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Machine Learning

November 2021 •English

A lone astronaut jettisoned in an escape craft contends with an all in one survival device, hellbent on creating its own life form.

A Trip to the Moon

June 1902 •French

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.

Doppelbänger

August 2020 •English

Sofian Khan’s provocative DOPPELBÄNGER (International Premiere) is a smart tale of sex work and the singularity, set in a future world where people have robotic doubles of themselves.

The Man Who Waited

January 2006 •French

Franz Kafka short film

The Amazing Little Whale

January 1971 •Ukrainian

A story about a little whale, which was always trying to surprise everyone.

One Day I Came Home

January 1980 •Ukrainian

The Fox With The Rolling Pin

January 1977 •Ukrainian

Ukrainian folktale telling the story of how the sly fox tricked on village people and how they finally avenged themselves.

Carabosse

January 1980 •English

Animation, also of a new order in the recent series of short works. Mostly on black space, the figures in blue perform a very compact and jewel-like opera in surreal form, again to Satie’s piano music. Ideally, the film should be projected on a 30" wide white card sitting on a music stand, center stage of a large auditorium or music hall, with sound from the projector piped into the big speaker system. The film is most effective this way, but can be shown normal-size also

Ultraman Taro: The Blood-Sucking Flower Is a Young Girl's Spirit

March 1974 •Japanese

Theatrical version of episode 11 of Ultraman Taro TV series : ZAT is on the case of a series of vampiric murders. While investigating, Kotaro meets a mysterious orphan girl, Kanae, who is always holding a bunch of red flowers. While he is out, Kenichi and Moriyama are attacked by a mysterious plant...

Día de los muertos

April 2013 •English

A little girl gets taken to the land of the dead, where she learns the true meaning of the Mexican holiday, Dia de los Muertos

Geist

July 2015 •English

A tragic tale of a shipwrecked and injured fisherman as he searches for signs of life on the island where he was stranded leading to a dark secret.

Expectations

January 2020 •

A short animation about learning to live.

Petrichor

September 2021 •French

A colorful and sensorial experience which follows two friends escape from the confines of an oppressive structured society in pursuit of a more meaningful existence.

Space Boy

January 1973 •English

Unofficial sequel to Curtis Harrington's Queen of Blood (1966). Drums and orchestration are rumoured to be by Frank Zappa.

Tim Vine Travels Through Time Christmas Special

December 2017 •English

To recover a silver lion ornament for singer Emma Bunton Tim travels back to the court of Henry Vlll where Anne Boleyn (Emma again) asks jester Tim to send invitations to the guests for her Christmas party. However Cardinal Wolsey aims to steal them so that they will come to his own party and Tim must thwart him.

Prehistoric Beast

January 1984 •English

In a dense forest, a monoceratops-type plant-eating dinosaur is stalked by a carnivorous Tyrannosaurus rex.

The Flight

January 1973 •Estonian

A short Estonian animation about a man's desire to fly.

City in the Sky

September 2009 •English

Italy, at the end of the 21st century. Quinto, a gentle, naive man on his quest to find the fabled 'City in the Sky' arrives at a dilapidated family-owned hotel run by transsexual Dora and her drug addict son. Locked in one of the rooms is Ai, a malfunctioning android prostitute, waiting to be deactivated. By error at check-in, Quinto meets her.

Nube

October 2023 •Spanish

After witnessing an old dark stormy cloud painfully rain and die in sorrow; Noma, a puffy white cloud realizes that Mixtli, her daughter, a dark stormy cloud, is in danger of raining prematurely.

The World Within

November 2020 •French

While preparing her first exhibition, a young painter commits so passionately to her creations that she loses touch with reality and descends into hallucinatory chaos. Confined in a clinic, she progressively rebuilds herself through painting and the daily observation of a squirrel under her window.