Favorite Short Films

A train arrives at La Ciotat station.

A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.

A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.

Trixie believe the only way she can save her older sister from dying of tuberculosis is by preventing the autumn leaves from falling, so one night she steals into the garden in her nightie and fastens fallen leaves to branches with twine.

A tender young woman and her musician husband attempt to eke out a living in the slums of New York City, but find themselves caught in the crossfires of gang violence.

The Tramp wanders into and disrupts the filming of a go-kart race.

In a hotel lobby, an inebriated Charlie runs into an elegant lady, gets tied up in her dog's leash, and falls down. He later runs into her in the hotel corridor, locked out of her room. They run through various rooms. Mabel ends up in one, hiding under the bed of an elderly husband. Enter the jealous wife and Mabel's lover.

A drunken homeowner has a difficult time getting about in his home after arriving home late at night.

The Little Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

A drifter at an amusement park finds himself both the bodyguard and hit man of a man targeted by a criminal gang.

Disguised as a priest, an escaped convict makes his way to Texas. He ends up in a small rural town where the townsfolk mistake him for their new church minister.

Ollie and Stanley are two Christmas Tree sales reps who get into one of their usual mutual-destruction fights with a disgruntled homeowner.

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day.

The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.

Boron Sarret is arguably the first film made by a black African. It illustrates poverty in Senegal, particularly for the working man.

Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness", of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.

An experimental fantasy short dedicated to questioning whether or not man is a prisoner of time.

Three showgirls playfully mock the audience for attending a projection of an art film.

A dreamlike portrayal of a hangover after a decadent party.

A young man, haunted by his past, travels the land in search of the lyrics to a lullaby his mother used to sing to him.

Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.

After witnessing an act of unprecedented violence without even flinching, an emotionally numb real-estate agent visits his ailing mother at the hospital, and then, the graveyard. Is there a speck of happiness in this cruel and short life?

In seductive central Paris, an undernourished gendarme willing to go to great lengths to feed himself hatches a desperate, yet utterly cunning plan.

Archival footage from classic Hong Kong films set to music.