Shorties

A man rises from his own coffin to describe his life in an unnamed, repressive society. Every milestone of his life; birth, marriage, etc. is marred by the interference of the literally faceless bureaucracy.

First five minutes of the film show a weird fellow who is playing marbles with kids and seems to be just biding his time. Film after the titles continues to follow his adventures as his love story unfolds. A love story between him and a doll in a window shop.

To Makavejev, each tombstone plays vicar for its resident spirit; it haunts, roams, and makes conversation.

Sarcastic look at 1962 Yugoslav beauty contest.

People in a rural Yugoslav community are transitioning from using horses to motor-vehicles. As more and more start using cars, the horses are killed off and wagons dismantled.

Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are intercut with seemingly unrelated (but in fact strangely similar) live-action scenes.

Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.

A horrifying, surrealist version of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" directed by the masterful animator Jan Svankmajer.

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution). Some knowledge of the subject is essential in order to understand the film, which is entirely visual.

A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.

Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

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.

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

In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.

Two kids travel to a city where silence is kept sacred.

Story about a low-life drug dealer who tries to turn his life around, but finds himself at the mercy of fate when he encounters a cop with an agenda of his own.

Bambi is contentedly nibbling the grass, seemingly unaware of his impending encounter with Godzilla. What will happen when the two finally meet?

An short film which captures various activities with a watermelon while set to a catchy tune.

The film is broken down minute by minute, with a clock ticking away its duration to save the audience the trouble of craning their necks to see how much film is left on the projector. Comprising "a boat game and entertainments", this landmark film is ingeniously artful and extremely entertaining as it brilliantly toys with audience expectation and participation.

The whole family, father, mother, children, move into a new house after living in one room. But the rooms in the new apartment are very small... You have to find the place for all the furniture. There is no balcony, no white checkered kitchen... Yet, houses are being built with large balconies, large windows and white kitchens.

A lonely Signalman is visited by a stranger.

'Sing' is a childhood drama with a lot of music, set in 1990s Budapest, Hungary. Inspired by a true story, it follows an award winning school choir and the new girl in class who just might uncover the ugly secret behind their fame.

When you are all alone in a small dark room, what do you fear the most? Is it the temporary blindness or is it the uneasy deep feeling that someone, or rather something, is observing your every move?