Shorties

A woman who cannot stop running. A mysterious man who knows everything about her life. A turtle pin. An unexpected encounter in the elevator that goes up to the 54th floor - but takes us all elsewhere.

The story of a young woman's struggle to separate from her religious and superstitious upbringing. As she battles her traumatic past she discovers exactly how far she will go to reconcile her internalised doubts.

On his 40th birthday, Nikos, a solitary truck driver, arrives on a remote beach. He's there to meet his former military buddy Christos, whom he hasn't seen for many years.

Men set birds free on the mountains. Two grieving, estranged brothers try their marksmanship together with their sons. It' s the hunting season. Can a bird' s heart stop in the sky with no bullets coming through its body?

In her desperation to belong, 9-year-old Catherine takes matters into her own hands when her mother Janet, in her attempt to protect her daughter from a society who expects everyone to conform, denies Catherine that which will give her what she wants: Acceptance.

A man, a woman, the sea and an abandoned boat.

Aphrodite is thirteen and a half. Her friends call her Tin-Tin. Aphrodite is in love with Lou. Aphrodite wants to grow up.

Three degenerates navigate the descending hierarchy of post-consumerist enlightenment.

Some time in the near future two veterans from some conflict engage in a conversation while sitting in a bath.

In this abstract, non-plotted, dance piece, Ed Emshwiller creates digital invironments blurring fantasy and reality. This piece is an award-winning early, groundbreaking experiment in combining primative computer animation with live-action.

Emshwiller made this film on a Ford Foundation grant, and in his original proposal to the Ford Foundation, he outlined the film as "something that deals with subjective reality, the emotional sense of what one's perception of the total environment is -- sexual, physical, social, time, space, life, death."

Employing experimental techniques, Emshwiller magically moved through a collection of objects and artifacts in order to capture the spirit of George Dumpson and his backyard museum, as he noted: "George Dumpson was a scavenger. He created a small universe with what he found and could carry on his homemade wagon. To me he epitomized the soul of the artist. He put together what things he could in such a way as to satisfy some inner need, just as I had to make this picture of him and his place."

"When making friends it is most important to cooperate". A short stop-motion animated comedy from director Iku Ogawa and Tokyo University of the Arts.

A solitary maiden recounts the story of Unai-Otome, a pure maid who lived 500 years ago and had two suitors, a poet and a warrior.

Kitsune, the son of a rich merchant, is kidnapped by pirates after examining an old family treasure map, and it is up to Buta, a samurai for hire, to save him.

In a town taken over by an artificial being -the titular Noiseman, Tobio and his friends must confront it to help bring the music back.

A couple of hunters lost in a forest find a restaurant. Upon entering they are greeted by greater and greater requests.

A young boy named Hikora enters the ruins of a forbidden city with a group of other children to play "Otokoyo" (a game of hide-and-seek where the players are said to be kidnapped by ghosts and demons) to find his missing sister.

Princess Budu sleeps, and dreams. She dreams of whimsical fairies and a wicked, restless beastial spirit. Her dream is one unmoored from identity and self - perhaps she is the fairy, perhaps those other fairies are other persons also. Also moving through her dream, always recurring in her thoughts is her lover Prince Kamar. The beastial spirit desires Budu; Kamar desires Budu, and she only has eyes for Kamar. Through her dream she floats and fades across an Arabian fantasia of minarets and mosques. These flickering moments, fleeting snatches of slumbered thought, are filled with an intoxicating, ethereal beauty.

Efrain, also known as the Reaper, who works at a slaughterhouse since 25 years ago, we will discover his deep relationship with dead.

Item #2656. Stationed at the bottom of the ocean, Imogen Reed is in the midst of a normal work day, until something goes terribly wrong. Inspired by SOMA, a sci-fi horror video game from Frictional Games.

Confined in an apartment, an older man and a young woman are force to come to terms with life and death issues.

Several high school teachers observe peculiar behavior in one of their students prompting them to call the boy's mother into a conference.

A dog and her owner navigate the perils of modern technology.