Rhyme or Die

Road to Moloch

July 2009 •English

While on a mission to locate three missing soldiers, a team of reconnaissance marines encounter a blood-spattered Iraqi stumbling through the desert. After following the distraught man into the depths of an insurgent cave, the marines make a horrifying discovery bringing them face-to-face with an ancient evil.

What We Do in the Shadows: Interviews with Some Vampires

January 2005 •English

Three vampires who share an apartment are interviewed by a TV crew.

Johnny Yesno Redux

January 2008 •English

Johnny YesNo – Redux reunites Cabaret Voltaire and Peter Care almost 30 years later with a completely new cast, a relocation to LA and an entirely new soundtrack remixed by Richard H. Kirk, the film has lost none of its hallucinatory power. The short goes deep into the structure of Peter Care’s original film and the Cabaret Voltaire tracks used in connection with it. What emerges is as much a juxtaposition of times and places as sights and sounds. The tale changes in the retelling, but that change now seems to be taking place on a molecular level. Richard H Kirk has reconfigured the film’s soundtrack, giving the proceedings an ominous sense of something slowly sliding into view from afar, glimpsed out of the corner of the eye.

The Flaming Brain

July 2003 •English

Abattoir worker Eric's brain is external to his head, and he keeps it protected in a jar connected by cables to his nervous system. Maddie is the mesmeric meat slicer of his dreams, but Maddie loves the overly charismatic Polson. With his weird and peripheral brain, what must Eric do to become more like Polson?

Lonely Hearts

October 2020 •English

Celeste, a lonely outcast, searches for love and understanding online and meets a charming man who has a much different date night in mind.

Fear of the Deer

December 2018 •English

A festive horror short.

Goosebumps: Ghost Beach

October 1996 •English

While visiting their elderly cousins in a remote coastal town, brother and sister Jerry and Terri are told about an apparently haunted cave by two mysterious teenagers. However, when they explore the cave, the mystery deepens.

After the Wolf

December 2015 •English

A storybook video that revisits the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood years after Red's terrifying ordeal with the Big Bad Wolf. Venturing into an enchanted forest to meet her lover, Red again finds herself in harm's way when the unexpected befalls her.

Stalemate

December 2022 •English

Upon a stay in his grandparent's countryside house, young writer Matt begins to encounter strange happenings as he attempts to write his first novel.

Trigger Happy

January 1997 •English

“Trigger Happy” was made with hundreds of objects found on the streets and sidewalks of New York. It began as an attempt to make an animated ballet, but as I was shooting the dance turned rowdy, into more of a nocturnal revel. It was shot on a lightbox with high-contrast film. The backlight silhouetted the objects, making them into graphic icons of themselves. The resulting film is a negative, which turned the objects white and the background black as asphalt. It makes the dance almost phantasmagoric. The trigger I was happy about was on the camera, but the title also fits the velocity of the imagery. Much of the animation happens by the rapid replacement of one object with another. It’s the afterimage in your eyes that animates the difference between the shapes, as one is replaced by another, and another… The music by Shay Lynch perfectly captures the idea of dancing in the streets.” —Jeffrey Noyes Scher

Giant Steps

January 2001 •English

2-minute animation film to music by John Coltrane.

Frankenstein

March 1910 •English

Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

August 1908 •English

Jenny

September 2016 •Indonesian

A woman gets challenged from a child to play Bloody Mary.

Street Musique

November 1972 •English

Animator Ryan Larkin does a visual improvisation to music performed by a popular group presented as sidewalk entertainers. His take-off point is the music, but his own beat is more boisterous than that of the musicians. The illustrations range from convoluted abstractions to caricatures of familiar rituals. Without words.

Black Dog

November 2006 •English

When fourteen- year- old Chris is sent across the city to deliver a tonic to his sick grandfather, his journey becomes a chilling trip of self-discovery as he strays from the path into domain of the Black Dog.

Special Kinda Bad Feeling

May 2024 •English

Rebekka and Aatos, stuck in the past, meet for the first time since their painful breakup at their treasured poetry slam. It’s easier to sing about longing than to talk about it.

Un Chien Andalou

June 1929 •French

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

TRUE DARKNESS: KEEP MOVING

October 2021 •English

Jake can help people move on after death, but now he may need to help someone move on from life.

Bones

October 2023 •English

A killer makes preparations: Crushed teeth become the perfect primer for the costume and the blood from the human organs makes for an extra vibrant red on the lips.