairs carrying a large bag on her shoulder. An Art Deco cartoon figure appears, dancing. This is a world in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images, with a few moments of solitude in a garden.

Bruce Conner's 1966 dazzling dance short, "Breakaway", a film poem marrying the rhythm of the editing, movement of the body and the camera to a beautiful effect.

Harmony Korine dances on curbs.

A series of hazy 8mm vignettes, accompanied by a soft, lilting voice over, in which girls skulk around schoolyards, spray graffiti, drink, smoke, pose and embrace, evoking the loneliness, confusion and overwhelming wonder of growing up.